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This week’s study-abroad update — – Over 30 and still wanting to study abroad and migrate? Consider New Zealand – International students can now apply for SCU’s Physiotherapy bachelor’s program – Swinburne University launches an “early offer acceptance reward” [Australian top-university offer show]
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The Department has today released the state nomination quota usage for this financial year up to 30 September. All states have so far received only a small allocation of interim quota, so Q1 of 2025-26 can be considered the coldest (and most meagre) state nomination data in history (see hero image). Now let’s look at each state in turn New
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Back from a hiking break — officially returning to work! Today we’re sharing a fairly complicated case that was granted in the past two weeks. Applicant’s situation The client lodged their Subclass 190 application back in 2023, with one or two rounds of further-information requests along the way. By the time they came to us, the Department had already issued
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Western Australia released its first invitation round for this financial year yesterday. As previewed, it was an interim quota round with a small number of invitations, and today’s official report confirms this — 420 pre-invitations in total (header image). All invitations went to the highest-priority occupations in the construction trades, including electricians, plumbers and carpenters. Only the Sch2 and local-graduate
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Each Chong Yang Festival, our love and gratitude grow deeper. Today is a day that belongs to our parents. Back then, they sent us off to faraway lands; now, we long to “bring them back” to our side. For many sons and daughters now living in Australia or New Zealand, the one thing we most want to do on this
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Australian skilled migration streams 189/190/491 all require a skills assessment, and employer-sponsored categories — Subclass 186 DE and the 494 regional category — also require a skills assessment, so the skills assessment is one of the most critical requirements for an Australian migration application. VETASSESS currently assesses 361 professional occupations, and also covers trades occupations — making it the largest
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Lately we receive a steady stream of enquiries every day about Tourist and family-visit visas — from the parents of permanent residents, as well as from people who simply want to visit Australia for tourism, to see family or to catch up with friends. Today we will walk you through the Australian Tourist visa in detail. 1. One-year validity, maximum
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WA has just updated its state nomination policy for the 2025-26 financial year The good news is that the occupation list hasn’t changed significantly. Compared with Canberra, which removed nearly 50 occupations, WA has remained steady. To check whether an occupation is on the list, you can still use the Occupation Search tool on the WA website (Figure 2). What
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This Week Australia Migration Update 1. NSW issues first 190 round — many construction occupations invited 2. WA updates policy — minimum three months of in-state residence required 3. JSA updates 2025 national and state-by-state occupation shortage data 4. Weekly visa grants, invitations and skills assessment success stories 1. NSW issues first 190 invitation round for FY 25-26, many construction/engineering
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