paulhand

He is seeking to satisfy the secondary criteria, so not relevant in this case.

Yes you are.

Look at it this way: As you say, interim Medicare is not the same as reciprocal but it does make a difference what visa you are on. Interim (blue) cards are available to applicants who live in Australia and have applied for a permanent residency visa, excluding parent visas, or a permanent protection visa. You need to be on a visa allowing you to work, or prove your parent, spouse or child is an Australian citizen, permanent resident, or a New Zealand citizen living in Australia. You’re eligible for Medicare from the date you applied for permanent residency. This date may be different to the date you were granted your temporary visa 309 or 820. If you applied outside Australia, you’re eligible from the date you arrived in Australia to live. Remember that the application for the 820/801 is a combined application, including one for permanent residence, and therefore you have "applied for permanent residency" at the point you make a valid application and your bridging visa is granted. Interim Medicare has nothing to do with the applicant's passport country. To close the circle from the original post - it is not a condition of the 820 to hold health insurance (because you are eligible for interim Medicare) but it is a requirement that, once you have Medicare, you take out insurance if you wish to avoid both the Lifetime Health Cover (LHC) loading and the Medicare Levy Surcharge (MLS). LHC and MLS are different - one is an additional "loading", i.e. cost, on your health insurance should you decide to take it (to encourage people to spread the insurance burden over a lifetime, rather than take out insurance only when they will most likely need it) and the other is an additional "levy", i.e. tax, on high earners to encourage them to take out insurance in the first place.

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“New migrants to Australia If you are a new migrant to Australia, then your LHC base day is the later of the 1 July following your 31st birthday; or the first anniversary of your full Medicare registration. You have until that day to take out private hospital cover without incurring a Lifetime Health Cover loading. Your 'full Medicare registration' refers to you registered for interim or full Medicare benefits (usually a blue or green Medicare card). Reciprocal Medicare does not count for LHC purposes.”

“If you are aged 31 or over, and you registered for interim or full Medicare benefits (usually a blue or green card) during the 2018-19 financial year – You have until the first anniversary of the date you registered for your Medicare card to purchase private hospital cover without incurring LHC ‘loading’. If you purchase hospital insurance after the anniversary date has lapsed, then you will incur a loading which increases the cost of insurance. The older you are at the time of purchase, the higher the cost. If you have commenced or intend to commence private hospital cover within 1 year of Medicare registration, you will need to confirm your registration date by requesting a letter from Medicare - contact Medicare (Department of Human Services) or visit your local Medicare branch. Supply the letter to your health insurer on or after joining to have your loading reassessed.” https://www.privatehealth.gov.au/faq.htm#LHCLetter

The DAMA requires the employer to be approved by the state under the DAMA agreement first. There are age (and other) exemptions for certain occupations. The SA DAMA is very new, so it’s early days to find an employer who has sorted out the Labour agreement. All the details are on the Migration SA website: https://www.migration.sa.gov.au/local-employers/designated-area-migration-agreements

Assuming your passport is from an eVisitor country then an eVisitor (651) visa for "Business Visitor Activities" would be the way forward.

Correct. Generally it will depend on whether the speaker is being paid to participate in the conference and/or whether they are selling anything. Best to get some advice based on the specific purpose.

Do not leave without a BVB, particularly if he would struggle to get a visitor visa easily. He needs to apply for a BVA then a BVB. Much better to remain onshore. Remember that if he stays onshore his PR is safe even if the RRV is refused. If he is on a bridging visa there is a whole host of problems if there is an issue with the RRV.

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I would tend to agree with all this. If he is a uk citizen he will get a 12 month multiple entry eVisitor visa with 3 months stays at one time. He wouldn’t however be able to work on this visa.

You can do this - but as above, there is a risk that your applications ‘cross in the mail’. I suggest you contact the RRV team with evidence of your need to travel soon and see if that will expedite the RRV.

It should be nowhere near that expensive.

Bridging visas for onshore partner visas have no work restrictions, so once his WHV ends then all is good in that respect. The BVB situation is also probably not as bad as Marisa says and the department is granting long, multiple entry BVBs to partner visa applicants at the moment.

There is currently no information on when the new procedures will be implemented.

Time for him to get writing (and working out his travel for the last 10 years) and getting his police checks ...

Your bridging visa will start when your visitor visa expires - I.e. three months after arrival. Leaving and returning will reset the 3 month period. Based on what you have written, there is no way to say how strong your application would be.

It is possible and In that case a new 3 month period starts on the visitor visa when they return and the bridging visa won’t start until that new 3 month period ends.

Are you sure your visa does not have any stay restriction conditions attached to it, specifically condition 8558?

The ship's crew special residence requirement still requires that you spend the equivalent of 120 days per year in Australia over the 4 year period (amongst other requirements).

I would not be trying to sort this out on a forum. I suggest that your friend urgently consults an RMA who is expert in this complex field with the full facts.

A-levels map to Senior Secondary School Certificate.

If you are able to get a visitor visa/ETA then you can return on that and re-apply for a BVA. Remember you will have no work rights on a visitor visa. As Marisa says, it would pay to get some professional assistance to get this sorted out properly.

1. Your passport is fine 2. If you have been in Aus for 2 years in the last 5 and there are no complicating factors, then grant should be near immediate.