sonrivera Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Hi everyone! Here's my situation. I'm from Canada and I came to Australia November 25, 2014 on a Working Holiday Visa and now I'm currently doing my 3 months (88 days) of agriculture work to qualify for a 2nd Working Holiday Visa. I will complete my agriculture work on November 23, 2015 (which gives me 2 days before my first visa ends) but I don't want to continue with my 2nd Working Holiday Visa right after my first. What I want to do is go back to Sydney for about 2 weeks after I'm done the farm work, see my friends and then leave and go travel around South East Asia for a couple of months. So my question is, since I want to stay in Australia for an extra 2 weeks after my first visa expires without using my 2nd visa right away, how would I go abouts with this? Is this even possible? I was thinking maybe I could just change my first visa into a tourist visa before the first one expires on Nov 23, 2015. I've gotten a lot of different answers from different people and thought the forums would clear this out for me. One being, if you want to use your 2nd WHV later in life, you have to apply for the 2nd WHV while you are outside of Australia. Help would be much appreciated! And any links too! Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 You can't just change the WHV to another type. You have to apply for a new visa. Have a read of this http://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Visa-1/600- http://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Visa-1/600-/Visitor-e600-visa-online-applications# It may be you can apply for this but I am not certain. You will have to read up on it all. They may refuse to grant a tourist visa after a WHV, I don't know. I am also thinking that its possible that if you apply for a tourist visa now or before you complete your regional work and its granted this will automatically cancel out your WHV. And therefore your ability to carry on working on it to complete your regional work and thus giving you the second year WHV. You need to research this as my understanding of the visa grants are that one will cancel out the other. You are cutting it very fine with only 2 days left at the end before your WHV expires. You may have to prepare to head out of the country a couple of weeks before your friends. Ensure you read and understand what the process is for the second year http://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Visa-1/417-# Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonrivera Posted October 28, 2015 Author Share Posted October 28, 2015 Alright, thanks! Yeah, cutting it very close. I'll be lucky to even get my 2nd Working Holiday Visa to be honest. Anyway, I was thinking.. You did say my 1st WHV would be canceled if I applied for a tourist visa which would mean I would not complete my regional work and therefore not get a 2nd WHV but what if I applied for a tourist visa on my last day of my 1st WHV after I've already completed my regional work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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