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What Is Australia’s Condition 8558? Visitor Visa Stay Rules for Parents Explained Once parents of PR holders and citizens are granted a visitor visa with special concessions, it carries Condition 8558, which provides that within any 18-month period they may stay in Australia for no more than 12 months. Many older parents and their children just can’t work it out:
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MIA and Department of Home Affairs March Quarterly Meeting: Key Highlights Subclass 189 Skilled Independent: Next Round of Invitations Confirmed for May MIA (the Migration Institute of Australia) held its routine quarterly meeting with the Department of Home Affairs in March, bringing news on visa processing as well as the Subclass 189 invitations that everyone is most concerned about. Because
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What the ban covers: the new Migration Amendment Act invoked for the first time, targeting Iran’s Subclass 600 visas The Minister for Home Affairs has just announced that, for the first time, the powers under the latest Migration Amendment Act passed only two weeks ago are being used to impose a six-month temporary entry ban on Iranian citizens holding a
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SUBCLASS 870 · 2026 UPDATE This article was published in April 2026 — the current version is here The Subclass 870 visa’s eligibility requirements, income threshold, application charges, processing times and GTE requirement are set out in full in our August 2026 update. If you only read one, read the update; the article below is kept as an archive. Read
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This Week’s Key Migration News 1. Subclass 407 processing speeds up — is renewal still worth considering? 2. Debunked: the extra +35% tax on temporary visas is fake 3. Tasmania keeps issuing invitations — green pass holders invited for Subclass 491 4. Ban in effect! The Immigration Minister bars Iranian visitor-visa holders from entering 5. This week’s grants, invitations and
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The 407 reform a few weeks ago, in short, requires the sponsorship eligibility, nomination, and visa to be lodged as three separate steps, with each subsequent step only lodgeable after the previous…
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Overall Quota Progress The Department of Home Affairs has just released the 190/491 quota usage figures as of the end of February (see header image).
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End-of-February EOI Data Update Let's compare the backlog for the "Three Treasures", Secondary Teachers (the four core occupations), and several other in-demand occupations (header image – Image 4)
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Yesterday we talked about the new trend in Student-visa processing:The hottest "new" trend in Australian visa processing — applicants are being asked for additional documents more often this past six…
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Last week one of our Student visa applications, after a three-month wait, was finally granted — the student will soon commence studies at the Australian National University.
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