xenos1987

May 9, 2014

Hi there you can also call up DIBP and ask when you are eligible assuming no travel of more than 90 days has been/will be done

September 25, 2013

The Temporary Residents Program has four

broad categories:

• Working Holiday Makers—young people

holidaying in Australia with short‑term work and

study rights. At the end of 2009–10, Australia had

reciprocal working holiday visa arrangements with

25 countries.

• Overseas Students—(or international students) are

people studying full‑time in registered courses in

Australia on a Student visa valid for the length of

their course.

• Skilled temporary residents—people mostly

recruited by Australian companies who enter as

temporary skilled migrants for up to four years

under the Temporary Business (Long Stay)

(subclass 457) visa.

• Other temporary residence—a range of temporary

residence visas allowing people to come to

Australia for social, cultural, international relations

and training purposes.

http://www.immi.gov.au/media/publications/statistics/popflows2009-10/pop-flows-chapter3.pdf

Dunno and this pdf does not make it clearer

September 25, 2013

https://www.ecom.immi.gov.au/citz/startIntervalCalc.do

[h=1]Lawful Residence date[/h]If you were granted a Temporary Residence or Permanent Residence visa before you arrived in Australia, the date that you first arrived on that visa is the Lawful Residence date. If you were granted a Temporary Residence or Permanent Residence visaafter you arrived in Australia, the date that that visa was granted is the Lawful Residence date.

September 25, 2013

Peach,

I think if you decided to apply for citizenship today then if you were legally here (on any temp visa) on 24/09/2009 and you have been a PR since 24/09/2012 then you are eligible provided you meet the "Absences from Australia of no more than 1 year in the last 4 years and not more than 90 days in the 12 months immediately before applying" criteria.

September 25, 2013

I don't think so. DIMIA/DIAC is well aware that there will no longer be any further applicants from 175/176/885/886 subclasses and therefore in my opinion can assess a number of applications every year to reduce the backlog. If a cap and cease were to happen it would have happened a long time ago and 176 lodged prior to Sept 2007 would have not been the only group to be affected by the cap and cease measure.

Does anybody else remember the 2010 reform to skilled migration, which included the cancellation of almost 20,000 General Skilled Migration visa applications lodged offshore before September 2007? I wonder if there is a possibility of this kind of backlog clearing happening once again, particularly after a change of government. The cost to the Australian government would not even be that significant (not sure how many applicants are still waiting but certainly not millions) and since we all paid upfront (i.e. we gave Australia an interest-free loan) the money used for the refund would not be coming out of Australia's own pocket.

It could be a neat way for the new minister to start afresh and not have to deal with the thousands of applications that the previous government did not want to deal with, either. For example, they could decide to scrap everyone who applied before the introduction of SkillSelect as that would give them a valid excuse (improved assessment method, more targeted selection, etc.).

Please don't get me wrong, I am not saying that the possibility of this happening is more likely than DIAC continuing to process our applications until everyone has got their visa. What I am saying is that I am not discounting the possibility of DIAC doing this kind of clean-up again, also because the last refund action took place three years ago and since then unprocessed Cat 5 applications have been allowed to pile up once more.

September 25, 2013

Ah ok, it seems that some other posts (I put mine up before looking) say it does http://www.pomsinoz.com/forum/migration-issues/186376-residency-requirement-citizenship.html#post1936222790 also quotes this website- http://www.australianmigrations.com/visa_citizenship_rrt.htm

Cool wasn't aware that it was possible that a visitor visa counts towards it - guess it would make sense since being on a student visa (temp visa) does count towards meeting the residency requirement

September 25, 2013

http://www.citizenship.gov.au/applying/how_to_apply/migrant_perm_res/

If you were granted a migrant visa offshore your permanent residence date is the date of your first arrival in Australia on this visa.

If you were granted a permanent residence visa onshore your permanent residence date is the date that visa was issued.

You also need to be in Australia for 4 years (1 of which as a PR) to be eligible.

May 30, 2013

Hi, the visa I linked to from the Tasmania immigration office shows a pathway for Tasmanian institution graduates which demands only 3 months work experience.

My main concern is actually that they will change the immigration rules, I hope someone

who has some experience can tell me how volatile the immigration rules in Australia are,

and how likely is this to happen.

Getting the 3 months work experience post graduation can become a tough experience. Employers can be reluctant to hire someone who is not a PR and someone who is also a graduate with no or little experience. However, if you are able to secure an internship while studying it may lead to better chances. Look at Universities that promote an internship of some sort because believe me it can be very hard to obtain work experience in any given field.

As for the immigration rules changing we cannot predict what will happen. Skill Select seems to fix a lot of problems that plagued the immigration office so it may stay a while. You can only apply by invitation only and therefore DIMIA can control the number of people from a certain field in any given year. Read up on job opportunities in Australia in IT. I have read that there are a lot of IT employees that are having difficulty finding jobs - this may change in the future.

