Tag: Immigration Department

Visa system gets $30m check-up

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government is to spend more than $30 million to improve the current visa processing technologies after delaying its move to privatise the system until next year. Treasurer...

Visa tender has cost $80m ‘so far’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government had “utterly failed” to justify its decision to outsource the visa tech processing system, a project which has cost $80 million even before a winning bidder...

457 visas for tech under attack

Posted on   |  by James Riley
With xenophobia raging in the US and Europe and a golden opportunity arising to lure the best and brightest innovation talent to these shores, how seriously should we take...

Immigration’s path less travelled

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The creation of a new digital division within the department of Immigration and Border Protection and the appointment of a Chief Digital Officer is the model that other Commonwealth...