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For the second year in a row Assent Migration Lawyers have won the Best Boutique Law Firm Australasia award from APAC Insider Magazine’s...

A recent internal review within the Department of Home Affairs of the Parent visa program has brought to light yet again the...

Some Temporary Graduate (Post Study work) subclass 485 visa approvals issued over the past few days are impacted by a glitch....

The new Work & Holiday visa (subclass 462) arrangement for the next fiscal year 2024-2025 will include up to 200 places for young...

Home Affairs made an announcement today that from 1 July 2024, visa conditions 8107, 8607 and 8608 are changing in response to the...

A key commitment in the Migration Strategy, released last year, was to restrict ‘visa hopping’ - ending the loopholes that allow students...

A new Grattan Institute report titled It all adds up: reforming points-tested visas shows that points tested visas are not working as...

At the end of May, South Australia’s skilled migration Registration of Interest (ROI) applications for onshore applicants closed for the...

In line with the Australian Government’s Migration Strategy announced last year to reshape all current programs, there has been a lot of...

The Temporary Graduate subclass 485 visa will have two streams: the Post-Vocational Education Work (former Graduate Work) stream and the...

Jim Chalmers, Australia’s Federal Treasurer handed down his third budget with a wide range of developments that will affect immigration...

The Albanese Government is releasing a discussion paper which maps a path to reforming the skilled migration points test, which has not...

Last December a plan was unveiled to streamline Australia’s skilled visa program, a process that would make visas simpler for both the...

An Australian permanent resident visa will be available to people from the Pacific Islands and Timor-Leste after it was successfully...

Skilled refugees matched with employers to migrate to Australia in the Skilled Refugee Labour Agreement Pilot program. The pilot program...

Department of Education made an announcement about the ending in about mid 2024 of the option for two-year extension of post-study work...

Newsagencies like the Australian and BBC recently reported that the Labour Government has 'quietly axed' the Business Innovation and...

On 7 February the Federal Labor Government said it has now delivered greater protections for vulnerable workers who speak up against...

The recently announced changes to take place in the Temporary Graduate visa stream, reducing the age limit for eligibility for the...

There are Australian citizenship ceremonies scheduled to take place tomorrow, on Australia Day granting Australian citizenship to a...