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The TSS visa comprises of a Short-Term stream of up to 2 years (unless international trade obligations apply), and a Medium-Term stream of up to 4 years.
The Short-term stream is designed for Australian businesses to fill gaps in their businesses with foreign workers where they are experiencing skills shortages on a temporary basis, and where a suitably skilled Australian worker cannot be sourced.
The Medium-term stream will allow Australian employers to source foreign workers to address shortages in a narrower range of highly skilled and high-value need occupations, where a suitably skilled Australian worker cannot be sourced.
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The permanent employer sponsored visa program allows overseas employees to apply for Australian permanent residence. This visa can be applied for in both non-regional and regional areas in Australia. There are two streams in the 186 Employer Nominated sponsorship visa which are as follows:
Temporary Residence Transition stream is for overseas applicants who have been with the same employer on a 482/457 visa for 3 years or 2 years if their 457 was applied for prior to 18th April 2017;
Direct Entry stream is where an overseas applicant is required to have a skills assessment in an occupation on the Medium- and Long-Term Strategic Skills List (MLTSSL) and have 3 a minimum of 3 years’ post qualification experience in this occupation, which could have been anywhere in the world.
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From 16th November 2019 new applications for subclass 187 visas under Direct Entry stream are no longer accepted. Only current eligible subclass 457 or 482 transitional workers can still apply for a subclass 187 visa under Temporary Residence.
The subclass 187 permanent employer sponsored visa program allows overseas employees to apply for Australian permanent residence. The sponsor and the position are required to be based in a regional part of Australia.
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Employer Sponsorship
Visa
Skilled Person & Want to Live
and Work in Australia
Sponsor My Partner
or Parents
Student Visa or
Graduate Visa
Start a Business or
Invest in Australia
There are two application pathways for this category.
Pathway One – Temporary Residence Transition:
Once 457 visa holders have been employed for two years with the same employer or an associated entity of that employer, provided their 457 visas was lodged prior to 18th April 2017, they can apply for an Employer Nominated Sponsorship, 186 visa before reaching 50 years old.
Alternatively, 482 visa holders can apply for an Employer Nominated Sponsorship Visa, 186, provided their occupation is on the Medium and Long-term Strategic List (MLTSSL), and have been sponsored by the same employer, or an associated entity of that employer, for three years. The application has to be lodged prior to turning 45 years old.
Pathway Two – Direct Entry:
The occupation that the business will nominate you has to be on the Medium and Long-term Strategic List (MLTSSL) list of occupations. The 186-visa applicant must complete a Skills Assessment from the assessing authority of that occupation and demonstrate that you have had a minimum of three years’ experience post qualification in that occupation. Applicants need to be under 45 years old at the time of application.
In both Pathway One and Two, the employer has to present a range of documents to meet the requirements of the nomination. These include financial documents, position description, employment contract, organization chart, a statement about why the position is genuine, evidence that the salary is market-related etc. Check out our Guide to Businesses Looking to Sponsor Foreign Workers.
If a new ABN is established, due, for example, to the sale of the sponsoring business, the new company/business will need to be approved as a Standard Business Sponsor under the new ABN. Then a new 482 nomination will need to be lodged linking your visa to the new nomination under that new ABN. Once it is approved you can start working for the new business ABN.
You will need to work on a subclass 482 visa for 3 years in total (which can include working for your initial sponsor whose business has been recently sold and excluding any unpaid leave you may have taken for either sponsor) before you can apply for a permanent visa. Your occupation, however, has to be on the Medium and Long-term Strategic List (MLTSSL)
Yes, it is mandatory to advertise the position. They have to appear in 3 national reaches on a prominent or professional recruitment website with national reach that publishes advertisements for positions throughout Australia. Typical websites are Seek, Indeed, Career-One and Jora. It is mandatory to advertise on Job-Active, as one of the 3 sites. A job advert on your own business website won’t count. The ad has to have compliant wording. Only if the nominee is from certain countries will you be exempt from advertising. These include countries with which Australia has a trade agreement with such is a citizen/national of China, Japan, Mexico, Thailand or Vietnam, or is a citizen/national/permanent resident of Canada, Chile, South Korea, New Zealand or Singapore.
If your employer is based in a regional area of Australia you may be able to apply for RSMS. Regional Areas are defined by postcodes.
You will need to meet the following pathway:
Temporary Residence Transition:
You have been employed for the same employer in the same occupation in that regional area for two years under 457 or three years under a 482 visa.
You hold:
Your employer has to present a range of documents to meet the requirements of the nomination. These include financial documents, position description, employment contract, organization chart, a statement about why the position is genuine, evidence that the salary is market related etc
No new RSMS Direct Entry (DE) nominations or visa applications can be lodged from 16 November 2019.
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