Introduction

The Australian government offers a General Skilled Migration program designed to attract overseas skilled professionals and tradespersons with relevant qualifications and work experience who can make an immediate positive impact on the Australian economy. Included in this program are permanent residency (migration) visas with unrestricted work rights.

In December 2008, the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Chris Evans, announced a range of changes in response to the global economic crisis to ensure the 2008-09 skilled migration program was better targeted and more responsive to industry needs. These changes came into effect on 1 January 2009.

The new ceiling for the 2008-09 skills stream of the migration program is 115,000 places.

The Critical Skills List (CSL)

http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/general-skilled-migration/pdf/critical-skills-list.pdf

The CSL only applies to people who are seeking to migrate under the skilled migration program and who are not sponsored by an employer or nominated by a state or territory government.

The CSL only applies to people who are seeking to migrate under the skilled migration program and who are not sponsored by an employer or nominated by a state or territory government.

The following outlines key information about this CSL:

• it includes mainly information technology professionals, engineers and medical professionals
• the CSL is a smaller list of occupations developed in consultation with state and territory governments
• applications from people nominating the occupation of Accountant will receive processing priority only if they have completed the Skilled Migration Internship Program - Accounting (SMIPA); and/or they have demonstrated that they have proficient English language skills under the International English Language Testing System (IELTS 7) in the past two (2) years
• this list will be subject to ongoing review to ensure that it remains responsive to skill demands.

Greater scope to meet critical skill shortages in state/territory jurisdictions

This change will provide state and territory governments with greater scope to meet critical skill shortages in their jurisdiction. Under previous arrangements, state and territory governments could nominate applicants against a restricted range of occupations, in areas where they considered a skills shortage existed in their jurisdiction:

This change will provide state and territory governments with greater scope to meet critical skill shortages in their jurisdiction. Under previous arrangements, state and territory governments could nominate applicants against a restricted range of occupations, in areas where they considered a skills shortage existed in their jurisdiction:

• states and territories have been provided with an expanded baseline list of occupations which will be reviewed regularly
• in addition, state and territory governments have been offered a quota of 500 places in 2008-09 to nominate skilled migrants in occupations beyond their existing lists of eligible occupations.

The Australian Skilled Migration program is non-discriminatory in the sense that applications are decided on the basis of whether the applicant(s) fulfill objective visa criteria and therefore are judged on merit alone and not on sex, colour, ethnic origin or religion. The assessment and visa application are strictly assessed, and the onus is on the applicant to satisfy all legal requirements.

The Level 1 Service (US$199) allows for a professional assessment of your visa eligibility and preparation of a written document containing all the advice, information, application forms and support to successfully manage a skilled visa application. This is our most popular service and many clients have successfully utilised this affordable alternative to traditional migration consultancy.

This service also comes with our ongoing email support and a free 30 minute telephone/Skype conversation. Our email support is now unlimited. It is our interest to ensure our clients are satisfied with our service, and if successful in migration know they can rely on us for any help and support they may need to make the transition to Australian life as easy as possible.

Success Stories

Over the years we have helped many people from all over the world realise their dream of a new life in Australia.

 

 

 

Please see the Testimonial Section of the website and see for yourself.

 

 

 

 

Please Continue

Due to industry regulations, in order to be able to provide you with migration advice and assistance you must first become a client. If you are serious about General Skilled Migration it is worthwhile having a professional assessment by a Registered Migration Agent.

Please complete the Online Assessment and Online Consultation and make payment for the Level 1 Service so that we can analyse your profile, determine your eligibility and advise you further on how to secure an Australian Skilled Visa. Payment can be made by credit card on our secure website. For alternate payment options please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

To start, please do our Free Online Assessment

Next >