As migration timelines keep stretching out, many students are finding that a single 2-year Subclass 485 visa after graduation simply isn’t enough. Once the 485 ends, you need another visa to keep pushing forward — student visas come with work-hour restrictions, and landing a second 485 as a secondary applicant is rare. So instead, we’re taking a different route and recommending theSubclass 407 Training visa.
If you fall into any of the following situations,
you need to keep reading this article
1. Your 485 is about to expire, you have full-time work in your nominated occupation, and you want to keep working full-time
2. You need full-time work rights while waiting for a state nomination invitation
3. You’re building up 2-3 years of work experience to apply for a Subclass 482 employer-sponsored visa or a skills assessment
The 407 can give applicants the possibility of at least one extra year of full-time work experience in their nominated occupation,opening up more migration opportunities suited to you. So after a brief introduction to the 407,this article will focus on using the 407 to pave the way to migration.
The Subclass 407 Training visa —
requirements for employers and applicants
The Subclass 407 Training visa is a two-year work visa for training purposes; holders can work full-time for their sponsoring employer for 1-2 years.
It has the following three streams:
1. Occupational training required for registration
Only applies to applicants in occupations that mandatorily require licensing, such as lawyers
2. Occupational training to enhance skills
Applies to applicants who want to build on their professional skills, and covers most onshore applicants — MLTSSL & STSOL & ROL occupations can all apply. Typically 1-2 years in length; this is the stream discussed in detail below
3. Occupational training for capacity building overseas
Doesn’t apply to most applicants
Requirements for employers — the training plan is the key focus
1. The employer must be a legally registered entity in Australia with sponsorship and nomination eligibility
2. The employer must provide the applicant with a detailed training plan
Note*
The employer needs to provide basic company information, such asan organisational chart, ASIC and company-related financial statements,such as BAS and income statements; in addition, the employer needs toprepare a detailed, tailor-made training plan for the applicant.
Based on multiple successful case submissions,the Department of Home Affairs doesn’t impose strict turnover or profitability requirements on 407 sponsoring employers(lower than the financial requirements for 482/186 employer-sponsored visas), butthe training plan the employer provides, and how sound and well-reasoned the training itself is, are examined in much closer detail.
So please get in touch with our Newstars team to have your employer’s sponsorship eligibility assessed and to get guidance on the training plan.
Applicant requirements — one year of full-time work experience in the nominated occupation
1. The English requirement is only functional English (equivalent to an overall IELTS score of 4.5)
2.Within the two years before applying for the 407 visa, one year of full-time work experience in the nominated occupation (part-time hours can be combined),or;
within the two years before applying for the 407 visa, one year of full-time study in the nominated occupation
3. Purchase OVHC insurance and meet the character requirements
Theadvantages of the Subclass 407 visa
One reason the 407’s requirements aren’t hard for many applicants with a study background to meet is that relevant work experience is increasingly becoming an essential factor for boosting 189 points or preparing a state nomination application. Among the skilled migration applicants anxiously waiting,quite a few already hold jobs in their nominated occupation.
What’s more —
the 407 only needs to meet the visa requirements at the time of decision
which means the requirement for applicants to completeone year of full-time relevant work experience only needs to be satisfied before the visa is granted.Current processing times for the 407 visa are around 1 year.
So plan your timing sensibly — there’s no need to wait until you’ve completed a full year of work experience before contacting us; you can come and find out more several months, or even half a year, in advance.
Waiting for the visa grant has no impact at all on full-time work
Once the 407 is granted, you can keep working full-time for the nominating company,and if the 407 application is lodged while holding a student visa or a 485 work visa, you also retain full-time work rights on the bridging visa while waiting for the outcome,and as mentioned above, processing currently takes around a year.
So, although the 407 is technically a two-year training visa, altogether it can buy applicants extra time with full-time work rights — and under the current migration landscape, this could well turn yourmigration pathway around for the better!
Theclever uses of the Subclass 407 visa
With this extra work experience, what can it actually do for your migration plans?
— State nomination —
First, take ACT state nomination as an example
The prerequisite for an ACT state nomination application is six months of full-time work for the 190 or three months of part-time work for the 491, with invitations mainly determined by your matrix score.
Many students find work in a nominated occupation late in their 485, only for the visa to expire before they can keep working full-time. But if the employer is willing to provide training sponsorship, lodging a 407 before the 485 expiresmeans full-time work rights continue uninterrupted — the 407 visa gives these applicants the chance to keep pursuing an ACT 190.
Next, NSW 491
At the same time, if the employer is located in a regional area of NSW, this theoretically opens up the possibility of an NSW 491 for the applicant,because based on NSW’s state nomination policy in previous financial years, both stream 1 (one year of work experience in a nominated occupation in a regional area) and stream 3 (job offer) under NSW 491 involve nominated employment,with the actual invitation outcome depending on the applicant’s skills assessment and the specific policy requirements for the employer’s location.
— VET/Trade occupation skills assessments —
The 485 visa generally only lasts two years, but nominated occupations with a clear advantage in state nomination applications (such as trade occupations like chef and cook) require the relevant qualification plus three years of full-time work experience.
And as mentioned above,the 407’s processing time runs to around a year, plus the extra year of visa time after it’s granted — timewise, that’s enough for applicants to meet the work-experience duration requirements of the various skills assessments.
Take ACT as an example — during this period, ongoing work in the nominated occupation will quickly widen the gap between your matrix score and everyone else’s,and receiving a 190 invitation becomes just a matter of time.
— Moving to a 482 employer-sponsored visa —
A Subclass 482 employer-sponsored visa requires two years of full-time work experience in the nominated occupation before lodging, and the 485’s brief two years makes it hard for many applicants who want to go down the employer-sponsored route to meet that requirement and successfully lodge a 482 while their 485 is still valid.
If the applicant already has a job in the nominated occupation and the employer is willing to provide training and sponsorship, then — because the 482 isn’t a GSM-category visa —work experience accumulated during the 407 bridging period and during the year after the 407 is granted can both count towards the 482’s two-year nominated work requirement.
In ACT state nomination,if the applicant holds a 482 visa, they aren’t restricted by the critical list and fall under a separate invitation stream,and in practice there aren’t many applicants onshore in Canberra holding employer-sponsored visas,so it’s fair to say there’s virtually no competition.
So, to sum up,the 407 is a great fit if you already have a job in your nominated occupation but don’t have enough visa time left to build up the points or work experience you need for migration!Plan ahead and make the most of this opportunity,so your migration pathway keeps opening up down the track!
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