agilestatueuk

My wife and I are planning to move to Australia in the next few months - unfortunately our visa has not come through yet as there have been problems with me getting enough references from previous employers to satisfy the ACS - what we are hoping to do is work in Australia for a year or two and then try again for PR or go via the 136 visa - to do this I hope to get an employer to sponsor me and gain a 457 class visa - can anyone give me any good advice as to the best way to go about this or any details of experiences that they have had doing something similar

many thanks

Mark Tindall

karen p

I am adding a question to this post as its on a similar subject.
Hopefully we've got the job sorted (verbally has been agreed,
just waiting for the official bit of paper), but then the visa
application starts (which luckily the company sorts out for us).

For a 457 visa (Temporary long stay employer sponsered one)
are there any reasons it might fail apart from medicals?

And how long do they take?

I am just getting rather concerned as we're getting to the point
when we need to give notices in, but might not have the visa
finalised in time.

Any information/experiences will be gratefully recieved!!

Karen

ABCDiamond

bump.. I can't help, but maybe someone else can ?

MrsDagboy

Karen, usually fairly quickly, from memory Dagboys was only about 3 or 4 weeks, he was already over here on a 3 month work visa. They brought him over on the 3 month one & then applied for the long term one when he was already here & working for the company.

Not aware of any reasons that it may fail, apart from the obvious ones ie medicals & it not being a legitimate job offer that has to follow the DIMIA guidlelines.

topcat

I don't know whether the procedure has changed but when I
went through this in August once I had the bit of paper from my sponser (which inexplicably took them a couple of months to sort out, but DIMIA gave sponsorship approval within a few days) I received the visa within about two weeks of sending the forms to London.

But I wasn't in the situation of having to give notice.

TC

jayr

My company took a few weeks to turn around the Visa, I wouldn't resign before ou get it back in the passports though.