Joebloggs

If your contract is finished in November then you are technically unemployed but still have 90 days before you have to leave anyway. Visa wise the end result is more or less the same anyway, just you wouldn't be getting paid for those last 3 months.

If you have family and like stability you should go as PR, unless you love the thrill of a good gamble then 457.

Well by your own admission Applicant X makes 65 points which is viable for an invite, Applicant Y doesn't. Blind Pew could see that. Rules are rules old boy. No point being a sore loser.

Why not increase your skills to something more useful, then the 10 points for family is not required. Viable 189 applicants are able to achieve 65 points without having to rely on any type of sponsorship.

I think you can appeal it through the MRT but I think it's $1500, if you win and they overturn the decision you get $700 back

As it stands Calculator says Dec 2015 https://www.ecom.immi.gov.au/citz/startIntervalCalc.do Permanent Residence Date: xx April 2014 Intended Lodgement Date: xx Nov 2015 Lawful Residence Date: xx Dec 2011 Residence requirement met: No Reapply Date: x December 2015. Do not submit your application before this date

Yes understandable, but if the conditions were so abhorrent and they wanted you to leave then you can report it to immigration and they can cancel your visa and you are allowed to leave. The employer has to pay for your removal (flights) otherwise immigration can just remove you and recover the cost from employer. I agree there should be greater safeguard against such abuse, the 457 is far too easy to obtain they should make the process more stringent and maybe the employer should have to provide a large monetary bond where if they breach the conditions the money is gone.

Why would it ....you are there to a do a job, if the jobs gone then so is the reason for being in the country. As long as immigration have enforced it then they have done their job correctly.

If you are there on a 457 then it's to do a particular job, a job the employer find it hard to fill because of skill shortage. The whole point to 457 is like a skill tap that can be turned on and off when required, if your position is no longer required then the employer has the right to turn you off like a tap. If they have another position within the company then they can nominate you for that position (assuming you are capable/qualified to do so ) otherwise you could find another employer.

Technically true you can request an exemption under extraordinary circumstances you might get a few days or a week but not a few months. http://www.immi.gov.au/Visas/Documents/request-whm-extension.pdf simply wanting to continue working at an employer is not an extraordinary circumstance, if your contract finished in August then no reason to extend your 6 work condition anyway. You would be safer getting a new job for 3 months.

Well I don't think people think they are safe with a helmet, it doesn't miraculously vaporise a bus or truck that is about to run you over. I think the idea is if you fall off your bike it could prevent you head from coming into contact with the concrete, it's not going to protect limbs and joints but a Helmet is made to a certain standard and I have read plenty of stories that people owe their life to a simple bicycle helmet even though it does resemble something that you find in the packaging for your TV. It's not going to keep you safe, but maybe a little safer .... safer than nothing even if it does look ridiculous.

I didn't know a knee, wrist or elbow could kill you. Learn something new every day. Might have to make sure that the likes of Jockeys and F1 drivers protect their elbows, knees and wrists in case it proves fatal.

That's because the buggered off to Canberra, the buses there even have bike carriers on the front so if you get fed up you can take the bus home with the bike. True you don't see many cyclists until you hit a narrow twisty road like Galston gorge and then you are stuck behind 100's of them. I remember 25 years ago watching Neighbours on TV and all the kids wore helmets riding their bikes which I thought was weird, these days I think it's weird not to wear a helmet if it could save your life.

No such thing as work visas, only skilled visas. As you know ....you need a skill for them.

If you don't mind the thrill of a gamble then the 457 plan is ok.

Over a $mil easy.

No citizenship and no passport unless you been living in Australia for 4 years and at least 12 months of those as a permanent resident. You won't get a PR visa over the age of 50 unless you meet the age exemptions.

Really? I thought you were just on holiday which is a bit different than emigrating.

My wife is a events manager for one of the large conference companies (although on maternity leave), due to the high $AUD the international business has been declining over the last 4 years so there's much more competition for jobs etc which would require Australian experience. As Rupert says the is more of an emphasis on employing Australians these days and the increased costs to employers & tightening rules and recent statistics show 457 are down about 40% compared to last year.

As the father of a young child I am very concerned about these so called Asylum seekers, I know that we have home grown offenders but there is no need to import sex offenders and terrorists under the guise of 'poor' Asylum seekers. Afghani asylum seeker Mohammed Salem Nazari pleads guilty to two charges of indecent assault of seven teenage girls | thetelegraph.com.au Bangladeshi asylum seeker Rubel Sheikh jailed 15 months for sexually assaulting blind victim on train | thetelegraph.com.au Asylum seeker charged over alleged sex assault at Macquarie University | The Australian Victorian Man Arrested in NSW Over the Abduction and Sexual Assault of a Nine (ignore the 'Victorian man' he is actually an Asylum seeker on a bridging visa from Afghanistan) Oh and it seems when they don't get their way they pull out the old Terrorist threats. What will happen when they wont get their own way in Australia, send their kids into centrelink with a bomb vest if they don't get the benefits they want? I'm sure there will be a few idiots who will claim that this is only a small proportion of asylum seekers but these few people are a cancer, when you have a cancerous tumor it has to be cut out and often have to remove healthy tissue as well as a precaution.

They might end up in UNCHR camps and actually granted asylum in Australia anyway... of course if found to be genuine. It's not as if they might never actually be settled in Australia, you can't really argue with the UNCHR process as it's the only way really to deal with it.

Your on a 457, you don't have the rights to sponsor. Its solely up to your employer to sponsor your family.

Means nothing, on a 457 you are just a guest worker .....it doesn't make you a guaranteed emigrant. Plenty of people have fallen into that trap. Plenty of cases on here of 457 epic fail!!!

Yes if you have another employer willing/able to sponsor you again.

Is that not what labor did over the last few years? the boat people filled most of the humanitarian quota while genuine refugees in UNCHR camps missed out.