Guest The Cook Clan!! Posted May 18, 2008 Share Posted May 18, 2008 hi there we need some help in regards to visas, we have just came back from sydney i had a couple of interviews out there hoping to get out on a 457 visa. i have had a good response from the agent that i used, said the company was interested, however they seem to be dragging their heels. we are now looking to try and get our own visa but really dont know where to start. is it best to use an agent or should we go it alone?? if we start our own vios applicagtion and the 457 comes through can we continue with our own application as well??? any help would be welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gollywobbler Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 Hello the Cook Clan Welcome to Poms in Oz. There is no reason why you can't apply for a skilled independent visa if you can meet the criteria for one of them. If things happen on the 457 visa and that is granted whilst you are still waiting for your main application to be processed, no worries. The later grant of a PR visa will automatically supercede a 457 visa. However, think about the costs. Who is paying the expenses for the 457 vsia? DIAC's fees, meds fes etc? Obviously, all these costs will be down to you alone with your application for a PR visa. Also, since your PR visa is likely to be an offshore visa, you will almost certainly need to be outside Australia when it is granted. If you are in Eastern Oz at the time when DIAC is ready to grant your main visa, you would need to go to Fiji or Auckland for about 5 days so that the visa can be granted and evidenced whilst you are offshore. (Evidencing a vsia is DIAC putting the visas labels into your passports.) If you are in WA, the usual destinations would be Bali or Singapore. Do bear in mind that the whole family would need to go offshore though, so this can be an expensive business. To sort out your own visa independently, the first thing you will need is a positive skills assessment. It is worth getting that anyway because it would enable a very swift upgrade to an ENS or RSMS visa from a 457 visa. Without it you would almost certainly have to spend 2 years on a 457 vsai before you can even apply to upgrade to PR. Please start here: Visas & Immigration Information Booklets - Applications & Forms - Visas & Immigration Best wishes Gill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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