Hi CC
I think that the best option for your brother - by miles - would be to get the AQF III qualification and then get a positive TRA assessment. This will stand him in excellent stead regardless of whatever he does subsequently, so it would be a mistake not to do this bit first.
If, having obtained his positive skills assessment your brother is still in a hurry, his best might be to see whether he can get State Nomination from the Government of Tasmania for a skilled independent subclass 176 visa. Painter & Decorator is on the list of skills that Tasmania is willing to sponsor people for, and the processing may well be quicker than for a subclass 175 visa. Please see here:
Migrating to Tasmania
http://www.development.tas.gov.au/mi...20Jan%2008.pdf
The advantages that the skilled 76 visa would offer over the 457 visa are as follows:
Your brother would get
PR in Oz on Day One.
He wold only have to make one visa application instead of 2 (for a temporary 457 and then for a permanent visa).
He could almost certainly get a 176 visa in no longer than it would take to identify a willing employer-sponsor, for the latter to go through all the rigmarole of being approved by DIAC etc - which can be a slow process - followed by the 457 visa application itself.
In my view your brother should definitely get the skills assessemtn and then go straight for a
PR visa if he can.
With regard to the book that you bought, it is almost certainly recent enough to contain information about the sc 405 Investor Retirement visa. It has been arund for at least 2 years and I think the switch to it was actually made in 2005 rather than 2006 anyway, from memory.
That said, though, if your Parents can meet the Balance of Family Test for Contributory Parent visas, it is unlikely that they would choose to bother with the cost of Investor Retirement Visas to start with. Although Booklet 3 (Parent Migration) chunters abut the idea that the Sponsor "usually" needs to have lived in Oz for around two years before a CPV application can be made, in practice the whole thing is far more flexible than Booklet 3 suggests.
Please see this article by Alan Collett of Go Matilda on this question and please read the two MRT cases that Alan cites in the article:
Go Matilda - Your Gateway to Australia - News
What happens with a LOT of families where a CPV is going to become possible is as follows:
Parents make one or two six month visits to Oz whilst they wait until they can apply for CPVs. They do this
via using the subcbclass 676 tourist visa. Please see here:
Tourist Visa (Subclass 676)
They luanch the CPV application as soon as the their Sponsor has become sufficiently "settled" In Oz.
That done, they then apply for a stay of 12 unbroken months in Australia, again using a subclass 676 visa. A special concession in the rules for the subclass 676 visa states that where a Parent or CPV application is in the pipeline, the Parent should normally be permitted a stay of up to 12 unbroken months in Oz if requested.
If one tourist visa would be insufficient to "bridge" the whole of the wait for the CPV, no worries. By the time the first sc 676 visa has expired, the CPV application will be ell advanced. All that your Parents would need to do would be to nip to Auckland for a few days so as to obtain another 12 month stay in Oz on a new 676 visa.
Then when the CPV is ready to be granted, they nip to Auckland for another 5 days so that their CPV can be granted and evidenced. Please see here:
http://www.pomsinoz.com/forum/migrat...melbourne.html
Best wishes
Gill
TASSIE-TASTIC!!!
lol, so with that in mind would you say that a 457 would be the quickest way? I have no idea about timescales or how it works.
so I'm not sure what it says exactly, I only bought the book a few months ago so it should be pretty upto date. I'll check it out myself when they get back next week.
