The MIA expressed concern at many of the proposed amendments in the discussion paper and made recommendations for changes to these.
The Government proceeded with all its original proposals in the Australian Citizenship Legislation Amendment (Strengthening the Requirements for Australian Citizenship and Other Measures) Bill 2017 , which received its first reading in the House of Representatives on 15 June 2017.
The Australian Labor Party confirmed yesterday, 20 June 2017, that it will be not be supporting the Bill.
The MIA response submission is available at
Strengthening the Test for Australian Citizenship
WARNING – ImmiAccount Outage 30 June 2017
ImmiAccount will be unavailable on the following dates/times:
Friday 30 June until Saturday 1 July 2017
- East Coast, Eastern Standard Time: 9pm Friday to 1pm Saturday
- Western Australia, Australian Western Standard Time: 7pm Friday to 11am Saturday
- South Australia/Northern Territory, Australian Central Standard Time: 7.30 pm Friday to 11.30am Saturday
The Department’s system will be receiving a high level of traffic leading up to June 30 and it is expected that it may be slow or suffer technical issues as a result. Members should lodge applications with as much lead time as possible to avoid these problems.
New WA Skilled Migration Occupation List released & Perth regional classification to be removed for RSMS
The Western Australian Government has released its newWA Skilled Migration Occupation List for applicants seeking to be sponsored for Subclasses 190 and 489 visas.
The list has been reduced from 178 to18 medical/health related occupations only.
Applicants must have Australian or overseas work experience in their nominated occupation and a positive skills assessment before they will be considered for sponsorship.
The Western Australian Premier, Mark McGowan, also announced today that the Prime Minister has agreed toremove Perth from the federal government’s Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme.
Immigration South Australia – System outage from 29 June & State Nominated Occupations List update
Immigration SA’s application system will close at3pm (ACST) on Thursday 29 June 2017 and will re-open at 12pm (ACST) on Tuesday 4 July 2017.
The re-opening of the application system on 4 July will coincide with therelease of the updated State Nominated Occupation List (SNOL) for 2017/18.
The South Australian government has informed applicants and agents that this closure will affect all existing or new applications for Skilled, Employer Sponsored and Business migration. Any applications in the system that have not submitted by 3pm on29 June will be deleted from the system and will not be able to be accessed again.
