Employment Workplace Relations

Director, Philip Brewin is a specialist in Workplace Relations and heads our Workplace Relations Work Group.

Showing posts with label self sponsorship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self sponsorship. Show all posts

Monday, 4 January 2016

Self Sponsorship for 457 Visas

Changes have been made to the Australian immigration policy document (known as the Policy Advice Manual (PAM)) for 457 nominations which means that self-sponsorship is now very difficult. The changes are in relation to the "genuine position" requirement for the nomination. As a result, the nomination would be refused on the basis that the position has been created just to facilitate a visa application.   Immigration has set out the following "risk factors" which could indicate the position is not genuine Visa applicant...