DIAC Functioning Again - ENS Health Waiver Approval and new subclass 476 Universities

[George Lombard]

The Department has released details of two minor changes:

 

a) the implementation of NSW participation in the ENS health waiver scheme;

 

b) the inclusion of four further universities whose engineering graduates may qualify for a subclass 476 visa:

 

• Ecole de Technologie Superieure (Canada);
• Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (Chile);
  
• University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (Malaysia)
  
• University of Liverpool (UK).
  

 

The real significance of this news is that the Department is functioning and the Minister is making routine approvals. Some previous Ministers were glacial in coming to terms with their new responsibilities. Might be a good omen for the SMPs.

 

Cheers,

 

George Lombard