2011 Notices of Legislation Changes
Legislation changes, by implementation date:
Effective 05 November 2011
- Amendments Relating to Telephone Invitations to Give Information or Comments
- Amendments of Migration Regulations 1994 Relating to Student Visas
- Amendments to include the Fraud Public Interest Criteria 4020 in Business Skills and Student visa programs
- Amendments of Migration Regulations 1994 Relating to Public Interest Criteria 4005, 4006A and 4007
Effective 15 August 2011
- Renewal of the People's Republic of China as a Safe Third Country
- Minor amendment to Public Interest Criterion 4013
Effective 26 April 2011 for character amendments and 26 July 2011 for offence amendment
Effective 1 July 2011
- Amendments of Migration Regulations 1994 relating to eligible non-citizens
- Amendment of Migration Regulations 1994 relating to personal identifiers
- Minor amendments to Bridging Visa A and Bridging Visa B
- Amendments of Australian Citizenship Regulations 2007 relating to Centrelink concession codes
- Amendments to the Migration Regulations 1994 (the Regulations) relating to the Bridging E (Class WE) visas
- Amendments to introduce a new points test for certain applicants for General Skilled Migration visas
- Amendment of Australian Citizenship Regulations 2007 relating to the payment of fees in foreign currencies and foreign countries
- Amendment of Australian Citizenship Regulations 2007 relating to evidence of citizenship
- Annual adjustment of Fees and Charges
- Amendments to Family Stream visas
- Changes to the Balance of Family test for parent migration as specified in Regulation 1.05 of the Migration Regulations 1994
- Transfer of Business Skills Processing from Taipei to Hong Kong for residents of Taiwan
- Amended definition of ‘client number’
- Amendments relating to Public Interest Criteria 4005, 4006A and 4007
- Amendment of Migration Regulations 1994 relating to Migration Review Tribunal Fee structure
Effective 2 April 2011
- Public Interest Criterion 4020
- Amendments relating to temporary work sponsorship
- Amendments to allow applications for Return (Residence) (Class BB) visas to be lodged by telephone
- Subclass 442 (Occupational Trainee) Visas
Effective 1 January 2011
- Amendments to the Immigration (Education) Act 1971 made by Immigration (Education) Amendment Act 2010
- Amendments to the Immigration (Education) Regulations 1992
- Amendments to correct incorrect cross references in the Subclass 475 (Skilled – Regional Sponsored) and the Subclass 487 (Skilled – Regional Sponsored) visas and other minor amendments
- Amendments to the Australian Citizenship Regulations 2007 relating to the payment of fees in foreign currencies and foreign countries