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Should I convert from a 457 482 TSS Visa to Australian Permanent Residency Visa?
457 Visa workers are losing their jobs every week, could you find another Employer to sponsor you on a 457 Visa if you were made redundant?
If a 457 visa holder is sacked or made redundant the 457 visa holder has 60 days to find a new 457 visa sponsor or leave Australia.
Do you want bring your family to Australia to live with you?
Do you want you and your family to be eligible for free medical and hospital care?
Would you like the freedom to change careers and employers without the problems of the 457 visa?
If you become an Australian Citizen you may be eligible to sponsor other people to come to Australia including other members of your family.
There are many reasons to convert your 457 Visa to a Permanent Australian Resident Visa.
Click here for your 457 Visa to Permanent Residence Visa Assessment
Immigration Assistance
In Australia a person may only lawfully give immigration assistance if he or she is a registered migration agent or is exempt from being registered. Only registered migration agents may receive a fee or reward for providing immigration assistance.
If an unregistered person in Australia, who is not exempt from registration, gives you immigration assistance they are committing a criminal offence and may be prosecuted.
“Skilled Visa E-news September 2017” (c) border.gov.au
Occupations update
When are the next changes to the lists of eligible skilled occupations?
Consistent with the Australian Government’s announcement, the lists of eligible skilled occupations will be reviewed every six months, with the next update expected in January 2018.
457 update
Reminder regarding evidence of LMT
As advised in the last newsletter, nomination applications lodged on or after 1 October 2017, are required to provide additional evidence under policy in order to satisfy the Labour Market Testing (LMT) requirement (where required) – that is:
a copy of relevant advertisement(s)*; and
if fees were paid, receipt for any fees paid.
The current Domestic Recruitment Table (DRT) will no longer be accepted as sufficient evidence under policy of having tested the Australian labour market – and hence, that there is no suitably qualified and experienced Australian citizen, Australian permanent resident or eligible temporary visa holder readily available to fill the nominated position.
Market salary rates
Agents are reminded to ensure that they are providing sufficient supporting documentation to demonstrate that market salary rate provisions are met and that the documentation required depends on whether there is an equivalent Australian worker performing the same work in the same location.
Processing times update
ENS and RSMS processing times have increased due to an increase in lodgement numbers since April 2017.
Processing times for complete subclass 457 applications are significantly shorter (up to 3 months) than processing times for incomplete applications (currently up to 10 months).
Adding newborn children
Agents are requested to remind their clients with on hand visa applications to advise the Department as soon as children are born and provide a birth certificate in order for the child to be added to the application on departmental systems (regulation 2.08).
Completing the 457 Subsequent Entrant (SE) online form
Some users seem to be confused by the question ‘Give details of the associated primary visa applicant/holder’ on page 2 of the subclass 457 subsequent entrant online form.
In answering this question, some users are entering the biodata details of the SE instead of those of the subclass 457 visa holder.
Where this occurs, the application is able to be submitted by the user, but it cannot be validly lodged. This is because the data in the SE applications does not match the information in departmental systems about the 457 visa holder, and prevents lodgement systems from being able to ‘link’ the applications.
Manual intervention by a departmental officer is required to correct the data error within the SE application form, this can only occur once authorisation to amend the application data has been provided by the authorised contact for the application.
457 Visa changes and Paint & Panel autobody repair shops in Australia
(c) Sam Street paintandpanel.com.au
In our recent tour of a number of Australian autobody repair shops it became clear that the abolished 457 visa and the new legislation has already caused problems for business who have brought over workers from overseas. We have heard of one deportation at least, and some business owners are wondering how they will find the staff they need with the more rigorous entry criteria. Spray painters have been taken off the skilled migrant list all together and there are meetings taking place with politicians to try to have them reinstated.
On the other hand some industry folk think that importing tradespeople from overseas is unsustainable and that having this option made harder will focus people to ‘grow our own’ and for business owners to take on more apprentices and take time to train them.
Those who continue to bring in skilled migrants will have to pay through the nose. Employers will be slugged at least triple the bill to bring foreign workers into the country as the Federal Government eyes off more than $1 billion in new visa fees.
The federal government has outlined in the budget its plans for scrapping 457 visas for skilled migrants and replacing the scheme with short and medium-term streams.
Application fees for two year visas will increase by $90 to $1150, while four-year visa applications will cost $2400 apiece.
The price hikes are expected to bring in an extra $47.6 million over the budget forward estimates.
On top of this, companies will also be slugged an annual foreign worker levy.
Until now, employers have contributed one of two per cent of their payroll to training if they employed foreign workers.
But the requirements have proved near impossible to police, so the government is taking a different tack.
From March 2018, businesses that employ foreign workers on certain skilled visas will instead be required to shovel money into a “Skilling Australians” fund.
Companies turning over less than $10 million per year must make an upfront payment of $1200 (per visa, per year) for each employee on a temporary visa.
They must also make a one-off payment of $3000 for each staffer sponsored for a permanent skilled worker visas.
Businesses with turnovers above $10 million will be required to make up front payments of $1800 for each worker on temporary visas and $5000 one-off levies for those on permanent skilled visas.
The levy is expected to rake in $1.2 billion over the next four years, which will be funnelled into a new Commonwealth-State skills fund.