Subclass 494

SKILLED EMPLOYER SPONSORED REGIONAL (PROVISIONAL) VISA (SUBCLASS 494)

Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 494) is a provisional residency visa for skilled workers, who are sponsored by their employer to work and live in Australia as a temporary resident before being officially eligible for a Permanent Residence (Skilled Regional) visa (subclass 191).

The main applicant can include other family members in the visa application.

This visa has 2 different streams, in which, each stream has its own criteria:

• Employer Sponsored stream

• Labour Agreement stream

With this visa, you can:

• live, work and study only in designated regional areas of Australia for 5 years

• travel to and from Australia as many times as you want while the visa is valid

• Apply for permanent residence after 3 years from the time your visa is granted, if eligible as follows, you:
            – have worked in your nominated occupation for the employer who nominated you at all time during those 3 years
            – had annual earnings for each of those 3 years, that were equal to or greater than the Fair Work High Income               Threshold that applied at the end of the relevant year

To be eligible for this visa, you must:

• Be nominated to work in an occupation on the relevant skilled occupation list by an employer whose business is lawfully operating in Australia

• Be under 45 years of age when you apply for the visa

• Have at least IELTS 6.0+ / PTE 50+ (each band)

• Have at least 3 years relevant work experience in your nominated occupation

• Have a positive skills assessment

• Meet the health requirement

• Meet the character requirement

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