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Ministers Announcement NEW ANZSCO as at 17/5/2010
If your occupation is not on the new Skilled Occupations List, you will still be able to apply for:
- Graduate Skilled Subclass 485 - providing you held a qualifying student visa on 8 February 2010
- Employer Sponsored options such as Employer Nomination Scheme, RSMS and 457 Business Long Stay Subclass.
- State Sponsored options such as Skilled Sponsored and Skilled Regional Sponsored
Are there any Transitional Provisions?
There are limitedprovisions for transitional, and only apply to people who either held a Skilled Graduate Subclass 485 visa on 8 February 2010 or who had applied for this type of visa on this date. For such people, it is possible to apply for General Skilled Migration under the current Skilled Occupations List until 31 December 2012.
Temporary Suspension of Certain General Skilled Migration (GSM) Visa Applications (Subclass 175, 176 and 475 Only)
The temporary suspension will apply from 8 May 2010. It is expected that it will cease at the end of the
2009-10 program year, that is at the end of 30 June 2010, subject to the approval of the Governor-General in Council of proposed amendments to the Migration Regulations 1994 which will enable the implementation of the new SOL.
For further infomation go to http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/general-skilled-migration/pdf/factsheet-gsm-temp-spnsn.pdf
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