Australia – skilled migration program

Planning for the 2022-23 Migration Program

Planning is now underway for the 2022-23 permanent Migration Program. We undertake comprehensive consultation to inform the size and composition of the program each year. This includes advice from States and Territories, Government agencies, industry, academia and the public.

We have invited submissions on how the size and composition of the 2022-23 Migration Program can best support Australia’s recovery from COVID-19, and long-term economic, social cohesion, and demographic needs. Submissions closed on 3 December 2021. We will provide more information on the planning at a later date.

Reopening to international travel

Australia is reopening its border to vaccinated travellers. This is part of our step-by-step and safe reopening to the world. From 15 December 2021, fully vaccinated visa holders from the following cohorts will be able to travel to Australia without an exemption:

• international students

• skilled migrants

• refugee/humanitarian, and

• temporary and provisional family visa holders.

This was to begin from 1 December 2021, however the reopening was paused due to the emergence of the ‘Omicron’ COVID-19 variant.

As part of Australia’s reopening to fully vaccinated travellers, international safe travel zones have been introduced for New Zealand and Singapore. International safe travel zones with Japan and Korea will begin from 15 December 2021.

International student arrivals

State and territory governments are leading the return of international students to their jurisdictions. They are best placed to understand their health and quarantine capacities. This is consistent with protocols and preconditions set by Commonwealth Government.

The Australian Government has endorsed International Student Arrival Plans approved by the relevant state or territory government.

English language tests

When applying for student, skilled and some permanent visas, you will need to meet our English language requirements. The Department does not accept scores from remote or ‘at home’ English language tests as evidence of English language competency.

SkillSelect

SkillSelect – password resets

SkillSelect support has a new process for manual password resets. If you have forgotten your password, go to change a SkillSelect password and follow the instructions.

We will not action requests for manual password resets emailed directly to SkillSelect technical support. You must submit requests for manual resets via the password reset request form.

SkillSelect 29 October 2021 invitation round

The last SkillSelect invitation round for Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189) and Skilled Work Regional (provisional) visa (subclass 491) (Family Sponsored) took place on 29 October 2021.

We issue SkillSelect invitations via an automated process. This process uses a ranking system of highest points score followed by earliest ‘date of effect’. This round was a targeted invitation round across various engineering and medical occupations. We did not include all occupations in the engineering and medical four digit unit codes in this round.

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