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News July 1, 2021 Arthur

New Financial Year State Nomination Boost! NSW/ACT/VIC/SA/TAS All Raise Quotas! Victoria Eases Subclass 190 Requirements and Adds New Fields!

Today, 1 July, marks the start of the 2021-22 financial year! At 9am this morning, the editor received big news! Every state's specific quotas for this financial year have now been officially published, and quotas for the popular state nomination streams have all gone up! Victoria will reopen applications on 7 July, having announced its requirements ahead of time — much friendlier than this financial year!

News June 30, 2021 Arthur

Automotive mechanics! A dark horse for skilled migration! A standout among work-while-you-study migration fields! Learn a trade while earning good money!

Cars and motorcycles are a major investment for most people, and a major responsibility. Owners should service their vehicles regularly to protect their investment and ensure their safety and road safety.

News June 29, 2021 Arthur

Multiple Popular Migration Occupations Invited at Low Scores! Interstate Students Fast-Tracking Their Way In! Canberra State Nomination: This Year’s Wrap-Up + Next Year’s Forecast!

The 2021 financial year was a tough one for Australia too — hit by the pandemic, the economy was sluggish, and Melbourne went into lockdown four times. But it was also this year that the ACT Government's two-year-old Matrix system gave applicants a real shot in the arm.

News June 28, 2021 Arthur

Weekly Internal Data Roundup: Visas, Invitations & Skills Assessments (06-21 to 06-27)

This data is Newstars Education & Migration's internal data. Date range: 06-21 to 06-27; for reference only.

News June 28, 2021 Arthur

New Financial Year’s First Policy Details Released! 188A/B/C/E Reveal New Application Requirements! Changes to Turnover and Other Points Criteria!

Reforms to Australia's business and investor migration programme were first announced by the Minister for Immigration back in December 2020, but the detailed rules were a long time coming. With the financial year drawing to a close, the Department of Home Affairs has finally released the details — and however the specifics change, it all comes back to net assets, turnover and investment amounts.

News June 25, 2021 Arthur

Latest for 2021! Has the paid stream turned into a queue? Subclass 143’s ultra-long COVID wait times! Parent migration financial-year wrap-up and new financial-year forecast.

It's that time of year again — the end-of-financial-year wrap-up and update on parent migration processing progress. Over the past year, COVID has kept many families separated from their parents, and this situation could well continue for at least another year. To make matters worse, parent migration quotas have also been slashed heavily both this past year and in the coming financial year — the paid parent migration allocation was cut from 6,096 places to 3,600 (a reduction of more than 40%), while the queue-based parent migration allocation was cut from 1,275 to just 900 (a 30% reduction). The direct result is that parent migration processing progress over the past year can only be described as snail's pace.

News June 24, 2021 Arthur

Have overseas work experience? Not an Australian local qualification? You need to read this! It can help you avoid detours in your migration journey — and get twice the result for half the effort!

For many people living overseas, whenever the topic of skilled migration comes up, you'll often hear questions like: which state should I apply to for my profession? What's the invitation score for my occupation? Is my occupation in high demand for migration? How do you work out exactly which occupation you fall under and whether it's favourable for migration? It mainly comes down to what occupation your final skills assessment nominates. A skills assessment is the foundation of the foundation for skilled migration — you could say that without a skills assessment, there's no skilled migration at all.

News June 23, 2021 Arthur

Finally! Australia’s skilled migration warms up for the new financial year! And these occupations remain rock-solid for jobs and migration — the priority of priorities!

As the 2020-21 financial year draws to a close, skilled migration has finally received major good news for the new financial year: accounting/auditing, multiple engineering disciplines and ICT occupations have all become priority-shortage occupations, meaning across-the-board priority in visa processing, invitations and travel exemptions.

News June 21, 2021 Arthur

Update! Visa Processing Time Reference! Subclass 189/190/491 Continue Clearing “Old” Backlogs! Subclass 482 Nomination Processing Sped Up Significantly!

Yesterday's latest update: the Department of Home Affairs has updated the general wait times for applicants granted visas in May 2021

News June 17, 2021 Arthur

IT and Engineering Graduates: Here’s How to Plan Your Migration for the New Financial Year!

The financial year now drawing to a close was always going to be a turbulent one for international students — the challenges of the pandemic and tightening migration policy meant graduates from most fields faced significant hurdles on the migration path. Yet among all professions, aside from the pandemic-critical healthcare field, IT and engineering graduates' migration powered ahead throughout the pandemic, smooth sailing all the way.