Important Know-how Visa Screening

On 1 July 2022, the Migration Rules 1994 had been amended to ascertain a framework supporting focused visa screening to establish and handle the danger of undesirable switch of vital applied sciences in sure visa packages. The Division of House Affairs has launched a visa screening system to handle the danger of undesirable switch of vital applied sciences. To establish and handle the danger of undesirable switch of vital applied sciences in sure visa packages these amendments had been made by the PACT (Defending Australia’s Important Know-how) Rules 2022.

Visa Situation 8208

The modification now replaces the scholar visa situations from the PACT Rules (8204A and 8204B) with a single clearer, extra focused situation (8208) as per the legislative instrument LIN 24/009. Below situation 8208, a pupil should now obtain written approval previous to endeavor a vital technology-related course of research within the postgraduate analysis sector.

This contains:

• a postgraduate analysis course, at masters diploma (analysis) or doctoral diploma degree, that pertains to vital know-how;
• a bridging course recognized as a prerequisite to a postgraduate analysis course regarding a vital know-how; or
• a thesis or analysis subject for a postgraduate analysis course regarding vital know-how.

This approval can solely be given after the Minister for House Affairs is glad that the scholar doesn’t pose an unreasonable danger of undesirable switch of vital know-how.

A pupil doesn’t have to hunt approval in relation to the supposed course of research initially evidenced of their visa utility.

Listing of Important Applied sciences

Important applied sciences are present and rising applied sciences with the capability to considerably improve, or pose danger to, Australia’s nationwide pursuits, together with:

• financial prosperity
• social cohesion, and
• nationwide safety.

Important applied sciences could also be digital (e.g. synthetic intelligence) or non-digital (e.g. artificial biology).

The Listing of Important Applied sciences within the Nationwide Curiosity has been developed by an intensive public session course of. The important thing enabling vital know-how fields which have a excessive impression on Australia’s nationwide curiosity are:

• superior manufacturing and supplies applied sciences
• synthetic intelligence (AI) applied sciences
• superior info and communication applied sciences
• quantum applied sciences
• autonomous methods, robotics, positioning, timing and sensing
• biotechnologies
• clear power technology and storage applied sciences.

Discover the vital know-how fields

For extra particulars about every of those fields, please go to – https://www.trade.gov.au/publications/list-critical-technologies-national-interest

Sources: DHA, Division of Business Sciences and Assets