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How long does a visa take

Old Nov 5th 2001, 7:55 am
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Can any one help, My husband is an IT consultant here in canada, and we want to move to Sydney. How long does it normally take to get an immigration visa. I was a PR about 18 years ago, but move to Canada when I was 13.

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Old Nov 5th 2001, 8:44 am
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If your husband gets accepted by the Australian Computer Society as an IT
professional, you've got a good chance of being accepted to migrate.
http://www.acs.org.au http://www.immi.gov.au

It takes a few months to organise an ACS skills assessment. Now that new skilled
migration processing is all being done in Adelaide it's hard to say yet how long
processing will take. Anywhere from 9 to 15 months.

If you spent more than 9 years in Australia as a permanent resident before you were
18, and have maintained ties with Australia since the, you could be eligible to
migrate under the Special Eligibility (Former Resident) subclass. You would apply to
the High Commission in Ottawa for this and processing has a slightly higher priority
than skilled migration. Unfortunately, if you lived less than 9 years in Australia,
there's no special preference for you at all.

On a separate issue, if you're only a landed immigrant of Canada you may put this
status at risk if you do migrate back to Australia. It's worth thinking about getting
Canadian citizenship if you haven't done so already. Ask the gurus on the
misc.immigration.canada newsgroup if you need more information on the Canadian
regulations.

Jeremy

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