Employer Sponsorship Is on a Roll: As an Employer, Can I Sponsor My Staff for PR? Free Self-Check, Worth Saving
A migration reform meeting in May opened the curtain on a golden era for employer sponsorship.
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New-FY PR Quota Allocation Is Here! 189 Points-Tested Actually Gains 4,500 More! 190 and 491 Each Around 30,000! Employer Sponsorship Quota Rises Again!
When last night's 2023-24 Budget was handed down, all we knew was that there would be 190,000 PR places (missed it? see: Australia's 2023-24 Budget | 190,000 PR places, 70% to the skilled stream! Visa fees rise sharply after 1 July!), and that 70% would go to the skilled stream. First thing this morning the Department of Home Affairs website updated the detailed allocation of these 190,000 places!
Read More →Over 200 occupations — marketing, IT, finance and more — to get a direct pathway to PR! Permanent-residency transition wait cut by a third! The biggest employer-sponsorship boost in years!
On 27 April, the Minister for Home Affairs mentioned at the NPC that by the end of 2023 all temporary skilled visa holders would have a clear pathway to PR. At the press conference, however, the Minister only touched on this briefly, with no detail whatsoever — not even clarifying exactly which visas the term "temporary skilled visa" covers.
Read More →February Visa Processing Update: State Nomination Quotas, NSW Issues 3,500 Nominations in Two Months, Plus State Processing Timelines
February brought a string of good news on visa processing. Highlight one: Subclass 887 finally kicked off large-scale grants. Highlight two: Subclass 491, 190 and 189 are being granted steadily every day.
Read More →Accounting, IT, Engineering, Marketing and More — No Points Race, No Relocation, Keep Your Job and Get PR! Don’t Miss This Most Stable, Highest-Quota Pathway This Financial Year
If your points aren't particularly high, but you have a stable job and want to stay where you are — without uprooting your life for migration — don't overlook employer sponsorship this financial year.
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Great news for employer-sponsored migration! A more direct PR pathway for 200+ occupations including marketing specialists, graphic designers and chefs! Could student visa and Subclass 485 holders also have a chance?
On 17 March, the Department of Home Affairs released a new employer-sponsored migration policy, fulfilling a previous commitment. In short, it opens a pathway for applicants with occupations on the short-term list to apply for Subclass 186 TRT (PR). Some Subclass 457 visa holders who do not meet the transitional requirements may also be eligible to apply for Subclass 186 TRT.
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There’s Another Australian Work Visa Option! Don’t Worry About Rising Points, Sudden Policy Changes, or Unpredictable Invitations — If You Have a Job, There’s Opportunity, and Most Occupations Can Lead to PR!
When most people think of Australian work visas, the first options that come to mind are typically the Subclass 485 Graduate Work visa and the working holiday visa. But there is another common and convenient work visa that is frequently overlooked — and that is the visa we are introducing today: the Subclass 482 / Skills in Demand visa, the lowest-barrier employer-sponsored work option.
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Transition Seamlessly to State Nomination or Employer Sponsorship for PR! Hundreds of Occupations — Accounting, Engineering, IT, Marketing and More — Full-Time Work, No Skills Assessment Required!
Over the past two years, the ongoing slump in the skilled migration landscape has driven more and more skilled migration applicants to extend their visas onshore in Australia to buy more time while waiting for an invitation — or to build up work experience in order to apply for an employer-sponsored visa as an indirect route to PR.
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Accounting, IT and Chef Occupations See Faster and More Consistent Grants — Now Open to Both Onshore and Offshore Applicants! Skip the State Nomination/189 Grind and Seize This Golden Opportunity!
With Subclass 189 and 190 invitation rounds becoming increasingly competitive, a migration pathway that requires no points score, no near-perfect IELTS results, and no queuing sounds almost too good to be true. In fact, this pathway has always existed — employer-sponsored migration.
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Big News! Accounting/Auditing/Multiple Engineering/ICT Occupations — A Great Opportunity Has Arrived! 22 New Occupations Added to Australia’s Priority Occupation List!
Just moments ago, Minister for Immigration Alex Hawke announced a major update to the PMSOL priority occupation list. Unlike the previous two rounds of minor adjustments — one adding social work, the other adding veterinary science — this time 22 occupations have been added in one go, bringing the total number of occupations on the PMSOL list to 41.
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