Immigration South Australia have just released the following update which we hope clarifies the current situation:

• Current Sponsorship applications with Immigration SA will not be affected - processing is continuing as normal
• Current processing time is 4 weeks for Permanent and 8 weeks for Provisional - they need to ensure that any new applications are received in good time to meet any DIAC deadlines (in the future)
• Obviously, any changes to policy/criteria or Lists from DIAC will have flow-on effects to Sponsorship policy/criteris/lists - until we know what the changes are from DIAC, we are unable to pre-empt what our changes might be
• As usual Immigration SA reviews our lists in their entirety around the middle of the year - any new lists that DIAC bring about will have an impact on this

If you would like to discuss any aspect of state sponsorship, please call us on 0845 230 2526 or 01244 321414