Support & Resources

Arrival Registration

You can update your contact details and address at any time via the Skilled & Business Migration portal (go to “My Account”, select “My Profile”, click “Update” to view your address details on the next page and save any changes). You can also update your contact details and address when you fill out your post-arrival “Skilled Migrant Updates”. 

If you have any questions, please submit an online enquiry via the Skilled & Business Migration portal.

As part of your visa nomination, we ask that you "Register your Arrival” via the Skilled & Business Migration portal  
and complete three short "Skilled Migrant Updates” during your first two years in Australia.  If you applied for state nomination when you were in Australia, you still need to "Register your Arrival” and you will need to fill out your “Skilled Migrant Updates” for the first two years from your skilled migration visa grant date.

The skilled migrant updates assist Skilled and Business Migration to evaluate the outcomes of the program.

Only State Nominated primary applicants need to "Register their Arrival” via the Skilled and Business Migration portal. Secondary applicants (your partner on your state nomination application) will have their arrival registered through the primary applicant’s “Register Your Arrival” response in “My Account” in the Skilled & Business Migration portal.

When you have received your visa grant notice, you can inform us of your intended arrival date:\ 

When your visa has been granted by the Department of Home Affairs, you will be asked to complete a “Register Your Arrival” Action via the Skilled & Business Migration portal.  

  • Log in to the  Skilled & Business Migration portal. 
  • There will be an "Action” to be completed titled “Registration of Arrival” 
  • Update your arrival details and submit your response 

Note: If you applied for state nomination when you were in Australia, you will be asked to enter the date that you originally arrived in South Australia.

Skilled & Business Migration will notify you by email that there is an “Action” to complete.

Log in to the Skilled & Business Migration portal.  

There will be an ”Action” to be completed titled “Skilled Migrant Update.”

Click the update button to complete and submit your address and employment status.

Ensure you are logged in with the email address you have provided in your state nomination application. 

If we notified you that there are “Actions” to complete and you cannot see them in your account, please submit an online enquiry via the Skilled and Business Migration portal.

Your ‘Register Your Arrival’ action will only be available to you once Skilled & Business Migration have been notified of your visa grant from the Department of Home Affairs. 

If you are unsure when you will be arriving in Australia, please enter an approximate intended arrival date in the future.  You can revisit this action and update your arrival date at any time. 

Reminder notifications will be sent to you until the “Action” is completed in your Skilled & Business Migration portal account.  You are asked to enter either an estimated or planned arrival date.  If you are unsure of your arrival date, you can enter an approximate future date that you are hoping to arrive in Australia. 

Your arrival action can be updated again at any time to reflect more appropriate dates when these become available to you. 

If you cannot see your “Registration of Arrival” action in your Skilled & Business Migration portal account, please submit an online enquiry through the portal.  

Your “Skilled Migrant Updates” are due at 6,12 and 24 month intervals from your arrival date in Australia (for applicants living outside of Australia at the time of nomination). For applicants in Australia at the time of nomination, your “Skilled Migrant Updates” are due at 6,12 and 24 month intervals from your skilled migration visa grant date.