What's New for Students and Sponsored Training?

Student Visa

Overseas Student Program (OSP) is a programme run by the Australian Government under which people who are not Australian residents (ie neither an Australian citizen nor an Australian permanent resident) Read more... Read More
General Skilled Migration

There is a range of visa options under the General Skilled Migration program for skilled workers who want to live in Australia and who do not have an employer sponsoring them. Read more... Read More
Partner Visa

People who are engaged, formally married, in a de facto relationship or in an interdependent relationship (e.g. same-sex relationship) with the Australian/ENZ (Eligible New Zealand) citizen Read more Read More
State Sponsorship

State and Territory governments may nominate visa applicants who have an occupation that is in shortage in their particular State or Territory.

Applicants should check the websites of Read more... Read More
Temporary Workers

Lawfully operating Australian or overseas employers can sponsor to employ skilled workers who have recognized qualifications and skills or experience in particular occupations required in Australia. Read more Read More

Student visa program update – integrity measures 2009/2010

From August 2009 there have been continuous changes to improve the integrity of the Student visa program. These changes are designed to strengthen the integrity of the Student visa program as well as to help streamline visa application procedures for some clients. The changes are summarised in the following factsheet:
See: Student Integrity Measures Factsheet ( 88KB PDF file)
See also: Overseas Student Program - Assessment Levels (formerly known as Form 1219i) (133KB PDF file)

Outcome of Hossain and Mo court cases – cessation of automatic visa cancellation

On 2 March 2010 the Federal Court in the cases of Hossain v Minister for Immigration and Citizenship and Mo v Minister for Immigration and Citzenship declared invalid the automatic cancellation of the visas of two international students in Australia.

The Court declared that the notices issued by the education providers under section 20 of the Education Services for Overseas Students (ESOS) Act 2000 to be invalid because they did not specify the prescribed visa condition that the students had breached.

As a result of the court decisions, the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (the department) is reversing the automatic cancellation of Student visas that flowed from a section 20 notice dated 1 July 2007 to 16 December 2009. Any students affected by automatic cancellation should, if they have not already done so, make contact with the department to clarify their immigration status.
See: Outcome of Hossain and Mo Decisions

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Source: www.immi.gov.au