All the following information has been taken from http://www.immi.gov.au/media/fact-sheets/47temporary_residence.htm#a - The australian immigration website.
Australia’s temporary residence program is designed to allow overseas people to come to Australia for specific purposes that benefit Australia. The program consists of three categories:
- skilled
- social and cultural
- international relations.
Temporary residents are required to pay taxes on income earned in Australia. They do not have access to social welfare benefits or national public health cover.
We as students would come under the skilled categories
Skilled visa classes
Business Entry visas - allow employers to recruit skilled people from overseas for a stay of up to four years. The position being filled must meet minimum skill and salary thresholds.
See: Fact Sheet 48 Helping Skilled and Business People
Educational visas - allow education and research institutions or organisations to fill academic, teaching and research positions, unable to be filled from the Australian labour market.
Temporary Medical Practitioner visas - allow employers, or in some cases Government or community bodies to sponsor suitably qualified medical practitioners into positions which satisfy labour market requirements, for a stay of up to four years. Visa grants to medical practitioners have a strong focus on providing service to rural and remote communities.
Fact Sheet 48
The Australian Government is committed to helping highly skilled individuals and successful business people to settle permanently in Australia.
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) has introduced specific initiatives designed to help Australian businesses obtain overseas staff with a minimum of formalities, and to help overseas people either conduct or establish business in Australia.
These measures recognise that Australian businesses must have access to skills, ideas, contacts and technology from overseas to be successful in today’s increasingly global economy. They may need to recruit overseas staff with qualifications and relevant work experience to meet specific skill shortages in Australia.
There are also benefits for Australia in attracting experienced overseas business people to either establish or join businesses in Australia, bringing with them investments, new ideas and the prospect of creating new jobs.
Skilled migrants for permanent residence
There are a number of categories in the Skill Stream to enable successful business people and highly skilled and qualified people to migrate to Australia. These include:
- Skilled – Independent: for skilled people who are not sponsored but are selected on the basis of their skills, age and English language ability.
See:
Fact Sheet 24 Overview of skilled migration to Australia
Fact Sheet 25 Skilled categories - Skilled – Sponsored: for skilled people who are sponsored by an eligible Australian relative in Australia or nominated by a state or territory government. Applicants are selected on the basis of their skills, age and English language ability.
See:
Fact Sheet 24 Overview of skilled migration to Australia
Fact Sheet 25 Skilled categories - Skilled – Regional Sponsored: for skilled people who wish to live and work in a Specified Regional Area ('designated' or 'regional' area) in Australia but are unable to meet the criteria to be granted a permanent visa.
Applicants for this visa must be sponsored by an eligible Australian relative or nominated by a state or territory government. Successful applicants are granted a three-year temporary visa to give them time to satisfy the residence and employment criteria for a permanent visa.
See:
Fact Sheet 26 State Specific Regional Migration - Skill Matching Database: The Skills Matching Database lists the educational, occupational and personal details of Skilled – Independent category applicants and Skilled – Sponsored applicants.
The database is regularly updated and distributed to all state and territory governments and a network of regional development authorities.
Employers can nominate people from the database to fill vacancies that cannot be filled through the local labour market. State and territory governments can nominate people from the database on the basis of skill shortages they have identified.
See: Fact Sheet 28 Skill Matching Database - Business Skills: Under the Business Skills (provisional) category, people with backgrounds as business owners, senior executives or investors can apply for a provisional (temporary) visa in the first instance. After satisfactory evidence of a specified level of business or investment activity in Australia, Business Skills (provisional) visa holders can apply for permanent residence. In line with their economic development objectives, state and territory governments can also sponsor applicants in these categories with lower level criteria applying to sponsored applicants. High-calibre business migrants, sponsored by a state or territory government, may obtain up-front direct permanent residence under the Business Talent (migrant) category.
See:
Fact Sheet 24 Overview of skilled migration to Australia
Fact Sheet 27 Business skills migration - Employer nomination: people nominated or ‘sponsored’ by employers through schemes such as the Employer Nomination Scheme, Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme and negotiated Labour Agreements or Invest Australia Supported Skills agreements.
See:
Fact Sheet 24 Overview of Skilled migration to Australia
Fact Sheet 26 State Specific Regional Migration
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