Immigration Options
General Skilled Migration
The General Skilled stream of Australia’s Migration Program is specifically designed to target migrants who have skills or outstanding abilities that will contribute to the Australian economy. The Skilled Migration program is points tested and applicants or their spouses must be able to satisfy the basic requirements such as age, English language requirement, skill and work experience.
There are several categories in General Skilled Migration such as:
- Skilled Independent – for those who do not have a sponsor, or who choose not to be sponsored. Skilled – Sponsored (State/Territory Nominated or Family Sponsored) – for those who are sponsored by State/Territory Government or eligible family member.
- Skilled – Regional Sponsored – for those who are sponsored by State/Territory or eligible family member are willing to settle in designated regional areas of Australia.
- Skilled Graduate – for those who are recent graduates from Australian educational institutions.
- Skilled Recognized Graduate – for those who are recent graduates of gazetted overseas universities and certain professional disciplines.
Business Skills
The Business Skills visa class of Australia’s migration program encourages successful business people to settle temporarily and permanently in Australia and develop new or existing businesses.
A direct permanent residence category will still be available for high-caliber business migrants sponsored by State/Territory governments. This is known as the Business Talent visa.
The Business Skills program has various pathways such as:
- Business Owner: for owners or part-owners of a business;
- Senior Executive: for senior executive employees of major businesses;
- Investment: for investors/business people willing to invest in Australia;
- Business Talent: for high-caliber business people who have sponsorship from a State/Territory government.
- Established Business in Australia (EBA): for people temporarily in Australia who are owners or part owners of a business; and
- Regional established business in Australia (REBA): for people temporarily in Australia who are owners or part owners of a business in a designated area of Australia.
Employment Skills
The current situation of on-going skill shortages across a number of industry sectors has resulted in Australian employers seeking suitably qualified personnel from overseas to fulfill existing contracts or to meet new business commitments. For example the Subclass 457 visa program provides long term entry for temporary employment from three months to four years. AIEES has extensive expertise in applying and the management of business sponsorship agreements, compilation, preparation and lodgment of nominations and in assisting overseas-based personnel and their families understand the immigration and visa process.
The Employment Skills Program has various options such as:
- Business sponsorship agreements, Labour agreements
- Temporary (long / short stay) Overseas Business (Subclass 457)
- Employer Nomination & Regional Sponsored Migration
Family Sponsored
Family sponsored migrants must be sponsored or nominated by a close family member or fiancée living in Australia. The sponsor must be either an Australian citizen, permanent resident or eligible New Zealand citizen, and would usually be 18 years of age or older. Family sponsored migrants are selected on the basis of their family relationship with their sponsor or nominator in Australia; there is no test for skills or language ability as for Skilled Stream migrants.
Family Stream applicants can be sponsored for migration in one of the following visa categories:
- Partner / Spouse / Interdependency, Prospective Marriage (Fiance)
- Child / Dependent Child / Adoption / Orphan Relative
- Parent / Contributory Parent / Aged Parent
- Aged Dependent Relative
- Remaining Relative / Corer