I'd still say end July for release of WA SMP, because under australia's federal system of government each state has considerable sovereignty over immigration and other issues.

but it is now only a caretaker government, awaiting election, a caretaker cannot pass any major papers through.

The 'caretaker government' that you mention is the present gillard-led labour federal government - that is the federal government. It's called caretaker because a federal election was due to be held anyway at the end of this year, and the gillard government is only going to get a few months in power after Gillard was appointed PM until this election date (not a full term of 3 yrs). The federal election date was set today for august 21.

Under the laws of australia state governments also have an input into the immigration policy. Each state elects its state government in a seperate election to the federal election. And these State Migration Plans are the state governments input.

i know that they are the government but only caretakers now. a caretaker government cant push through policy changes, thats what i am stating.

Just to add tho the thread, we applied for 175 dec 07 and then applied for WA ss aug 09 and was approved in feb 10 but are still waiting for smp because looks like DIAC will not process until the SMP is released! Any Idea the time line will be for the No.2 Priorty applications onc the ball get moving??

I hope 38141 is right. and in my guess, I don't think any due process would be pending for a reason of election. that's my bet. the question is what would be the big change after the election! sighed. Does any one has an idea of the changes for GSM next year january? thanks

hello sir

I am having W A state sponsorship as subclass 475 now i have to apply for the visa so what group they are going to me processing .

All the processing has changed at 14th July, announced today. If yr on SOL you are now 3rd priority. If SMP you will get bumped up to 2nd! Things are looking up

I'd say there will be significant changes to the rules post-election. Gillard has already come out and denounced Rudd's 'Big Australia' policy, and it looks like she's going to storm to victory. I don't think hairdressers and the like will be getting in for a while again. My 2 cents.

I hope this hasn't been asked & answered 100 times in this thread, but does anybody know what the approximate timeline is between getting SS approved from WA and receiving a CO?

We got our SS in Feb, no CO as yet!

hi, all

has anyone got WA SSV recently? Is it true whether all pending applications will be processed by the end of July?

I lodged my application on May and expect the newest information.

Were you not on the CSL?

No, there were no trades on the CSL, although we are on the new SOL, so have been bumped up to priority 3

hi all, my occupation is painter and decorator. does anybody know if this trade is still in demand in WA? i was not on the csl but am on the new sol. any hunches as to wether it may be on the new smp. we started our process back in early 2007 ! its been a very long process to say the least