New Immigration Rules allocate places to best and brightest migrants
Intending skilled migrants who want to come to Australia will have to ask permission to apply from 1 July 2011. From 1 July 2011, applicants for the Independent Skills category, Family Sponsored, State/ Territory Sponsored visa, Business Skills will have to lodge an online Expression of Interest ( EOI ) and wait for an invitation before they can make [...]
“The greatest resource of the Philippines is its people. They are great and fantastic people,” says the Honourable Robert Smith, President of the Legislative Council in the Parliament of Victoria, during his speech at the formal inauguration of the Australian Centre of Further Education (ACFE) last 15 July at its training centre in Queen St, [...]
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By LITA MAHLE Australia’s new Prime Minister, Julia Gillard said that the major reform to the Australian skilled migration program that came into effect on 1 July 2010 will help provide needed skills and workers for the Australian economy. She stresses that she is not about to close down the shutters in immigration but rather [...]
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By ALICE GREGORIO-NICOLAS Twenty-five out of 35 Filipino workers employed by Alfasi, a Melbourne based international group of companies servicing the construction and engineering industries, are currently busy working on the wheel structure of the $100 million Southern Star Observation Wheel, Melbourne’s biggest ferris wheel. Ten of these Filipinos are welders, while 15 belong to [...]
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Filipino Nurses Australian Accreditation The Australian Centre of Further Education (ACFE) is now accredited by the Nursing Board of Victoria (NBV) to offer the Initial Registration for Overseas Nurses (IRON) Program in Melbourne. The IRON Program is open to nurses trained and registered overseas who intends to practice in Australia. The IRON Program is required [...]
Continue reading …By LITA MAHLE Business groups are warning the Department of Immigration that unless the skilled migration program is overhauled, looming shortages of skills are inevitable. The Australian Financial Review has reported that mining and the energy industry face severe shortages if the government does not urgently review the newly introduced program. Head of major companies [...]
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Did you know it is illegal for anyone to give immigration assistance without being a registered migration agent? The reason it is illegal is to protect unsuspecting people from being given incorrect advice or losing their money to unscrupulous operators posing as migration advice professionals. In Australia, migration agents must be registered with the Office of the [...]
Continue reading …Cooks, hairdressers removed from list 17 May 2010– The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) has just released the new Skilled Occupation List (SOL) which will come into effect from 1 July 2010. The new SOL provides for 181 occupations compared to the earlier list of 408. The list, prepared by Skills Australia, now focuses [...]
Continue reading …Nurses, Teachers, IT’s, Engineers, Welders, Carpenters etc. still welcome in new SOL
18 May 2010 1 CommentLita Mahle MARN 9250408 The Immigration Minister, Chris Evans, has slashed by half the list of 400 occupations replacing them with 180 ”highly valued occupations”. Still on the list are medical professionals including nurses, teachers, engineers, dentists, as well as surgeons, osteopaths, IT professionals and welders. But off the list from July will be dance [...]
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