Following recent moves by the General Skilled Migration Processing Centre in Brisbane to trial faster processing for applications certified by a registered migration agent to be a "decision ready" skilled migration application, permanent residence Employer Sponsored Visas will now be processed immediately by the Department of Immigration & Citizenship (DIAC) under a similar model.

DIAC's new Employer Nomination Scheme (ENS) processing model aims to encourage the submission of decision-ready applications by offering Australian Migration Agents the opportunity to certify their cases as “decision-ready”. This concept is similar to the one employed by the eGSM processing centre in Brisbane.  Where an agent certifies an application as “decision-ready” it will be allocated immediately to a case officer for processing.  If an application is found to not be decision-ready the agent will incur "one strike".  An agent may incur three strikes before DIAC will refuse any decision-ready applications from the agent and queue all their applications.  DIAC is estimating it will take some months to allocate queued applications. 

The decision ready processing model is limited to Australian registered migration agents as they are deemed to have an intimate understanding of the legislation and regulation relating to Australian immigration visa applications and are required to maintain this knowledge of the Australian immigration visa process through Continuing Professional Development (CPD).  This allows DIAC to rely on the certification that an application is decision ready and thereby reduce Australian immigration visa processing times.

Previous 24/48 hour Australian visa processing models instituted for ENS visas have proved extremely effective and it is anticipated that this new DIAC processing initiative will be similarly successful leading to immediate permanent residence visa grants for appropriate employer sponsored applications. 

Contact us to ensure your Australian immigration visa application  is complete and decision ready on lodgement and receives the benefit of the new ENS processing model.