Would you rather marry Harold Bishop than apply for an Aussie working visa?
Working visas worry me. I’ve heard a few scare stories about waiting times and mix-ups, and anything involving officials and paperwork freaks me out. If I wanted to, say, go write in Sydney for a while, I think I’d feel happier finding a desperate old Harold Bishop lookalike to marry me rather than apply for the dreaded document.
Which is evidently nonsense. As soraliah points out on TheSite.org, ‘ive been told its quite easy to get work visas in japan, nz and aus’, and Pill’ed agrees. He’s secured an Australian working visa and has posted an excellent response summarising how to get one and how they work -for example the fact that they last 12 months and only allow you 6 months in each job,and 4 months training overall. He’s got particularly good advice on the pros and cons fruit picking and confirms that:
As for getting the visa, it’s pretty simple, you can apply online or just pop down to your local travel agent. It costs about 100 quid and you won’t neccesarily be granted one, but everyone always is. You have to fill out a form and they can be picky if you have any serious crinimal convictions or anything.
Head on over to add your own advice or to keep track of the further updates on working in Oz that Pill’ed promises to post.
So, tt’s all beginning to sound a bit less scary. And I’m further reassured by the fact that STA Explorer Stevo recently announced on Twitter that he:
used STA to apply for his Aus working VISA. 6 days later it has been GRANTED! *dances*
So have other STA travellers found Aussie visas equally easy?
