Immigration to Australia

General Skilled Migration / Skilled Worker Category

The General Skilled Migration (GSM) program is for people who are not sponsored by an employer and who have skills in occupations that Australia needs to fill the labor shortages. Applicants must be over 18 and under 45 years of age and speak good English. They must also have recent skilled work experience or a recently earned and eligible Australian qualification as well as qualifications for an occupation listed on Australia's Skilled Occupation list (SOL).

The Skilled migration visas are one of the best opportunities for an applicant to live and work in Australia. Under the Australian General Skilled Migration program, skilled migrant and skilled worker applicants can use their qualifications, work experience and language ability to meet the Australian immigration requirements for a permanent Australia visa.

The changes in Australian General Skilled Migration program have been made recently changed and the program on the Australian General Skilled Migration have include more points awarded for English skills orelse need to be very good and have reducing the visa structure from to 9 subclasses from15 subclasses to make it easy for an applicant to qualify and know which visa subclass will best suits his application to qualify.