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News November 20, 2025 Qiqi CHEN

Australian Migration: Northern Territory MINT Program — Direct 190 PR from as Low as 65 Points! This Financial Year’s Intake Is Open — Have You Secured Your Spot?

Lock in a 190 place early — miss this round and you wait another year. If you already have your skills assessment and English test result ready, then — now is the best moment to make your move on a Northern Territory 190 PR! The 2025–26 MINT program intake is officially open. Because it accepts applicants from around the world,

News November 19, 2025 Qiqi CHEN

2025-26 Australian Partner Visa — Full Guide to Subclasses 820 / 801 / 309 / 100 / 300

Recently we have received many enquiries about the Australian Partner visa. As one of the most popular pathways to migrating to Australia, partner migration offers a steady annual quota and a comparatively lower application threshold, which is why it is attracting more and more applicants. So what exactly do you need to qualify, and what are the key steps involved?

News November 18, 2025 Qiqi CHEN

Queensland Quota More Than Doubled to 2,600! Victoria Issues Invitations, Non-trade Construction as Low as 65 Points, 190 Quota Slightly Reduced!

The Department of Home Affairs has finally updated the full state-nomination quota figures. We now know the complete state-by-state allocation, and most of the previously unannounced states came in as expected, while Queensland delivered a big surprise. This year, the total state-nomination quota is only 20,350 places (in line with the earliest reports), comprising 12,850 for the Subclass 190 and

News November 17, 2025 Qiqi CHEN

A six-year wait for a single PR grant — challenged for marriage fraud, hit with a serious S57, and finally approved after a long written submission plus multiple rounds of further information!

A 2019 client first contacted us back in to lodge an onshore partner-migration application. After six years, the 820 and 801 PR visas were finally granted together. Let’s look at what they went through over these six years. Timeline September 2019 — application lodged 2021 — received the first S56 request for further information December 2023 — received a serious

News November 13, 2025 Qiqi CHEN

Nursing / Social Worker / Secondary Teacher Drop to 75 Points; Early Childhood Teachers Largely Cleared at 85; Engineering / Construction Mostly 85+

The 13 November round of Subclass 189 invitations has just been issued. Based only on invitations received by our clients and data we have collected externally, we can already see that this round issued noticeably more invitations than the August round, and across a wider range of occupations. Below is the data we had collected as of 11 am. Some

News November 11, 2025 Qiqi CHEN

Department of Home Affairs November visa-processing update: 190 / 491 / 191 finally speeding up! Parent migration 143 document-requests have reached the end of June 2018!

The Department of Home Affairs quietly updated its visa processing time reference again in early November; the previous update was in October. Skilled Migration 189 50% waited 9 months, 1 month slower; 90% need 10 months, 1 month slower Subclass 189 applications are processed strictly in lodgement order; the Department is currently working through applications lodged in December 2024, with

News November 10, 2025 Qiqi CHEN

Medical technician roles that need no Australian registration or qualifications — and may let you migrate on Chinese work experience alone!

Anyone familiar with Australian migration knows that healthcare has long been a priority sector for skilled migration — nurses, doctors, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and similar professions have sat on the skills shortage lists for years. The reality, though, is that the bar for skills assessment in these professions is very high — most require an Australian qualification, registration or local

News Study Weekly November 8, 2025 Qiqi CHEN

Griffith and Newcastle both gain more international places next year! UC 2026 S1 key deadline extended!

This week’s study-abroad roundup — – CDU scholarship and English language program updates – UNSW College scholarship updates – UC 2026 S1 key deadline extended – Griffith adds international places for 2026 intake, new campus opening in 2027 – Newcastle international-student visa approval rate above 90%; save the 2026 timetable [This week’s offer show]

News November 6, 2025 Qiqi CHEN

State nominations issued en masse! Full NSW 190 invitation data, TAS issues 100, 491 expands to Orange! QLD and WA confirm they will follow soon!

There is a lot of state nomination news today, 6 November. The trigger is that the federal government (very likely) has issued a new wave of interim places to the states, and given that the first wave has largely been used up, everyone can get moving again now that more places have arrived. Starting with NSW: By the end of

News November 5, 2025 Qiqi CHEN

October 189 Invitation Waiting Data Update | Early Childhood Teaching 85 Points Rising Fast, Civil Engineering Rising Slowly! Two States First to Secure More Transitional Places

We’ve now reached October, and the Department of Home Affairs has released the latest 189 EOI data through to October. Let’s take another look at the major in-demand occupations: Early Childhood Teaching, Secondary Teaching, Nursing, Social Work, Civil Engineering and Accounting. First, a state nomination update – Tasmania and South Australia have received additional interim places Tasmania has received 300