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New Work Visa For Graduating Foreign Students Introduced A new work visa to allow foreign students work in Australia after completing their studies was announced by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship. Also known as Post-Study Work Visa, this will be an additional stream under the existing 485 visa subclass...

Australia Launches The Golden Ticket Visa Australia has launched a new visa called ‘Golden Ticket’ which is intended to welcome wealthy migrants who are willing to invest millions in the country. This will allow foreigners obtain permanent residency as long as they have at least AUD$5 million (SGD$6.4 million) to...

India Tops Number Of Migrants In Australia The Australian Government announced that India, for the first time, has become the largest source of permanent and skilled migrants in Australia. The 2011-2012 migration program has 185,000 places and Indian migrants comprised a total of 29,018 places, that’s 15.7 percent of the...

Skilled Migration Pass Mark Changed The Department of Immigration and Citizenship announced today the changes to the skilled migration pass mark. People who want to migrate will first need to submit an expression of interest (EOI) for their Australian visa application. This applies to the new SkillSelect visa subclasses 189,...

Reforms for Business Migration to Australia Announced Major reforms to the Australian business migration have been announced and will apply from 1 July 2012 coinciding the new DIAC SkillSelect. The key changes to the Business Skills visa program – now named the Business Innovation and Investment program are: Skilled Migrant...