Australia's new immigration policy 202 1

Because of this year's epidemic, there will be some changes in the relevant policies of Australian immigrants. Let's briefly introduce the main aspects of this year's relevant policies. If you need this, you can take a look at the new policy below.

Australia's immigration policy will be adjusted every year, and there will be many changes during the 20-2 1 year affected by the epidemic, mainly in the following aspects:

The number of visas for family immigrants increased from 47,732 to 77,300 at one time.

Employer guarantee, global talents and business visa are preferred.

There are new changes in the application for family visa, and there are new requirements for the language of spouse visa.

We summarize some key trends of the New Deal for your reference:

GTI global talent program

In order to attract the world's top talents, the Australian government has launched a global talent recruitment plan, which mainly includes three types of visas, namely:

Global Talent Employer Sponsorship (GTES)

Supporting innovation in South Australia (SISA

Global Talent Independence Program (GTI)

Although GTES and SISA entered the implementation stage in July, 2065438 and June,1/respectively, the relevant information of GTI visa has not been updated, and the relevant details are not clear.

Immigration Minister Coleman announced the official launch of the global independent immigration project-GTI visa, which aims to attract high-tech talents to Australia, promote the growth of local technology in Australia and create more jobs.

In order to attract high-end talents, Coleman also stressed that it will speed up the approval of GTI visas, and talents in GTI projects will get Australian PR faster.

Australian business investment immigrants change politics

The existing nine different business and investment visas will be reduced to four, namely:

Business Innovation Business Innovation Course

Entrepreneur entrepreneur class

Investor category

Major investor categories

188A business innovation visa requirements increased.

Australian 188A visa applicants need to further strengthen their authenticity and authentication ability, and 188A needs to be further improved:

The net asset requirement is raised from A $800,000 to A $6.5438+250,000;

The annual turnover is raised from 500,000 Australian dollars to 750,000 Australian dollars;

Some business visas will be cancelled.

The following visas will stop accepting new applications from July 1, 202 1, and the submitted applications will still be processed.

Senior investors (188D

Important business history (132A

Venture capital entrepreneur visa (132B

188E cancels the capital requirement of 200,000 yuan.

The Australian 188E innovative entrepreneur visa applicant's application of A $200,000 will be cancelled, but the applicant still needs the approval of the state or territory government;

The validity of TR visa is changed to 5 years.

If they meet the requirements, all holders of the new four types of temporary visas for business investment immigrants can apply for permanent residence in Australia after three years, and the validity of the temporary residence TR visa will be extended to five years.

If it does not meet the requirements of PR transfer, it can be renewed.

Some visa holders will continue to be able to extend their temporary visas if they cannot meet the business and residence requirements within the specified time.

If the business has been actively developed and managed in Australia in the past two years, the holder of 188A may apply for an extension of two years;

188C holders can apply for two 2-year extensions if they can continue to maintain major investment compliance;

188C investment framework or change

The investment framework of Australia 188C visa may change, and the government will extensively solicit opinions from the industry and inform them of any further changes in the compliance investment framework. Any changes in the framework of 188C will be announced in the first half of next year, giving enterprises and investors enough time to make adjustments.

The above changes in Australian business investment visa policy will be implemented on July 1, 202 1. If the applicant fails to obtain the national guarantee to submit the visa application before next July 1, it will be affected by the new policy.

Australia's business investment immigration policy is expected to be updated, and the number of immigrants in various States has been in short supply for a long time.

Australian employers sponsor immigrants.

At present 186/ 187 requires the applicant to be 45 years old unless the following conditions are met:

Practitioners in remote areas, scholars nominated by universities, qualified scientists or technical experts nominated by the government.

Applicants who submitted 457 before April 20 18 17 can reach the age of 50.

457/482 holders whose annual income meets the requirements

This revision is mainly aimed at the last category. Usually, 457/482 permanent residence can't be over 45 years old. However, this requirement can be waived if the high income condition is met, and

But this year, due to the influence of COVID-19, Australia's labor market has been affected, and the salaries of many Australian employees have been affected, especially some 457/482 applicants may not meet the requirements.

In order to ensure that these applicants can meet the age exemption when applying for 186 or 187, a new law has been introduced to solve this problem.

To this end, the Immigration Bureau has formulated a calculation method called the proportional threshold:

47/482 In the three years before the applicant submitted his application,

If it is not affected by the preferential treatment period caused by the epidemic, it should be calculated according to the normal high income.

If affected by the special care period caused by the epidemic, then the income will be calculated according to the above formula.

The affected forms include salary reduction, time reduction, part-time work or suspension of work. At present, the preferential period is from February 2020 1 day to a certain point in the future, and the new regulations will take effect on February 24, 2020. The application scope refers to the application submitted on June 24th, 2020+065438+1October 24th.

Australian spouse immigrants

Some visa applications require a visa when the applicant is not in Australia. However, the current travel ban may affect some applicants' applications, especially if they are already in Australia.

The current plan is that these preferential policies will be implemented at the beginning of 20021,allowing applicants to sign some family visas when they are already in Australia. It is especially suitable for applicants who are already in Australia but are not suitable for leaving the country to wait for a visa.

This special offer is mainly used for the following visa applicants:

10 1 child visa

102 Adoption visa

Support 445 visa

Unmarried 300 visa

Spouse visa 309

Australian spouse visa requires English.

Although the number of people accompanying the spouse visa has doubled, it is accompanied by another bigger requirement, that is, the spouse visa should provide English scores:

Both the spouse applicant and the PR visa guarantor need to meet the requirements.

The implementation time of the new policy is 20021the end of the year (the specific time is to be determined.

Both spouse and PR sponsor must meet the requirements of functional English (which can be understood as equivalent to an average IELTS score of 4.5, or prove that they have studied English hard (for example, taking part in AMEP English program and taking part in 500 hours of free English study).

Before signing a PR visa, you need to meet the language requirements. Most spouse immigrants can transfer to PR 2 years after getting TR, that is, language is the new requirement for transferring to PR visa.

Australia is planned according to the fiscal year, that is, from July of/kloc-0 to June 30th of the following year, more new policies will be announced in each new fiscal year.