All the best in your studies.

January 30, 2013

http://www.news.com.au/national/its-kosher-jewish-leaders-defend-yom-kippur-election-date/story-fncynjr2-1226565208415

January 9, 2012

[TABLE=class: tableborder]

[TR]

[TH]Visa Subclass[/TH]

[TH]Priority Group 1[/TH]

[TH]Priority Group 2[/TH]

[TH]Priority Group 3[/TH]

[TH]Priority Group 4[/TH]

[TH]Priority Group 5[/TH]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Skilled – Regional subclass 887

online[/TD]

[TD]Within 4 weeks of lodgement[/TD]

[TD]N/A[/TD]

[TD]**[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Skilled – Regional subclass 887

paper[/TD]

[TD]Within 4 weeks of lodgement[/TD]

[TD]N/A[/TD]

[TD]**[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Skilled – Independent (Migrant) subclass 175

online[/TD]

[TD]N/A[/TD]

[TD]15 May 2011[/TD]

[TD]**[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Skilled – Independent (Migrant) subclass 175

paper[/TD]

[TD] N/A[/TD]

[TD]15 May 2011[/TD]

[TD]**[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Skilled – Sponsored (Migrant) subclass 176

online[/TD]

[TD]N/A[/TD]

[TD]Within 4 weeks of lodgement[/TD]

[TD]15 May 2011[/TD]

[TD]**[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Skilled – Sponsored (Migrant) subclass 176

paper[/TD]

[TD]N/A[/TD]

[TD]Within 4 weeks of lodgement[/TD]

[TD]15 May 2011[/TD]

[TD]**[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Skilled – Regional Sponsored (Provisional) subclass 475

online[/TD]

[TD]N/A[/TD]

[TD]Within 4 weeks of lodgement[/TD]

[TD]15 May 2011[/TD]

[TD]**[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Skilled – Regional Sponsored (Provisional) subclass 475

paper[/TD]

[TD]N/A[/TD]

[TD]Within 4 weeks of lodgement[/TD]

[TD]15 May 2011[/TD]

[TD]**[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Skilled – Independent Regional (Provisional) subclass 495[/TD]

[TD]N/A[/TD]

[TD]All applications allocated[/TD]

[TD]**[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Skilled – Designated Area Sponsored subclass 496[/TD]

[TD]N/A[/TD]

[TD]All applications allocated[/TD]

[TD]**[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Skilled – Independent Overseas Student subclass 880[/TD]

[TD]N/A[/TD]

[TD]All applications allocated[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Skilled – Australian-sponsored Overseas Student subclass 881[/TD]

[TD]N/A[/TD]

[TD]All applications allocated[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Skilled – Designated Area-sponsored Overseas Student subclass 882[/TD]

[TD]N/A[/TD]

[TD]All applications allocated[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Skilled – Onshore Australian-sponsored New Zealand Citizen subclass 862[/TD]

[TD]N/A[/TD]

[TD]All applications allocated[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Skilled – Independent (Residence) subclass 885

online[/TD]

[TD]N/A[/TD]

[TD]Within 4 weeks of lodgement[/TD]

[TD]1 January 2008[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Skilled – Independent (Residence) subclass 885

paper[/TD]

[TD]N/A[/TD]

[TD]Within 4 weeks of lodgement[/TD]

[TD]1 January 2008[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Skilled – Sponsored (Residence) subclass 886

online[/TD]

[TD]N/A[/TD]

[TD]Within 4 weeks of lodgement[/TD]

[TD]1 January 2008[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Skilled – Sponsored (Residence) subclass 886

paper[/TD]

[TD]N/A[/TD]

[TD]Within 4 weeks of lodgement[/TD]

[TD]1 January 2008[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Skilled – Regional Sponsored (Provisional) subclass 487

online[/TD]

[TD]N/A[/TD]

[TD]Within 4 weeks of lodgement[/TD]

[TD]1 January 2008[/TD]

[/TR]

[TR]

[TD]Skilled – Regional Sponsored (Provisional) subclass 487

paper[/TD]

[TD]N/A[/TD]

[TD]Within 4 weeks of lodgement[/TD]

[TD]1 January 2008[/TD]

[/TR]

[/TABLE]

November 21, 2011

Hey Tania,

I assume you are talking about getting a visa label from the Brisbane office?

The counter hours are 9-4pm. Make sure that you go as early as possible. There is usually a long queue. They have two separate queues - one for visa labels, the other for visa lodgement, inquiries, etc. Hope this helps Btw, congrats on getting your visa...all the best xxx

On another note, latest processing update:

http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/general-skilled-migration/estimated-allocation-times.htm

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