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Announcements today show that Australia’s economic recovery has outpaced the coronavirus pandemic with the need to more than double the Priority Migration Skilled Occupation List (PMSOL) and allowing WHMs on 417 visas still in Australia to count work in the hospitality and tourism sectors in certain areas of Australia towards their 2nd or 3rd 417 visa.
Read MoreAccess to movement records can be made online from 1 June 2021 in a continual shift to online services. Paper applications will eventually be phased out.
Read MoreNo further stay waivers between March and December 2020 indicate an extremely high approval rate of at least 96 per cent with only 12 out of over 37,000 applications being refused.
Read MoreThe Department of Home Affairs continues to preference their ImmiAccount platform and will require all Subclass 485 – Temporary Graduate visa and Subclass 476 – Recognised Graduate visa applications to be lodged through the internet from tomorrow with few exceptions.
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