Janek Muzykant

I live in Poland. Almost 1 year ago my twins had been born and after this I
interrupted my IT specialist career, as one child's health problem needed a lot of
attention. My family lived spending money earned before. Now everything is allright
and I am trying to resume my employment. To my astonishment, most job offers ideally
consitent with my professional knowledge come from Australia indeed! As I know how
open society Australians constitute I earnestly consider staying there for good.

If I had been successfully employed in Australia would I be able to issue an
immigration request within the "Skilled" category? How quickly would it be
processed then?

Thanks in advance, Janek Muzykant

Jaj

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If you're not an Australian citizen or PR, you would need an employer to sponsor you
for a work visa (normally subclass 457)

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You could have two options:

1. Apply for 'offshore' skilled migration (even though you would physically send the
application to Adelaide). You would need to meet the basic requirements and the
skilled points test. You could get 5 bonus points for Australian work experience
(over 6 months skilled work experience), but you couldn't claim bonus points for
both this and community language (Polish) competency.

As it's an offshore category you would have to leave Australia to get the visa,
although you should be able to pick it up in New Zealand.

Processing time may be 12 months or over, although if you were to apply later in 2002
this could have changed (up or down).

2. If your Australian employer can prove he can't recruit an Australian to do your
job, he may be able to sponsor you for employer nominated permanent residence.
This is normally quicker than skilled migration, and can be processed onshore.

Jeremy