Minister's announcement on GSM visas – 8 February 2010
On 8 February 2010, the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Chris Evans, announced the following changes to the General Skilled Migration program:
• the outcomes of a review of the Migration Occupations in Demand List (MODL)
• the replacement of the current Skilled Occupation List (SOL) in the second half of 2010
• offshore GSM visas made before 1 September 2007 would be capped and ceased
• priority processing arrangements
• skills assessment requirements for GSM applicants nominating a trade occupation.
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Hopefully this will be a good change for skilled professionals who are in high demand - if points are reduced for trade occuptaions - then PR processing will be faster for others who will come up on the new MODL
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