Address Australia's longer term skill needs.
For the 2023-24 permanent Migration Program, the Government will return the planning level to the longer-term level of 190,000 places and will allocate 137,100 places (around 70 per cent) to the Skill stream, helping address Australia's longer term skill needs. The Government will improve pathways to permanency for Temporary Skill Shortage (TSS) (subclass 482) visa holders. Restrictions will be removed to enable TSS visa holders on the short-term stream access to permanent residence pathways through the Employer Nomination Scheme (subclass 186) visa. The limit of one onshore renewal for the short-term stream TSS visa will also be removed. This permanent Migration Program measure is estimated to decrease receipts by $30.0 million and decrease payments by $66.4 million over the 5 years from 2022-23. Improving pathways to permanency for TSS visa holders is estimated to result in an unquantifiable impact on receipts and increase payments by $0.6 million over the 5 years from 2022-23. Home Affairs |