{"id":4076,"date":"2021-08-17T10:11:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T02:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sevenmigration.com.au\/?p=4076"},"modified":"2021-08-26T22:05:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T14:05:08","slug":"migration-newsletter-edition-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sevenlawgroup.com.au\/enau\/migration-newsletter-edition-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Migration Newsletter \u2013 Edition 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"628\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sevenmigration.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/capa-blog-seven-2-1024x628.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sevenmigration.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/capa-blog-seven-2-1024x628.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.sevenmigration.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/capa-blog-seven-2-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/www.sevenmigration.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/capa-blog-seven-2-768x471.png 768w, https:\/\/www.sevenmigration.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/capa-blog-seven-2-1536x942.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.sevenmigration.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/capa-blog-seven-2-16x10.png 16w, https:\/\/www.sevenmigration.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/capa-blog-seven-2.png 1972w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<h1>Hello everyone!<\/h1>\n<p>So, the year is flying and we&#8217;re already in August. And what made the news this month? New South Wales!<\/p>\n<h4><b>New South Wales (subclass 190)<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>After spending the last 12 months with a short 40-something occupations list, NSW is finally back at the game. The new occupation list for the 190 is robust and includes several target sectors at 4 skill levels:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Managers,<\/li>\n<li>Professionals,<\/li>\n<li>Technicians and Trade Workers,<\/li>\n<li>Community and Personal Service Workers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To be considered, you simply need to be currently employed in your nominated occupation OR be living in NSW for at least 3 months.<\/p>\n<p>Easy right? Not quite. Please remember that the 190 State Nomination program in NSW is highly competitive (as NSW ensures to remind applicants), and only the top-ranking EOIs are invited to apply.<\/p>\n<h4><b>New South Wales (subclass 491)<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>Your occupation is not on the 190 occupation list in NSW? No problem, go check out the NSW lists for the 491, which are even more inclusive! There are 3 streams in the program, but Stream 1 will have priority. Also, you must register your interest with the state (besides applying for an EOI with SkillSelect) if you wish to be considered for the program. The streams&#8217; eligibility criteria are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Stream 1:<\/b> have an occupation on the Stream 1 Combined Occupation List AND be living and working (in your nominated occupation) in regional NSW for at least the previous 12 months;<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Stream 2:&nbsp; <\/b>have an occupation on one of the 14 region&#8217;s occupation lists AND having completed a relevant 2-year course in regional NSW within the last 2 years;<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Stream 3: <\/b>for stream 3, you only need to have an occupation on one of the 14 region&#8217;s occupation lists AND be living in Australia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Want&nbsp;to guess which of the 3 streams will be more competitive???<\/p>\n<h4><b>Tasmania<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>The state&#8217;s migration program reopened on 04 August 2021. Only minimal changes have been made to nomination requirements for the 2021-22 program year. That&#8217;s good news for those who were already happy with the previous requirements. You may find details about these minor changes here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.migration.tas.gov.au\/news\/2020-2021_program_year_update\">https:\/\/www.migration.tas.gov.au\/news\/2020-2021_program_year_update<\/a><\/p>\n<h4><b>Queensland<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>Queensland has announced that, once again, you must exercise your patience if you live in the state. The program is anticipated to open in September 2021, however, no specific dates or details about the criteria were given. If you live in Queensland and you are waiting anxiously for the new list and requirements, you are my hero!<\/p>\n<h4><b>And now the big one&#8230;<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>If you&#8217;re unhappy about current Australia&#8217;s migration program, you will be pleased to know that&#8230; so is the Government! A recent 6-month parliamentary inquiry on immigration has concluded that Australia must do more to remain competitive in its fight for global talent. It has proposed giving all temporary skilled visa holders a clearer pathway to permanent residency.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Among the changes proposed is a lower work experience requirement for employer-sponsored visas, longer graduate visas, and easier English tests. Also, looser experience requirements for migrants who choose to go to regional areas and the combination of the current occupation lists (MLTSSL, STSOL and ROL) into one-only Skilled Occupation List (SOL). The plan would effectively reverse the changes made in 2017 when the government narrowed the pathways to permanent residency.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My advice? Although this all sounds amazing, don&#8217;t stall your migration plans waiting for these changes, as we don&#8217;t know which will be approved and when they will come into effect. If you are in Australia, how about you take the opportunities that are available now to be applying for your Australian citizenship when all this happens?<\/p>\n<p>See you next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year is flying and we&#8217;re already in August. And what made the news this month? New South Wales!<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s talk about the Skilled Visas on NSW and the State Migration Program in Tasmania and Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>Also, we will go over the Australian Government&#8217;s plans regarding the skill shortage and a more competitive migration program overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenlawgroup.com.au\/enau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenlawgroup.com.au\/enau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenlawgroup.com.au\/enau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenlawgroup.com.au\/enau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenlawgroup.com.au\/enau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenlawgroup.com.au\/enau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4422,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenlawgroup.com.au\/enau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions\/4422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenlawgroup.com.au\/enau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenlawgroup.com.au\/enau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenlawgroup.com.au\/enau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sevenlawgroup.com.au\/enau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}