- Skills in Demand (SID) visa: Drafted Core Skills Occupation List (CSOL) open for feedback, ANZSCO updated to the current decade?
- Pacific Engagement Visa commences 29 March 2024 – lottery tickets cost $25
- Graduate and student visas: English language testing requirements increase from 23 March 2024
- Student visas: intentions to reside “temporarily” removed from 23 March 2024
- Employer compliance sanctions and temporary worker protections strengthen on 1 July 2024
- Student visas: critical technology defined and computer based decision-making for compliance
- New ministerial directions for processing skilled and student visas; Recognised Graduate visa caps before ceasing?
- Migration Strategy: RIP subclass 482 – Temporary Skill Shortage visas (2018-2024)
- 482/494 visas: Workforce Australia removed from labour market testing
- 186TRT: Amending regulations registered, legacy 457 visa holder exemption survives; concession period ending
- 186/187 visas: TRT stream for all from 25 November 2023, third 482 visa onshore applications allowed
- Temporary visa refusal rates double in two years, 18 per cent of student visas refused this year; bridging visa holders halved
- The case of the missing global processing times, and business skills invitations
- 408: COVID visa closed for all but existing COVID visa holders from 2 September 2023, 1 February 2024 closed to all
- Student visa: Crackdown on concurrent enrolments, higher financial thresholds; Health workforce certificates scrapped from 16 Sep 2023
