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Early Childhood Teaching, Nursing, and Social Work (the so-called "Three Migration Treasures") have long been top migration courses, but each comes with its own entry barriers or skills-assessment hurdles.
Read More →Today is the last working day of 2023 for most of you, so as usual we are sharing the good news on visa grants, invitations and skills assessments! Whether it is over the break or in 2024, we hope your own good news arrives soon!
Read More →After a turbulent week, the question of whether offshore online study during COVID satisfies the Australian Study Requirement (ASR) has finally been settled — with double confirmation from both the Department of Home Affairs website and MIA!
Read More →What a roller-coaster of a week. Last Friday after hours, the MIA issued a notice informing members that the Department of Home Affairs had updated its 485 website to no longer recognise online study undertaken offshore on a student visa during COVID as counting towards the Australian Study Requirement for meeting work-visa or skilled-migration points. After a joint outcry from multiple parties, the Department has now confirmed that the change will not take effect, and the official website has been updated accordingly.
Read More →With the 25 November 482 visa reforms now officially in place, the Department has also updated the requirements for the 186 TRT stream. Many applicants, however, are still unclear on the difference between the TRT and 186 DE streams. In this article, Tiffany walks through the key differences between the two streams, along with the best visa choices for applicants with 1-3 years of full-time work experience. A side-by-side comparison chart is included at the end.
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Ever since the Department of Home Affairs updated its definition of "studying in Australia", pandemic-era online classes taken from overseas no longer count toward the in-Australia study-time requirement, and huge numbers of students applying for the 485 visa or lodging a skilled migration claim have been hit in wave after wave!
Read More →Hong Kong Immigration has recently released application and approval numbers for all talent admission schemes. As of 31 October this year, 184,000 applications had been received across the various talent schemes, with 115,000 approvals — an approval rate of roughly 63%.
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After yesterday's article about offshore study no longer meeting Australian study requirements, many readers have asked
Read More →Last Friday the MIA sent out a major alert: the Department of Home Affairs has updated the Subclass 485 visa rules. From 25 November, the COVID-era concession — which allowed time spent studying online offshore on a student visa to count as Australian study time — has been cancelled!
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