Impact of Covid-19 on Australia Immigrations

by XIPHIAS IMMIGRATION migration executive

Covid-19 has brought the economy of the world to a standstill point. Australia has brought in a few stances to help them fight the impact of COVID-19 in the country. However, in the recent times, there are few changes that have been brought about to reduce the impact of Covid-19 on the immigrations. Australia still is not allowing temporary visitors to visit the country irrespective of the purpose of the visitor. XIPHIAS Immigration being one of the best immigration consultants in India provides best solutions possible for relocation.

Who can travel and who can’t? –

There is a complete ban on travel of non-permanent residents and non-citizens of Australia entering the country. This includes student visa holders, graduate visa holders, business visa holders, training visa holders, working holiday visa holders, employer sponsored visa and bridging visas. However, the temporary visa holders, currently in Australia can stay back in the country or can travel back to their country of origin.

Visa Processing –

The current hold on travel will not impact the visa processing. All those applications currently being handled by The Department of Home affairs shall continue to be so. The department is granting visas currently and the expectant immigrants should continue to submit their documents. This is true for any of the Australian Immigration Services pertaining to permanent residency there.

Independent Skilled Immigration Program-

Australia Subclass 189 program continues to be one of the most interesting ways of relocating to Australia as this program has been designed to help the long term human resources needs of Australia. Thus this program will not be impacted by the current COVID-19. The program allows the skilled independent immigrants to live, work and study in any part of the world.

Employer Sponsored or Nomination Program-

Subclass 190 visa is for all those skilled professionals who intend to relocate to Australia and have been able to procure a nomination from the state or an Australian based employer. There is no restriction on this program during the current period. The aspirants can proceed to apply for this program as would be required.

Skilled Regional Provisional Program –

This program is designed to help the immigrants who are looking to live and work in regional Australia. As the immigrant will be receiving Permanent Residency under this category, the program will not be affected by the COVID-19 restrictions. The 491 VISA program does not require high scoring for the profile. However, the immigrant will have to work in the area for an agreed number of years.

For all the skilled immigrants under any pathway, Australian Immigrations sanctions them Permanent residency in the country. The successful immigrant will become sponsors for all those friends and relatives of theirs who are qualified to move to the country.

The aspirants will have to submit their application into the skill select portal where all the profiles for visa processing will be stored. The applicant can make changes to his or her profile as required. However, the applicant should provide the right documents to support the application and the changes invoked further. The profile would stay in the portal for a period of 2 years of time. Within this time, if the applicant receives his or her invitation for applying for Australian PR and the same is accepted, the profile will be removed from the portal. Two such invitations will be sent to the applicant and if none of them are accepted by the applicant, the profile will be removed from the portal for good.

Although not mandatory, it would be nice if the aspirant approaches an immigration firm which is registered with the Migrations Agents Registration Authority (MARA). As such immigration agents will be proficient in their approach to ensure the migration is a success.

Source: https://www.pr4-articles.com/Articles-of-2020/impact-covid-19-australia-immigrations-%E2%80%93