The Western Australian government is holding a WA Open Day in Dublin on the 23rd June.  If anyone is interested in attending they can registered through the website – www.migration.wa.gov.au/seminar

State sponsored visa applications like the sponsored skilled visa subclass 176 and regional sponsored skilled visa subclass 475 are being given priority processing so [...]

Recently I was contacted by someone who was a sub class 163 visa holder.  She and her children had acquired this visa through a successful application for a subclass 163 visa application by her husband, who is the main visa holder.  The family was now in Australia and the wife, let’s call her Betty was [...]

From 15 May 2009 the list of skilled gazetted occupations for potential subclass 457 applicants was revised to only include occupations in Australian Standard Classification of Occupations (ASCO) major groups 1 to 4.   These occupations related to clerical and service workers, intermediate prodcution and transport workers.It is the view of the Department of Immigration (www.immi.gov.au) [...]

     Australian Business Skilled Visa Programme Reduced 2009/10

(Applies to subclass 160,sub class 161, subclass162, subclass 163, subclass 164, sub class 165 and sub class 132)

Recently I received an email from the case officer processing a client’s application for a sub class 163 Business owner visa with some interesting news.

Firstly she advised that my client and [...]

Sub class 165 Investor visa – Tips on how to show at least AU$1,125,000 in minimum assets for at least 2 years prior to lodging a visa application

In my experience with handling sub class 165 visa applications for my clients, one of the most complext if not the most complex requirement to verify in paper [...]

If you are a highly qualified professional or tradesperson living overseas who would like to find a job in the Australia then you should concentrate on 2 specific job market sources:-

1. Published Australian job market sources – Advertised
2. Unpublished Australian job market sources

There is a hidden market that includes jobs opportunities which are not advertised, [...]