CairnsLife Magazine September 2016
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Skill Select Visa Options<br />
Australia’s Skill Select program is for people who are not sponsored by<br />
an employer but have skills in particular occupations required in Australia.<br />
Under this program applicants can migrate<br />
individually on their own merits or through<br />
sponsorship by a state or territory government<br />
or eligible relative sponsor.<br />
Under the SkillSelect program visa applicants<br />
interested in the independent skilled, family<br />
sponsored skilled, state or territory sponsored<br />
skilled or the business skills program are<br />
required to submit an Expression of Interest<br />
(EOI) first. They will then need to receive an<br />
invitation in order to lodge a visa application.<br />
An EOI contains an applicant’s personal<br />
details, their nominated occupation, work<br />
experience, study and education, level of<br />
English skills and details of a skills assessment.<br />
Applicants must submit their EOI online<br />
and once submitted the applicant will<br />
receive a points score and results based<br />
on their imputed information. The result<br />
and points score along with the time of<br />
submission becomes the applicant’s ranking.<br />
For independent and family sponsored visa<br />
invitations are issued automatically to the<br />
highest ranking EOI’s subject to occupation<br />
ceilings. For state and territory sponsored<br />
visas the state or territory governments will<br />
locate and select skilled workers from the<br />
EOI pool that they want to nominate.<br />
If an applicant is selected then they will<br />
receive an invitation from SkillSelect.<br />
Applicants then have 60 days in which to<br />
make a valid visa application. For applicants<br />
who are not selected their EOI’s will remain<br />
in the system for two years before being<br />
removed.<br />
After each invitation round for the<br />
independent and family sponsored visas, the<br />
Department of Immigration and Border<br />
Protection publish on their website the lowest<br />
scoring points test mark that allowed an EOI<br />
to be invited for each occupation group.<br />
This gives applicants an indication of their<br />
potential for receiving an invitation in future<br />
rounds.<br />
For applicants who do not meet the<br />
requirements of an EOI or applicants who<br />
are unsuccessful in obtaining an invitation<br />
from SkillSelect, the Employer Sponsored<br />
visa programs are available and eligible<br />
applicants could look at finding an employer<br />
to sponsor them to migrate to Australia.<br />
For further advice on your visa options you<br />
should contact a registered migration agent<br />
to discuss your eligibility.<br />
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<strong>CairnsLife</strong> 59 <strong>Magazine</strong>
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