Australia Skilled Migration Booklets

Skilled Migration Booklets
These booklets are designed to help you understand who qualifies to migrate to Australia, and how to make an application.

Booklet 6 – General Skilled Migration

Booklet 9 – Temporary Business (Long Stay) (Subclass 457)

Visa Charts
These charts provide a handy reference to some of the visa options available to overseas workers and employer sponsored options.

Visa options for employing overseas workers

Australian visas for overseas skilled workers

Australian High Commission Sri Lanka

http://www.srilanka.embassy.gov.au/clmb/home.html

Australian Embassy in Colombo - Sri Lanka

21 R G Senanayake Mawatha

Colombo

Address 21 Gregory's Rd Colombo 7 Sri Lanka Phone local: (011) 246.3200 international: +94.11.246.3200 Visas & Consular local: (011) 246.3270 international: +94.11.246.3270 Fax local: (011) 268.6453 international: +94.11.268.6453 Consular Fax local: (011) 268.2311 international: +94.11.268.2311 Web site http://www.srilanka.embassy.gov.au

Australian Visa Application Services - Sri Lanka

Australian Visa Application Services

Australian High Commission in Sri Lanka is using a company to handle its visa application processing service for Sri Lankans and other nationals. This service provider will have charge service fee which should have been paid by the visa applicant except the required visa fees. This kind of visa service cut the visa processing time as the company advice the visa applicant on how to proceed with the applications.

Now after this service introduction there is no need to visit the consular section for most of the visa applications.

Australian Visa Application Centre will assist you in lodging the visa application fee. The will charge you LKR.3750/- plus VAT. This is additional to the visa fees which you are paying there.

Address of the Australian Visa Application Center is below.
Level 5, Access Towers,
278 Union Place
Colombo 2, Sri Lanka.

Email:info.aulk@vfshelpline.com
Website: http://www.vfsglobal.com/australia/srilanka
Helpline No: +94114376868

Application lodgement timings & Additional Documents Submission:
Monday to Thursday: 08:00 - 14:30
Friday: 08:00 - 11:30

www.vfsglobal.com

Essential skills in demand 2014 - New Zealand

Coming Soon...

The Immediate and Long Term Lists are reviewed annually by the Ministry.  The 2014 review is expected to commence in April 2014. 

Current Skill Shortage Lists

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment maintains three lists consisting of:

• the Long-term Skill Shortage List
• the Immediate Skill Shortage List 
• the Canterbury Skill Shortage List.

Australian Goverment Migration Blog

Migration Blog

The Department of Immigration and Border Protection

 This blog aims to provide you with information and updates on issues relating to the work of our division.  We hope that this information will provide you with more context for the ‘what’, ‘how’ and ‘why’ of our policies.

http://migrationblog.immi.gov.au/

China becomes top source of fresh immigrants moving to New Zealand

 

China has become the largest source of immigrants moving to New Zealand, overtaking the United Kingdom for the first time.
Between July 2012 and June 2013, the New Zealand government granted 5,794 Chinese citizens permanent residence - 7.1 per cent more than during the same period a year earlier.
Overall, 38,961 foreign citizens gained residency, 3.7 per cent down on the previous year, according to figures released by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

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