Practising one of these occupations gives applicants for these visas a much better chance of being approved.

The move comes as the state experiences massive skills shortages across a broad range of industries, experiencing a record-low unemployment rate of 3.9%.

The Commonwealth of Australia has approved 8,140 visa places for 2022-23, up 4,950 places. The state’s nomination fee of A$200 has also been temporarily waived.

Requirements for applicants have been drastically adjusted, English language proficiency for professional and manager occupations has been removed and the requirement for single applicants to have A$20,000 in savings has been revised.

Work experience requirements have been relaxed and new occupations on the nominations list include 46 health occupations, bringing the list to a total of 276 occupations.

WA is trying to attract overseas workers for such key industries as building and construction, manufacturing, healthcare, tourism and agriculture.

“The changes to the State Nominated Migration Program will build on our work to boost skilled migration in areas of high demand by making migration to WA easier,” said Premier Mark McGowan.

These changes are expected to be applied over the course of next month, there has never been a better time to apply for a state-nominated visa for Western Australia.

The incumbent Labour government has introduced measures to reduce the waiting times for Australian visas, which, in some cases have stretched out to 41 months.

Western Australia has recently made it easier for migrants in the state’s mining-rich Pilbara region, with new agreements allowing more migrants to live and work there.

The average income for a mining engineer in Australia is currently between A$120,000 and A$170,000 per year.

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The occupation list for the State Nomination Graduate Stream will also expand to include over 300 new occupations including Registered Nurse, Sonographer, Wall and Floor Tiler and Wine Maker.

The Western Australian economy, mainly consisting of mining companies is the strongest in the country and surged during the pandemic due to increased commodities prices.

The enormous Australian state, like many others, is struggling with an unprecedented skills shortage, it has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country but desperately needs to expand its workforce.

Applications for State Nominated visas will be assessed in preferential order, with those applicants from within WA being processed first followed by applicants within Australia, then overseas applicants.

Invitations to apply for Western Australia State Nomination under the new Graduate Occupation list commence on the 1^st of July, 2022.

Depending on your occupation, you will need to demonstrate a level of proficiency in English as defined by ANZSCO codes. Contact Easy Migrate now to start your application, we have offices in Perth and a wealth of experience securing Western Australia State Nomination visas, as well as all other Australian visas.

Western Australia is a fantastic place to live and start or continue your Australian migration journey, whether you enjoy the wide-open desert, the pristine beaches or the amazing wine. It has something for everybody.

Easy Migrate are the Australian visa specialists, with over 20 years of experience helping people from all over the world secure their Australian visas and then thrive in this beautiful country.

The borders are open, now is the time to make an investment in your future, a secure, well-paid job and high standard of living is waiting for you in Australia. The country is open to migration after over 2 years of being almost entirely closed to the world and there are a lot of good positions vacant.

Make the smart call and contact us now.

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NSW: Only applicants currently in selected health, ICT and engineering occupations will be invited, and only those who currently reside in NSW. You do not need to submit a new EOI in SkillSelect if your current EOI is valid.

https://www.business.nsw.gov.au/live-and-work-in-nsw/visas-and-immigration/skilled-visas/Skilled-Nominated-visa-subclass-190

VIC: Victoria has limited its list of subclass 190 occupations and applicants who submitted a Registration of Interest on the Live in Melbourne website before 5pm AEST on the 21st September are being considered for application.

https://liveinmelbourne.vic.gov.au/migrate/skilled-migration-visas/skilled-nominated-visa-subclass-190

SA: Will be posting the subclass 190 visa occupation list soon. Stay up to date here: 

https://www.migration.sa.gov.au/occupation-lists/south-australia-skilled-occupation-list

TAS: Will continue to operate an interim occupation list for the Subclass 190 visa. Updates here:

https://www.migration.tas.gov.au/skilled_migrants/skilled_nominated_visa

QLD: The Business and Skilled Migration Queensland program remains closed until the allocations are finalised by the Federal government. 

https://migration.qld.gov.au/latest-news/bsmq-business-and-skilled-program-remains-closed-on-1-july-2020/

