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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.
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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.
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This data is Newstars Education & Migration's internal data. Date range: 06-21 to 06-27; for reference only.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Just moments ago, Minister for Immigration Alex Hawke announced a major update to the PMSOL priority occupation list. Unlike the previous two rounds of minor adjustments — one adding social work, the other adding veterinary science — this time 22 occupations have been added in one go, bringing the total number of occupations on the PMSOL list to 41.
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Yesterday's latest update: the Department of Home Affairs has updated the general wait times for applicants granted visas in May 2021
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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.
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