New points test for certain skilled migration applications
Recently minister of Immigration for Australia has announced that there will be changes made to certain skilled migration applications. Changes will affect those applications that will be lodged after 1st July 2011. Applications that will be under consideration and not finalised by department of Immigration & Citizenship before 1st July 2011 will not be affected by the changes. More details on the changes can be found on the http://immi.gov.au/ website. Following are links to the two PDF that were published recently. Fact Sheet on the new point system - http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/general-skilled-migration/pdf/points-fact.pdf FAQs on the new points Test - http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/general-skilled-migration/pdf/points-testfaq.pdf