Minister Evans has today announced significant changes to the General Skilled Migration Program.
The major changes involve:
- The Migration Occupation in Demand List is abolished as of today, 8 February 2010.
- Offshore GSM applications lodged before 1 September 2007 and not finalised will no longer be dealt with and those affected applicants will be given a refund of their visa application fee. This does not apply to onshore applicants... :) This will affect about 20,000 applicants.
- A new Skilled Occupation List, to replace the MODL and the Critical Skills List will be introduced later in 2010
- There will be a review of the Points Test
- Changes to priority processing
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