Is there any Hope?
#16
Lost in the antipodes
Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 498
Re: Is there any Hope?
To the OP, 20 hours/week only counts as part-time work so you would not be able to claim any experience points in a year when your studies are up. Also experience gained prior to qualification does not count as skilled work experience anyway.
I'm all for continuing education and improving ones skills, but using a student visa with the hopes of getting PR is a very risky move, good luck.
#17
Re: Is there any Hope?
I read somewhere that hey are now requiring students to demonstrate why they would be leaving at the end of their course so the expectation is, increasingly, that they will move on. Not a risk I would be taking unless I had won the lottery!
#18
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Oct 2008
Location: Perth
Posts: 6,765
Re: Is there any Hope?
actually you're wrong Downunderpaddy. It turns out that I can study in Australia on a Student Visa Level 1, take my family with me, hubby and I can work for 20 hours a week each (as it's a Level 1 Student Visa) and after just 1 year I'll be able to work in a job under the SOL and apply for a Work Visa.
She was still waiting to hear about PR last I heard.
This was four years back so things may have changed.
#19
Re: Is there any Hope?
You could try TAFE. I knew A EU national that had studied welfare, perhaps it was two years though,then got work on a bridging visa. Her partner worked also at low skilled positions.
She was still waiting to hear about PR last I heard.
This was four years back so things may have changed.
She was still waiting to hear about PR last I heard.
This was four years back so things may have changed.
#20
Re: Is there any Hope?
actually you're wrong Downunderpaddy. It turns out that I can study in Australia on a Student Visa Level 1, take my family with me, hubby and I can work for 20 hours a week each (as it's a Level 1 Student Visa) and after just 1 year I'll be able to work in a job under the SOL and apply for a Work Visa.