Why wait? At the end of the financial year there are still plenty of “bargain” migration pathways in Australia! Accountants granted in two weeks; invited at 65 points; hundreds of invitations still being issued!

With only a month and a half left in the 22-23 financial year, plenty of you have been asking during consultations: “Will invitations still be issued this financial year? Should I wait until the new financial year to start preparing?” “Aren’t the quotas all used up, so no more invitations? Should I just wait and see?” “We still don’t know what the new financial year’s policy will look like—is it better to wait a bit longer?”

Diploma to Master’s in IT: Study, Migration and a High-Paying Career in One Leap

In recent years the rat race has only intensified. Most employers now hire from a bachelor’s degree upwards, leaving many diploma-level students hemmed in by qualification requirements — unsure of their career direction, drawn to higher-paying roles yet unable to clear the entry bar, and repeatedly knocked back in the job market. With promotions and pay rises hitting a ceiling, why keep grinding away at home? Studying overseas and jumping from a diploma straight to a master’s gets you there in a single step!

Australia’s New Migration Financial Year and Policy Direction Are Set! What Comes Next? We Trace the Clues Through the Entire Official Migration Reform Report

Over the past month, news on Australia’s new migration policy has been arriving thick and fast! On 27 April, Australia’s Minister for Immigration, Claire O’Neil MP, announced the future direction of the country’s migration system. Then, in the new-financial-year Budget handed down on 9 May, the quotas for each migration visa category for the 2023-24 financial year were also released.

[Australian Migration Weekly #282] Major migration reform to be announced on 27 April?! These people can go straight to Australian citizenship! IT applicants get Victoria 190 on a raw 75! Canberra slashes its thresholds!

New Zealand citizens can move easily to Australian citizenship — no need to convert to PR first! This Saturday Australia officially announced that, from 1 July 2023, New Zealand citizens settled in Australia will have a direct pathway to Australian citizenship!

State nominations erupt across the board this week — NSW / Victoria / Queensland / Canberra / Tasmania! Good news pouring in on GTI and skills assessments! 491 grants advance to September!

Another week packed with good news to report! State-nomination pre-invitations, formal nominations approved, and grants across every skilled-migration category have all come thick and fast — state-nomination invitations especially! This week the Department of Home Affairs has also been concentrating on processing GTI, and several clients who lodged in 2022 have received their own good news!

Migration reform proposals for international students | “more PR pathways”, “scrap the GTE”, “pay the visa fee only once approved”!

This week everyone’s attention has been on Australia’s migration reforms – [Issue 281 – Australia Migration Weekly] Minister for Home Affairs: the migration reform report will be released before 9 May! The review began last September; more than half a year on, we’ll finally see some results before 9 May.