Working Visa Advice Brisbane

Working Holiday visa (subclass 417)
The Working Holiday visa is a temporary visa for young people who want to holiday and work in Australia for up to a year. It is a temporary visa that encourages cultural exchange and closer ties between Australia and eligible countries.

You might be able to get this visa if you:

• are at least 18 but not yet 31 years of age
• do not have a dependent child accompanying you at any time during your stay in Australia
• have a passport from an eligible country. 
• have enough money to support her/himself on a working holiday (about A$ 5000)

A second visa for a further year’s temporary stay can be granted if the applicant has completed three months of specified work in regional Australia while on their first Working Holiday visa and has not yet turned 31 years of age.

Work and Holiday visa (subclass 462) 
The Work and Holiday (Temporary) visa (subclass 462) is for young people who want to holiday and work in Australia for up to a year.

It is a temporary visa that encourages cultural exchange and closer ties between Australia and eligible partner countries.

You might be able to get this visa if you:

• are at least 18 but not yet 31 years of age
• don’t have a dependent child with you at any time during your stay in Australia
• have a passport from certain countries
• have enough money to support her/himself on a working holiday (about A$ 5000)
• must provide evidence that s/he meets the educational requirements, which is a tertiary qualification or have satisfactorily completed at least two years of undergraduate university study.
• must have functional English

A second visa for a further year’s temporary stay can be granted if the applicant has completed three months of specified subclass 462 work in Northern Australia in tourism, hospitality or agriculture, forestry and fishing while on their first Work and Holiday visa and has not yet turned 31 years of age.

Resident Return visas (subclasses 155 and 157)  
When a person is granted a permanent visa, that visa gives them the right to remain permanently in Australia. The visa also provides permission to travel into and out of Australia any number of times for a certain number of years (usually five) from the date the visa was granted.

A re-entry facility is granted automatically with all permanent visas.

You need a Resident Return visa if the travel facility on your current visa has expired (your first granted permanent visa has a 5-year travel facility) or is about to expire and you want to travel overseas and retain your permanent resident status.

Departing Australia without a RRV may impact your permanent residency requirements for citizenship.

You would be surprised as to just how many people do not realise that in order to retain their re-entry facility they need to apply for a Resident Return Visa before they leave Australia.   You may depart Australia without your resident return visa application being finalised however please you must have a re-entry visa to return to Australia.

You can apply for the visa outside Australia, but it must be granted before you enter Australia.

When people do get into such situations they tend to panic and often make poor decisions with respect to visa options. These decisions can have significant (negative) impacts to people. Australian Visa Advice can guide you through this simple, yet poorly understood, area of migration.

Often people will apply immediately for one of the visitor visa options to allow them to re-enter Australia. This is a big mistake as by doing this their permanent visa will cease to be in effect by operation of section 82 of the Migration Act.

There are three types of resident return visas:

Return (Residence)(Five Year Resident Return) subclass 155 visa)
This is a permanent visa with a multiple entry travel facility of up to 5 years;

Return (Residence)(Three Month Resident Return) subclass 157 visa)
This is a permanent visa with a multiple entry travel facility of 3 months;

Resident Return (Temporary)(Provisional Resident Return) subclass 159 visa
This is a provisional (temporary) visa for persons offshore who cannot prove they are or were a permanent resident.

It allows a single entry to Australia for a stay of three months to allow sufficient time to submit a permanent visa application and supporting documents confirming their permanent resident status.