- Training visa crackdown: sponsor and nomination approvals required before lodging visa applications
- Graduates visa application charges doubled for most on 1 March 2026
- “On the papers” assessments for student visa refusals coming
- Hate crimes and association with prohibited hate groups as grounds for refusing and cancelling migration and citizenship
- Work experience loophole closed for 186 visas under the Temporary Residence Transition stream on 29 November 2025
- Student visa processing shuffle – Ministerial Direction 115 commences 14 November 2025
- Permanent migration places unchanged at 185,000 for 2025-26
- New English requirements for subclass 482 – Skills in Demand visas from 13 September 2025
- New English language tests approved for student and skilled visas and amendments to minimum scores from 7 August 2025
- Permanent parent visas go online…but only after lodging
- Income thresholds increasing 4.6% on 1 July 2025; Permanent planning levels now multiyear
- New Northern Territory DAMA for 5 years, over twice as many occupations and nominations
- Letters of offer no longer accepted for student visa applications from 1 January 2025
- Ministerial Direction 111 sets speed limits for student visa processing
- Graduate certificates ditched for subclass 485 – Temporary Graduate visas from 14 December 2024
