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Applicants preparing to lodge employer-sponsored visa applications should take note: Australia 482 and 186 visa minimum salary thresholds rise every new financial year.
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qin This Week’s Key Immigration News 1. WA — Teachers, Restaurant Managers etc. Invited at 65–80 Points 2. Department of Home Affairs Tightens the Screws: 485 Post-visa Pathway Gets Much Harder 3. Official Processing Times Updated — 189/190/491 All Sped Up 4. TAS 190 Temporarily Only Issuing Gold Pass; ACT Small-scale This Round? QLD Also Sending Invitations 5. Grants, Invitations,
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New 2026 Fee Rules for the Australian Subclass 485 Visa The Department of Home Affairs has struck at the 485 visa once again — why does the Department seem to have it in for this one visa? The cries over the fee hike to AUD 4,600 had barely died down when another quiet move was made. In the past few
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qin The Department’s March visa processing times are out on schedule. There’s nothing particularly standout this time — grants are still coming through, but not in large numbers.A significant new piece of legislation was also announced today concerning the Subclass 407 Training visa, which will affect many applicants planning to extend their stay after their 485 visa expires. Please read
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Why is every Australia student visa applicant now being asked for source-of-funds documents? Applying for a student visa has become genuinely difficult lately, and I have felt it firsthand recently. Today we are going to talk about something many people have been asking about: source-of-funds additional-document requests. Long before mainland China was downgraded to Assessment Level 2, I was already
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qin Within Australia’s current migration policy landscape, employer-sponsored visas are fast becoming one of the most sought-after migration pathways thanks to their distinct advantages. They bypass the complicated EOI points system and don’t require waiting for a state government invitation, offering the opportunity to secure permanent residency in one step — with the whole family included on a single successful
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qin Late-February EOI data update — let’s take a look at the 189 backlog for the “three treasures” (early-childhood teaching, nursing, social work) plus secondary-school teaching — the four major occupations — and a handful of other in-demand fields. We’ll also factor in Wednesday morning’s NSW release of the March round of Subclass 190 invitations — let’s look at them
Read More →qin Many people have probably heard that “Australiahas noresidence requirement”, but an Australian PR does in fact require you to live in Australia for 2 years within every 5 years in order to renew the travel facility. So if you hold an Australian PR and over the past 5 years in Australia have not accrued 2 years of residence。 for
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qin Over the weekend — with no warning — the visa fee for the 485 Temporary Graduate visa was doubled, and on top of that a wave of student visa cancellations has hit lately. Australia is clearly entering a new “send-them-home” cycle, so we wanted to write this piece specifically to alert international students. Over the past 2–3 years Australia
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