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The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Chris Evans, today announced the outcomes of a review of the Migration Occupations in Demand List (MODL ). Current Skilled Occupation List (SOL) will be replaced in the second half of 2010, with a new list of targeted occupations determined by the independent body, ‘Skills Australia’. The new skilled occupation list will target professionals with university degrees who are sponsored by employers and discourage self-nominating migrants such as cooks, hairdressers and accountants.

As the new SOL will be a comprehensive, targeted list, the current Critical Skills List will be revoke It will be replaced by a new Skilled Occupations List of high-value professions and trades drawn up by Skills Australia.
The revocation of the current MODL will not affect those who at the date of announcement:

• hold a Skilled—Graduate (subclass 485) visa, or have a pending subclass 485 visa application and are yet to apply for a permanent or provisional General Skilled Migration (GSM) visa, or

• have a pending GSM visa application

• In simple language its not going to effect the current onshore PR applicants on the process, TR visa holders and those TR application in process who applied for TR before 8 th Feb. 2010,they can still apply for the permanent residency but should apply PR before 31 dec 2012 .

• Those who will apply TR after 8th Feb. 2010 must have their occupation on the new Skilled occupation list(SOL) to be announced on 30 April 2010 to apply for a permanent residency. Read more…

Nepali student in Sydney has been attacked in northern beaches Of Sydney. Bepin Shrestha, a 30-year-old Nepalese national, was on his way to work at Dee Why Fresh Markets in Oaks Ave in the early hours of Sunday when he was attacked and savagely bashed, leaving him with brain and facial injuries.

Mr Shrestha remained in an induced coma at Royal North Shore Hospital last night.
Divas Baniya said Mr Shrestha was a quietly spoken, diligent worker who was focused on the accounting studies that brought him to Australia a little over a year ago. Mr Baniya said Mr Shrestha, who had been living at Mosman, was planning on moving in to share his Dee Why unit within a few weeks. Read more…

The UK Border Agency announces that, with effect from Monday 1 February, it will temporarily stop accepting student visa applications under Tier 4 of the Points Based System at the visa application centre in Kathmandu. This is a temporary suspension and the UK Border Agency will begin accepting Tier 4 visa applications again as soon as possible. Customers who are making applications in other visa categories are unaffected by this announcement.

The UK Border Agency has taken this decision in response to an unexpectedly high number of student visa applications at this time of year in parts of South Asia, and will therefore stop accepting any new applications under the Tier 4 student route in affected areas, including Nepal and North India. Read more…

Mukti Gupteshwar Mandir also known as minto Hindu Temple in Nepalese community in Australia is one of the popular but few hindu temples in Sydney .Mukti-Gupteshwar Mandir is the first and so far the only man-made cave mandir dedicated to the Lord Shiva, the 13th Jyotirlingam, Mukti-Gupteshwar Mahadev.

Along with the Mahadev, there are scale model replicas of 12 other Jyotirlinga, 108 human made lingas represent the Rudra names of the Lord Shiva and 1008 fannings Lord Shiva representing his Sahastra namas. Each figuring represents a small mandir of Lord Shiva and therefore there are total of 1128 small mandirs inside the Mukti-Gupteshwar mandir which is very unque to its kind.
Architect’s impression of the Mandir complex before construction

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Aussienepali.com family wishes all the people around the globe a very very happy new year 2010
Fill your life with Happiness & Bright Cheer,
Bring to u Joy and Prosperity for the whole Year,
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TENS of thousands of overseas students studying expensive courses in Australia in the hope of securing permanent residency could be sent home empty-handed under changes being considered by the Federal Government.

The Herald has obtained a document prepared by the Immigration Department recommending changes ”in the relationship between the lodgement of an application and the legal obligation to grant a visa”.

This means immigrants who have met the demands of the current system and would be automatically accepted could be arbitrarily refused. Read more…

The Department of Immigration and Citizenship is strengthening checks on student visa applications to stamp out fraud and ensure students have the financial capacity to live and study in Australia.The measures to strengthen visa will target parts of the student visa caseload in India, Mauritius, Nepal, Brazil, Zimbabwe and Pakistan which has resulted in many visa rejections case in these countries.According to our sources in Nepal almost all 8/10 visa application has been rejected in Nepal  which has resulted in drop down of stduent visa application for Australia and increased students  visa applications in  UK because of high visa success in UK . Read more…

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