Managing Migration

Migration Program Planning

The government will extend migration planning beyond the current 12 month planning cycle to fill critical skills shortages and ensure better collaboration with the states and territories.

Net overseas migration numbers are expected to fall from 510,000 in the 2022-23 financial year to 375,000 next financial year and 250,000 in 2024-25. The numbers are predicted to stabilise at this lower level from that time on.

International student numbers grew to 270,000 in 2022-23 up from 170,000 in 2028-19 prior to COVID, which also saw a return to Australia of students who had been forced to study online and offshore during the pandemic.

Temporary visa holders, ie Temporary Skilled, Working Holidays Maker and COVID pandemic event visas, accounted for 180,000 places in 2022-23, up from 100,000 in 2018-19.

Expect many changes to most subclasses in 2024.

By the end of 2023, the Temporary Residence Transition (TRT) stream of the Employer Nomination Scheme SC 186 will be amended.

All Temporary Skill Shortage (TSS) SC 482 visa holders will be eligible for ENS visas sponsored by their employers.

Applicants will need to continue to work in the occupation nominated for their TSS visa(s).

Sponsored visa holders will be eligible for ENS TRT after two years (down from three years) of sponsorship on a TSS by their employer.

Applicants will need to meet all other nomination and visa requirements for the TRT stream of the Employer Nomination Scheme visa.

The limit on Short Term stream TSS visa applications that can be made onshore has also been removed in the interim.

Commencing from 1 July 2022, WA state has introduced new occupations onto their lists. This is especially beneficial for graduates that have studied in Western Australia. We anticipate all Western Australia graduates to be able to secure a 491/190 in the new FY!

Migration WA - 2022-23 State nomination requirements ​Commencing in the 2022-23 program year people residing overseas are now eligible to be considered for Western Australia (WA) State nomination. Invitations to apply for WA State nomination will be via the ranking system, giving preference to applicants currently residing in WA, followed by those r...

Occupation ceilings for the 2020-21 program year

Key statistics are
- Accountant reduced to 1000 only for this financial year
- Auditors - 1619
- IT Occupations retain high ceilings with over 15,000 ceiling value
- Engineers over 11,000
- Teachers over 14,000
- Registered Nurse 17859
- Trade Occupations over 50,000 with Electrician at 1st with 8,021 ceiling value, Carpenters and Joiners at 6812, Motor Mechanics at 5205, Chef 2,256, Painting Trades Workers at 3303
- Management Consultant 4526

Occupation ceiling values are based on a percentage of stock employment figures for each occupation. Employment figures are provided by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and represent the number of people employed in Australia in each occupation.

Occupation ceilings do not apply to State or Territory Nominated, Employer Sponsored or Business Innovation and Investment visa subclasses.

For Accountants (2211) the occupational ceiling also reflects volumes in other skilled visa categories. - This pretty much summarize that 189 invite for accounting would be harder due to 1000 distributed in other visa programs like State nominated visa.

Cities and major regional centres

Perth
Adelaide
Gold Coast
Sunshine Coast Canberra Newcastle/Lake Macquarie
Wollongong/Illawarra Geelong
Hobart

- Access to the dedicated 25,000 regional places.
- Priority processing on regional visas.
- Access to the Regional Occupations List – more jobs compared to non-regional lists.
- International students studying at regional universities will be eligible to access an additional year in Australia on a post-study work visa.

Regional centres and other regional areas

All other locations

- Access to the dedicated 25,000 regional places.
- Priority processing on regional visas.
- Access to the Regional Occupations List – more jobs compared to non-regional lists.
- International students studying at regional universities will be eligible to access an additional 2 years in Australia on a post-study work visa.
- Priority in negotiating region-specific Designated Area Migration Agreements (DAMAs).

Mark McGowan back flips on his pre-election promises and fights to get Perth listed back as being regional for visa purposes.

Regional migration intake upped to 25,000 The maximum number of migrants able to move to regional Australia under a successful new scheme will be lifted to 25,000. When the regional migration program...

The Department of Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business (formerly the Department of Jobs and Small Business) regularly reviews the skilled migration occupation lists to ensure they are responsive to genuine skill needs across Australia.

The next update to Australia’s skilled migration occupation lists is scheduled to be announced in March 2020.

On 4 September 2019, the Department commenced a review of the skilled migration occupation lists and is currently meeting with interested stakeholders. If you would like to meet with this Department please email [email protected].

Members may wish to provide information on the consultation process to client employer groups, industry associations or other relevant stakeholders who may wish to provide input into the lists.

Further information is available on the Department of Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business website.

Global Liveability Report 2019: Perth maintains 14th place but Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide crack top 10

Perth fails to crack top 10 most liveable cities WA’s capital has maintained its 14th-placed ranking, while three Australian metropolises have cracked the top 10.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-23/permanent-migration-cut-looms-coalition-home-affairs/11438240?fbclid=IwAR20CTlapDJsbc2Kc3U0NePcjJcgakgsrs_P6OL2uGOUFsRycXWVSSr7rNg

Permanent migrant intake set for another cut under Coalition, experts say New programs many not attract as many migrants as set out in planning levels, making it even harder for regional businesses.

Home Affairs doesn’t know how many migrants it’ll deport under new character test

The Home Affairs Department predicts proposed changes to Australia's character test will mean more migrants will be deported - but is unable to estimate how many.

The Home Affairs Department can't say how many migrants they expect to fail the character test under planned changes to make it easier to deport foreign criminals.

Department officials were grilled by a Senate inquiry about government plans to lower the bar for criminals' visas to be cancelled.

Home Affairs doesn’t know how many migrants it’ll deport under new character test The Home Affairs Department predicts proposed changes to Australia's character test will mean more migrants will be deported - but is unable to estimate how many.

The Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme (RSMS) Subclass 187 will close from 16 November 2019.

The RSMS subclass will remain open for applicants who:

- on 20 March 2019, held a Temporary Skill Shortage (Subclass 482) visa in the Medium-term stream, or was an applicant for a Temporary Skill Shortage (Subclass 482) visa in the Medium-term stream that was subsequently granted, or
- on 18 April 2017 held a Temporary Work (Skilled) (Subclass 457) visa; or was an applicant for a Temporary Work (Skilled) (Subclass 457) visa that was subsequently granted.

'Orphan' RSMS nominations lodged before 16 November 2019, will be taken to have been withdrawn on 16 November 2019 if:

- the nomination has not been approved or refused before 16 November, and
- the nominee is not transitional 457 or 482 employee, and
- the nominee has not lodged 187 visa application before 16 November