The Australian government has changed the way it prioritises skilled visa applications to put teachers and healthcare workers at the front of the queue.
Subclass 188 Subclass 494 )A spokesperson for the Department of Home Affairs said the previous PMSOL system was a "time-consuming and complex assessment" that was only necessary because of the backlog of applications that had built up while travel restrictions to Australia were in place during the pandemic.
"There's no point in having a priority list when you're targeting just about every occupation," he said. More changes are likely, with the federal government promising to further assess the effectiveness of skilled migration occupation lists. The last update to the current Skilled Migration Occupation List was made on 11 March 2019.
Temporary skilled migration visas are currently only available to workers in certain occupations, provided they earn at least $53,900 a year.
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