Luxembourg & San Marino to be added to Work and Holiday visa eligible countries for travel to Australia

Two new Memorandums of Understanding have been signed to establish reciprocal Work and Holiday visa arrangements with San Marino and Luxembourg. Each arrangement will allow up to 100 young adults from Australia and the partner country to enjoy a holiday in each other's country, during which they can undertake short term work and study.

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Working Holiday Visa - Definitions of "Specified Work"

The Minister for Immigration, Peter Dutton has specified (by way of Legislative Instrument, 5 May 2016) what ‘specified work’ will satisfy the Working Holiday visa ‘regional work’ requirements, as follows:-

(i) plant and animal cultivation:

A. the harvesting and/or packing of fruit and vegetable crops;

B. pruning and trimming vines and trees;

C. general maintenance crop work;

D. cultivating or propagating plants, fungi or their products or parts;

E. immediate processing of plant products;

F. maintaining animals for the purposes of selling them or their bodily produce, including natural increase;

G. immediate processing of animal products including shearing, butchery, packing and tanning;

H. manufacturing dairy produce from raw material.

(ii) fishing and pearling:

A. conducting operations relating directly to taking or catching fish and other aquatic species;

B. conducting operations relating directly to taking or culturing pearls or pearl shell.

(iii) tree farming and felling:

A. planting or tending trees in a plantation or forest that are intended to be felled;

B. felling trees in a plantation or forest;

C. transporting trees or parts of trees that were felled in a plantation or forest to the place where they are first to be milled or processed or form which they are to be transported to the place where they are to be milled or processed.

(iv) mining:

A. coal mining;

B. oil and gas extraction;

C. metal ore mining;

D. construction material mining;

E. other non-metallic mineral mining and quarrying;

F. exploration;

G. mining support services.

(v) construction:

A. residential building construction;

B. non-residential building construction;

C. heavy and civil engineering construction;

D. land development and site preparation services;

E. building structure services;

F. building installation services;

G. building completion services;

H. other construction services.

Nevett Ford Lawyers can assist with all visa related matters.

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Work and Holiday visa agreement between Greece and Australia

Minister Morrison has announced the signing of a reciprocal work and holiday visa agreement between Greece and Australia. Each country will eventually grant 500 visas per year.

 

Both countries are working to implement the necessary legal and administrative processes to allow the visas to come into effect. The one-year work and holiday visa differs from a working holiday visa as it requires applicants to have the support of their government, hold or be studying towards tertiary qualifications and to speak functional English.

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