Quote:
Originally Posted by coyotewildwoman
Unfortunately, the site does not answer these specific questions- it just provides general info and forms/ fees.
We just talked to the Australian Embassy and they have told us that the 457 Visa is not a pathway to permanent residency in most cases. It is a way to work temporarily in OZ, so anyone who wants PR will have to apply for a different visa while they are there. Will have to call customs about the container.
Wendy |
Hi Wendy
Welcome to Poms in Oz.
The various Government websites definitely do answer each and every one of your questions but it takes a lot longer than 30 minutes to read and absorb all the information they contain.
You need to slow down and start working through everything methodically and thoroughly. I suggest you get a lever arch file, some divider cards and a hole puncher. Print and file anything that looks half-useful at this stage. Later on, as you become more familiar withthe migration process, you will be able to prune the contents of your file but it is better to have too much information stored in it than too litle. Remember that sub-links exist to be clicked o and explored, so don't be tempted to skimp.
Yes you can take a container of household goods and personal effects into Australia subject firstly to compliance with Australia's Quarantine regulations and secondly to their Customs regulations. Here are the relevant websites:
Importing to Australia - DAFF
Customs & Quarantine for Migrants - australia.gov.au
The 457 visa is not an automatic pathway to Permanent Residence. However, if your Husband would be eligible for skilled independent migration, there is nothing to prevent him from applying for it whilst he is in Australia on a 457 visa. Please see here:
Professionals and other Skilled Migrants - Workers - Visas & Immigration
If he would not be eligible for independent skilled migration, he can still obtain
PR via employer nomination & sponsorship assuming that he can comply with the criteria for one of the options in this category and can find an employer willing to sponsor him for
PR. Please see here:
Skilled Workers Permanent Visa Options- Employer Sponsored Workers - Workers - Visas & Immigration
In addition, download, print and read Information Booklets 5 & 6 fro cover to cover. Expect to have to read both of them at least 5 or 6 times before it will all begin to come together in your mind. If you get stuck with what something means, read it aloud. That sounds silly, I know, but it works every time you will find. Please see here:
Information Booklets - Applications & Forms - Visas & Immigration
Anybody who has
PR in Australia and satisfies the criteria for requisite periods of stay in Australia to enable them to become eligible for Citizenship is entitled to apply for it. Please see here:
Australian Citizenship
The DIAC website, in particular, is extremely well-constructed and it contains or contains the links to every shred of information you could possibly need about the migration process provided that you read it thoroughly - which takes hours every day or night over a period of several weeks, you will find. There is no Kwik-Fix research method wih the material provided by the Australian Government.
If time does not permit you to devote the necessary hours, or temperamentally you feel that you are not suited to this type of research, then the solution is to employ a Registered Migration Agent to guide you through the maze. I would say that roughly 50% of British migrants choose to engage a Migration Agent to help them.
The two frms whom I, personally, would recommend are Go Matilda in Southampton & Australia (ask for John Sylvester on the Southampton number.) Their details are here:
Go Matilda - Your Gateway to Australia - Contact and Feedback
Alternatively, Ian Harrop & Associates near Oxford. Ring the Burford number and ask for Ian Harrop or Tony Coates. The website:
Registered Australian Migration Agents, UK - Ian Harrop and Associates
If the Company would prefer to use an RMA based in Australia, then both you and they would not go wrong if you jointly engage George Lombard in Sydney. His website s here:
Welcome to Austimmigration | George Lombard Consultancy Pty. Ltd.=
Other PiO Members have used other firms of Agents and will doubtless offer other suggestions besides mine.
Australian Immigration is a HUGE subject and there are many, many differet facets to it. The Australian Government does provide every scrap of information you could possibly need but, as I say, it takes patience and persistence, plus a painstaking and methodical approach in order to locate it all and absorb it.
Best wishes
Gill
