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Changes to Occupational Ceilings could affect you

This month has seen some notable changes to the Australian General Skilled Migration programme. Have a look to see how your profession could be affected.

Australian Times by Australian Times
15-07-2014 16:40
in Move to Australia

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Occupational Ceilings are state and government imposed limits on the issuing of Skilled Migrant visas for each profession.

Some of these changes that have come into affect might impact on your application for a Skilled Migrant visa based on the number of visas that will be issued for a specific profession.

The most important changes are:

> The occupational ceilings have been announced for the 2014-15 year.
> There have been some significant changes to the number of places allocated to Engineers, Accountants, Teachers, IT Professionals, Constructions Trades and Chefs.

Interestingly occupational ceilings will no longer apply to state nominated 190 and 489 visas.

Several Australian states have already announced their occupations lists for the 2014-15 and have started accepting visa applications based on the new conditions.

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Changes to the Occupational Ceilings:

The Occupational Ceilings for most professions in most states have now been announced for the 2014-15 Financial Year.

In a positive change Occupational Ceilings will no longer apply to State Nominated visas – they will only apply to Skilled – Independent Subclass 189 visas and family sponsored Skilled Regional Subclass 489 visas.

Effectively this means that states can nominate occupations for Skilled Nominated Subclass 190 and Skilled Regional Subclass 489 visas even if the ceiling has been reached.

As a result, occupational ceilings are only published for occupations on the Skilled Occupations List Occupations, not all occupations on the Critical Skills Occupation List as was the case in previous years.

There have also been some changes in the places available for certain occupations:

Engineers: Good news for engineers is that an additional 2,530 places have been secured for the occupational ceiling.  This is an encouraging move as this field was close to reaching the limit of its occupational ceiling in 2013.

Accountants: The occupational ceiling for accountants have been reduced of 4,242 places. Last program year, the ceiling was not close to being reached so we are hopeful that the ceiling reduction will not severely impact applicants.

Teachers: The reduction of 1,170 places for the occupational ceiling sounds alarming but is in fact not much cause for concern as applications in this sector have not even come near to making a dent in the available places in 2013.

IT Professionals: The number of available places under the occupational ceiling for IT professionals has been increased by 1,132 places.  This is very encouraging at these occupations were close to meeting the occupational ceiling last year.

Construction Trades and Chefs: While the occupational ceiling for construction trades have been decreased by 2,168 places and 1353 places for chefs, as announced earlier this year; you now longer need a sponsored visa if you are employed in many of the positions in this field.

Registered Nurses: Occupational ceilings for registered nurses have by far seen the biggest increase in places – with 15,042 places available on the list.  This is more than double the quota of any other occupational group.

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