Migration and settlement / File opened 22 October 2026
We look past the grant letter: to the skills assessment, the job, the recognition and the life the visa is meant to make possible. We give general information and settlement support, and when a matter needs visa advice we refer it to one person, named below, who is registered to give it.
Visa matters are referred to Sukh Sandhu, Registered Migration Agent, MARN 1384130, of The Immigration Worldwide Pty Ltd. The registration is personal to Sukh, with the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority (OMARA). Check the register.
Most people arrive asking for a visa. The questions that decide whether the move works come before and after it.
General information about the main Australian visa pathways, including when a rule change has closed a door. Advice on your own circumstances, and any preparation or lodgement, comes only from a registered migration agent under their own written service agreement.
Visa matters referred to: Sukh Sandhu, Registered Migration Agent, MARN 1384130. Australian visas only.
An overseas qualification is not automatically recognised. We help you understand what the assessing authority publishes, put your evidence in order and see the gaps before they cost you a fee.
Decided by: the assessing authority for your occupation, never by us.
Licensing, recognition of prior learning, English and employment, which is where the real difficulty usually starts. Training and recognition services come from the wider CAQA group. After the visa.
Through: CAQA group training and skills recognition services.
Immigration assistance in Australia is regulated. Only a registered migration agent, or a person the law specifically allows, may give it for a fee. Immi Worldwide does not give immigration assistance and does not charge for it. Our settlement and training staff do not give visa advice, and we do not advise on the law of any other country. How we work, and where we stop.
Choose a topic and what you want to read about. The file that comes back holds the published rule with its date, the official pages to read, and the point where a matter needs a registered migration agent. It asks nothing about you, not your salary, your visa or your history, and it keeps nothing.
Choose a topic. The file holds:
We publish these because most of the value in hiring anyone is knowing which mistakes are common, and that knowledge is not worth hiding.
01 Recognition
An overseas qualification is not automatically recognised. Assessment by the relevant authority is a separate process with its own timeline, its own fee and its own evidence rules.
02 Standing
Immigration advice in Australia is regulated. Taking it from someone who is not registered puts the application at risk, not just the fee. Anyone can check a MARN on the OMARA register in under a minute.
03 Currency
Student, skilled and family rules all changed during 2026. A plan made from an old forum post or a friend's experience can now point at a door that has closed, such as applying for a Student visa from inside Australia.
Client stories appear here only with each client's written consent. None are published yet. Every story will be a real client's own words, unedited in meaning, with the date of consent shown.
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Including when the answer is that you do not need what you came to ask for. Anyone who never says that is not giving you information, they are giving you an invoice.
Not the service you think you need. A short first conversation tells us whether this is a visa question, a recognition question or both.No fee. General information only.Immi Worldwide
If it is a visa question, we refer you to Sukh Sandhu, Registered Migration Agent, MARN 1384130, of The Immigration Worldwide Pty Ltd. We pass on your enquiry only if you agree.We do not charge you for a referral.Immi WorldwideRegistered agent
Before any work for a fee, the registered agent gives you the OMARA Consumer Guide and a written service agreement. The advice, the fees and any lodgement are the agent's, not ours.Immi Worldwide takes no money for visa work.Registered agent
Skills assessment preparation, recognition of prior learning, English and employment run alongside, through the wider CAQA group.Any fee is quoted in writing before you agree to it.Immi WorldwideCAQA group
The rules below decide what many people can and cannot do in 2026. Each is dated and taken from the Department of Home Affairs or the regulator. Charges and thresholds change; check the official page before you rely on one.
Most temporary visa holders, including most Student visa holders, can no longer apply for a Student or Student Guardian visa while in Australia. Narrow exemptions apply, such as up to 12 more months with the same provider, PhD study, school students and provider default. Most applicants can also no longer include family members, and family cannot join after grant. Applications lodged before 2 October 2026 are assessed under the old rules.
New Ministerial Directions set the order in which Skills in Demand and permanent and provisional skilled visas are processed. Construction, healthcare, teaching, agriculture, resources, law enforcement and defence occupations come first, then onshore applicants.
The Government has announced a redesigned points test. No new table, pass mark or start date has been published. The current points table and 65-point pass mark still apply.
A new Ministerial Direction for family visas gives highest priority to applications made in Australia for visas that can be granted in Australia.
Most visa application charges rose by about a quarter. Core Skills Income Threshold A$79,423 and Specialist Skills Income Threshold A$146,576, for nominations lodged from 1 July 2026. Charges for the main visas are listed under costs, below.
