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Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil told Sky News that "most Australians would be pretty offended by the idea we've got a visa category...

Immigration Minister Andrew Giles is addressing the backlog of visas putting to work hundreds of additional public service staff and...

Last week’s Job and Skills Summit not only heralded change in the handling of visa applications and the number of visas it also addressed...

Australia’s Jobs and Skills Summit, which was held on 1-2 September, was more than the talkfest that some politicians claimed it would...

Australian government intends to target the area of permanent migration to help alleviate some of the employment issues facing Australian...

One year from the fall of Kabul to the Taliban and Australia has yet to process Afghan visas with more than 40,000 applications covering...

Common sense is the approach that the Albanese Labor Government has said it would take with New Zealand citizens by improving citizenship...

In a first step to coping with the backlog of visas the Home Affairs Department will outsource aspects of its visa processing services in...

An eleventh-hour reprieve has been granted to Ukrainians with an extension to the humanitarian visa program for displaced Ukrainians that...

Subclass 485 (Temporary Graduate) visa applicants in the Graduate Work stream applying between 1 July 2022 and 30 June 2023 (inclusive)...

Very few, if any, areas of Labor’s new Immigration Minister Andrew Giles’ portfolio are without trouble; skills shortages abound...

Almost immediately after gaining power the Albanese Labor Government allowed the long suffering Nadasalingam family to return to the...

Labor MP Andrew Giles has been handed the immigration portfolio which has been relegated to the outer ministry. “It’s an incredible...

The post pandemic recovery being a priority in the immigration platform of the Australian government many programs have been subject to...

The pathway to Australian permanent residency for temporary work visa holder sponsored by their Australian employer has been subject to...

India-Australia’s free trade agreement has been grabbing headlines for the wine, wool and other industries, but inroads have been made...

This year's Australian Federal Budget contains some immigration related announcements. Apart from the 2022-23 Migration Planning Levels,...

The Federal Government has extended the Pandemic Event subclass 408 visa in an attempt to help Australian industries with labour...

The Australian Government made changes to the current Employer Nomination Scheme to open the pathways for greater pool of visa applicants...

New Legislative Instruments have come into effect on 5 March 2022 to offer applicants in the Working Holiday programs to access further...