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The Registered Nurse Skilled Visa: A Complete, Confident Strategy
Are you an overseas-trained nurse with a bachelor’s degree and a couple of years on the wards? Australia is one of the few countries where permanent residence is realistically available to you without a sponsor. Nursing sits on the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List. That opens the independent pathways. However, the first decision in…
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The Skilled Visa Points Test: A Complete, Confident Strategy
The skilled visa points test is the most misunderstood mechanism in Australian migration, and the confusion comes down to one number. Under the skilled visa points test you need 65 points to lodge an expression of interest for a subclass 189, 190 or 491 visa. Because that figure is published everywhere, people treat it as…
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The 2026-27 Migration Program: A Complete, Costly Reshuffle
The 2026-27 migration program kept its headline number and quietly rewrote almost everything underneath it. Australia is still planning for 185,000 permanent places this financial year, the same figure as the two years before it. However, roughly 19,000 places moved out of regional migration. Most of that went to employer sponsorship. So if your plan…