Published by Gareth on July 7th, 2009 in Australian Immigration, Global Visas, Immigration Tips, Move to Australia
There are, of course, many things to consider when embarking on a new life in Australia, but here are few practical tips that people moving to Australia need to be aware of.
The weather
The Australian summer falls from December to February and is dry and very hot. Australians typically wear factor 30+ sunscreen as skin cancer is common. However, the weather is a fantastic plus-point to settling in Australia and is a great excuse to make the most of the beaches and water sports, available to everyone living near the coast.
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Published by Mark Johnstone on July 7th, 2009 in Australian Immigration, Move to Australia
Life's a beach for Australian visa holders
Worried industry leaders in Australia are lobbying the Federal Government to expand its Australia visa programme, warning that the state will struggle to meet its two million population target and future skills demand without changes to Australian immigration policies.
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Published by Mark Johnstone on July 1st, 2009 in Australian Immigration, Canadian Immigration, EU immigration and Blue Card, Expats, Global Immigration, Global Visas, Immigration Tips, Move to Australia, South African Immigration, Studying abroad, UK immigration
We at Global Visas offer you some handy hints as to how to most efficiently secure your all important work visa:
1. Patience is paramount in the visa process.
We all know someone who thinks the rules don’t apply to them. But Immigration laws apply to everyone equally and the process takes time. In only very exceptional cases, fast tracking visas is possible, but in most cases, the visa process must run its set course. Make sure you plan well head, allowing plenty of time for the visa(s) to be granted.
2. Don’t book a flight until the visa has been issued.
This may sound like obvious advice, but even the most straightforward cases can be delayed. Recently we had a client who booked a flight thinking the case visa would be issued in ample time. Unfortunately the employee’s passport was expiring within six months and this prevented a visa being granted. The visa would have taken 24 hours to secure. His passport took six weeks to renew.
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Published by Gareth McConnell Global Visas on March 4th, 2009 in Australian Immigration, Global Immigration, Move to Australia
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Tourism Queensland’s dream job to be caretaker of Hamilton Island, a remote, sun drenched atoll on the Great Barrier Reef, has been whittled down to 50 candidates from 22 countries.
The marketing campaign seduced 34,800 applicants that want to work in Australia for $150,000 a year job, in a multi-million dollar villa (for free), with all travel expenses paid.
The job itself includes producing videos for the web, keeping a blog and updating the photo diary for the whole of Hamilton Island (five square kilometres).
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Published by Gareth McConnell Global Visas on February 16th, 2009 in Australian Immigration, UK immigration
Michael Searle: "There's no parachute for those guys anymore"
Changes to UK immigration rules for professional footballers wanting to play in the Super League have claimed a fourth scalp.
Greg Eastwood, the New Zealand international is the latest in a growing line of aussie and kiwi professional football players denied a UK visa on the basis of past criminal convictions.
UK visa applications for Michael Crocker, Toddy Carney and Greg Bird have all been turned down in recent weeks, all with chequered pasts.
“It’s just a further reminder that it’s no longer necessarily easy to take up that option of finding a club in the UK. And it’s a definite reminder of what the consequences are for not keeping your nose clean or stepping out of line,” said NRL chief executive David Gallop.
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Published by Gareth on September 8th, 2008 in Australian Immigration
As we have seen in recent news reports regarding sport, foreign players are becoming regular fixtures in sports teams worldwide. Only last week did cricket announce new plans for targeting international shores.
It seems that now the Aussies are turning to developing multi-cultural teams, with news just announced that for teams in Super 14 they will now be able to sign two players from overseas, this is after the Australian Rugby Union lifted its ban on foreigners.
In addition to this rule provinces will also be allowed to sign one marquee foreigner – who will never be available to play for the Wallabies – and a developing player yet to represent his country at Test, Sevens or A-team level.
It is thought that by turning to overseas players Super 14 will not only become more strengthened in terms of talent, but international interest will grow, as it has in other sports such as football.
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Published by Gareth on August 27th, 2008 in Australian Immigration
Snoop Dogg in da dog-house
You would think that travelling the world-over was just another part of an international rappers career, however it seems that yet again Snoop Dogg is having trouble doing just that and as a result he may end up disappointing thousands of fans who had hoped to see him on his recent tour as he awaits visa approval.
This time the visa trouble has occurred down under, where Snoop hopes to work in Australia. Snoop Dogg who has already faced probing and confrontation by UK visas officials has now come under scrutiny by the Australian immigration department.
The department has officially said that prior to him being given approved entry and being granted a visa it would first be conducting a character assessment of Snoop Dogg, including his criminal history.
Speaking to the Associated Press a department spokesman said that the rapper applied for a visa in July and the department carried out a preliminary assessment. He further said that “The department has now decided to do a full assessment of the character of the rapper and the department has begun this assessment.”
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Published by Global Visas on August 19th, 2008 in Australian Immigration
Work in Australia
Australian immigration has introduced a seasonal guest worker scheme that aims to attract unskilled workers from the pacific islands. This has been initiated in order to fill agricultural labour shortages.
But as thousands of workers are expected to work in Australia on this temporary visa scheme, 14% of indigenous Australians remain unemployed. The recruitment of overseas workers is however still essential due to the high paying Australian welfare system.
For all Australians being on welfare will in fact pay more than entry level unskilled jobs on farms and the like. Therefore getting a job is a step down in financial terms for these unemployed. It is understandable why the unemployed would not choose to work laborious jobs when they could earn more by doing nothing.
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Published by Global Visas on August 8th, 2008 in Australian Immigration
Worker bees and the machine
It seems that it is not just the mainstream industry sectors of Canada and Australia which are crying out for skilled workers. A recent report by ABC Rural shows that the bee trade is also suffering from a lack of workers.
The problem as highlighted in the article is that because visa restrictions for skilled workers are making it harder to bring professionals into Australia’s the bee trade and it is subsequently losing millions every year.
With the task of restraining bees and aiding them in their productivity of precious honey needing such specialist workers, the current situation regarding visas for the seasonal demands of such businesses is harming the trade.
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Published by Global Visas on July 29th, 2008 in Australian Immigration, Move to Australia
Epidemiology Report
The current technique used to test immigrants for tuberculosis (TB) is insufficient; this is according to a report composed by a group of researchers entitled, ‘Epidemiology of laboratory confirmed tuberculosis in Victoria, 1990 to 2004.’
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