WA: The subclass 190 visa nominations are expected to restart in October. Follow developments here:

https://migration.wa.gov.au/services/skilled-migration-western-australia/how-to-apply-for-state-nomination

NT: Onshore General Skilled Migration nomination applications and all Business Investment and Innovation Program nomination applications will continue to be accepted and assessed, but no nominations can be issued until the Northern Territory has been allocated quotas. There are no offshore applications being accepted yet.

https://theterritory.com.au/migrate/migrate-to-work/northern-territory-government-visa-nomination

ACT: 190 applications are being accepted for people on the Critical Skills Occupation list. A new round of nominations is expected on October 23.

http://www.canberrayourfuture.com.au/portal/migrating/article/canberra-matrix-invitation-round/

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Fast Visa Processing Regional Australia

Every month Mr Cyrus Mistry (our principal immigration agent in Australia)  reviews the Department of Home Affairs SkillSelect results. In this months blog, he suggested that; 

“Most applicants with 60 or 65 points are not getting invited at all since last 18 months or so. Many 70-pointers are also not getting invitations for a long time. The solution would be to apply for state-nominations also, in parallel. We have many clients who were waiting for more than a year so, we did a file-review and recommended a suitable state-nomination option. Many of them got invited for permanent residency WITHIN 8-12 WEEKS!”

Today Friday 8th February 2019 Mr David Coleman (Minister of Immigration) has announced Skilled migrants who apply to move to regional Austalia will have their visa applications accelerated under a $19.4 million plan.

“Our officers will be on the ground to discuss regional migration opportunities with regional employers and communities, and also to hear first hand the local labour issues they face. Training and skilling Australians is one of our top priorities, but there is a need for additional workers to supplement the workforce, particularly in regional areas,“ Mr Coleman said.

The Department of Home Affairs (DoHA) officials will travel to regional areas across Australia to help businesses get the skilled workers they require, over the next four years. DoHA will establish priority processing for visas sponsored by employers in regional areas, along with agreements with local councils so they can recruit employees from overseas.

If you would like to find out if you qualify for Regional State Sponsorship or would like to know more about relocating to a regional area of Australia, please make an appointment to speak to us today;

• Book Online
• Email: reception@easymigrate.com
• Telephone: +61 8 9221 4888

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Skill Select – Expression of Interest (EOI) for Australian State Nominations – Invitation Results for July-September 2018

Australian State Nominations – Invitation Results

In the first week of January 2019, the Department of  Home Affairs (DoHA) has released the statistical analysis of the STATE AND TERRITORY NOMINATION results (Expressions of Interest – EOI) for the General Skilled Migration or “GSM” visas:

Skilled Nominated visa (subclass 190) and

Skilled Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 489).

(Statistical analysis of the recent INDEPENDENT INVITATION ROUNDS is also available on our website – https://www.easymigrate.com/news/ )

EasyMigrate is one of Australia’s leading migration agents, based in Perth, Western Australia. Our Registered Migration Consultant Mr Cyrus Mistry (principal immigration agent) has reviewed these STATE AND TERRITORY NOMINATION results – commentary is given below

Broad Overview:

Recent news: Department of Immigration (now DoHA) has announced that from Financial Year 2018-2019 there will be only ONE ROUND OF SKILL SELECT INVITATIONS PER MONTH in the Independent subclass 189 program. But for STATE NOMINATIONS there is no “monthly round” – SC190 and SC489 applications progress as soon as states show that they are willing to “nominate” the applicant.

Recent news: From 1 July 2018 the “pass mark” has been increased from 60 to 65 points. New applicants can lodge their Expression Of Interest (EOI) with 65 points or more. Other applicants who submitted their EOI before 30 June 2018 with 60 points will continue to stay in the queue.

Summary:

Under the General Skilled Migration program, applicants can opt for “State Nomination” –

(a)      subclass 190 permanent residency

(b)      subclass 489 “Regional Nomination” which is a four-year temporary residency leading to permanent residency subclass 887 after meeting regional residency and regional employment conditions.

Australian State Governments have their own criteria and their own “State-wise Occupation Lists”. These are based on the need and the job opportunities available in that occupation, in that state. The program allows nominated skilled workers to live and work in Australia as long-term permanent residents.

