Visa updates
Last update: 1 September 2026, 16:00 AWST
What this page is
Vamola checks its sources every day, automatically, for any sign that a government or health authority page has changed. Once a month it also re-reads every fact it states and compares it against the page that fact cites, whether or not the daily check spotted anything, because noticing that a page moved and confirming that a value still holds are not the same job. All of this reading is automatic, and it is a real read: no Checked-on date moves unless the page was genuinely fetched and still said the same thing. Whenever one of those checks turns up something that actually changes what a traveller needs to do, we write it here, in plain language, as soon as we have confirmed it against the official source.
This page is a public record, not a technical log. You will not find hashes or file names here, only what changed and what it means for you, listed with the most recent finding first.
Some checks find nothing that really changes for travellers, and we still write those down, because a check that stays quiet looks the same from the outside as a check that never happened. Writing it down either way is how you can tell the difference.
Vamola now works out the age rules for you
From 1 September 2026, Vamola works out where your age stands on every Route, instead of asking you to check the rule yourself. Where it has not read the rule that applies, it says so plainly.
- A published age band: the Working Holiday visa (subclass 417) is 18 to 35 on an Italian passport.
- No age rule at all: the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) states there is no age requirement.
- Any age, but an extra test outside a band: the National Innovation visa (subclass 858) needs exceptional benefit under 18 or 55 and over.
- Age scored, not barred: Canada's Express Entry scores zero points from 45, and the pass mark still stays reachable.
- A rule we have not read yet: Quebec, the provincial nominee streams, and some United States pages that will not open to us.
Scoring zero for age is not the same as being refused. A Route marked not read yet means Vamola is telling you what it does not know, not inventing a number.
Canada and Australia: Vamola now covers permanent residence, not just holidays and work
On 1 September 2026, Vamola added direct permanent residence pathways to its coverage for Canada and Australia, alongside the holiday and work Routes it already matched. This is a coverage change, not a Fact correction: nothing about an existing Route moved, Vamola simply shows more Routes than it did the day before.
For Canada, the standout addition is Express Entry, the country's points-based route to permanent residence. Its published rules score age rather than capping it: nothing on the government page sets a maximum age, so someone in their fifties can apply directly, from abroad, with no work permit or working holiday first. A provincial nomination adds 600 points to the score, usually enough on its own to guarantee an invitation.
For Australia, the National Innovation visa (subclass 858) states plainly that you can be any age to apply. Australia's skilled permanent residence Routes, Skilled Independent (subclass 189), Skilled Nominated (subclass 190), Skilled Work Regional (subclass 491) and Employer Nomination (subclass 186), do publish an under-45 rule, though 186's own page hedges it with the word usually and lists exemptions, which is why Vamola does not turn that hedge into a flat no. See the manual's Hedged rules section for how Vamola handles that.
What this means for you: if a working holiday or work visa Route was the only path you thought you had into Canada or Australia, it may not be. Check whether a permanent residence Route now appears for your Passport.
Australia: the yellow fever page changed. What you need has not
On 1 September 2026, Vamola's daily automatic check found that the Australian government page our yellow fever rule is read from, immunisationhandbook.health.gov.au, had changed since we last recorded it.
The page was opened and checked against the three things Vamola tells you about Australia's yellow fever requirement: it applies to travellers over one year of age, who have been in a country on the risk list within six days before arriving in Australia, and who stayed there overnight or longer. All three were still exactly as we had them. Nothing about who needs a yellow fever certificate to enter Australia has changed.
What this means for you: if you were planning your trip around Vamola's yellow fever guidance for Australia, keep planning around it. Nothing changed.
We are recording this even though nothing changed for travellers, on purpose. A check that never finds anything to report looks, from the outside, exactly like a check that is not happening. Writing it down is how you can tell the two apart, and this is the first real entry on this page because it is the first real change we found, however small it turned out to be.