Australia Immigration News

Australian visa holders do not require visa label in passports July 11, 2014

Australian visa holders can travel to Australia without visa label

Australian visa holders can travel and stay in Australia with no visa label stamped in their passport, according to a spokesperson from Department of Immigration and Border Protection’s (DIBP).Most of the department's services at present do not require exchange of paper documentation physically.Australian Visas are g...

Australia witness rise in immigrants from Asia July 05, 2014

Australia experience growth in Asian immigrants

A report entitled ‘The People of Australia’ from immigration department of Australia has announced that the immigrant population of the nation comes from over 250 nations, and that Asian immigrants in the country are increasing.The Indian population in Australia has risen by 148,000 during 2006 and 2011; the Philip...

Australian government announces new validity for skills assessment July 05, 2014

Government of Australia announces validity for skills assessment

The government of Australia has announced that the skills assessment will be valid for maximum three years from the date of issuance, effective 01 July 2014.Direct Entry streams of Employer Nominated Scheme and Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme, and Graduate work stream of Temporary Graduate visas necessitate an appl...

Australian government opens new Visa Application Center in Punjab, India July 04, 2014

New Visa Application Center inaugurated in Punjab

The government of Australia has launched a new Visa Application Center (VAC) in Jalandhar, Punjab, India, to meet the increasing demand for Australian visas in the region. The new center will be operated by its commercial partner, VFS Global.Mr. Patrick Suckling, Australia’s High Commissioner to India, said that ther...

Australia considers new visas for offshore oil, gas workers May 31, 2014

Australia to offer new visas for offshore oil, gas workers

Australia is likely to offer new visas for the overseas employees to work in oil and gas fields in the offshore resource industry. Michaelia Cash, the Assistant Minister of Immigration and Border Protection, said that in order to cut down redundant and red tape costs for the offshore projects with the potential to...

New UK-Australia visa application center opens in Bangkok May 29, 2014

James Wise, the Australian ambassador, Paul Bute, the British Embassy's charge d’Affairs, and Sriram Narayan of VFS, opened new visa application center in downtown Bangkok.The new visa application center, shared between both Australia and UK, was opened to serve aspirants willing to migrate to Australia and United Ki...

Australia considers TOEFL iBT, PTE Academic scores of visa applicants from November 2014 May 27, 2014

Australia will accept TOEFL iBT, PTE Academic test scores of visa applicant

Australia Department of Immigration and Border protection has declared that, from November 2014, the English language test scores of PTE Academic and TOEFL iBT of visa applicants would be accepted as an alternative across many visa categories. The test scores of the Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academi...

Vocational students to benefit from Australian fast student visa processing May 27, 2014

Fast tracked Australian visas processing for vocational students

The government of Australia has announced the availability of fast student visa processing scheme to vocational students, enrolling under advanced diploma courses, from early 2015.This expansion intended for more number of overseas students to get Australian visas to complete their diploma courses.Australia Education M...

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