Why is PR (Permanent Residence) the best option?
We strongly advise our candidates to apply for permanent residence, in order to be in the best personal and professional position when they come to Australia. If that option is available to you, it is the best choice for the following reasons:
- It leads to full Citizenship after 2 years of living in Australia.
- It enables you to be in the best personal position as you don’t have to worry anymore about going in and out of the country as a tourist or other visas ( business or employment sponsorship).
- If you are on an employment sponsorship visa, employers take advantage of your situation and pay you less and they know that you depend on them, as you have to leave the country in a month if something goes wrong with the employer.
- You are in a far better marketable position if you apply for jobs as a PR otherwise you will find that employers don’t even want to consider you because the employment sponsorship is a very complicated procedure for them to go through.
- Even if you just decide to be a student (or your partner wishes to study in Australia) it’s still the best choice as studies in Australia are very expensive for overseas students and once you become a PR you immediately enjoy the benefits of a local student, and pay from half to a third of the price for your studies and you are eligible for various Government grants. Students that came from overseas found out that they would have been in a far better position if they had applied for the PR from overseas and came into Australia already as a permanent resident.
- You get immediately free Medicare that is the basic governmental insurance package. As to social benefits you will get them only after 2 years of living in Australia as a PR.
Do I need to be represented professionally in the procedure?
It’s important to make it clear that you can apply by yourself and go through the migration process without the professional representation of migration agents. However, there are so many reasons why it is far better to be represented professionally that it’s very hard to list all the reasons and we will make an attempt to mention some of the main ones.
- Sometimes the migration procedures might seem simple but they are very intricate and misleading.
- There are daily changes in the migration laws and different internal policies of the assessing and government bodies, so that only professionals in the field can keep up to date with that and be sure that all the right factors have been taken into account.
- We continuously get applications from individuals who wasted a lot of time and money on their efforts to apply by themselves and have used the wrong procedure or made other mistakes and they try to correct the damage that has already been done, we can still help at that stage but it’s much harder than to get it right the first time.
- It’s important to get it right the first time as the process is lengthy and our experience has shown that those who have chosen to do it by themselves, apart from the fact that many of them fail, it is also nerve wracking for them as they are "alone in the process", don’t have any sources to get advise from, and the tension and pressure accumulates as they continue further down the track.
The length of the process?
If you start immediately then it can take anything between 7 months to 10 months ( on the skilled migration category ) and even more than that. It all depends on the procedure / category of visa / government policy at the time of lodging the application / how fast you supply all the documents and also sometimes on your skills (in particular cases processing times can be made shorter).
Professions and skills that currently have good chances?
- High Tech Professionals, programmers and others, preferably with a degree in computer science or a major in computer science. If you don’t have a degree in computer science then you need at least 6 years of good full time experience in the field.
- accountants
- architects
- bakers
- brick layers
- butchers
- cabinet makers
- carpenters
- chefs
- chiropractors
- clothing
- cooks
- dentists
- dieticians
- dressmakers
- electricians
- engineers
- footwear
- gardener
- general and senior managers
- glass blower
- hairdressers
- information technology officers
- interpreters and translators
- jewellers
- landscape
- lifts mechanics
- locksmith
- mechanics
- medical scientist
- nursery person
- nurses
- occupational therapists
- optical
- optometrists
- organizational psychologists
- osteopathy
- painters and decorators
- panel beaters
- pastry cooks
- physiotherapists
- piano tuners
- picture framers
- plumbers
- podiatrists
- printing machinist
- psychologists
- quantity surveyors
- radiographers
- refrigeration and air conditioning
- roof plumbers
- roof slater and tiler
- shoemakers
- sign writers
- social workers
- speech pathologists
- stonemason
- surveyors
- tailors
- teachers
- textile
- toolmaker
- tradespersons and related workers
- tree surgeon
- veterinarians
- wall and floor tilers
- watch and clock makers / repairers
- welder
- welfare workers
- wood turner
- woods tradespersons
Please don’t hesitate to check your chances even if you are not on the list, as there are many other professions, as we have just listed the main ones and the list changes from time to time. Your personal data will be examined individually and there might be other factors that will enable you to migrate. So if you are married or have a partner, it’s important to present her or him as your chances are examined as a couple.
Basic Requirements
Migrants to Australia are not selected because of their race, gender or culture. Instead, qualification to migrate depends on such things as your skills, health, age, finances and ability to speak English and whether you have family or business contacts here. Age for skilled migration, you have to be under 45 (if you are above that limit then we will have to examine other options such as business migration). You have to have at least vocational English and atleast one year of work experience.