What are you?

Xavi6

Just wondering what sort of mix we have between residents, WHVs, de factos etc.

Poll included.

big b

A N Other (Please Specify)

TBH, I only look in here cos I have a brother who moved to Aus about 15 years ago. And cos I'm heading to Perth to see him in...a fortnight now! 6 weeks in the sun sounds good to me.

Anyway, having read this forum for a while, I'd say there's a good level of advice, help & most importantly realism here.

I know no-one asked, just thought I'd mention it. :cool:

Claasman

Student Visa

First whv done in australia, now on first whv in new zealand, done around 6 months work in the bush so have the option to go back for a second year, dont know what im doing next...

Delorian

Student Visa

1yr WHV in NZ now, fingers crossed on residency visa in 6 months or a year.

hussey

where's business visa?
(457)
also skilled migrant = perm resident ??

Xavi6

Permanent Resident

hussey wrote: »

where's business visa?
(457)
also skilled migrant = perm resident ??

Someone needs to read the poll more closely*




* mod powers may have been used

The Sweeper

Temporary Resident

The DeFacto / Residency thing sort of overlaps but you can't tick two buttons in the poll. A temp spouse visa gives you temp residency; a perm spouse visa gives you perm residency (with the caveat that when your passport expires you have to have the visa, and therefore one assumes the residency, renewed)

m@cc@

Student Visa

1st yr WHV. No plans to extend.

Number_8

WHV (1st year)

Starting my 2nd year of whv this week. Did the three months farm work and I have a feeling it will be one of my better memories of oz.

Will happily heard and tend to llamas somewhere in the andes rather than go back home to Ireland.

myhorse

Permanent Resident

whv - pr (offshore) - citizen

unreggd

Student Visa

I AM A BANANA

Mahatma coat

WHV (2nd year)

SO c'mon lads Wheres the ILLEGALY option in the poll?:D:D:D?

457 YAAAAAAY

jank

De Facto

hussey wrote: »

where's business visa?
(457)
also skilled migrant = perm resident ??

Wouldn't the 457 visa be a temp resident, Not a permanent resident?

Beachband

You left out the other option from the poll - Illegal

Mahatma coat

WHV (2nd year)

Good question regards 457's I suppose I'll find out next year when me Passport expires, supposed to be a formality to renew, but bear in mind mine was granted under the Howard Government.

AFAIK they cant just wander in and turf me out of the country wilynily

brendansmith

Mahatma coat wrote: »

Good question regards 457's I suppose I'll find out next year when me Passport expires, supposed to be a formality to renew, but bear in mind mine was granted under the Howard Government.

AFAIK they cant just wander in and turf me out of the country wilynily

How long have you been here now?

Mahatma coat

WHV (2nd year)

since 03, Renewed the 457 in 07 cos Labour 'were sh!tin on about Dem Furrriners tuuk aur Jawbs etc...' in their election campaigns and I knew they didint like AWA's or the rest of it so I figured it'd be safer to just renew slightly early and be sure of it so I'm on me Second 457, Lawyer seems to think I shouild go for Citizenship next.

brendansmith

Mahatma coat wrote: »

since 03, Renewed the 457 in 07 cos Labour 'were sh!tin on about Dem Furrriners tuuk aur Jawbs etc...' in their election campaigns and I knew they didint like AWA's or the rest of it so I figured it'd be safer to just renew slightly early and be sure of it so I'm on me Second 457, Lawyer seems to think I shouild go for Citizenship next.

You are entitled to it. Have to have 4 years here legally I think

Mahatma coat

WHV (2nd year)

yeah thats what I thought meself, your not a PR on a first 457 until you complete it, thats the general deal AFAIR once I kept up my end of the deal the Ausie Govt was obliged to keep their end of the deal and let me stay

writetojd

WHV (1st year)

2 months into my 2nd year visa. Definitely in no rush home. Had to get a retail job though to save cash cos they pay you peanuts on the farm.

Mahatma coat

WHV (2nd year)

thing is tho, if you ring Immigration and say 'Hey,I'd ike to live in Kunnunurra for a while can I have a Visa?' after they collect themselves from the shock ye sorted, Con is ya live there for 5 years, doing something 'Useful' but being mostlySober counts up there

jank

De Facto

So 457 -> PR - > Citizenship? Or can you go 457 -> Citizenship?

hussey

jank wrote: »

So 457 -> PR - > Citizenship? Or can you go 457 -> Citizenship?

No, not since 2007 *I think*

Correct me if wrong, but need 4 years living in oz, at least one of these as a PR
(4 years excluding any trips away)

Coileach dearg

De Facto

hussey wrote: »

No, not since 2007 *I think*

Correct me if wrong, but need 4 years living in oz, at least one of these as a PR
(4 years excluding any trips away)

Yep, that's what I was told too.

the dee

Business Visa

I'm a temp resident on a defacto spouse visa. Am filling in the paperwork for the 2nd stage application now, then, all going according to plan, I'll be a permanent resident

shane86

Surely should include illegal in the poll? Must be at least a third of the people I know, dont know more than two people who have left after their visa expired.

mandrake04

Temporary Resident

hussey wrote: »

No, not since 2007 *I think*

Correct me if wrong, but need 4 years living in oz, at least one of these as a PR
(4 years excluding any trips away)

Hussey you are correct


Residence requirement
People who became permanent residents on or after
1 July 2007 must have been lawfully resident in Australia for
4 years immediately before applying including:
• 12 months as a permanent resident; and
• absences from Australia of no more than 12 months,
including no more than 90 days in the 12 months before
applying.
If people became permanent residents before 1 July 2007 and
apply before 30 June 2010, they must have been physically
present in Australia as a permanent resident for a total of
2 years in the 5 years before applying, including 1 year in the
2 years before applying.

http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/booklets/1299i.pdf


You cant go from a 457 to Citizen because it is only a temporary visa you would have to jump through the PR hoop for at least a year to get citizenship.

Try the Citizenship wizard http://www.citizenship.gov.au/

and look under

I am a ......

robinph

I've just been passing through myself over the last couple of years to do a bit of skiing in the "summer".

nzae86

Permanent Resident

Mahatma coat wrote: »

Good question regards 457's I suppose I'll find out next year when me Passport expires, supposed to be a formality to renew, but bear in mind mine was granted under the Howard Government.

AFAIK they cant just wander in and turf me out of the country wilynily

yes they can just make you leave, on the epiry of your current 457 or else if you commit a serious enough crime, its also easy to renew but you have now residency rights. i've looked thru some of the info you've posted and most of it is incorrect, you should speak with someone to fully understand the visa your on and the restrictions it has

also you have no entitlement to citizenship under the new rules you will only need one year as your time as a temp resident (457 will count) but you need a mimimum of 12 months with not more than 3 momnths of that 12 outside of australia as a pr .You have NOT got PR irrespective of how long or how many 457 visas you have had

nzae86

Permanent Resident

i'm an australian citizen

etc tourist visa - whv - 2 x 457 - 175 - citizenship

Mahatma coat

WHV (2nd year)

Interestin, what you have said just completley disagrees with evertything I have been told previously by my Lawyer and Imigration officer.

But Hey I will obviously defer to your wisdom Oh Random internet Stranger with 4 posts

how long have you been here, and whne did you get Citizenship??