Migration (Arrangements for Certain Skilled and Temporary Graduate Visa Applications) Amendment Instrument (LIN 20/297) 2020

I, Matthew Noble, as delegate of the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs, make the following instrument.

Dated:   18 December 2020

Matthew Noble

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Migration (Arrangements for Certain Skilled Visa Applications) Instrument (LIN 20/162) 2020

1  Name

(1) This instrument is the Migration (Arrangements for Certain Skilled and Temporary Graduate Visa Applications) Amendment Instrument (LIN 20/297) 2020.

(2) This instrument may be cited as LIN 20/297.

2  Commencement

This instrument commences on the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.

3  Authority

This instrument is made under the following provisions of the Migration Regulations 1994:

(a) subregulation 2.07(5);

(b) item 1229 of Schedule 1.

4  Schedules

The instrument that is specified in Schedule 1 to this instrument is amended as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Migration (Arrangements for Certain Skilled Visa Applications) Instrument (LIN 20/162) 2020

1  Subsection 1(1)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(1)           This instrument is the Migration (Arrangements for Certain Skilled and Temporary Graduate Visa Applications) Instrument (LIN 20/162) 2020.

2  Part 2 (heading)

Repeal the heading, substitute:

Part 2—Arrangements for certain skilled and temporary visas

3  Subsection 8(1)

Substitute:

(1)           Subject to subsections (2) and (3), for the purposes of item 1229 of Schedule 1 to the Regulations, an application for a Skilled (Provisional) (Class VC) visa must be made using form 1276 (internet) as an internet application.