Skip to main content

Latest news and announcements

Town Beach, Geraldton

Business closure over Christmas and New Year period

The Migration Services office will be closed from Wednesday 25 December 2024 — reopening at 8.30am WST on Thursday 2 January 2025

No assessment outcomes will be sent during this time. 

Email enquiries will be responded to as soon as possible once Migration Services re-opens.

A man in a HI-VIS Jacket looking into camera

Skilled Migrant Job Connect Subsidy program now available in the Migration WA Portal

The Skilled Migrant Job Connect Subsidy program (the Subsidy) is the second service available through the State Government’s newly launched Migration WA Portal. 

The Migration WA Portal allows migrants to submit a Subsidy registration, claim request, and supporting documents at a convenient save-as-you-go pace, through easy-to-follow prompts.

A man in an orange high visibility vest stands in an office next to a man with a blonde moustache in a light blue short sleeved shirt, and a woman with long brown hair and a dark blue button up shirt.

Services for skilled migrants to settle in new WA regional locations

The Skilled Migration Job Connect Program is continuing to support newly arrived skilled migrants into Western Australia’s workforce and community with specialist settlement services extended to regional locations.

Four providers have been appointed to deliver regional settlement services for two years:

Pictured: Skilled migrant at Construction Visa Subsidy program’s employer workplace.

Boosting WA's building and construction industry through skilled migration

New targeted financial support, and changes to SNMP criteria