Gold Coast No1! Employer Sponsored Visa Specialist!

The employer must provide terms and conditions of employment that are no less favourable than those that would apply to an Australian citizen or Australian permanent resident doing equivalent work in the same workplace.

You must prove to us that you will pay your skilled worker the market salary rate.

If you pay for your application by credit card, a surcharge will apply. The current surcharge rates are:

• Visa and MasterCard* – 1.32%
• Paypal – 1.00%

* The surcharge will also apply to Debit Visa cards and Debit MasterCards 

Applicant in Australia

All charges shown below are in Australian Dollars.

There are three eligibility streams for this visa:

• Temporary residence transition
  For Employer Sponsored visa holders who have worked for two years with a nominated employer who wants to offer them a permanent position.
• Direct entry
  For people who have been nominated by their employer for a permanent position and have not, or only briefly, worked in Australia.
• Agreement stream
  For people sponsored by an employer through a negotiated formal labour agreement.

This visa allows you and your family to live in Australia and work permanently in a regional area. A regional area is anywhere other than the Gold Coast, Brisbane, Newcastle, Sydney, Wollongong and Melbourne.

This is a permanent residence visa. It allows you and any family members who have also been granted this visa to:

• • • Stay in Australia indefinitely
    • Work and study in Australia
    • Enrol in Medicare, Australia’s scheme for health-related care and expenses
    • Apply for Australian citizenship (if you are eligible)
    • Sponsor eligible relatives for permanent residence
    • Travel to and from Australia for five years from the date the visa is granted (after that time, you will need a resident return visa or another visa to return to Australia).

1. Work in Australia for up to One to four years – depending on your nominated occupation, the visa stream and your circumstances
2. Bring members of your family unit to work or study in Australia
3. Travel in and out of Australia as often as you want.

1. Sponsorship

The employer applies to become a standard business sponsor. This step is required before an employer can nominate an occupation for a subclass 482 visa.

You must provide documents to prove the claims you make in your application to become a sponsor.

General business registration documents

• ABN registration certificate
• ARBN registration certificate
• Overseas business have to provide registration in the country you operate in
• Copy of the Business Names
• If your business is a company, provider company extract with ACN and ASX listing registration(if applicable)
• The rest type of the business (trust arrangement, a franchisee, under a joint venture arrangement), Please contact us to get more information.

Documents to show you are lawfully operating a business

• If you are a larger, established business which has been operating over a number of years recent financial reports
• If you are a recently established or small business, business tax returns for the most recently concluded financial year, recent bank statements
• New businesses can show they are operating by providing, at a minimum a detailed business plan with preferably and Additional information that can be provided

2. Nomination
Nomination is the process of identifying a position to be filled by an overseas skilled worker in an approved business.

Who can nominate?
To lodge a nomination you must be an approved business sponsor or have lodged a sponsorship application. You can lodge a sponsorship application at the same time as a nomination and visa application.

For your nomination to be approved:

• You must be an approved sponsor
• You must nominate your proposed employee in an eligible occupation
• There must be no adverse information known about your business or any person associated with your business
• The position associated with the nominated occupation must be genuine and full-time.
• Must provide a written contract of employment and engage the nominee as a direct employee or as an employee of an associated entity if you are an Australian business sponsor
• Meet salary and employment condition related requirement
• Provide evidence of ‘Labour Market Testing’ report
• Not engage in discriminatory recruitment practices.

3. Visa application

• have been nominated for a position by an approved sponsor and that nomination has been approved
• meet any required skills and qualifications requirements including completing any skills assessments required
• meet English language requirements
• if in Australia, hold a substantive visa, a subclass 010 (Bridging A) visa, a subclass 020 (Bridging B) visa or a Subclass 030 (Bridging C) visa
• have substantially complied with any conditions that apply or applied to your last visa
• meet health and character requirements
• meet the requirements of the stream in which you apply