Permanent Residency Visa in Australia: A Detailed Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the Australian Permanent Residency (PR) visa, focusing on the pathways available for international students and skilled workers. It details the previous SkillSelect system, the Temporary Skill Shortage (TSS) visa, and the current application process, including the Expression of Interest (EOI) and visa application requirements. The report outlines eligibility criteria such as age, qualifications, points-based selection, and English language proficiency. It also explores different avenues for obtaining PR, including employer/family sponsorship and general skilled migration, with a focus on regional areas and their significance. The report further discusses the countries with the highest number of PR applications and the opportunities available in regional locations like South Wales, Queensland, and Northern Territory. The document references several scholarly articles and research papers to support the information provided.

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Previous system of getting Permanent Residency (PR)
It’s a dream for international student to stay and work in Australia after they have completed
their formal education. They invest a lot of money while studying in a foreign country thus to get
the return on their investment they apply for PR visa that has huge benefits. Those who are only
coming for jobs are under the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP). The
applicants for permanent GSM visas must pass the SkillSelect system (Singh, 2019). They
should first lodge an Expression of Interest (EOI), and wait for the invitation from the
Department of Immigration to come to them. The Temporary Skill Shortage (TSS) visa was
earlier used for getting overseas workers jobs in Australia on temporary basis without any prior
experience (Stevens, 2019).
New conditions to get PR for students.
The process requires the applicant to apply through SkillSet process window. This visa allows
the person to work and live anywhere in Australia. The person has to send the EOI through the
portal. Only after receiving the invitation from the department of home affair, the person can
send proper visa application for grant (Luetjens, Mintrom and Hart, 2019).
The condition to get the visa:
The age should be between 16 to 49 years. To be eligible to apply as per the qualification that
matches the skill required. To have good points to be selected for the invitation (Phillips, and
Simon-Davies, 2016). Pass the English language test. Minimum of 65 % has to be scored. The
person should be able to pass the health and character test before applying. (Frost, 2017)
Different ways of getting PR.
There are many ways to Australian permanent residency-

Employer/Family Sponsored Workers- The person will get the visa when an Australian
employer sponsors a foreign national worker in Australia (Tan and Hugo, 2017).
General Skilled Migration- Those who are not sponsored by anyone but possess a skill valued
in Australia.
RSMS- Regional Skilled Migration Scheme used by those who work outside the major cities.
PR listed areas and their significance.
The regional premises comprised of 2 categories classified as Category 1 the Cities and Major
Regional Centres of Perth, Adelaide, the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast, Canberra,
Newcastle/Lake Macquarie, Wollongong/Illawarra, Geelong and Hobart. They have access to
25,000 regional places (Wilks, 2019).
Category 2 the Regional Centres and Other Regional Areas have assess of 25,000 regional
places, priority processing of regional visas, and the Regional Occupations List (Tozer, Khawaja,
and Schweitzer, 2018).
Research on people from different countries to get PR and Sending people to regional areas
Australia get almost more than 6 lacs visa application each year from some of the under
developed countries. Most of the foreign student tries to get the Permanent Residency (PR) Visa
which allows working and settling in the country for a period of 5 years. The Australian PR visa
allows one to move along with family. India, Pakistani, African and UK residents have the most
number of applications coming in for the PR visa. They are easily granted visa for unskilled
works in regional parts of the countries like south Wales, Queensland and Northern Territory
where the population lower in comparison (Breen, 2018). The people are sent to these category
and 2 regional areas where they are given jobs based on their qualification and skills.

Reference
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Frost, K., 2017. Test impact as dynamic process: Individual experiences of the English test
requirements for permanent skilled migration in Australia (Doctoral dissertation).
Luetjens, J.C., Mintrom, M. and t Hart, P., 2019. On Studying Policy Successes in Australia and
New Zealand.
Phillips, J. and Simon-Davies, J., 2016. Migration to Australia: a quick guide to the statistics.
Canberra: Parliamentary Library.
Singh, J.K.N., 2019. Why do Chinese international students studying in Australia repatriate?
Australian Chinese graduates tell it all. Journal of Further and Higher Education, pp.1-13.
Stevens, C., 2019. Temporary work, permanent visas and circular dreams: Temporal disjunctures
and precarity among Chinese migrants to Australia. Current Sociology, 67(2), pp.294-314.
Tan, G. and Hugo, G., 2017. The transnational migration strategies of Chinese and Indian
students in Australia. Population, Space and Place, 23(6), p.e2038.
Tozer, M., Khawaja, N.G. and Schweitzer, R., 2018. Protective factors contributing to wellbeing
among refugee youth in Australia. Journal of psychologists and counsellors in schools, 28(1),
pp.66-83.
Wilks, J., 2019. Water safety for international students studying in Australia. Tourism in Marine
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