First time user !
Oct 1st 2002, 5:02 pm
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First time user !
....so be gentle !
Anyway, at the risk of being flamed, here's my question. Having been successfully granted a Working Holiday Visa, it's my hope to go to Australia (Sydney) and work wherever possible (IT support call centres and the like) for the year I'm granted under this visa to get a feel for the place and maybe decide to give it a go out there.
For background, I'm 26 a UK citizen with 5 years work experiencein IT !
Now, I've been told by others who've been out to Australia already that during this period of a year I can begin the process of applying for a more permanent style of Visa.
Could some kind soul out there confirm/deny this ?
Incidently, I've used a Migration Agent (liveinaustralia.com) to provide me with a personalised migration plan and the visa they cam e back with was the following :
Professionals - 'BN136 Skilled- Independent (Migrant)' Computing Professionals - Systems Manager
Basically, before I wade into trawling through the rather impenatrable Embassy sites, all I'm looking for is the reassurance that once I'm in Australia, I can begin the process of applying for more permanent status and further my career out there, rather than having to head home after a year !
Hope someonce can help - many thanks in advance
Andrew
Anyway, at the risk of being flamed, here's my question. Having been successfully granted a Working Holiday Visa, it's my hope to go to Australia (Sydney) and work wherever possible (IT support call centres and the like) for the year I'm granted under this visa to get a feel for the place and maybe decide to give it a go out there.
For background, I'm 26 a UK citizen with 5 years work experiencein IT !
Now, I've been told by others who've been out to Australia already that during this period of a year I can begin the process of applying for a more permanent style of Visa.
Could some kind soul out there confirm/deny this ?
Incidently, I've used a Migration Agent (liveinaustralia.com) to provide me with a personalised migration plan and the visa they cam e back with was the following :
Professionals - 'BN136 Skilled- Independent (Migrant)' Computing Professionals - Systems Manager
Basically, before I wade into trawling through the rather impenatrable Embassy sites, all I'm looking for is the reassurance that once I'm in Australia, I can begin the process of applying for more permanent status and further my career out there, rather than having to head home after a year !
Hope someonce can help - many thanks in advance
Andrew
Oct 1st 2002, 5:42 pm
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Re: First time user !
Welcome. Best advice I can give you is buy booklet 1119 on General Migration - a wealth of info for AUD10 - see www.immi.gov.au.
Oct 1st 2002, 9:26 pm
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Re: First time user !
Hi Andrew
>On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 17:02:42 +0000, Andrew1911 wrote:
>....so be gentle !
>Anyway, at the risk of being flamed, here's my question. Having been
>successfully granted a Working Holiday Visa, it's my hope to go to
>Australia (Sydney) and work wherever possible (IT support call centres
>and the like) for the year I'm granted under this visa to get a feel for
>the place and maybe decide to give it a go out there.
>For background, I'm 26 a UK citizen with 5 years work experiencein IT !
>Now, I've been told by others who've been out to Australia already that
>during this period of a year I can begin the process of applying for a
>more permanent style of Visa.
You can put together a skilled migration application while you're
there if you wish, and even lodge it in Adelaide, but it is treated as
an 'offshore' visa. That means you get no bridging visa to keep you
in Australia when your WHV expires.
>Could some kind soul out there confirm/deny this ?
>Incidently, I've used a Migration Agent (liveinaustralia.com) to provide
>me with a personalised migration plan and the visa they cam e back with
>was the following :
>Professionals - 'BN136 Skilled- Independent (Migrant)' Computing
>Professionals - Systems Manager
See above. This is an offshore visa. There are no onshore skilled
independent visas unless you are a recent Australian graduate or a New
Zealand citizen.
You are restricted to working for any employer for a max of 3 months.
If an employer wants you to stay longer they need to sponsor you for a
work permit (subclass 457 visa). You can get this onshore.
The other thing you need to bear in mind is that before you apply for
the 136 visa you need to have 12 months skilled (which for you will be
IT) work experience in the previous 18 months. If you do non-skilled
work in Australia, as many WHV people do, then you'll have to get this
work experience when you return.
On the other hand if you do a total of 6 months work in IT in
Australia, you may be able to claim 5 bonus points when you do apply
for migration.
Finally, if your ACS assessment has a 'deeming date' then any work
experience you have will need to be after this date so as to count for
the Department of Immigration requirements. Do a search on this
newsgroup for 'deeming date' - although we've heard lately that ACS
policy on deeming dates has changed and this might not be a problem
for people any more.
I hope all these pointers and more appeared in your 'personal
migration plan'
Regards
Jeremy
>On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 17:02:42 +0000, Andrew1911 wrote:
>....so be gentle !
>Anyway, at the risk of being flamed, here's my question. Having been
>successfully granted a Working Holiday Visa, it's my hope to go to
>Australia (Sydney) and work wherever possible (IT support call centres
>and the like) for the year I'm granted under this visa to get a feel for
>the place and maybe decide to give it a go out there.
>For background, I'm 26 a UK citizen with 5 years work experiencein IT !
>Now, I've been told by others who've been out to Australia already that
>during this period of a year I can begin the process of applying for a
>more permanent style of Visa.
You can put together a skilled migration application while you're
there if you wish, and even lodge it in Adelaide, but it is treated as
an 'offshore' visa. That means you get no bridging visa to keep you
in Australia when your WHV expires.
>Could some kind soul out there confirm/deny this ?
>Incidently, I've used a Migration Agent (liveinaustralia.com) to provide
>me with a personalised migration plan and the visa they cam e back with
>was the following :
>Professionals - 'BN136 Skilled- Independent (Migrant)' Computing
>Professionals - Systems Manager
See above. This is an offshore visa. There are no onshore skilled
independent visas unless you are a recent Australian graduate or a New
Zealand citizen.
You are restricted to working for any employer for a max of 3 months.
If an employer wants you to stay longer they need to sponsor you for a
work permit (subclass 457 visa). You can get this onshore.
The other thing you need to bear in mind is that before you apply for
the 136 visa you need to have 12 months skilled (which for you will be
IT) work experience in the previous 18 months. If you do non-skilled
work in Australia, as many WHV people do, then you'll have to get this
work experience when you return.
On the other hand if you do a total of 6 months work in IT in
Australia, you may be able to claim 5 bonus points when you do apply
for migration.
Finally, if your ACS assessment has a 'deeming date' then any work
experience you have will need to be after this date so as to count for
the Department of Immigration requirements. Do a search on this
newsgroup for 'deeming date' - although we've heard lately that ACS
policy on deeming dates has changed and this might not be a problem
for people any more.
I hope all these pointers and more appeared in your 'personal
migration plan'
Regards
Jeremy
