Newsletter

In our October 2019 newsletter, Ajuria Lawyers reminded business sponsors of the importance of ensuring compliance with sponsorship obligations.

“Accredited” status has delivered many positive benefits for Business Sponsors. As a result of the broadening of the applicability criteria, and the flexible approach adopted…

The Government’s new Regional Visa program commenced on 16 November 2019. With an allocation of 25,000 places in the 2019-20 Migration Program, the Government sees…

The annual review of occupations lists is underway, with new lists scheduled to be published in March 2020.

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) has recently published its annual report, confirming the trend that lodgements of review applications in the Migration & Refugee Division…

Anyone who has applied to sponsor one or both parents to Australia knows that it is a long, uncertain and expensive process.

The NZ Government has announced that the long-anticipated re-opening of the Parent category will occur in February 2020. This category has been closed since 2016.

The Department of Employment has released their ‘Traffic Light Bulletin’ which proposes further changes to the occupation lists for the purposes of sponsorship.

As foreshadowed for some months, the Government’s new Regional Visa Program commenced on 16 November 2019.

The “trade-off” for faster processing time, as currently offered to Accredited Sponsors in particular, is that businesses can expect to be monitored by the Sponsor…