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The Australian government delivered its budget for the next fiscal year last week and one of the main announcements was the expansion of the next year's skilled migration program.

After last week's announcement from DIAC that they would be suspending the General Skilled Migration (GSM) program, we knew that the changes would impact every level of the Australian immigration process; the only question was how quickly other immigration stakeholders would react and whether they'd follow DIAC's lead and suspend their activities for the timebeing.

We received another update today regarding DIAC processing priorities. Formerly, state nominated visa applications were marked as high priority and were typically entered into processing within a few weeks of state sponsorship confirmation. However, the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) today released a new order of processing priorities.

We covered the first issues paper in a previous blog, but yesterday saw the Australian Government release the second issues paper for the Migration Occupations in Demand List (MODL) review. Full details won't be available for some time, but the second issues paper does provide a little more explanation on what migrants and migration agents can expect from the review.

We received a notification today that the Australian Government has released issues papers for, and called for comments to, the Migration Occupations Demand List (MODL) review. While full details will not be released until later in the year, there is every sign that this latest MODL review will result in serious, lasting changes to the Australian General Skilled Migration (GSM) program which is why we are advising all our clients to lodge their visa applications as soon as possible.