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All the gory details can be found here if you've got nothing better to do: http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/general-skilled-migration/whats-new.htm My visa came through yesterday too. I'm glad I applied when I did because it seems to have been getting progressively more difficult over the...

I'd actually figured that it was down to the slowing economy, and a desire not to bring in more workers whilst unemployment is high. I hadn't thought of it that way - thanks! The other trend seems to be that the system is being changed to get immigrants to work in their nominated occupation...

Another update. There's been another round of changes to the immigration system, with more promised in the middle of the year. The main change is that the Migration Occupations in Demand List (MODL) is being discontinued. Any occupations listed on this get an extra 15 points, and a...

Getting there. I need to do an IELTS test to hit the visa pass mark, get police checks done, and have a medical check up. There were rumours of further changes in January, but I've not heard them yet. They probably won't affect me, but sometimes these things are retrospective.

Just bumping this again. I received an email yesterday informing me that I've been assigned a case officer who will review my application and recommend whether or not I should get a visa. It took 78 days to be assigned one, and I'm in priority group 4, which is the lowest that DIAC are...

Josko, I believe that the processing times for applicants in the first four groups has actually speeded up. One visa tracking website suggests that Group 4 applicants (CSL without sponsorship) are currently taking around three months to be assigned a case officer. It took a lot longer at the...

I'm currently got an application in for a skilled worker visa, and figured that there might be some interest in how the system is changing, particularly as migration is one of the drivers of the property market. On 23rd September of this year, all applicants for a working visa were...