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  08-Mar-2011

  NSW State Migration Plan

  The NSW Government has announced its State Migration Plan (effective from 3 March 2011).  The NSW State Migration Plan has 138 occupations. 18 of these are not on DIAC\'s Schedule 3 Skilled Occupation List. These are: For Skilled Regional Sponsored...

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  23-Feb-2011

  REMOVAL OF OCCUPATIONS FROM SSML

  As you will be aware, planning levels exist for each occupation on the State Sponsored Migration List (SSML).  Once the planning level has been reached the occupation/s are removed from the SSML. This has been outlined at www.migration.sa.gov.au Sponsorship...

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  11-Feb-2011

  AUSTRALIA REQUIRES SKILLED MIGRANT

  Dun and Bradstreet had recently conducted a survey of  1200 Australian businesses found that demand for employees has reached an seven year high and that skilled migration may be the key to solving expected labour shortages in Australia It was said...

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• 05-Feb-2011

  HIGH LEVELS OF IMMIGRATION TO AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

  Canberra has been chosen by more than 1850 Immigrants in the last two years.  It was advised that the Australian Capital Territory maintained a high level of immigration during the 2009-10 fiscal year.   The Australian Capital Territory, home...

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• 05-Feb-2011

  NEW ZEALAND EDUCATION SECTOR BOOMING THROUGH OVERSEAS STUDENTS

  According to the Department of Labour\'s migration trends report, The New Zealand education industry  has brought in $664 million more in student fee income than it did in the previous year.  There has been an increase of 10 percent overall growth...

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• 28-Jan-2011

  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA REACHES H-1B CAP

  United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on 27 January 2011 that it received enough H-1B petitions for fiscal year 2011 to reach the annual cap of 65,000 visas. Applications are considered to have been received on the date that...

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• 28-Jan-2011

  AUSTRALIA, VICTORIA POPULAR DESTINATION FOR INDIANS

  The Australian state of Victoria was the first choice for Chinese and Indian immigrants emigrating to Australia, according to statistics released by Australia\'s Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) for the year 2009-10 financial year. Overall,...

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• 27-Jan-2011

  UK IMMIGRATION CAP

  It was advised that UK Tier 1 highly skilled Visas will end in less than three months time. This will replace  exceptional talent visa will be extremely difficult to obtain. If you are in the UK and qualify for the Tier 1 (General) highly skilled migrant...

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• 24-Jan-2011

  MIGRANTS CHOOSE SOUTH AUSTRALIA

  Migrants moving to South Australia grew significantly last year, increasing from 9,695 people in 2008-09 to 11,377 in 2009-10. Due to the economic situation many countries saw a net reduction in levels of immigration in the period 2008-09. Some Australian...

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  19-Jan-2011

  INDIAN STUDENT IMMIGRATION DROP IN AUSTRALIA

  Recently, Australia has seen a sharp drop of Students student immigration from India, says the Australian High Commissioner to India Peter Varghese. He said that this is due to tougher student immigration requirements by the Australian government. He did not...

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