PY Validity Is Only Three Years, Not Four — Let’s Prove It Using the Migration Act

What about PY bonus points?

So how are the PY bonus points described? See the image below:

As you can see above, the PY must be at least 12 months long (in practice, once holidays are excluded, 44 weeks satisfies the requirement — and this has always been the standard length for every PY),and those 12 months of PY must fall within the 48 months before the moment of invitation.

Some people might wonder — editor, is your English actually up to it? Is that really how this sentence should be read? Doesn’t the original wording of the lawseem toallow for the reading that it’s fine as long as the completion date simply falls within the last 48 months?

To prove that my English is at least passable, here’s the evidence.

Let’s start withwork experience bonus points, as everyone knows,only work experience from the most recent 10 years can earn points, while any work experience outside that 10-year window cannot be counted towards the points,and there shouldn’t be any argument about that. So how does the Migration Act describe the work experience points? Let’s take one year of Australian work experience points as an example:

As you can see, regardingwork experience, the English text pointed to by the arrow in the image above reads:

for a period totalling at least 12 months in the 10 years immediately before that time

and regardingProfessional Yearthe passage in question reads:

for a period totalling at least 12 months in the 48 months immediately before that time

Please compare the two descriptions carefully, and you’ll find thatthe two sentences are identical except for10 yearsand48 months, which differ — every other English word is exactly the same.Therefore, the 12 months of PY must fall within the 48 months, just as 12 months of work experience must fall within the most recent 10 years.

This proves that,from the perspective of the legislators behind the Migration Act, the PY validity period is in factfour years counted from the start date of undertaking the PY, not four years from the date of PY graduation.

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