ACT’s 190 Nomination Program Update:
• The program reopens on Thursday 29 November 2018
• The ACT Government’s current system will go OFF LINE on Tuesday 27 November 2018
-Any existing ACT Government application commenced which has not been lodged and unpaid on 27 November 2018 will disappear from the system and will not be accessed.
– Any lodged and paid applications lodged before Tuesday 27 November will be assessed and finalised under the existing guidelines.
• The ACT is reopening its 190 program with about 500 available places for the remainder of 2018-19 Financial Year
• The Canberra Matrix is benefit to Canberra based and not first in
The Process
• Intending applicants will be required to express their interest by completing the Canberra Matrix
– No documents are required to be lodged with the Canberra Matrix
– There is no application fee for completing and submitting the Canberra Matrix
– The ACT Government reserves the right to use other levers to select applicants based on economic benefit to Canberra
• The Canberra Matrix points are frozen upon submission and cannot be updated
• A Canberra Matrix will remain valid for 6 months
• The matrix scoring for Canberra residents has 12 factors
- Length of residence in Canberra
- English language proficiency
- Spouse / partner English language proficiency
- Nominated occupation (open or closed)
- Length of current employment in Canberra (not tied to nominated occupation)
- ACT employment type
- Spouse / Partner employment in Canberra
- Education (can be in Canberra, interstate or overseas)
- Canberra education
- Grandfathering of applicants who arrived to live in Canberra on or before 29 June 2018)
- Assets in Canberra (personal or business and unencumbered)
- Close family ties to Canberra
• The Matrix for overseas residents has essentially the same factors except the grandfathering factor mentioned above
• Intending applicants who live in Canberra and commute to Sydney, for example, for study and/or work, regardless of the time spent in or out of Canberra will not meet the requirements for an invitation
• To meet the Canberra residence requirements, the intending applicant can live in Canberra or live within a 30-minute commute radius of Canberra
This information was first published by Migration Institute of Australia Limited.
Link: https://www.mia.org.au/communications/id/3355/idString/kzxus13351
