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Holiday visa - 457 visa - redundant

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  • 19-02-2009 3:50am
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    brendansmith
    Registered Users Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭


    Guys,

    Should someone have went over to Australia on a WHV and recieved sponsorship form a company. Then be made redundant by that company what choices if (any would) they have should they wish to remain in Australia?

    This is of course considering that they wont be able to get sponsership again from another company.


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    Zambia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    brendansmith wrote: »
    Guys,

    Should someone have went over to Australia on a WHV and recieved sponsorship form a company. Then be made redundant by that company what choices if (any would) they have should they wish to remain in Australia?

    This is of course considering that they wont be able to get sponsership again from another company.

    Hmm okay well from my reading of other posters once you are granted a 457 the whv expires you cant hold 2 visas.

    If you are then let go on the 457 you have 28 days to be employed in a like role as per the 457 within 28 days of DIAC notifying you.

    Now if as you say you cant secure that employment , well then you really have to go to your local flight centre.

    You could attempt a PR visa and seek a bridging visa while its pending, but that is a conversation for an agent and applying onshore is pricey I hear.

    There is also a student visa with 20 hrs a week work rights, but course fees are expensive for foriegn students.


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    hussey
    Registered Users Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭hussey


    Zambia232 wrote: »
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    all above correct, but in realist terms a month to get a new job.

    The PR route is not really viable as you won't be able to work until granted
    also you need to be qualified, which if you just came from a WHV then most likely not (need to be in Oz 2 years or something??)


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    Zambia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    hussey wrote: »
    all above correct, but in realist terms a month to get a new job.

    The PR route is not really viable as you won't be able to work until granted
    also you need to be qualified, which if you just came from a WHV then most likely not (need to be in Oz 2 years or something??)

    A month is tight luckily it sometimes takes a few weeks for the notification but even two months is tight.


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    Shutuplaura
    Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭Shutuplaura


    Hi, I'm currently going through that. Once you get your 457 your WHV is gone as far as I know. Once you are made redundant you have 28 days from the end of your employment to leave the country or get a new visa. I can get a de facto visa because I'm living with my partner.

    Now there is a but of messing around with bridging visas to do to move from one visa to the next but these are only granted while you are waiting on the outcome of an application for a proper visa so are only useful if you have reasonable grounds to stay on anyway. This gets around the 28 days thing.

    Really though I'd ring the visa office directly rather than rely on my word or anybody else's here. One thing I've found about visas is everyone thinks they know and are usually eager to help but often the advice is wrong or outdated.


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    Zambia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    Shutuplaura wrote: »
    Hi, I'm currently going through that. Once you get your 457 your WHV is gone as far as I know. Once you are made redundant you have 28 days from the end of your employment to leave the country or get a new visa. I can get a de facto visa because I'm living with my partner.

    Now there is a but of messing around with bridging visas to do to move from one visa to the next but these are only granted while you are waiting on the outcome of an application for a proper visa so are only useful if you have reasonable grounds to stay on anyway. This gets around the 28 days thing.

    Really though I'd ring the visa office directly rather than rely on my word or anybody else's here. One thing I've found about visas is everyone thinks they know and are usually eager to help but often the advice is wrong or outdated.

    Have to agree it goes without saying to anyone taking advice of this or any simialar thread before any major steps.


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    chele
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41 ✭chele


    I hear that there is few jobs in Aus at the moment, and a friend of mine is actually sleeping rough on the streets of Melbourne.
    She has stayed a few nites in drop in centres, but is worried that her ailure to get employment will be mean she will have to leave in 2 weeks time. She has no money now, to get flights and she really does not want to come home to Ireland again, as her job was cut last October.

    Is there others in this situation, or have been in this destitue situation??


    If there is very few jobs, why are ppl getting working hol visas???


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    Zambia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    chele wrote: »
    I hear that there is few jobs in Aus at the moment, and a friend of mine is actually sleeping rough on the streets of Melbourne.
    She has stayed a few nites in drop in centres, but is worried that her ailure to get employment will be mean she will have to leave in 2 weeks time. She has no money now, to get flights and she really does not want to come home to Ireland again, as her job was cut last October.

    Is there others in this situation, or have been in this destitue situation??


    If there is very few jobs, why are ppl getting working hol visas???

    Oh for f**ks sake if she is sleeping rough on the streets of melbourne its time to abandon your WHV and fly the frigging hell home. She really has to call home for help.

    Work holiday visa allow you too work they do not guarantee it you are meant to have enough finances to make it for some time without resorting to employment. And if those finances dry up well you are expected to fly home.

    Its been said here to death that work is hard to come by in Aus.

    Seriously your friend has to return as soon as possible,


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    pucan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 319 ✭✭pucan


    Shutuplaura wrote: »
    Hi, I'm currently going through that. Once you get your 457 your WHV is gone as far as I know. Once you are made redundant you have 28 days from the end of your employment to leave the country or get a new visa.

    This is a common misconception. You actually have 28 days from when DIMA send you out a letter telling you, your visa has been withdrawn.


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    The Sweeper
    Registered Users Posts: 10,658 ✭✭✭✭The Sweeper


    chele wrote: »
    If there is very few jobs, why are ppl getting working hol visas???

    Because it is a working HOLIDAY visa.

    From immi.gov.au's own website on the WHV:
    This visa allows you to supplement the cost of your holiday through short-term employment. If your primary reason for travelling to Australia is to participate in the work force, you should consider a visa designed for that purpose.


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