The nation's migrant population is at its highest since the gold rush era of the late 1800s, says a new report.
Asian arrivals are rapidly changing the face of Australia, with the number of Chinese and Indian-born residents nearing the one million mark.
Almost 30 per cent of Australians were born overseas as of 30 June 2014 according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) report Migration Australia 2013-14 which was released on 29 January 2015.
This included 1.22 million UK-born people, 617,000 New Zealanders, 447,400 from China and 397,000...
Thursday, 29 January 2015
Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Japan-Australia Economic Partnership Agreement (JAEPA) & the subclass 457 visa program
The Japan-Australia Economic Partnership Agreement (JAEPA)
entered into force on 15 January 2015.
Australia’s international trade obligations which preclude labour
market testing in the 457 programme are specified in a Legislative
Instrument. Due to the close proximity of the entry into force dates of
the JAEPA and the Korea-Australia Free Trade Agreement (KAFTA), a
separate Legislative Instrument IMMI
14/113: Japan Australia Economic Partnership Agreement Determination 2014
has
been created to specify Australia’s...
Significant Investor Visa (SIV) (subclass 888) changes - 1 July 2015
Eligibility for the permanent SIV from 1 July 2015 will
require the following residency:
The primary
applicant to reside in Australia for 40 days per year
OR the secondary applicant (spouse) to reside in Australia for
180 days per year.
There will be no
residency requirement for all other secondary applicants.
This residency
requirement will be per year and be calculated cumulatively over the four
year period of the provisional visa, i.e. 160 days over four years for a
primary applicant or 720 days...
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
Review of the Temporary Work (Entertainment) visa (Subclass 420)
The Department of Immigration & Border Protection (DIBP) and the Ministry for the Arts, Attorney-General’s Department are undertaking a review of the Temporary Work (Entertainment) visa (Subclass 420). The review is in support of the Australian Government’s commitment to reducing the burden and cost of unnecessary or inefficient regulation imposed on individuals, business and community organisations:-
http://www.immi.gov.au/pub-res/Documents/discussion-papers/review-temporary-work-entertainment-visa.p...
Trades Recognition Australia (TRA) changes
Provisional
Skills Assessment - Removal of the International English Language Testing
System eligibility requirement
From 16
January 2015 Provisional Skills Assessment (PSA) applicants are no longer
required to provide an International English Language Testing System (IELTS)
result as part of the eligibility requirement...
Skilled Migration and Temporary visa - DIBP review
The Department of Immigration & Border Protection (DIBP) have just released their latest discussion paper
on skilled migration and temporary visas:
http://www.immi.gov.au/pub-res/Documents/discussion-papers/proposal_paper_dec14.p...
457 visa changes about flexibility - Prime Minister Tony Abbott
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Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he
will overhaul the 457 visa scheme as part of his innovation and competitiveness
agenda.
Mr Abbott says he
wants to make changes to the scheme to make the 457 visa process more flexible
for business.
The Federal Government
says the current 457 visa scheme is too rigid and any changes are not a way of
substituting overseas labour for domestic labour.
Those planned
changes include streamlining the processing of sponsorship, nomination and visa
for low-risk applicants.
And they include
increasing...
Monday, 12 January 2015
Significant Fines for Breaches
The
owners of Dave’s Noodles, a noodles restaurant in Launceston have been fined
$100,000 for underpaying a Chinese chef on a 457 Visa, and creating false wage
records.
Over
a period of four years the chef received a shortfall of $86,000 and eventually
lodged a complaint with the Fair Work Ombudsman. When his claim was
investigated the inspectors discovered the worker was being paid at a flat
rate based on a 38 hour week while his employers were requiring him to work 60
hours per week.
The
owners compounded their culpability by requiring...
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