The Community Settlement Services Scheme (CSSS), administered by the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, provides funding for not-for-profit community organisations and local government bodies. These organisations receive funding for workers who are able to deliver settlement information, case work and referral services for individuals by matching them with services that meet their individual needs. Priority client groups for CSSS funding are refugee and humanitarian entrants, migrants living in rural and regional areas, small and emerging migrant communities and migrant groups with additional settlement needs. The following agencies currently receive CSSS funding.

The new Integrated Humanitarian Settlement Strategy (IHSS) program helps humanitarian entrants rebuild their lives in Australia by providing them with support to meet their initial settlement needs. The aim of the IHSS is to help humanitarian entrants achieve self-sufficiency as soon as possible in the settlement process and to provide them with settlement services that meet their particular circumstances. The following agencies receive IHSS funding.

The Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA) is responsible for planning and administering Australia’s annual migrant intake, visa applications, provision of settlement services, Citizenship and entry of long term temporary residents, students and visitors.