Helping passionate, innovative small businesses realise their dreams and reach new markets is the primary aim of the small business grants program. The round two for business grants program opens on Monday 5 August 2019 and closes Monday 9 September 2019 for business.
Victoria’s Skilled and Business Migration Program will be launching a new online application system for visa nomination 15 July 2019. No visa nomination applications can be submitted on the Live in Melbourne website between 4.00pm Wednesday 10 July 2019 (AEST) and Monday 15 July 2019. Any draft nomination application saved in the system, will need to be submiteed by 4.00pm on Wednesday 10 July or application will need to be redrafted in the new system on Monday 15 July 2019.
CPA Australia assessing authority for occupations such as Accountants, External Auditors, Finance Managers have increased their fees from 1 July 2019. Fees for Skills Assessment, update, New ANZSCO Code, Appeal and Withdrawal assessment have increased. Further details are available on the website.
Information for Malaysian and Czech 1st Work and Holiday visa applicants Some applicants may be unable to continue beyond page 4 of the application form on their ImmiAccount. The following error message may be displayed: The Government support details provided indicate that the applicant does not have a letter of government support. To be eligible to apply for this visa, applicants must have a letter of government support. The applicant will not be able to continue and should review the eligibility information on our website. Applicants must answer YES to the question ‘ Does the applicant have a letter of government support to attach to this visa application?’ and attach the following documents to their application form: Citizens of Malaysia must provide a Malaysian Good Conduct Certificate. Citizens of the Czech Republic must provide a letter of introduction from their tertiary education institution.
Application statuses in ImmiAccount from 1 July 2019. The Department has performed a major update to its online application forms on 1 July 2019. Applications that were not submitted by 5pm Sunday 30 June 2019 are set to a status of ‘Incomplete’ in ImmiAccount as part of the systems maintenance process. RMA’s will need to review the answers within their application form to ensure that any updated questions have been answered.
Applications for the Sponsored Parent (Temporary) visa (subclass 870) have commenced on 1 July 2019. Applications to sponsor a parent for a Sponsored Parent (Temporary) visa opened on 17 April 2019. Once a sponsorship application is approved, a sponsored parent is able to apply for a Sponsored Parent (Temporary) visa within 60 days if onshore. If the parent is offshore they have 6 months from the day on which the relevant parent sponsor is approved as a family sponsor. The application is Internet based application. The visa provides parents with a new pathway to temporarily reunite with their children and grandchildren in Australia, while ensuring that taxpayers are not required to cover additional costs. The visa responds to community concerns about the limited number of Parent places in the migration program and associated lengthy waiting periods.
New changes introduced in Migration (LIN 19/184: Arrangements for Work and Holiday Visa applications) Instrument. On 26 June 2019, Migration (LIN 18/174: Arrangements for Work and Holiday Visa Applications) Instrument 2018 has been repealed. Greece and Eucador passport holders have now been included in the list of foreign countries eligible to apply for the Work and Holiday visa from 1 July 2019. Further passport holders of Austria, Portugal and Spain together with the countries mentioned in Regulation LIN 18/174 are not required to provide evidence of government support for the grant of their visa. WHM visa holders who carry out 6 months of specified work in regional areas while on their second Working Holiday (subclass 417) visa or Work and Holiday (subclass 462) visa may be eligible to apply for a third visa. Eligible types of work and regional areas will correspond with the requirements for the second visa. The Department has simplified the process of applying for a Work and Holiday visa application. Applicants holding a valid passport from an eligible country including Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Turkey can now apply online through their immi account.
There are 114 occupations on the South Australian Regional Workforce Agreement which provide employers in key regional growth industries of agribusiness, health and aged care, hospitality and tourism, mining and construction sectors with the ability to access and retain a skilled workforce. The South Australian Regional Workforce Agreement covers the entire state of South Australia. Agribusiness occupations will apply to the businesses located in the 5110 – 5734 postcodes. The South Australian Designated Area Migration Agreement also provides eligible businesses access to occupations not listed in ANZSCO, these are identified under the code ‘ANZSCO 070499’ mentioned on the South Australian Regional Workforce Designated Area Migration Agreement. Presently Production Horticulturalist and Senior Production Horticulturalist are identified under the ANZSCO 070499. Information relating to APPLICATION PROCESS and HOW TO APPLY will be available from 1 July 2019 on the website of South Australia immigration.
The 2019-20 ACT Occupation List http://www.canberrayourfuture.com.au/portal/migrating/article/act-occupation-list/ will apply to all Canberra Matrix submitted on or after 1 July 2019. If you submitted a Canberra Matrix on or before 30 June 2019, your Matrix score for a nominated occupation is valid for six months. On the Invitation date 11 June 2019, Canberra issued 652 invitations. The invitations were issued to matrix submitted with 145 to 65 points and 60 points matrix submitted on or before 31 March 2019. Canberra was ranked 22nd in the world in the 2018 QS Best Student City Rankings. Canberra offers the highest proportion of on-campus student accommodation in Australia. Canberra offers a strong return on educational investment with a choice of 5 world class universities, vocational education and training institutions, a high achieving school system and flexible pathways. Further Canberra has a strong knowledge based economy and offers plenty of employment opportunities during study and post-graduation. If you are looking to invest in Canberra email investcanberra@act.gov.au to connect to one of the investment teams. More information on living in Canberra can be found at http://www.canberrayourfuture.com.au/portal/living/article/useful-links/.
Increase in Visa application charges from 1 July 2019 As per the Migration Amendment visa Business Skills Business Talent (Permanent) (Class EA), Employer Nomination (Permanent) (Class EN), Parent (Migrant) (Class AX) are some of the visas types whose fees will increase from July 1 2019. Visa subclasses like Skilled — Regional Sponsored (Provisional) (Class SP) and other visas will see fee increase only on 16 November 2019.