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News July 17, 2023 Arthur

WHV Working Holiday Migration Plan || A Low-Cost, Stable WA Pathway → Low Tuition + Low Entry Requirements + Skills Assessment With No Work Experience + Great Job Prospects!

At the start of the new financial year on 1 July, mainland China’s Subclass 462 pre-applications opened. As in previous years, there are 5,000 places this financial year, allocated through a random ballot. Unlike last year, this year you first need to register an ImmiAccount, then submit your EOI (Expression of Interest) through that ImmiAccount.

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News July 17, 2023 Arthur

[Australian Migration Weekly No. 293] Canberra showers invitations in its very first round — accounting, marketing, PR, ICT and more! And completing Form 888 just got easier!

This week in migration news · Migration Weekly

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News July 15, 2023 Arthur

[Issue 293 · Australia Study-Abroad Weekly] USyd earns another major accreditation — a win for business students! UTS stays in the world’s top 10 on this ranking! UWA’s Orientation Week is here!

This week's study-abroad news

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News July 14, 2023 Arthur

Another Week Full of Visa Grants! Subclass 189/190/491 Approved for Many Occupations, Onshore and Offshore — 491 Now Up to March This Year! Subclass 482 Unlocks “New Occupations”, and 186 Is Progressing Too!

The second working week of the 2023–24 financial year is drawing to a close. If last week's Subclass 491 grants got skilled migration off to a promising start, this week has been a full bloom — Subclass 190, 189, 491, 186, 482… we've had them all!

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News July 14, 2023 Arthur

Australian Top-University Offer Show: Marketing, Nursing, IT and Business at UniMelb, UQ, UTS, Monash and other leading universities!

This week we have education, IT, marketing, nursing and other programmes from world-class universities including the University of Melbourne, the University of Queensland, the University of Technology Sydney, Monash University, the University of Adelaide and the University of Newcastle!

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News July 14, 2023 Arthur

Now Is the Perfect Time to Apply for Your Parents’ Subclass 870 Long-Stay Temporary Visa! Second-Visa Tips and Common Q&A

Not long ago we warned that having a PR holder renew a parent's visitor visa onshore had become a fairly risky option. Some time has passed and the situation hasn't “improved” — we're seeing more and more requests for help after onshore parent visitor-visa renewals were refused: some who had been onshore in Australia since the pandemic, and some who entered only last year and are now on just their second renewal — refusals across the board. For more, see: Heads up! Onshore PR parent visitor-visa renewals are tightening again?! Refused after only 12 months!

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News July 13, 2023 Arthur

New financial year, first state-nomination round! Offshore still invited at 65–70 low points!

On 13 July, Canberra (the ACT) released the first round of Matrix invitations for the 2023–24 financial year. At a glance the numbers are modest, and everything seen has gone to offshore applicants.

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News July 13, 2023 Arthur

189/190/491: The Core Questions Asked a Million Times — and the Three Decision Factors You Can’t Avoid

From the start of FY22-23, Australia's skilled migration has been on the rise, drawing more attention from people overseas. With more favourable policy, more international students want to stay on after graduating — and Subclass 189, 190 and 491 attract the most interest of all. In reality, a consultation and assessment always comes back to three core questions: skills assessment - EOI points - securing an invitation.

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News July 12, 2023 Arthur

Subclass 190 & 491 Report Card Is In! 62,000+ Places, 99%+ Filled, Only One State… Plus a 2022-23 State-Nomination Policy Overview!

Today the Department of Home Affairs released usage figures for the 190 and 491 state-nomination quotas through to the end of June for the 2022-23 financial year — the 2022-23 state-nomination report card is in!

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News July 11, 2023 Arthur

Will Invitation Scores Rise in the New Financial Year? With No 190/491 Quotas and No State-Nomination Policy Yet, Now Is the Time to Get Your Skills Assessment Ready!

Because the federal government has not yet allocated formal quotas, the 23-24 financial-year state-nomination invitations remain on hold across every state except Tasmania (for the latest full roundup, see: Update! Some state nominations reopening? Some still under assessment? A roundup of every state's official 23-24 new financial-year updates!)

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