Skilling Australia Fund Levy (SAF) Introduced
The long awaited SAF will be implemented on 12th August 2018. The SAF applies to nominations made on or after this date. It applies to 457 (nomination transfers), Temporary Skill Shortage (TSS) including Labour Hire Agreements, Employer Nomination ENS and RSMS nominations. For TSS nominations, the base amount for organisations with less than $10 million…
Read MoreTransitional ‘Grandfathering’ Arrangements
Essentially, people who held a Subclass 457 visa, or made an application before 18 April 2017 that was subsequently approved, will still be able to access certain existing provisions under the ENS (Subclass 186) visa and RSMS (Subclass 187) visas (Temporary Transitional Streams). The guidelines to determine whether an applicant is still eligible for this…
Read MoreTSS Visa Replaces the 457 Visa
Effective 18th March 2018 the 457-visa program was replaced by the Temporary Skill Shortage (TSS) Visa. This was a year-long process in the making with new occupation lists underpinning the new TSS visa. Eligible Skilled Occupation Lists The staged implementation of the TSS split the Consolidated Skills Occupation List (CSOL) into separate lists: Short…
Read More