It is a dream of many individuals to make a move to someplace better so that they can enjoy a better chance of progress in life and where their skills don’t go to waste. Australia is among the favourite destination for skilled people to migrate. This is why it has the most number of skilled migrations every year. Australian system has many visas that assist these skilled migrations. Australia always requires skilled, trained and talented people for its development and economic progress but it’s not always possible to get the right talented individual available for a job opening at that specific time. To help this matter many skilled visas are offered that allows one to appoint people for a job from abroad.
Some of these visas are permanent and some are to fill a temporary shortage of talent in a specific field. But whatever is the case, the visa process of every Australian visa requires full consideration and concentration. All these visas have certain criteria that are to be fulfilled by the applicant to be eligible for the visa. Moreover, the skilled visa also requires a skill assessment. This means that an individual applying for a particular occupation must provide proof of him or her being skilled in that occupation. Skilled visas can no doubt open many ways to many good prospects for you in Australia.
In this blog, we will talk about employer sponsored visas and how they can prove to be beneficial for you if you dream of moving to Australia.
What is an employer-sponsored visa?
Employer-sponsored visa is a visa category that contains every type of employer-sponsored visa subclass of Australian visas. Australian system allows an Australian national or Australian permanent resident to recruit people from outside Australia only if they are unable to find the right talent in Australia. Many visas come in this category. Let’s talk about the visas that lie in this category
What visas come under the employer-sponsored visa
Here are the employer sponsored visas
Temporary skilled shortage visa subclass 482
Subclass 482 is for the employer who is unable to find suitable talent for the job they are offering in Australia. In this case, eligible employers can sponsor skilled people for the job they are offering to come to Australia and work there. This visa is granted for a temporary period that varies according to the stream of the visa. This visa has three streams that are short-term stream, medium-term stream, and labour-agreement stream.
The basic conditions for this visa are:
- The applicant must have sponsorship from an eligible employer who should be an Australian citizen or a permanent Australian resident.
- Should belong to the occupation listed in the occupational list of the visa stream he or she is applying for
- Must have his or her skill assessed and the result should be positive
- Should have at least 3 years of work experience in a related field
- Must be English competent according to the terms of the visa stream
- Must meet health and character criteria
Employer scheme skilled visa subclass 186
This visa is for skilled people who get sponsored by an eligible employer who must be an Australian national or permanent resident to come to Australia and perform a job he or she is offering. But for sponsoring an employee from overseas the employer must be unable to find the right person for that particular job in Australia. This is a permanent visa that allows its holder to move to Australia permanently. This visa also has three streams that are direct entry stream, temporary residence transition stream, and labour agreement stream.
The basic conditions of this visa are given as under:
- The applicant must have sponsorship from an eligible employer who should be an Australian citizen or a permanent Australian resident.
- Should belong to the occupation listed in the occupational list of the visa stream he or she is applying for
- Must have his or her skill assessed and the result should be positive
- Should have at least 3 years of work experience in a related field
- Must be English competent according to the terms of the visa stream
- Must meet health and character criteria
- The age limit of being less than 40 years also implies in most of its stream.
Employer sponsored skilled regional visa subclass 494
This subclass is rather a newer subclass that targets the regional areas of Australia. The employer in regional Australia can sponsor employees from overseas under this visa subclass. These sponsored employees can come to Australia and work in the regional areas of Australia. This is a temporary visa that is granted for five years but one can apply for Australian PR after 3 years of living and working in regional Australia.
Conditions for this visa are:
- The employee must be sponsored by an eligible employer
- Must belong to the occupation that is listed in the relevant occupational list
- Should not be more than 50 years in age
- Applicant must be English competent
- Must also satisfy all health and character requirements
This was all about employer sponsored visas. These visas have many different streams, one of which can prove to be the way to Australian PR for you. So if you have skills that are required by Australian markets and employers then you can apply for employer sponsored visa and can become a part of a dynamic economy. If you want to learn more about it our immigration consultant Parramatta can help you.
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I’m Nasir Nawaz. I’m a registered migration consultant in Australia. I am based in Sydney. I’ve studied Master of Laws at the University of New South Wales. I’m providing immigration services for several years.
Consult with me for legal advice on Australian visas to permanently live, study, and work in Australia.
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Nasir Nawazhttps://themigration.com.au/staging/author/ehsanthemigration-com-au/
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Nasir Nawazhttps://themigration.com.au/staging/author/ehsanthemigration-com-au/
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Nasir Nawazhttps://themigration.com.au/staging/author/ehsanthemigration-com-au/
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Nasir Nawazhttps://themigration.com.au/staging/author/ehsanthemigration-com-au/
