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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

With the start of 2010 as many of us were expecting Australian Govt. will be tighning the visa processes especially to do with international students who seek to get residency in Australia. Here is the interview video of the immigration miniter discussing the same. http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/02/10/2816049.htm For changes that are coming to the immigration to Australia please reffer to www.immi.gov.au website.

Here is a question from one of the users on Monash University community page on Orkut. Query: HI everyone... i want to inform that that i would like to offend no one on the following matter and i just want to report a person's opinion.Alright now that we are done with the formalities... one of my friend who is studying in Monash university of th course MIT says that opting for IT master course in Monash or any other Australian university is just a waste of money and its all together a fund riser and not worth it... Is it true?.. pls share your opinion so that we can throw some light on this matter and help everyone... thanks in advance to all. My reply: @ALL Please remember education and PR are two different things. We always need to remember that PR or work visas in most of the countries is just direct result of demand and supply.In todays market IT market in Australia is flooded with local talet because of a lot of companies laying off people and sending jobs oversea. When local ...

Hi Everyone, As most of the people who are willing to apply for recidency must have heard that from 1st Sepetember 2007 Immigration department of Australia will be changing the rule for imiigration please look at the following site for more details. http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/general-skilled-migration/changes/index.htm these changes will not applicable on the application filled before 31st August 2007. -Rajan

IMPORTANT : I personally do not take any responsibility for any comments from anyone on this blog. These are just our thoughts and we are not responsible for anything we say here. Please check with immigration department before doing anything. Question from Dev: hi rajan, no words for ur appreciation but still wanna say great work for for all students,i was about to cum melb but changed my mind for nxt two years as per MODL list, coz u r right its changes in every six months and who no's which course wud b in demand after years especially for those who wanna PR, and PR also depends on points...i think now aus govt has introduced new policy that every student will hav to work for certain duration in their respected field(course) to get PR. My sis n Jijaji are there but don have PR yet...one more year to get that..they also advised me to cum after some time so that i can get points over their PR. can u pls put ur opinion over PR process i think now some changes has been introduced to...