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Nurse visas If you’re a nurse and you’re interested in immigrating to Australia, or extending your stay, you may be eligible for any number of visa types. Australia is a wonderful place to work with a world-class health care system. Nurses are in high demand in Australia, due in part to an aging population, and […]

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Visa information for babysitters, nannies, au pairs and child care workers If you’re living in Australia as a foreigner and working as a nanny, babysitter, au pair, child care worker or child care manager (for example, on a working holiday visa), you may ask what visa options you have and can you secure an employment […]

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Is your Student Visa Expiring in March? For lots of students, their visas will be expiring on March 15th 2017. If you’ve finished your studies and you want to stay in Australia, then there are a number of opportunities open to student visa holders. Depending on why you want to stay, you may need to […]

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  Those forms that you complete entering and exiting Australia may seem innocuous, but are extremely important, especially for visa applicants. They are called Passenger Cards or Passenger Name Records (PNR) and there are two types: incoming and outgoing.  These cards play an extremely important part of not only the migration process, but now, several […]

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Prospective Marriage Visa vs. Partner (Provisional) Visa   The Prospective Marriage visa and Temporary Partner visa are aimed at couples that are located outside of Australia at the time the visa application is lodged. The catch; the couple must be offshore when the visa is granted. This proviso does not come without repercussions. Before exploring […]

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Changes to the subclass 457 visa and sponsorship The Department of Immigration and Border Protection has announced the following changes on the 18th of April 2015: will accept an overall test score with minimum scores of each test component (reading, writing, speaking and listening); and will grant an exemption when an applicant can provide evidence […]

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  My partner visa has been refused! What do I do? So you came to Australia, fell in love with an Australian citizen (or permanent resident) and applied for the onshore partner visa subclass 820. You went on-line, found information, applied for the visa, paid the fee and uploaded all your documents. Unfortunately, your case […]

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  How to start up your foreign business in Australia As the world becomes further integrated, your foreign business may look to set business operations in Australia and/or sponsor employees to begin or continue operations in Australia. Foreign business’ have two options if they would like to sponsor employees to work in Australia (this is […]

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Proposed changes to: Standard Business Sponsorship, nominations and subclass 457 visas   The Department of Immigration today released its Independent review into the integrity of the 457 programme. A number of changes have been proposed with changes likely to be implemented within 6 months. Please be aware: the legislation and regulations have not been changed. The […]

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Recent Australian Common Law: Immigration Legal Cases   Sapkota v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2014] FCAFC 160 Relying on Schedule 3 to apply for a visa within 28 days of your last visa expiring is an an exception. This exception to allow you to apply for a visa without holding a visa is only available once. […]

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Subclass 190 NSW State Sponsorship – Changes to the Process NSW Trade and Investment announced on Saturday that it is introducing a selection-based invitation process in 2015 with implementation from February 2015. Under the selection and invitation process for the 190 program, prospective candidates can only apply for NSW nomination if they have been selected […]

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Department of Immigration updates methods of demonstrating functional English   The Department of Immigration and Border Patrol has updated the methods for demonstrating functional English for para 5(2)(b) of the Act. An average score of at least 4.5 in an IELTS test. A total band score of at least 32 in a TOEFL iBT test An overall band […]

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