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Australia: Changes to permanent skilled migration program

Announcement

18 Apr 2017

The Government of Australia abolished the Temporary Work (Skilled) visa and introduced a new Temporary Skill Shortage (TSS) visa that will be revised every six months.

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Number of interventions

1

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

List of interventions

Implementation date

19 Apr 2017

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Last action: 18 Apr 2017
Labour market access In force
On April 19, 2017, the Government of Australia abolished the Temporary Work visa (subclass 457 visa) replacing it with a new Temporary Skills Shortage (TSS) visa that introduces major changes in the l...
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