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News November 16, 2022 newstarsec

Immigration Minister: “Visa backlog could fall by 400,000 by year-end!” The reform agenda revealed — too many temps with no path to PR, regional migrants who leave once they get PR, and skilled visas not always going to skilled workers?

Today, the Immigration Minister was invited to speak at a forum on Australia's migration system hosted by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), titled 'Evolving Australia’s Migration System'. In his address, the Minister shared the latest visa processing data and arrangements.

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News November 15, 2022 newstarsec

Were You an International Student Who Returned Home? Have Years of Work Experience in China? Australia’s Skilled Migration Is Opening Up — How Engineers Can Take Their First Step!

Subclass 189 is warming up — engineering occupations across the board can receive invitations at 65 points. What does that mean? If an applicant studied two years of undergraduate or postgraduate study in Australia, is aged 25–32, is single or has one qualified spouse, and completes a community language qualification (NAATI/CCL), there is a real pathway to permanent residency!

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News November 14, 2022 newstarsec

Subclass 590 Guardian Visa Parents Can Achieve Financial Freedom and Migrate to Australia as a Family — While Giving Their Children Local Student Status!

More and more primary and secondary school students are coming to Australia to study, and their parents want to pave a smoother path for their children's education — on one hand hoping their children can enjoy local student status as early as possible, and on the other hand wanting to stay by their children's side long after they come of age.

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News November 11, 2022 newstarsec

Get Your Australian PR From Overseas — Engineering, IT, Marketing, Finance and More With Low Points Scores! Policies and Invitations Summarised for the Offshore Pathway

More than four months into the 2022–23 financial year, the trend is clear: Australia has been visibly tilting its invitation rounds to favour offshore applicants since the start of this financial year.

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News November 10, 2022 newstarsec

Finance graduates: PR possible from just 65 points! Studied interstate? No years of experience? No worries!

Accounting is widely known as one of the most popular migration pathways in Australia — if not the most popular. Yet Finance, another common business discipline closely related to Accounting, has always had a reputation for being difficult to migrate on.

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News November 8, 2022 newstarsec

Massive offshore engineering quota — PR at the minimum score! Engineers, seize this skilled migration opportunity now!

On 25 October, the Labor Government officially released the highly anticipated 2022–23 Federal Budget, confirming that the overall migration programme places will increase from 160,000 to 195,000. Compared with the original figures, the Subclass 189 allocation rose from 16,652 to 32,100 — an increase of 15,448 places, representing a 92.77% jump.

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News November 4, 2022 newstarsec

Weekly Grants & Invitations Roundup | Massive Volume of Subclass 190 Grants — All Kinds of Occupations! Subclass 143 Additional Information Processing Advances to February 2017! State Nomination Approvals Flying Through!

Current visa processing wait times on the Department of Home Affairs website for reference: Is the Department picking up speed? Subclass 190 and 491 visa backlogs are shrinking, and new Subclass 189 lodgements are increasing! Significant increase in recent technical additional information requests!

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News November 3, 2022 newstarsec

Too Many Priority Occupations Adding 45 Minutes Per Application? Minister Explains Why IT and Accounting Were Removed from the Priority List — Skilled Migration to Be Market-Driven!?

Several major Australian companies recently suffered large-scale data breaches — including Optus and Medibank — affecting tens of millions of people living in Australia.

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News November 2, 2022 newstarsec

Never Set Foot in Australia — and Already Got the Visa!? Offshore-Only Applicants Invited to NT MINT at 65 Points!

We have recently had a number of fully offshore MINT applicants receive invitations. At the same time, many clients in China are looking for a high-certainty pathway to migrate to Australia. Today we share everything about the Northern Territory MINT programme (offshore stream)!

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News November 1, 2022 newstarsec

Minister’s New Direction: 190/189/491/887 and Other Skilled Visas Prioritised — Will Processing Actually Speed Up? NSW State Nomination Opens a New Pathway Tomorrow!

Since Covid, visa processing priority arrangements have been in place — initially tied to Covid-specific needs, then linked to border reopening, and more recently focused on supporting economic recovery.

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