The pass mark under the Australian “points test” for state nominated migration to Australia is 65 points.
Obtaining a subclass 190 invitation from a state government gives an additional 5 points to the applicant.
Obtaining a subclass 489 invitation from a state government gives an additional 10 points to the applicant.

The number of intending migrants who received nominations from State and Territory Governments in September 2018 is shown in the table below:

As you can see, a total of 1,689 invitations were issued in SC190 and SC489 programs in September 2018. This translates to approximately 20,000-22,000 invitations per year (projected July-2018 to June-2019 financial year).

Department of Immigration (DOHA) has also released the statistics for the three months July-2018 to Sept-2018.

The “NSW Department of Industry” controls state-nominated migration to New South Wales (NSW), i.e. Sydney and surrounding regional areas. Skilled migration to NSW got the maximum number of invitations granted in these three months, at about 1,500.

Next in line: The “Victorian Government – Live in Melbourne” department controls state-nominated migration to the state of Victoria (VIC), i.e. Melbourne and surrounding regional areas. Skilled migration to Victoria resulted in about 1,250 invitations in those three months. Interestingly, most of their state-nominations seem to be subclass 190 (1,241 in three months) compared to subclass 489 (10 in three months).

Third place:  The “Immigration South Australia” department controls state-nominated migration to the South Australia (SA), i.e. Adelaide and surrounding regional areas. Skilled migration to South Australia resulted in about 1,240 invitations in those three months. South Australia Skilled Migration office seems to issue more SC489 invitations (957 in three months) compared to SC190 (282 in three months).

In fourth place: The “BSMQ – Business and Skilled Migration Queensland” department controls state-nominated migration to Queensland (QLD), i.e. Brisbane and surrounding regional areas.  Skilled migration to Queensland resulted in about 700 invitations in those three months – more SC190, less SC489.

Three other States have smaller but still substantial programs:
Australian Capital Territory (ACT) – Canberra – controlled by “Canberra Create Your Future.”
Northern Territory (NT) – Darwin – controlled by “Migration NT.”
Tasmania (TAS) – Hobart – controlled by “Migration Tasmania.”

In the last place: Western Australia (Perth and surrounding regional areas). This is controlled by “Skilled Migration Western Australia”, under the state government’s Department of Training & Workforce Development.  A total number of invitations in three months was 5 (yes, five!). Shame!

FORECAST:
The state-nominated programs are well entrenched. To change anything requires quite a lot of “negotiations” and legislative amendments. Therefore I expect that the state-nomination programs (Subclass 190 and subclass 489) will continue in its present form for some time. These are unlikely to be “tinkered” by changes to Federal Government politics.
However, they do suffer from state-level changes in government and “populist” sentiments. This became painfully evident when the new state government was elected in March 2017 and rules were changed within the next 14 days!

 I hope you find this statistical-analysis useful.
Just to let you know, we have the same in-depth analysis was done for the subclass 189 Independent visa and the SC489 Family-Sponsored visa invitation-rounds by the Australian Dept of Immigration (now called Department of Home Affairs (DOHA).

On our EasyMigrate website, we have the statistics. My ongoing analysis for the  October 2017 invitations; the November 2017 invitation round and the December 2017 round are available. January 2018 round, February 2018 round, March 2018 round, April 2018 round, May 2018 Round, the two x June 2018 rounds, the 11th July 2018, 11^th August 2018   the 11 September 2018 and the October 2018 invitation rounds are also available on our website. I estimate that the Nov 2017 to June 2018 rounds were only about 30-40% of the usual monthly track-record before October 2017, but from July 2018 the invitations are on par with the good months up to September 2017 in previous years, and the latest round has EXCEEDED our expectations by almost doubling the invitations in SkillSelect.

