The Class EA, Business Skills - Business Talent (Permanent) subclass 132 was made popular by the fact that it had the one and only structured Australian business visa that gave the applicant permanent residency once their visa was granted. This was done through a stream called the ‘Significant Business [...]
If you are looking at migrating to Australia as an engineer, you’re probably wondering - how much is the comparable salary for engineers compared to where you are from? What Do Engineers Do In Australia? Similar to many parts of the world, engineers are in multiple fields, including [...]
In this series we’ll be covering one of the more popular questions we get - how popular is Australia as a migration destination for people from Malaysia and around the region? Malaysians have been migrating to Australia for more than 30 years and if you include tourists and students, [...]
The Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) (Class PE) (Subclass 491) a.k.a Subclass 491 is the latest visa to be added to the skilled migration program. It replaces the previous version of the regional skilled migration program - or the older subclass 489 visa. Introduced on 16th November 2019 by the [...]
When it comes to the Resident Return Visa, or full name: Class BB, Five Year Resident Return (Subclass 155) visa, there is always quite a bit of confusion… In fact even the name itself is confusing, is this visa for 5 years? I thought it could be for 1 [...]
Here at Austral Migration Consultancy, we work hard in making sure our Australian migration practice complies to Australian law as per the Australian Migration Act 1958 (Cth) as well as the migration agent’s Code of Conduct prescribed in Schedule 2, Regulation 8 of the Migration Agents Regulations 1998 (Cth). [...]
Skilled Nominated (Permanent) (Class SN) (Subclass 190) a.k.a Subclass 190 The Subclass 190 Skilled Nominated visa is a permanent residency visa type for skilled workers and their family (spouse/ defacto partner and their children) who are sponsored by a state. Unlike the subclass 189, this visa requires an applicant [...]
The elections are done - and after the dust settled, the winner emerged with Scott Morrison’s government returning. This is not what we expected, or what polls or the media predicted either. In fact, according to news reports, Bill Shorten’s Labour party was going to win comfortably. But after [...]
[Updated for 5th March 2019 changes - see summary of changes below the table] If you are looking to migrate to Australia via the Australia skilled migration pathway, then depending on the visa you are applying for, you would need your occupation to fall under one of three lists. This article [...]
[Update: 22/5/2019: the elections have concluded, we've detailed a further post on the upcoming changes here.] [Update 25/4/2019: The Australian government has released more details on the visa types that are coming in for regional and some other bits of information on the skilled points test changes, however keep [...]
