6 March 2010

The Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) have updated the critical skills list this week to include computing professionals. 

After the changes brought in by DIAC on 8th February 2010 including the withdrawal of the Migration Occupations in Demand List (MODL),  many computing professionals have been concerned. The previous Critical Skills List (CSL) identified computing professionals, but only where the applicant’s specialisation was listed on the MODL leaving those with applications pending in the meantime concerned and confused about their options.

The revised critical skills list includes the 14 computing professional specialisations eligible for priority processing for General Skilled Migration (GSM).

• Computing Professional – specialising in CISSP*
• Computing Professional – specialising in C++/C#/C*
• Computing Professional – specialising in Data Warehousing
• Computing Professional – specialising in Java*
• Computing Professional – specialising in J2EE*
• Computing Professional – Linux
• Computing Professional – .Net technologies*
• Computing Professional – specialising in Network Security/Firewall/Internet Security*
• Computing Professional – specialising in Oracle*
• Computing Professional – specialising in PeopleSoft*
• Computing Professional – specialising in SAP*
• Computing Professional – specialising in SIEBEL* (especially Siebel Analytic)
• Computing Professional – Solaris*
• Computing Professional – Unix*

Computing professionals are the only occupation to have altered on the critical skills list, all other occupations remain unchanged.

The information on this critical skills list is taken from the DIAC website. More information can be found at http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/general-skilled-migration/pdf/critical-skills-list.pdf

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