VETASSESS certification requirements
Since 1 December 2015 VETASSESS no longer requires certification of documentation for skills assessments for General Professional...
Notifications by 457 visa sponsors
From 1 January 2016 approved sponsors, and certain former sponsors, of 457 and other relevant visa holders will need to notify of...
Review rights for 457 visa applicants
Following the decision of the Full Federal Court in Ahmad v MIBP [2015] FCAFC 182 (16 December 2015), unsuccessful 457 visa applicants...
Practice tip - NZ citizens – ENS concessions
New Zealanders who are not eligible for Australian citizenship on the basis that they were resident in Australia on or before 26 February...
New sanctions & cancellation powers introduced for 'payment for visa' scams for temporar
On 14 December new legislation was introduced which makes provision for criminal, civil and administrative sanctions and visa...
Working rights for secondary applicants on student visas
Most student visa holders have condition 8105 applied to their visas. Students are aware that this restricts the number of hours that...
New ‘Entrepreneur Visa’ for PhD and Masters graduates
The Minister for Immigration, Peter Dutton, announced this week that a new Entrepreneur Visa would be introduced in the second half of...
Citizenship, Good Character Requirements & Issues arising from past minor criminal convictions
Over the past 12 months character has increasingly become an issue in citizenship applications. When an eligible person applies for...
Increase in citizenship fees
From 1 January 2016 there will be an increase in most citizenship application fees. The application fee for citizenship under general...
457 visa changes to work condition 8107
If you have lodged an application for a subclass 457 visa or are intending to do so you should be aware that from 1 December 2015 there...