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The South Australian State Migration Plan (SMP) was finalised and nominations commenced on the 6 January, 2011. The SA SMP covers state sponsorship of skilled migrants to South Australia under the Skilled - Sponsored (176 and 886) and Skilled - Regional Sponsored (475 and 487) visas.
Click here to view the SA State Migration Plan.
To apply for SA State Sponsorship, your occupations must be on the State Sponsored Migration List (SSML) as well as meeting all other criteria.
Under the agreement there is an overall cap on the total number of grants each year. For 2010-11 South Australian’s cap is 4,890 visa grants, which includes primary and secondary applicants.
To assist with managing the visa grant cap, the number of skilled migrants that the South Australian Government will sponsor against each occupation listed on the State Sponsorship Migration Lists is limited by a planning level.
On the 21 February 2011, Immigration SA advised that the following occupations had reached their planning levels for the 2010-2011 Program Year. These occupations are no longer available for Sponsorships and have been removed from the South Australian SSML:
How Do the SMP's Work
Prior to submitting a visa application for a subclass 176, 475, 487, 886 with the Department of Immigration & Citizenship an applicant is required to have State or Territory sponsorship. Each State and Territory has a list of occupations that they have identified as in shortage. If sponsorship is needed to submit a visa application then an application for sponsorship can be made to a State or Territory that has the applicants skill identified as in shortage.
The SMP is designed to encourage migrants with the right skills set to live and work in the State or Territory that needs them most. In return for sponsorship for the visa application, the relevant State or Territory want the applicant to make a commitment to live and work in that State or Territory for the first two years that they are a permanent resident.
An applicant is a permanent resident as soon as their visa is granted with the rights and entitlements that provides. However, the new permanent resident still has a commitment to live and work in the State or Territory that offered them sponsorship for the first two years they are in Australia.
The SMP is to make the General Skilled Migration system more efficient in that it is matching the migrant and their skills set with the area that will provide them with the most opportunity but also assist the Australian economy to fill a critical skill shortage.
Processing Times
There is one additional important point to add about having sponsorship from a State or Territory under a State Migration plan. An applicant with sponsorship under a SMP will have their visa application processed by the Department of Immigration & Citizenship within 12 months from the date of lodgement. Priority processing Group 2 is reserved for these applications and is the fastest processing category under General Skilled Migration.
Are you eligible?
AMVL can advise if you are eligible to make an application for State or Territory sponsorship. There are a restricted number of sponsorships available for each occupation in each State or Territory. There is also an overall restriction on the total number of sponsorships on offer. For example, a State may have 500 sponsorship spots for an electrician and a total of 4500 sponsorship places for the financial year.
Click here to contact Australian Migration & Visa Lawyers to assess your eligibility.
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