Australia

GSM (General Skilled Migration) visa allow skilled individuals to settle in Australia. Songbird Immigration Consultants guide you in Australian immigration consultation, skill assessment and visa services for GSM category. This program provides a pathway for skilled professionals and workers to migrate and settle in Australia permanently. You must qualify in the Skill Select program by submitting an Expression of Interest (EOI) and the actual visa application. This program is under the Point Basis System and your eligibility is determined by your scores for your academic credentials, Age, work experience, skills, and English language proficiency. Your skill occupation title aligns with the Australia Shortage Skills List, current market demand, enhance your chances for a successful Australian skilled assessment and migration application.

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Australian Visas Under GSM Category:

•  Skilled Independent (Subclass 189) visa
•  Skilled Nominated (Subclass 190) visa
•  Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) (Subclass 491) Visa

The Skilled Independent Visa, subclass 189, is specially designed for skilled immigrants who wish to settle permanently in Australia. This subclass is a point-based permanent residency visa for skilled workers who are not sponsored by an employer, state or territory or family relatives. Under the point calculation applicant need to score minimum 65 in the Skill Select program for the eligibility.

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The Skilled Nominated Visa (Subclass 190) is structured under the point-based system permanent residency visa for non-national skilled workers nominated by an Australian state or territory government. You can gain 5 points by state nomination and maximize your total point calculation It allows you to live and work anywhere in Australia while contributing to the nominating state’s economy. You are required to live and work in the particular nominating state for at least 2 years. You can select your nominated states matching with your Skilled occupation title demands in Victoria, New South Wales,

Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory.

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This visa allows you to live and work in designated regional areas of Australia for five years with their family members. The validity of Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) (subclass 491) visa is 5 years and then the visa holders eligible to apply for a Permanent Residence visa under Subclass 191 after 3 years, by satisfying all necessary requirements.

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Skilled Employer Sponsored Visa subclass 494 is required a provisional employer-sponsored which allows employers to nominate non-national skilled workers. This visa allows skilled worker to stay, work and live in Australia under a 5-year provisional visa. It does not grant permanent residency immediately. Eligible 494 visa holders may later apply for Permanent Residence (Skilled Regional) visa (Subclass 191) after meeting the required conditions.

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Australia Visitor visa (subclass 600) is allowing tourists and visitors to temporary travel to Australia for travel and tourist activities, family visits, business activities. Depending on the main purpose of the visit subclass 600 has recognized under three main streams;

•  Tourist stream
•  Business Visitor stream
•  Sponsored Family stream

Depending on visa stream and the purpose of the visit applicant can stay usually up to 3, 6, or 12 months in Australia as a visitor. Applicant is not allowed to attend paid or voluntary work in Australia.

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This visa is specially introduced for married or de facto relationship with an Australian citizen or permanent residence holder or eligible New Zealand citizen you are eligible for applying Australian partner visa under several subclasses. Relationship with eligible sponsoring partner will allow you to apply this visa from Australia or offshore. You must be sponsored by eligible sponsoring partner basis on marriage or de facto relationship. Partner visa (subclass 309) provisional visa leads you to live in Australia until the Australian authorities decide the status of your permanent visa, Partner visa Subclass 100. At the time of this visa lodgment you must be outside Australia. Sub class 309 allows off-shore partner to entre to Australia, live with your married or de facto partner, study and work full-time. Applicant is eligible for multiple travel to and from Australia on this visa. Off-shore applicant should include dependent children who are under 18 years of age when applying this visa. Applicant partner and the sponsoring partner should prove their mutual and genuine relationship with necessary strong evidence and satisfy the department regulations on criteria below.

1. The nature of your commitment to each other

2. Social contact of the relationships

3. The nature of the household

4. Financial aspects

PROSPECTIVE MARRIAGE (Subclass 300)

If you are intending to marry Australian citizen or eligible New Zealand citizen you can apply under subclass 300 for allowing to come to Australia and marry your prospective partner. You need to lodge this application offshore and this visa allows you to come to Australia for a period of nine months. This is the one of most complicated visa subclasses for applicants. Process is generally coming with significant document evidence and supporting documents in order to satisfy necessary criteria. To lodge a successful application, you need to prepare your case file with strong document evidence. The process will be complicated on individual circumstance of both applicant and sponsoring partner; you need to fulfill all relevant criteria and satisfy necessary legal requirements relating to the scale of the relationship between the applicants and sponsoring partner.

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Australia offers different Parent visa subclasses under family visas and allows parents to live with their children who permanently reside in Australia on the basis of close family ties and compassionate grounds on single parent in overseas when their family members, children live in Australia as permanent residents. Parent visa specialized for overseas parent to move to Australia permanently. Parents of Australian citizens or permanent residency holders or eligible New Zealand citizen can apply for this parent visas and the applicant must be sponsored by your child lives in Australia permanently.

Student visa allows the foreign student to study, live and work in Australia up to 5 years with the legal permission of 48 hours work rights per fortnight. This visa will qualify you to apply temporary residency and then permeant residency via skilled migration pathways. Students study in rural areas in Australia offers you more points when you are applying your PR application. You can obtain student visa for Diplomas, Advance Diplomas, Bachelors, Post Graduate Diplomas, Masters and PhD studies as well as TEFE courses recognized under CRICOS-registered (Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students). Dependent of Student can work and accompany with the student in Australia during the validity period of student visa Subclass 500.

Considering the best interest of international student, this visa allows non -- national parent or legal guardian or nominated relative of international student of age below 18 to stay in Australia to provide care and support to student until the length of student study program or student returns age of 18.

This visa stands as Subsequent Entrant under subclass 500 pathway allows spouse and minor dependent children to join in Australia. Australis government allows international student applicant to establish their personal life in foreign country. Dependents can stay for the duration of the student’s visa and attend primary study and permitted work in Australia. Student dependents can apply visas at the same time of the student visa application and enter to Australia as a family. This visa allows student dependents to process Subsequent Entrant visa and enter to Australia later.

This visa allows Australian Permeant Resident holder to travel lout of and return to Australia after your travel validly expires under subclass 155 or 157. Former Australian who lost or renounce Australian Citizenship or n Australian Citizens or holders of Pacific Engagement visa subclass 192 will not be allow to apply RRV 155 or 157.

Subclass 155 – Five years/One-year Travel Facility

This subclass allows permanent residents to apply RRV visa on the condition of physically present in Australia for minimum 2 rears out of the last 5 years as a permanent resident of Australia. If the applicant is not able to meet 2 years in 5 years resident requirement, still they may still be granted a One year visa, if the applicant can evident on substantial ties that benefit to Australia.

Subclass 157 – Three-month Travel Facility

Permeant Resident who cannot meet Subclass 155 conditions, but the applicant was in Australia for minimum One day in the past 5 years can apply this visa on compelling and compassionate background for leaving from Australia or remaining outside Australia.

According to the repealed section of Citizenship Act of 2007, from year 2002 Australian government has been legally allowing to hold Australian Citizenship without renouncing the citizenship of another country. The law permits to dual or multiple citizenship if the national law of the other country does not apply restrictions or renouncing requirements.

This legal status allows people to the global platform for attending different corporate, business and professional and skilled transferring activities holding two or multiple passports while contributing national socio-economic and cultural developments.

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