{"id":7637,"date":"2020-09-10T14:48:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T14:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coffeeobsession.com.au\/?p=3652"},"modified":"2023-10-20T06:18:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T06:18:27","slug":"state-territory-nomination-allocation-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/news\/state-territory-nomination-allocation-update","title":{"rendered":"State &#038; Territory Nomination Allocation Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Migration Institute of Australia (MIA) has advised that each State and Territory has received a limited number of allocated places for Skilled Nominated visa (subclass 190), Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 491), and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/en\/articles\/victoria-business-investor-visa\">Business Innovation and Investment program<\/a>\u00a0(BIIP) until the Federal Budget is released on 6 October 2020.<\/p>\n<p>All States and Territories have indicated that their migration policy for 2020-21 will aim to support Australia\u2019s economic recovery and public health.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/StateNomTable_10Sept.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"392\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Numbers as published by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mia.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MIA<\/a>, as provided by The Department of Home Affairs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>20 August 2020 update:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Skilled and business visa nomination allocation update<\/p>\n<p>After state nomination allocations were delayed along with the Budget until October we now have a few updates in regards to the General Skilled and Business Migration Program for 2020-21, however full nomination allocations will still be suspended until the release of the Budget in October.<\/p>\n<p>South Australia and the ACT have both received a limited number of places for their general skilled and business programs to assist the state\u2019s economic and public health recovery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The South Australian Skilled Migration applications will be prioritised based on the criteria below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High-quality applications within the Business Innovation and Investment Program.<\/li>\n<li>Applicants critical to supporting the state&#8217;s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including individuals providing critical or specialist medical services, critical skills required to maintain the supply of essential goods and services; or delivering services in sectors critical to Australia\u2019s economic recovery.<\/li>\n<li>Early consideration of onshore applications that satisfy the above criteria.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While this is good news for migration in to Australia, it\u2019s important to keep in mind that COVID-19 will continue to have a significant impact on migration, how applications are processed, and which industries are prioritised.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.migration.sa.gov.au\/business-migrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on the SA Immigration website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ACT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While the ACT Skilled Migration Program is also open, the program will operate under a very different process. A new ACT Critical Skills List is in effect and applicants must meet the below criteria for both 491 and 190 nomination pathways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You must meet one of the following two criterion:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Your nominated occupation is on the ACT Critical Skills List; OR<\/li>\n<li>You are the primary holder of a subclass 457\/482 visa sponsored by an ACT employer<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>The 5 years ACT residence criteria has ceased.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canberrayourfuture.com.au\/portal\/migrating\/article\/canberra-matrix-invitation-round\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on the ACT Immigration website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Skilled Migration program remains closed to overseas applicants in all states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Migration Institute of Australia (MIA) has advised that each State and Territory has received a limited number of allocated places for Skilled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-7637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-482-visa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}