Your Guide to Recent Immigration Updates in Australia

Your Guide to Recent Immigration Updates in Australia

Exciting stats from Home Affairs, here are some fun migration facts from the last financial year: 75 Years of Australian Citizenship: Celebrating a 75-year milestone, there has been a 13% increase in citizenship applications from July to December 2023, with a 14%...
Australia-UK Free Trade Agreement Transforms the Working Holiday Visa

Australia-UK Free Trade Agreement Transforms the Working Holiday Visa

Australia and the UK, united by the Australia-United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement, also known as the ‘Australia-UK FTA,’ are injecting new energy into the Working Holiday Maker (WHM) program. We have seen some highlights of this FTA across other visa subclasses (the...
Closure of the Subclass 408 Visa

Closure of the Subclass 408 Visa

The Australian Government will close the stream of the Temporary Activity visa (subclass 408) which was specifically designed for Australian Government-endorsed events related to the COVID-19 Pandemic, commonly known as the ‘Covid visa’. The ‘Covid visa’...
New information for Labor Market Testing (LMT)

New information for Labor Market Testing (LMT)

Exciting Update on Job Advertisements for 482 and 494 Visa Applications. As of December 2023, a significant change has been implemented regarding the mandatory use of the Workforce Australia website for job ads in visa applications. For subclass 482 and 494 nomination...
Federal Government Announces Changes to Migration Program

Federal Government Announces Changes to Migration Program

On 5 May 2023, the Australian Government announced a set of changes to its Migration Program, opening up better conditions and pathways to permanent residency for Temporary Skill Shortage (subclass 482) visa holders and other changes to the program. Here is what we...