New Points Allocation - same as old

May 28, 2010

[This rationale generally means that if an occupation has a specific professional body designated as its skills assessing authority (such as Accounting, or Computing Professional) it will have 60 points, and if there is no specific assessing body for that profession, it will be a 50 point occupation whose skills for migration purposes is Vetassess, and it will get 50 points.]

The MIA advise the folllowing:

"An indication that the new points test may not appear on 1 July 2010 can be found in the Hansard report of DIAC Assistant Secretary, Labor Markets, Peter Speldewinde's statement to the Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs on 26 May 2010:

So the points that were allocated before will be allocated on the new list. The point I want to make to you so that we are not misleading you is that a formal review of the points test is occurring. There has been consultation and a discussion paper published about that, so it is part of the overall reform package. A review of the points test itself is occurring. But from 1 July effectively the old points test or the current points test will be replicated against the new SOL. I do not want to mislead you. We are actively considering the way the points test works-whether it is still meeting our needs and whether it requires an overhaul. There is a discussion paper and submissions from industry bodies and all that process is underway."

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