Making Sure Nothing Is Misunderstood

Welcome to the Hire A Migrant Pty Ltd web site (the "Site"). For complete clarity, please review the following policies:

Terms of Use

By accessing this Site, you agree to be bound by the requirements listed in the statements below. If you do not agree to all of the statements, do not use the Site. Hire A Migrant Pty Ltd may from time to time modify or revise the Terms by updating this Web page. Your use of our Site following any such change constitutes your agreement to follow and be bound by the statements as changed. If any change is unacceptable to you, your only recourse is to terminate your use of the Site.

Privacy

It is our policy to respect the privacy of individuals who visit the Site or provide comments to us. By accepting these Terms, you expressly consent to the use and disclosure of your personally identifiable and other information as described in the Privacy Policy.

Hire A Migrant Pty Ltd has a strict policy for handling customer information. The information you provide to Hire A Migrant is confidential and protected to the fullest extent possible. Hire A Migrant will not disclose or distribute customer information to third parties without prior written consent by the customer.

Miscellaneous

These Terms are governed by and shall be construed in accordance with the laws of Victoria and Australia, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law. If any provision of these Terms shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these Terms and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. These Terms are effective unless and until terminated by Hire A Migrant Pty Ltd.

Provision of Migration Advice

Our main focus is on helping find employment, not providing migration advice. Hire A Migrant Pty Ltd does not employ registered migration agents and accordingly Hire A Migrant is not legally permitted to provide policy interpretation and migration advice to intending migrants or sponsors.

This web site does not contain migration advice for individual applicants. We can however repeat information already made public by DIAC and State Governments plus their associated agencies. Much of the information on this web site is gleaned from these sources, State Government or migration agent web pages. For these reasons tailoring of the job search strategy can be worked out with the migration agent but not directly with the migrant. When dealing direct with migrants, we will not respond to questions that relate to visa applications, policy or other subjective legal material.

This site is not intended for use by either migrants or sponsors who are directly sponsoring a future employe. It is a condition of use of this site that all users acknowledge that they are not seeking migration advice for themselves as migrant or to act as sponsor of a future worker. For full legal entitlement and disclaimer please click here (c) Hire A Migrant Pty Ltd ACN 124 164 138 unless attributed.

The Australian Government is now in caretaker mode ahead of the national election scheduled for August 21. The timing is very unfortunate as a long series of major changes to immigration policy are still unfinished, leaving many thousands of people in a state of great uncertainty.

Although it is possible that State Governments may be able to submit their new lists of State Sponsored occupations for Ministerial approval, it is unclear whether the Minister still has the ability to authorise their implementation at least until a new Government is formed. Similarly, other unwelcome legislation for capping and ceasing certain visa categories is also unable to progress. Another choke point is that quotas for certain occupations may also be implemented at State and Federal levels soon after the election.

Or not! One major party view is that smaller employers should find it easier to become a sponsor, which would enable many more job applicants through. Applicants affected by change and uncertainty may still consider applying for 457 permits until their visa pathway for permanent residency is made clear. Even without the election, Immigration is in a bit of a mess and it will probably be October before it’s mostly cleared up.