Migration Regulations 1994Migration Regulations 1994

Migration Regulations 1994

MIGRATION OCCUPATION IN DEMAND

(REGULATION 1.15H and 1.15I)

I, CHRIS BOWEN, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, acting under regulation 1.15H of Division 1.2 of Part 1 of the Migration Regulations 1994 (‘the Regulations’):

1. REVOKE Instrument number IMMI 10/025 signed on 17 June 2010; AND

2. SPECIFY that each skilled occupation, within the meaning of regulation 1.15I of the Regulations as applicable to a person, that is listed in the Schedule to this Instrument is a migration occupation in demand for the purposes of regulation 1.15H of the Regulations, in relation to:

(a) a person who applied on or before 8 February 2010 for the grant of any of the following visas:

(i) Subclass 861 (Skilled – Onshore Independent New Zealand Citizen); or

(ii) Subclass 862 (Skilled – Onshore Australian-sponsored New Zealand Citizen); or

(iii) Subclass 880 (Skilled – Independent Overseas Student); or

(iv) Subclass 881 (Skilled – Australian-sponsored Overseas Student); or

(v) Subclass 495 (Skilled – Independent Regional) (Provisional); or

(vi) Subclass 175 (Skilled – Independent); or

(vii) Subclass 176 (Skilled – Sponsored); or

(viii) Subclass 475 (Skilled – Regional Sponsored); or

(ix) Subclass 487 (Skilled – Regional Sponsored); or

(x) Subclass 885 (Skilled – Independent); or

(xi) Subclass 886 (Skilled – Sponsored); and

that application had not been finally determined, within the meaning of subsection 5(9) of the Migration Act 1958, on or before 8 February 2010; or

(b) a person who:

(i) held a Subclass 485 (Skilled – Graduate) visa on 8 February 2010; or

(ii) had applied on or before 8 February 2010 for the grant of a Subclass 485 (Skilled – Graduate) visa and that application had not been finally determined, within the meaning of subsection 5(9) of the Migration Act 1958, on 8 February 2010; and

before 1 January 2013 makes an application for a Subclass 885 (Skilled – Independent) visa, a Subclass 886 (Skilled – Sponsored) visa or a Subclass 487 (Skilled – Regional Sponsored) visa.

This Instrument number IMMI 11/033 commences on 1 July 2011, immediately after the commencement of Migration Amendment Regulations 2011 (No. 3).

Dated 16 June 2011

CHRIS BOWEN

Minister for Immigration and Citizenship

[NOTE 1: Subregulation 1.15H(1) of the Regulations provides that migration occupation in demand, in relation to a person, means a skilled occupation of a kind that is specified by the Minister in an instrument in writing to be a migration occupation in demand and is applicable to the person in accordance with the specification.