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quick Visa question

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  • 10-12-2009 3:10pm
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    uns12345
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭


    Hi, I'm going over to australia in January and staying for six weeks.
    Thing is I'm thinking if I like it and don't wanna come home I'll stay for a month or two and see if I can find work.
    So was going to get a tourist visa first of all (don't wanna waste the WHV if I come home) and then if I stay apply for a WHV when I'm there
    Can this be done?

    Thanks in advance for any help!!!
    :)


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    unreggd
    Registered Users Posts: 3,835 ✭✭✭unreggd


    Not sure

    Should be easy applyin for the visa, u do it online

    But it has to be activated on ur arrival to Australia


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    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    You have to be outside of Australia when applying for the WHV, so you'd have to leave and come back anyway.


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


    uns12345 wrote: »
    Thing is I'm thinking if I like it and don't wanna come home I'll stay for a month or two and see if I can find work.
    :)

    You cannot look for work while under a Tourist VISA. Sorry mate. Besides you would want to be sh1t hot at what you do or are applying for for someone to even interview you without a work visa for Australia.

    Grow a pair and just decide to come over for a year :)


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    mandrake04
    Registered Users Posts: 4,435 ✭✭✭mandrake04


    You could always nip over to NZ for a few days and apply for a WHV there.

    But Zambia is correct if you start actively start asking around for work on a Tourist visa and some employer tipped off DIAC you could be deported.


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    Beachband
    Registered Users Posts: 181 ✭✭Beachband


    Ya mandrake04 is on the money there, more or less.
    You would kind of have to have some form of qualification/experience that is highly needed to excel in finding work on a tourist visa.

    I am going on a tourist visa, was going to look for sponsorship if I get bored, now my feeling is...feck it...I will just go busking for awhile(with a big placard saying...do not give me money...I'm just bored on a tourist visa and escaping the Irish gloom.


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    uns12345
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭uns12345


    Thanks for the advice everyone, just gonna get the WHV then..
    Was never gonna look for work on the tourist visa, as Im gonna be traveling for the first month and probably wont have much time in each place to look for work. just wanted to know if it was possible...


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    littlejukka
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭littlejukka


    Dave! wrote: »
    You have to be outside of Australia when applying for the WHV, so you'd have to leave and come back anyway.

    afaik, this isn't true. do you have any info to confirm it?


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    littlejukka
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭littlejukka


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055762622


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    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    littlejukka wrote: »
    afaik, this isn't true. do you have any info to confirm it?
    http://www.immi.gov.au/visitors/working-holiday/417/how-to-apply.htm

    First Working Holiday visa

    You must be outside Australia:

    * when you lodge your first Working Holiday visa application
    * for the visa to be granted.


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