The new deal was announced on July 18, 2017, after Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced the cancellation of the temporary technical work visa on April 18, 2017.
The visas affected by the July 1st New deal were not only 457, but also 181818, as well as independent skilled immigrants (1818181900489), and so on.
The July 1st New deal has had two big effects on 457 visas: the high-paid IELTS, which was cancelled, and the career list, which has changed again.
High pay exemption cancelled
Application for 457 basic English requirements have not changed, or IELTS average 5 points, a minimum of 4.5 points. Only the original policy to nominate a career income of A $96400 or more exempted from IELTS was cancelled. However, the first cancellation of the policy does not affect the 457 applications already filed, or 457 high-paying applications filed before July 1, which are still subject to the old policy. Second, if employers are nominated as overseas companies, the high-paid IELTS policy still applies.
Even waiving the English language through overseas employer nominations does not make much sense for applicants looking to switch to permanent residence through 457. Because in the 457 transition to permanent residence phase still needs to meet the "competence English" (Competent English) requirements, that is, IELTS must not be less than 6 points.
Career list change
Since April 18, 457's list of occupations has been deleted from 216 occupations, leaving 435. And produced two "new" lists of occupations-short-term technical occupations (Short-term Skilled Occupation List) and medium-and long-term strategic technology lists, (Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List).)
Put the two lists together, called the occupation on the Consolidated list (Combined List), Consolidated list, 457 can apply. The difference between the two lists, in one sentence, is that the long-and medium-term list has the opportunity to emigrate, can be transferred to 186 / 187, and the short-term list cannot be emigrated.
In the July 1st New deal, 36 occupations were returned to the Consolidated list, and 12 more were removed from the Consolidated list.
Some occupations on the short-term list and the medium-and long-term list are interchanged. A number of occupations have been added to the long-and medium-term list, such as CEO, General Manager, musician (instrumental), Economist, engineer (others), etc. Some occupations have been removed from long-and medium-term lists and dropped to short-term lists, such as mining production managers, anesthesiologists, and so on.
In addition, the July 1st New deal on career restrictions on the (Caveat) made more specific provisions, such as: chief executive or general manager of the annual salary of more than 180000 Australian dollars, in order to meet the nomination conditions.
The policy changes in the profession apply not only to applications submitted after July 1, but also to applications submitted before July 1. It is worth noting, however, that the change is directed at the 457 "nominating" (Nomination) application. In other words, if the applicant's employer nomination has been approved but awaits the result of the visa application, neither the change in the occupation list nor the increase in the restrictions should affect pending visa applications.
Other Chan
Other changes to 457 visas involving Chinese applicants include:
3.1 No criminal record must be provided
3.2 tightening of employer training requirements
First of all: determine the training fee calculation period can be the previous financial year or 12 months prior to the submission of the application.
Second, the document makes little change to training standard A, which puts 2% of the total annual salary into the training fund, but requires much more stringent requirements for training standard B, which uses 1% of the total annual salary for Australian staff training. Online courses that can be charged under the original policy and subscription to magazines and books are now not counted as training fees.
These two employer training requirements will only affect employer guarantees or employer nomination applications submitted after July 1.
Finally, training standards A and B will be replaced by the training Aussie Fund (Skilling Australians Fund) in March, and employers will meet training requirements by paying taxes and fees to the fund on a guaranteed basis. Employers with annual turnover of less than A $10 million will pay a tax of A $1200 a year for each holder of a temporary skills shortage visa, or TSS, or temporary work visa, which will replace TSS, next year. Employers with annual turnover of more than A $10 million will pay a tax of A $1800 per TSS visa holder.
