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News May 11, 2026 Qiqi CHEN

Australia’s New Partner Visa Rules Take Effect in April 2026: Incomplete Documents Now Stall Processing — Key Changes You Must Know

Key Changes to Australia’s Partner Visa Rules in April 2026 In April 2026, the Australian Department of Home Affairs released two consecutive updates on partner visa processing, drawing particular attention to the processing workflow, documentation requirements and communication methods for partner visas. 01. Key change: after a request for further documents, you theoretically get only one chance to respond The

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News May 9, 2026 Qiqi CHEN

Stop Lodging Blindly! Wait Times to PR by Category in Australia — The Latest Complete Edition

Australia’s 2026 New Financial-Year Budget: Migration Places and the PR Backlog Explained On the evening of 12 May (next Tuesday), Australia releases its new financial-year Budget — it’s hard to believe another year has already gone by. As usual, I’ll talk it through on a livestream, so do come back and register to tune in. I’ll also cover the latest

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News May 7, 2026 Qiqi CHEN

State Nomination Programmes Enter the End-of-Financial-Year Wind-Down

Overview: Australian State Nomination Programmes Wrapping Up for the Financial Year Only yesterday I was reflecting that another financial year is almost over — and today the state governments went and reminded me all over again. NSW Subclass 190 About to Wrap Up Subclass 190 will not be releasing any further EOI pre-invitations, while Subclass 491 Pathway 2 — also

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News May 6, 2026 Qiqi CHEN

Australian Skilled Migration Too Competitive to Crack? When Your Subclass 485 Expires With No Way Out, New Zealand’s 6-Point Migration to the Rescue!

Australia’s 2026-27 Budget Approaches: Where Do Subclass 485 Work-Visa Holders Go When the Visa Expires? It’s now May, and next week on the evening of the 12th, Australia will hand down the 2026-27 Budget, which should reveal the PR visa quotas. Every signal is telling us that yet another financial year is about to end. Another financial year has nearly

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News April 30, 2026 Qiqi CHEN

How to Check Australian Visa Processing Times in 2026: Reading the Hidden MaxDays to Estimate Your Wait

How the New Method for Checking Australian Visa Processing Times Works A new way to check visa processing times? A better way to estimate how long you’ll wait? In the past, when checking processing times, most people’s first instinct was to open the Department of Home Affairs’ official website and look at the familiar Global Visa Processing Times tool —

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News April 29, 2026 Qiqi CHEN

Australian State Nomination Update: A Full Round-up of End-of-March Quota Usage and Invitation Schedules by State

Remaining State Nomination Quotas & Processing Progress by State in Australia April is almost over, and the Department of Home Affairs has finally updated state nomination quota usage as at the end of March (feature image). Victoria will close new applications on 28 April, Canberra has skipped its April round, and NSW will issue its first round of Subclass 491

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News April 28, 2026 Qiqi CHEN

April Roundup of Australia’s New Migration Policies: Online Parent Migration Applications, Subclass 191 Grants, State Nomination Deadlines

Key migration news this week First week of online parent migration applications — plenty of system bugs The claim that the QS skills assessment now requires a year of experience is a misunderstanding Nurse registration English requirements adjusted — the speaking bar gets harder More Subclass 191 grants and faster employer sponsorship? A roundup of this week’s grants, invitations and

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News April 24, 2026 Qiqi CHEN

Subclass 191 Grants and Backlog Figures ➕ Grant Progress Across All Visa Types

2026 Australia: The Latest Processing-Time Update Across All Visa Types It has been a while since we last updated on processing speeds. Today, drawing on the latest FOI data for Subclass 191, we share how processing has been tracking lately across the various visa types. The Department’s official figures are set out in the images (Images 2 to 3); the

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News April 23, 2026 Qiqi CHEN

Subclass 870 Parent Visa Explained: PR / Citizen Parents Can Live in Australia for Up to 10 Years

Subclass 870 Parent Visa: Eligibility Criteria and Sponsorship Requirements If you are the parents of a PR holder or citizen, a visitor visa lets you stay for a maximum of 12 months at a time — which simply isn’t enough. You have to keep careful track of the timing to exit and re-enter (you cannot stay for more than 12

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News April 23, 2026 Qiqi CHEN

Parent Visa Online Applications Are Officially Live!

The Parent Visa Online Lodgement System Is Officially Live! Just last week, we told you that parent migration would step into the online-application era on 22 April. First thing this morning, we put it to the test — and sure enough, a Parent Visa option has now been added under the Family category in ImmiAccount (see the header image). This

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