2005 Notices of Legislation Changes
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Legislation change, by implementation date:
20 December 2005
1 December 2005
1 November 2005
8 October 2005
26 July 2005
22 July 2005
1 July 2005
11 May 2005
2 April 2005
Effective 20 December 2005
- Amendments to Former Resident visa
- Trade Skills Training visa and bridging visas
- Applications for Special Category Visas in Immigration Clearance
- Amendments to the Migration Regulations 1994 to provide time limits on decisions regarding Protection visa applications
Effective 1 December 2005
Effective 1 November 2005
- The Professional Development visa
- Technical Amendments to the Migration Regulations 1994
- Trade Skills Training visa
- Amendments relating to sponsor's undertaking to meet medical and hospital expenses
- Changes Affecting The General Skilled Migration (GSM) Program
- Remaining Relative visa criteria
- Enabling certain skilled visa applicants to also be applicants for employer sponsored visas
- Amendments relating to the Working Holiday Maker visa program
- Abolition of certain temporary entry visa subclasses
- Exception to the limitation on Sponsored Family Visitor (subclass 679) sponsorship
- Dependent family members of New Zealand citizens eligible to apply for employer nominated permanent residence in Australia
- The Occupational Trainee visa
- Amendments to Special Eligibility visas
Effective 8 October 2005
- Amendments to mandatory student visa cancellation - exceptional circumstances
- Time periods to show evidence of lawful status or identity and the collection of personal identifiers under section 188 of the Migration Act 1958
Effective 26 July 2005
Effective 22 July 2005
Effective 1 July 2005
- An additional fee exemption and additional fee concessions for applications for the grant of a certificate of Australian citizenship
- Regulation 4.31B: Removal of the sunset clause in Regulation 4.31B(5)
- Amendments to the Close Ties visa subclass
- Collapse of visas 676 and 686
- Annual Indexation of Fees and Visa Application Charges
- Repeal of Prospective Marriage Spouse Visa (Subclass 831)
- Electronic Lodgment of Class DD, DE and UX visas
- Removal of 'approved nominator' (NTBE) option for the short stay Business (Temporary) visa (subclass 456)
- Amendments to the Migration Agents Charge Regulations 1998
- Points for Sponsorship for Skilled Independent Regional (SIR) visa applicants
- A new regulation to allow prescribed access the Movement Reconstruction database as set out at ss 488(2)(a)(vii) and ss 488(2)(g) of the Migration Act 1958
- Pre-arrival reporting by international cargo ships
- Amendment to Migration Regulations 1994 - Personal Identifiers
- Technical Changes to the subclass 417 Working Holiday Visa
- Amendments to the Migration Regulations 1994, the Migration Agents Regulations 1998 and the Migration Agents Registration Application Charge Regulations 1998
- Technical amendments Migration Regulations 1994 - Macau and foreign country
- Optional Evidencing Regime - Phased elimination of labels as main form of documentary evidence of visas
- New Regulations to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1572 (2004) on Côte d'Ivoire
- Crew Joining Non-Military Ships in Australia
- Changes to the special provisions relating to domestic violence and the limitation of sponsorships for spouse, prospective spouse and interdependency visas
- Changes affecting the student visa program
- Investor Retirement Visa
Effective 11 May 2005
Effective 2 April 2005
- Employer Nomination Scheme (ENS), Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme (RSMS) and Labour Agreements (LA)
- Electronic registration of citizenship by descent
- New Internet Form: 47SP(Internet) Application for migration to Australia as a Partner
- Sponsored Family Visitor Visa (subclass 679) - Visa Condition
- Temporary Business (Long Stay) (Subclass 457) visa
- Amendment to the Migration Agent Regulations 1998
- Student Visa changes - technical amendments
- Amendment Adoption (subclass 102) and Child (subclass 802) visa requirements
- Sponsored Family Visitor Visa (subclass 679)
- Amendments to the definition of 'Member of the Family Unit'
- Sydney and Selected Areas Skilled Shortage List