Northern Territory to attract twice as many skilled workers through 2024 Migration Program

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Northern Territory to attract twice as many skilled workers through 2024 Migration Program

Under the General Skilled Migration (GSM) program the Northern Territory’s allocation has doubled from the previous year – up to 1,600 overseas skilled workers.

Workers from a range of industries including health, science, finance, agriculture, construction, telecommunications, IT and hospitality can apply to MigrationNT for NT Government nominations under the GSM program, which offers permanent as well as provisional 5-year visas with a pathway to permanent residency in the NT.

This news is additional to the Federal Government’s announcement in December 2023 that gave  employer sponsored visa applications from regional areas the highest priority in processing with the entirety of the Northern Territory deemed regional for migration purposes.

For context, the Northern Territory now has more Skilled Nominated visa (190) and Skilled Work Regional (491) nomination allocations than Queensland.

Quotes attributed to Chief Minister Eva Lawler:

“We need more skilled workers in the Territory to drive economic and population growth – and I want many of these 1600 skilled workers to stay in the Territory and build a life here.

“Attracting more workers to the Territory is a win for business and our population.”

2024–25 state and territory nomination allocations

Nomination allocations are the number of new primary applicants each state or territory can nominate in a program year. New applications are added to the existing on-hand caseload in these visa categories.

Nomination allocations do not reflect the total number of visa applicants in these categories and do not limit the number of visas able to be granted in these visa categories.

Nomination allocations for the 2024–25 Migration Program are below.

 

State​

Skilled Nominated (Subclass 190) visa

Skilled Work Regional (Subclass 491) visa

ACT

1,000

800

NSW

3,000

2,000

NT

800

800

QLD

600

600

SA

3,000

800

TAS

2,100

760

VIC

3,000

2,000

WA

3,000

2,000

Total

16,500

9,760

Source: Migration Program planning levels

 

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