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On 25 October, the Labor Government officially released the highly anticipated 2022–23 Federal Budget, confirming that the overall migration programme places will increase from 160,000 to 195,000. Compared with the original figures, the Subclass 189 allocation rose from 16,652 to 32,100 — an increase of 15,448 places, representing a 92.77% jump.
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Current visa processing wait times on the Department of Home Affairs website for reference: Is the Department picking up speed? Subclass 190 and 491 visa backlogs are shrinking, and new Subclass 189 lodgements are increasing! Significant increase in recent technical additional information requests!
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Several major Australian companies recently suffered large-scale data breaches — including Optus and Medibank — affecting tens of millions of people living in Australia.
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We have recently had a number of fully offshore MINT applicants receive invitations. At the same time, many clients in China are looking for a high-certainty pathway to migrate to Australia. Today we share everything about the Northern Territory MINT programme (offshore stream)!
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Since Covid, visa processing priority arrangements have been in place — initially tied to Covid-specific needs, then linked to border reopening, and more recently focused on supporting economic recovery.
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For as long as the special COVID period lasted, offshore Subclass 189 was suspended for just as long. Or rather — from 2018 onwards, 65 points was no longer enough to secure a Subclass 189 invitation. With every round, points kept climbing while allocations kept shrinking, until offshore applicants without Australian study points or similar bonuses had essentially said goodbye to 189. How many people had long since stopped ticking the 189 box when submitting their EOI?
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This Tuesday's new federal budget revealed how the 195,000 migration places will be split. Full details here: 2022–23 Federal Budget | PR quotas still hold surprises — Subclass 189 nearly doubles, and parent migration gains another 2,500 places!
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The 2022–23 federal budget, released this Tuesday, commits an additional $576 million over four years to the Department of Home Affairs for visa processing. Since taking office in May, clearing the processing backlog has been one of the Labor government's top priorities — it had already announced an emergency injection of $36.1 million to boost resources.
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After last night's budget announcement, the 2,500 additional family migration places whose allocation had not yet been confirmed were ultimately awarded entirely to parent migration. Every time we update supplementary documents or share projections, we say that the root fix for the long parent-migration queue is increasing the quota — more quota means more visas can be granted and processing can speed up, shortening wait times. That is why we said last night that parent migration is absolutely one of the big winners!
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The Labor government, which came to power in May, has released its first federal budget, replacing the FY2022–23 budget announced by the Liberal government in March. Some migration-related details had been known earlier — at the Jobs and Skills Summit, agreement was reached to raise the FY2022–23 migration programme ceiling to 195,000, with the majority allocated to the skilled stream, plus increased resources and funding.
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