Visa 190 Close While Opening of Visa 491 in South Australia

As the new skilled regional visas will be introduced on 16th November 2019, the state nominated 190 visa application system will be closed to the immigration of South Australia on 15th November 2019 from 11 am. The application system of this Subclass visa will be re-opening in the first week of December.

There is a need to pay and submit for the 190 visa application before the system being closed if you have just started a state nomination application under the 190 visa category.

All the applications that are not complete and still pending will be deleted from 11 am on 15th Nov. 2019. These incomplete applications include those applications that are saved but not submitted and applications that submitted but still pending for payment.

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Australia Intakes 115,000 Migrants In Just One Month!

The immigration level to Australia for the month of February reached rocket high with more than 115,000 permanent arrivals. There are so many people who have already made Australia their new home! Read out to find more from Australian immigration latest News!!

Australian Migration Changes announced under Federal Budget 2019

The Australian Immigration Department recently announced the migration changes in the Federal Budget under following categories:

• Visa Application Charges (VAC) increases

Base VACs for visa subclasses, except the Visitor Subclass 600 will increase by 5.4 percent from 1 July 2019 and there is no increase to second installment of VAC. The expected increase in revenue by $275 million from 2018/19 to 2021/22

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• Reduction in the Migration Program Planning Level

The immigration level for the next four years is fixed at 160,000 as opposed to 190,000 in the previous year. However, the immigration place will be easily available to the migrants willing to come and settle on permanent basis.

• Skilled Migration Points Test- Secondary Skilled Migrants

From November 2019, the points will be adjusted to award additional points to the primary applicants where the primary applicant’s spouse has competent English but was unable to meet the requirements for skilled partner points. Single applicants will now be able to receive additional points to ensure they are not disadvantaged- how the process will occur is not mentioned.

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  Introduction of New Regional Visa from 1st November 2019

The new Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (Provisional) visa will be introduced from 1 November 2019. The government is trying all possible efforts to invite skilled migrants in the regional areas to live and contribute towards the Australian economy.

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