Bill
Migration Amendment (Strengthening Sponsorship and Nomination Processes) Bill 2024
lapsed, as at 2025-07-21. Home Affairs portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Home Affairs
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2024-07-04
- second reading — 2024-07-04
- second reading — 2024-08-13
- other — 2024-11-05
- second reading — 2024-11-05
- second reading — 2024-11-06
- second reading — 2024-11-06
- committee — 2024-11-06
- other — 2024-11-06
- third reading — 2024-11-06
- introduced — 2024-11-18
- second reading — 2024-11-18
- other — 2025-07-21
Divisions
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2024-07-04.
The bill would amend the Migration Act to strengthen skilled migration arrangements by setting income thresholds in legislation and changing labour market testing rules.
It would require the minister to be satisfied that skilled migrant workers are paid at least the temporary skilled migration income threshold and as much as equivalent Australian workers.
A public register of approved sponsors would include business names, numbers, postcodes, the count of sponsored workers, and their occupations.
- The bill legislates income thresholds for skilled workers, including a Specialist Skills Income Threshold of $135,000 and a Core Skills Income Threshold of $73,150.
- It increases the time for labour market testing from 4 months to 6 months before a sponsor lodges a nomination.
- It provides for annual indexation of the income thresholds on 1 July each year, based on changes in Average Weekly Ordinary Time Earnings.
Employers sponsoring skilled migrant workers and skilled visa applicants.
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