How To Get An Australia Permanent Work Visa From Nigeria

Australia is the 6th largest country in the world with a total land area of 7,692,024 Km2, it is also a continent, comprising Tasmania Island and other smaller islands. Its population as of 2016 estimated are 24,171,600 according to Wikipedia. Its citizens are multi-culturally diverse with some being Anglo-Celtic, Aborigines, Torres Strait islanders, Chinese, Indian, Greeks, German, and Dutch with over 250 indigenous languages including a sign language known as Auslan.

The Australian terrain is mostly semi-arid, with alpine heaths, tropical evergreen rain forests, beaches, large mountain peaks, coral reefs, and a large number of reptiles. Its climatic zones include equatorial, tropical, desert, grassland, and temperate.

Australia’s economy is the 12th largest in the world making it one of the wealthiest with a GDP total of $1.223 trillion by 2015 estimates, its currency is the Australian Dollar (AUD). In recent years, there has been a demand for skilled expertise and labor in certain fields in Australia, this is due to technological changes in the region, and such sectors include agriculture, manufacturing, construction, utilities, and services.

Criteria for Getting a Permanent Work Permit for Australia

The Skilled Independent Visa Immigration Details (Subclass 189)

This visa is required for a points-tested skilled worker who is not recommended or supported by an employer, family, or government, for immigrants who intend to work and live in Australia as permanent residents. 

This visa can also be jointly applied for by a spouse, dependents, and family, when approved, it allows you and your family to stay, work, study, enroll in healthcare services, apply for Australian citizenship, sponsor eligible relatives, and travel in/out of Australia for five years from the date of issue, after that, you’ll require a resident visa.

Australian Work Visa and Immigration eligibility

You will be eligible to apply for this work permit visa only when you submit an Expression Of Interest (EOI) via SkillSelect, then you’ll be invited via a letter of invitation sent to your email in response through SkillSelect. Besides your invitation, you must also possess the following;

• Be an expert or professional in a selected occupation that is on the skilled occupation list.
• Have a skills assessment for your chosen occupation.
• Necessary documents to prove that you’re below the age of 50.
• Have evidence of English competency
• You must score at least 60 points in your EOI to be invited to apply; these points are awarded on certain factors such as age, English proficiency, skilled employment in and outside Australia, education qualifications, Australian study requirements, nomination, etc.
• After you receive your invitation, you’ll have approximately 60 days to apply for a visa, visa, and immigration to Australia from Nigeria is done by Teleperformance Contact Center (TLS), but for the visa type, you’ll be using Skillselect. 

Visa Application Requirements and Supporting Documents

1. You have to register for an ImmiAccount, this is where all documents and visa fees payment, and tracking will be done.
2. International passport with six months validity.
3. Photocopy of the bio-data page of your international passport.
4. Birth certificate from the National Population Census showing registration of your birth.
5. Marriage, relationship certificate, and joint bank account statements for couples or spouses where applicable.
6. An adequately filled Form 47A for children or dependents aged 18 years and over with documented evidence of relationship to you where applicable. An adequately filled Form for children or dependents younger than 18 years of age with documented evidence of your relationship and parental court custody in case of you being a legal guardian where applicable.
7. Medical health assessment report and yellow fever certificate.
8. Police clearance certificate with biometrics.
9. A properly completed Form 80 character assessment and Form 1221 additional personal particulars information documents.
10. A detailed copy of your Curriculum Vitae.
11. English language proficiency test results were undertaken in the last three years before your application, the acceptance tests are IELTS, OET, TOEFL iBT, and PTE.
12. Positive Skills and points test assessment tests.
13. Evidence of documents used to acquire skills and point test scores, e.g. birth certificate, employment payslips, tax clearance receipts, business registration for self-employed, properly written employment letter on official company letterhead and duly stamped.

Australian skilled visa and immigration application process

You can apply online via Skillselect, using the link provided in your letter of invitation

Attach and upload all supporting documents used for your claims on the EOI you submitted using the ImmiAccount you opened.

Visa application fees are paid online via credit card, the visa fee for the skilled independent is AUD$ 3600 (N 567832), additional applicants charge for 18 & over AUD$ 1800 (N 283916), while other fees are under 18 AUD$ 900 (N141985). 

Visa tracking and management are done via your ImmiAccount

Australia Work Visa and Immigration processing

Your visa processing time depends on how much information you have provided, your character, health checks, and more information demands. This process could take 5 – 8 months.

Australia Work Visa decision

If your visa is granted, the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) will contact you to inform you when you can use the visa, the visa grant number, and the conditions attached to the visa. If you’re not granted a visa, you’ll also be informed.

Covid Requirements and Protocols For Austrialia Work Visa

You do not need to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination to travel to and from Australia.

Mask-wearing on international flights to Australia is no longer mandatory. Travelers continue to be encouraged to consider wearing a mask to reduce their risk of contracting and spreading COVID-19.

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