Alan Collett

Details are here:
http://www.gomatilda.com/news/article.cfm?articleid=288

Interesting times ...

Best regards.

---Halifax---

Thank you,

This looks great! For all those prospective skilled migrants that cannot make the passmark because of age or whatever.

Please keep us up to date if any more details are released.

AlexFer

Ok, but in SA IT professionals can only be ellegible to regional if he/she has a "firm job offer"

will this rule change?

Alan Collett

I don't know ... you will have to be patient and wait for the new specific details as and when they are announced.

You can be assured that I'll let you know as soon as I hear or read of anything in this regard.

Best regards.

John Lamont

Hey Alan.....

Saw a bit about this on the news tonight in my new home in Perth WA, &
decided to check out
the NG for some info.

My mate back in Scotland is doing his application at the moment. He should
hear something from TRA
any day now.

I was just wondering if you know if this is something to entice people away
from migrating to
the Eastern States, or do you think it's going to apply to all the major
cities in Australia?
My mate intends to live in Perth as well. It would be worth him looking into
this if WA was classed
by Amanda Vanstone as, "Regional Australia".
The news report seemed to suggest that it was intended to stop the majority
of people settling in Sydney
& Melbourne, and was a bit vague as to whether it really meant the smaller
rural towns throughout
the country.

Any thoughts?.....

Cheers, & Happy New Year....... John.........


John Lamont
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"Alan Collett" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > Details are here:
    > http://www.gomatilda.com/news/article.cfm?articleid=288
    > Interesting times ...
    > Best regards.
    > --
    > Alan Collett of Go Matilda, http://www.gomatilda.com
    > Posted via http://britishexpats.com

lesleys

From The Australian.....

Only retirees aged over 55 and backed by $800,000 to $1million of net worth and willing to invest $500,000 in state and territory bonds will receive a four-year rolling visa.

They must be sponsored by a state or territory government, have no dependents, pay a one-off $8000 visa charge and have full private health cover. "All in all, they will bring benefits to Australia while they spend four years of their retirement here," Senator Vanstone said.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...55E601,00.html

SuperSeagulls

This really is interesting.

But can someone please tell me how they government can stop people settling in a city. Do you have to nominate on the application your chosen city/state and do you have to stay there (if not you are thrown out)? I am very very curious...

Anyone know?

Cheers

SS

Jaj

Hi John
Things are still quite vague. A safe bet is that Sydney, Brisbane and
Perth (and some of their surrounding areas) will be excluded. Melbourne
may or may not be excluded.

One of the interesting questions that's yet to be answered is whether,
if you get one of these visas, you'll have to stay in the *same*
regional area. For example, it's not clear whether it will be
acceptable for someone to move to Hobart, and subsequently decide to
move to Darwin.

In response to someone else, the existing STNI scheme has been
restricted in scope by rather tightly defined occupation lists, and with
most of them being 60 point occupations, many potential STNI applicants
have the pass mark anyway. This isn't really the original intention
behind STNI - which is to give a facility for those *without* the pass
mark a chance to migrate if they settle in regional Australia.

We will have to see the details of these schemes once announced. In the
meantime your mate should get his 136 application in as soon as possible
once he gets his TRA assessment back (assuming he's ok on points,
deeming date etc).

Jeremy


>John Lamont wrote:
    > Hey Alan.....
    >
    >
    > I was just wondering if you know if this is something to entice people away
    > from migrating to
    > the Eastern States, or do you think it's going to apply to all the major
    > cities in Australia?
    > My mate intends to live in Perth as well. It would be worth him looking into
    > this if WA was classed
    > by Amanda Vanstone as, "Regional Australia".
    > The news report seemed to suggest that it was intended to stop the majority
    > of people settling in Sydney
    > & Melbourne, and was a bit vague as to whether it really meant the smaller
    > rural towns throughout
    > the country.
    >

Alan Collett

On reflection I wonder whether the Minister knows what she is doing ... if you read what Senator Vanstone is alleged to have said it indicates that the existing Retirement visa option will cease to exist, and that retirees will only be able to apply to move to Australia if they invest what could be more than half their net assets in a State or Territory Bond.

How many retirees would move to Australia on that basis?

This seems to be policy making without making any serious attempt to think through the issues ... I would hope the eventual legislation is better thought through than yesterday's announcements.

Best regards.

Lilith

Hi Alan,

what do you think will be the impact on the existing retirement visa
holders? Are they grandfathered in or they may face new risk of having
to go thru higher financial hurdles in the future?

Also, I am a bit confused by the annoucement. Is this "retirement
visa" sponsored by the regional or territory government a supplement
to the existing retirement visa category or is it supposed to
*replace* the existing category? It seems to me if the current
category is to co-exist, the new retirement visa sponsorship doesn't
look attractive at all given the stringent requirements on investment
and place of residence, unless the latter allows a PR conversion at
the end of the tunnel. Thanks.

--Lilith

Alan Collett <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
    > On reflection I wonder whether the Minister knows what she is doing
    > .. if you read what Senator Vanstone is alleged to have said it
    > indicates that the existing Retirement visa option will cease to
    > exist, and that retirees will only be able to apply to move to
    > Australia if they invest what could be more than half their net assets
    > in a State or Territory Bond.
    >
    >
    >
    > How many retirees would move to Australia on that basis?
    >
    >
    >
    > This seems to be policy making without making any serious attempt to
    > think through the issues ... I would hope the eventual legislation is
    > better thought through than yesterday's announcements.
    >
    >
    >
    > Best regards.
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > Originally posted by lesleys
    >
    > > From The Australian.....
    >
    > >
    >
    > > Only retirees aged over 55 and backed by $800,000 to $1million of net
    > > worth and willing to invest $500,000 in state and territory bonds
    > > will receive a four-year rolling visa.
    >
    > >
    >
    > > They must be sponsored by a state or territory government, have no
    > > dependents, pay a one-off $8000 visa charge and have full private
    > > health cover. "All in all, they will bring benefits to Australia
    > > while they spend four years of their retirement here," Senator
    > > Vanstone said.
    >
    > >
    >
    > ]http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...e/0,5744,8378-
    > 126%255E601,00.html[/url]

Alan Collett

The short answer is that I simply don't know Lilith.

I'm afraid we and you will have to wait for the new Regulations to be made available, which could easily be three or more months away.

I'll post details on the GM website and here as soon as I know more.

Best regards.

abhibhanu

Dear Alan, George and Steven
Thanks for the information. How these new announcement will affect the existing 139 SDAS visas? Will these visas will be amended or cesed to exist? Further will it make any impact on SDAS 139 visas holders? We got our 139 visas class on december 2003 after 1 year and 3 months of application and plan to validate our visas on 22nd Jan 2004, next week. Then we plan to move for good ion 2005 November. So what will happen to our case? will there be any serious problems to our settlements? For your information, our sponsor cum assuror (my aunt) is living in melbourne and we also plan to settle down there. Please let me know what would happen for us in the future?
looking forward to hearing from you.
regards
bhanu

skbn136app

The time is about to come, when there would be no need of immigration of Australia. You just need to have a passport and simply jump over there. Immigration seems to be more easier than finding jobs there.

Regards

skbn136app

---Halifax---

How long to think it will take before IT is completely removed from the SOL and MODL?

I am buzy compiling an RPL for the ACS and it is taking ages. I am worried if we are going to make it.

My husband is a Network Administrator and Security Specialist.

Any estimates?

Alan Collett

If your visa has already been granted I believe you have nothing to worry about.

Best regards.