paulhand

As others have said … this is an issue if you intend to be away for 9 months a year. Your permanent residence does expire and it will become increasingly to maintain it if you are only spending a couple of months a year in Australia. Citizenship will take some time, but is the best option.

If you have an agent, they will be able to advise on this better than an Internet forum.

No

There’s no right answer to this. If your application is decision ready when they pick it up (I.e with the medicals and police checks completed) then things will go faster. If it’s not, then they will request them and put the application on hold until you provide the information and they get around to it again. You need to make a judgement call as to whether you think the processing will take more than 12 months and whether the risk of repeating the medicals is worth, potentially, speeding up a decision by several or more months.

All of the above.

My answer only relates to applying for a BVB in the scenarios that the OP suggests, all of which are pretty standard.

I doubt you will have much of an issue in any of the scenarios you outline.

Having a job offer is not a requirement for a 190 visa. If you are talking about some states requiring it as a condition of nomination, then that, unfortunately, is the catch-22 which disadvantages offshore vs onshore applicants.

My understanding is that "Approval to Teach" is a specific approval to work in NSW Department of Education schools and is required in addition to accreditation from the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA), which is effectively a licence to teach at any school in the State, whoever runs it. The Approval to Teach does require that you hold valid work rights. Logical, I guess, as you can't work without them and therefore you can't be "approved to teach" if you can't actually work. I don't see that the NESA accreditation process requires a current visa and, as this is needed before you can apply for an Approval to Teach, it is probably the best place to start. Happy to be corrected if I have misunderstood this. As I'm sure you know, the AITSL approval you got in the skills assessment process is not a licence to teach in Australia.

The question will be whether they are “of benefit to Australia”.

Yes, he can apply. To be granted one, he will need to demonstrate that he has “substantial ties to Australia which are of benefit to Australia” and (depending on circumstances) that he has “compelling reasons” for being away for an extended period. It would be worthwhile, I think, to get some professional advice tailored to his specific circumstances to get a sense of how strong an application would be and the best way to structure it.

NSW are looking for one year’s eligible skilled work experience. So, a year’s experience in addition to any experience before the date that Skills assessing authority deems you became ‘skilled’. TRA requirements are unchanged.

That will somewhat depend on what your longer term aims are. I recommend that you have an exploratory chat with a registered migration agent to look at options. @Alan Collett is very experienced in this area.

Presumably your potential employer has a Registered Migration Agent involved in this process who can give you some guidance. As you say, health criteria vary by visa type and you haven't specified which visa you are looking at.

You can't "use" either of them if they have expired; you need to meet the criteria for a new visa.

To answer the specific questions: 1. The refusal doesn’t preclude a new application, but obviously it will need to be declared in all future applications. 2. That just isn’t “a thing”. Once a visa has expired, it’s gone for good.

Why not get your first one now ? You will have a year in which to make your first entry. As Marisa says, who knows when they will actually ratify the agreement.

No - you can apply for an RRV whenever want to or whenever you need one.

Upload everything straight away otherwise you will just delay the application.

You will first need to show that you have "substantial personal, business, employment or cultural ties to Australia, which are of benefit to Australia". If you meet that test but have not travelled to Australia in the last 5 years, you will also need to show that you have "compelling reasons" for that length of absence. Covid is not generally sufficient without other reasons as permanent residents were always able to return to Australia during the pandemic. I would need more information to make a realistic assessment of your situation, but your daughter's citizenship will be helpful.

Based on what you say, I expect a partner visa will likely be much simpler.

If the OP has applied for the 491 they have already paid the money for that one. The biggest tactical consideration (not necessarily the only one) is that if the 491 is granted, the holder is locked out of being granted a 190 for three years.

It doesn’t show you held it from 2011 to 2014 which is the question you are being asked. and would a new health cover from date we would like to fly out be accepted  …and nor does this. It would probably make sense to get some professional advice on your proposed renewal.

Yes, it does.

Not yet for the current 189 round. The Department have historically posted some useful information on their website a few weeks after each round. It would most likely just be ignored. States often what EOIs refreshed when they make substantive changes to their programmes to ensure everything is up to date. Apparently in the recent 189 round some people were invited whose EOIs were stale, as their skills or English assessments had expired, making the EOI effectively worthless.