Australia Immigration News

Australian Federal budget offers more for skilled immigrants in 2014-15 migration program May 24, 2014

Australian Federal budget incorporates migration program focusing on skilled immigration

Australian Federal Budget, revealed by the Commonwealth Treasurer, Joe Hockey, includes 2014-15 migration program offering 190,000 places for immigrants and mainly focuses on skilled category as it is a major resource for highly skilled migrants. The total figure is shared for three categories which include al...

Australia observes 17% increase in enrolment of Indian students May 24, 2014

17 % rise of Indian students recorded in Australia educational institutions

A latest report has revealed more than 17% increase in the enrolment of Indian students in the educational institutions across Australia. According to the data, a total of 35,671 Indian students from all the sectors were enrolled in various educational institutions of Australia during the first three months of t...

Australian High Commission announces online access for visa applications May 23, 2014

Online application of Australia Visas made available

The Australian High Commission informed to the local Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the visa applicants will have online access to the Australia Department of Immigration and Border Protection all through the week. Thus, there is no need for the applicants to apply either by e-mail or in person and can find...

Fast-Tracked Australian Visiting Visa Applications for 51 Countries Eligible in Electronic Lodgement May 20, 2014

Rapid Australian Visiting Visa Applications for 51 Countries

Fifty one countries are now eligible for the electronic lodgementlist of Australian Visiting Visa applications. These countries are eligible to apply electronically for a visitor visa (Sub class 600), from the starting of this month. On the whole, citizens from 124 countries will now get benefit from lodging online t...

South Australia allowing provisional visa holders to apply for permanent residency May 15, 2014

South Australia to allow provisional visa holders to apply for permanent residency

It has been announced that the South Australian government is allowing those applicants of its nominated provisional visa program (just subclass 487, subclass 489, subclass 495 and subclass 475) and who live and work in the state to apply for the Skilled Nominated Permanent visa -- 190, which is a under the aegis o...

World Bank affirms Australia's initiative to grant working holiday visa to Fiji May 10, 2014

World Bank welcomes Australia�s initiative to grant working holiday visa to Fiji

The World Bank has gladly affirmed the announcement by the Australian government to grant a working holiday visa to Fiji. A world bank labour migration specialist has also stated that the announcement and the proposition of the Australian government is actually beneficial for Australia. He stated that this is s...

Australia's DIPB introduces new identity requirements affecting PIC (Public Interest Criterion) May 08, 2014

In Australia, new identity requirements have been introduced as part of the requirements for granting some particular visas. These identity requirements have been introduced for Public Interest Criterion (PIC) 4020, for a few Australian visas. PIC 4020 as a criterion is attached to numerous visas including skilled ...

Australia to grant its tourist visa to Saudi nationals within 48 hours May 06, 2014

Saudi nationals to be granted Australian tourist visa within 48 hours

As per news reports, Australian Minister of Trade and Investment Andrew Robb has stated in a formal, written communication to the CSC (Council of Saudi Chambers) that Saudi nationals would now be receiving their tourist visas within 48 hours (i.e. 2 days). In the same formal communication, the minister revealed his c...

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