1Migration (English Language Requirements for Subclass 192 (Pacific Engagement) Visa—Pacific Engagement Stream) Instrument 2025

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Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

 

LIN 25/025

 

Migration (English Language Requirements for Subclass 192 (Pacific Engagement) Visa—Pacific Engagement Stream) Instrument 2025

I, Tony Burke, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, make the following instrument.

Dated   25 February 2025

Tony Burke

Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs

 

 

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Definitions

5  Schedules

6  English language test requirements for Pacific Engagement stream visa

7  Application and transitional provisions

Schedule 1—Repeals

Migration (English Language Requirements for Subclass 192 (Pacific Engagement) Visa) Instrument (LIN 24/023) 2024

 

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Migration (English Language Requirements for Subclass 192 (Pacific Engagement) Visa—Pacific Engagement Stream) Instrument 2025

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on 1 May 2025.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under clause 192.223 of Schedule 2 to the Migration Regulations.

4  Definitions

  In this instrument:

Migration Regulations means the Migration Regulations 1994.

Pacific Engagement stream visa means a Subclass 192 (Pacific Engagement) visa in the Pacific Engagement stream as set out in Subdivision 192.22 of Schedule 2 to the Migration Regulations.

5  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

6  English language test requirements for Pacific Engagement stream visa

 (1) For the purposes of clause 192.223 of Schedule 2 to the Migration Regulations, the following English language test requirements are specified:

 (a) the applicant, or (if the applicant’s spouse or de facto partner has made a combined application for a visa with the applicant) the applicant’s spouse or de facto partner, must undertake an English language test mentioned in subsection (2); and