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On 22 April 2016 the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL), the organisation responsible for providing migration skills assessments for teachers, announced a number of changes to its skills assessment requirements which will apply to applications received from 22 April 2016.

An alternative pathway to independent skilled migration is for applicants to find a State or Territory Government to nominate them.  State and Territory Governments are able to nominate an applicant for a permanent 190 visa, or a temporary 489 regional area visa which leads to permanent residency, if certain additional requirements are satisfied after grant of the visa

I’ve been working full time while holding a subclass 457 visa  for the last two years but have had more than one sponsoring employer – am I eligible to apply for a 186 or 187 visa in the Temporary Residence Transition Stream?

It may come as a surprise to some permanent residents that they are not required to satisfy the usual residency requirements for grant of Australian citizenship

Within the last year the Department has been closely scrutinising the genuine need for nominated occupations under the subclass 457 scheme. In particular, focus has been on the following occupations:

On 14 December 2015, the Australian Government introduced new criminal, civil and administrative sanctions, and visa cancellation provisions as part of a framework that makes “payment for visas” behaviour illegal.