The Migration Agents Regulations 2026 replaced the 1998 Regulations. An agent's website address is now shown on the OMARA register, and every agent's yearly training must include points in both Ethics and the Code of Conduct.
Registered migration agents work under a legally binding Code of Conduct. When we refer you, these are the protections that matter most.
Sukh Sandhu is registered with OMARA as an individual. Companies are not registered, there are no levels of registration, and Immi Worldwide holds no registration. Check any agent on the OMARA register.
The registered agent gives you the OMARA Consumer Guide and a written service agreement before any work for a fee starts.
The agent's fees are quoted in writing, as a fixed fee or an hourly rate with an estimate, including GST, and client money is held in a separate client account. Immi Worldwide takes no money for visa work.
Any referral fee or commission connected with your matter, from an education provider, an employer or a referring business such as ours, is disclosed to you in writing before you choose.
No one has a special relationship with the Department of Home Affairs or any official. No one can promise you a visa outcome, and anyone who does is not telling you the truth.
Tell us first and we will respond in writing. Complaints about a registered agent's service go to the agent first, then to OMARA. Complaints and feedback.
Immi Worldwide is operated by Career Calling International Pty Ltd (ABN 53 162 651 238), part of the CAQA group. It gives general information and settlement support and does not give immigration assistance.
Visa matters are referred to Sukh Sandhu, Registered Migration Agent, MARN 1384130, of The Immigration Worldwide Pty Ltd, a separate company. Sukh Sandhu also leads the CAQA group, so a referral from us is a referral to a related business. You are free to choose any registered migration agent, and you can check any agent on the OMARA register.
Immi Worldwide does not charge you for a referral. If any payment were ever connected with your matter, the registered agent must tell you in writing, before acting, who pays it and how much.
The phone number 1800 266 160 is currently shared with The Immigration Worldwide Pty Ltd. When you call, say whether you want general information and settlement support (Immi Worldwide) or visa advice (the registered agent).
Three different parties can charge in a migration matter. We keep them apart so you always know who is asking for money, and for what.
Visa application charges are paid to the Department. Skills assessments, English tests, medicals and police checks are charged by the bodies that run them.
| Visa | Charge |
|---|---|
| Student (subclass 500) | A$2,500 |
| Skills in Demand (subclass 482) | A$4,015 |
| Employer Nomination Scheme (subclass 186) | A$6,140 |
| Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (subclass 494) | A$6,140 |
| Temporary Graduate (subclass 485) | A$5,750 |
Base charge only; other applicants and later instalments may add to it. Source: Department of Home Affairs Visa Pricing Estimator. Updated 22 October 2026.
Not Immi Worldwide. Visa advice can only come from a registered migration agent, and we refer visa matters to Sukh Sandhu, Registered Migration Agent, MARN 1384130, of The Immigration Worldwide Pty Ltd. The CAQA group's training and settlement staff help with recognition, study and work, but they do not advise on visas.
No. We give general information only, and nobody can tell you the decision, because the Department makes it. A registered migration agent can explain how the criteria apply to you and where the risks sit, but no one can promise a result, and anyone who quotes you odds is not telling you the truth.
No. Anyone can apply for a visa themselves, and the Department publishes its criteria online. People usually look for a registered migration agent when the stakes, the history or the paperwork make a mistake expensive.
No. Immi Worldwide does not charge you for general information or for a referral. If any referral payment were ever connected with your matter, you would be told about it in writing before the agent acts.
Not with advice. We do not advise on the immigration law of any other country, and the agent we refer to advises on Australian visas only. Each of those countries limits immigration advice to people licensed there, so for them you need a professional regulated in that country.
No. It returns general, published information for a type of situation, using rules current at 21 October 2026. It does not know your history, and it says so. Your answers stay in your browser.
Not by itself. An Australian qualification gained through recognition of prior learning is a qualification. The assessing authority for your occupation decides what it accepts for a skills assessment, and that is a separate process.
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Immi Worldwide does not give immigration assistance and does not charge for it. We give general information and settlement support, and refer visa matters to Sukh Sandhu, Registered Migration Agent, MARN 1384130, of The Immigration Worldwide Pty Ltd. The registration is personal, with the Office of the Migration Agents Registration Authority (OMARA).
No one has a special relationship with the Department of Home Affairs, and no one can promise a visa outcome. Client stories appear only with written consent.