The visa system has undergone one of its usual tidy-ups overnight with DIAC releasing a raft of legislative changes today.
This includes the usual increase in fees and charges (although quite a steep increase this year I think), changes to forms (waaaay too many changes to forms) and a number of minor tweaks to the legislation.
This effects applicants for remaining relative visas, the balance of family test, some bridging visas and new rights for people of same-sex relationships to be granted visas as secondary applicants.
Check out DIAC's change notification here: http://www.immi.gov.au/legislation/amendments/
Such a hodge-podge of changes leads me to think, as I so often do: why don't we scrap the whole lot and start again? Surely we could make more sense of this beast that is "migration" if we weren't trying to hold the system together with band-aids?
Maybe one day...........
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