The table below (published by the Department of Immigration – now renamed Department of Home Affairs – DoHA) shows the number of STATE AND TERRITORY NOMINATIONS issued between July 2018 and September 2018. Link to their website is: https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/working-in-australia/skillselect/invitation-rounds

State and Territory nominations

State and Territory nominations 2018-19 program year

Nominations by State and Territory Governments – September 2018

The number of intending migrants who received nominations from State and Territory Governments in September 2018 is shown in the table below:

Nominations by State and Territory Governments – 2018-19 total activity

The number of intending migrants who received nominations from State and Territory Governments from 1 July 2018 to the end of September 2018 is shown in the following table:

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UPDATED: Skilled Migration Western Australia Occupation Lists

Applicants who have a nominated occupation identified on the Western Australian skilled migration occupation list (WASMOL) or Graduate occupation list (GOL) may be eligible for Western Australian State nomination using one of the following visa subclasses:

• Skilled Nominated visa (subclass 190); or
• Skilled Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 489)

The WASMOL is available to applicants who intend to use the general stream.

The GOL is available for applicants who intend to use the graduate stream.

The new GOL stream is available to:

• eligible university graduates who have gained a higher qualification and studied for at least two years in Western Australia at a Western Australian university;
• have an available occupation on the Graduate occupation list for the intended visa subclass; and
• can meet the Western Australian State Nomination Graduate stream eligibility criteria.

Notes on using the occupation lists

Occupations may have the following status.

• Available: occupation is available for nomination

• Restricted: occupation is under review and invitations to apply for State
  nomination will be limited pending the outcome of the review

• Closed: occupation is closed for invitations

The occupations identified on the occupation lists do not relate to any specific job vacancies, nor represent any guarantee of a job, but rather identify occupations that are considered a priority for the State. It is recommended that you research employment opportunities in Western Australia (in your occupation) before making the decision to migrate.   

You will need to have a skills assessment suitable for migration purposes in your nominated occupation. 

 2018 Western Australian Skilled Migration Occupation List

2018 Graduate occupation list

 Australian and New Zealand Classification of Occupations

**190 Visa = Skilled Nominated visa (subclass 190)
**489 Visa = Skilled Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 489)

^ The Commonwealth Department of Home Affairs allows only Medical Physicists to be eligible for the Skilled Nominated visa (subclass 190) and Skilled Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 489) (State nominated).

To speak to one of our agents about the WASMOL or GOL please call 0892214888 or email reception@easymigrate.com.

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South Australia, as well as Tasmania Government, revised the skilled occupations list over the weekend with Tasmania and South Australia publishing their revised lists earlier today.  

South Australia: 

South Australia specifically highlighted occupations which are now seen as classed as “low availability” including: 

• 139914            Quality Assurance Manager
• 263113            Network Analyst
• 411713            Family Support Worker 

Also, 29 occupations were shifted to supplementary list where special conditions include.  Examples of such occupations include: 

• 612115            Real Estate Representative
• 313113            Web Administrator
• 312511            Mechanical Engineering Draftsperson
• 312511            Mechanical Engineering Draftsperson 

South Australia continues to operate using two lists.  A supplementary skilled list contains 297 occupations which are those that have not identified as being in shortage; they are available to limited applicants who can demonstrate employment outcomes or family links to support human capital and economic objectives of South Australia’s participation in the skilled migrant program. The list is available to international graduates of South Australia; skilled migrants who are working in a skilled occupation in South Australia (minimum time periods apply); have immediate family members permanently residing in South Australia who can support their settlement whilst seeking employment; or who demonstrate strong employability qualities (based on scoring very highly on the Department of Home Affairs Points Test). 

For more information on South Australian Skilled Occupations list visit: http://www.migration.sa.gov.au/skilled-migrants/nomination-process 

Tasmania 

Tasmania government committed to processing nomination for subclass 489/190 visas for no fee.  Also, the government confirmed there would be no nomination ceilings applicable to state nominations received from 1 July 2018 and that students with no employment offers will be able to access the Tasmanian Skilled Occupations lists which had further occupations added on 6 August 2018 including: 

131112            Sales and Marketing Manager

252712            Speech Pathologist

261111            ICT Business Analyst

Successful applicants who receive a nomination from the Tasmanian government will receive an additional 10 points for applying for a subclass 489 visa or five points when making an application for a subclass 190 visa.  The usual processing time for the Tasmanian government to issue a nomination is two to eight weeks.

The above news has been sourced from Migration Alliance

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