Priority Processing Arrangements for Skilled Migration Visas – 1 July 2011
The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Chris Bowen, has set new priority processing arrangements for certain skilled migration visas.
The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Chris Bowen, has set new priority processing arrangements for certain skilled migration visas. These arrangements will give effect to the minister's announcement on 10 May 2011 that regional visas will be given the highest processing priority.
Priority processing refers to the order in which the department considers skilled migration applications. The minister is able to consider and finalise visa applications in an order of priority that the minister considers appropriate. The changes to priority processing do not change visa eligibility criteria.
The new priority processing arrangements apply to the following visas:
Employer Nomination Scheme (ENS)
Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme (RSMS)
certain General Skilled Migration (GSM).
From 1 July 2011, processing priorities (with highest priority listed first) are:
applications from people who are employer sponsored under the RSMS program or who have applied for a Skilled – Regional (subclass 887) visa
applications from people who are applying under the ENS program
applications from people who are nominated by a state or territory government agency for an occupation specified on that agency's state migration plan
applications from people who have nominated an occupation on the Skilled Occupation List (SOL) – Schedule 1 in effect from 1 July 2011
all other applications.
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