Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Table of cases
- Table of statutes
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Historical context to migration
- 2 Immigration control: an overview
- 3 Basic migration legislation and policy
- 4 The visa system and application procedures
- 5 Family and interdependency migration and other Australia-based visas
- 6 Business and investment visas
- 7 Skill-based visas
- 8 Temporary visas
- 9 Miscellaneous visas
- 10 Common visa requirements
- 11 Compliance: unlawful non-citizens, removal and deportation
- 12 History of the Refugees Convention and definitional framework
- 13 Refugee and humanitarian visas: the statutory structure
- 14 Convention grounds
- 15 Persecution
- 16 Well-founded fear of persecution
- 17 Limits on protection of refugees — cessation, exclusion exceptions and protection by another country
- 18 Time for a fundamental re-think: need as the criterion for assistance
- 19 The determination and review process for migration and refugee decisions
- Index
8 - Temporary visas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Table of cases
- Table of statutes
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Historical context to migration
- 2 Immigration control: an overview
- 3 Basic migration legislation and policy
- 4 The visa system and application procedures
- 5 Family and interdependency migration and other Australia-based visas
- 6 Business and investment visas
- 7 Skill-based visas
- 8 Temporary visas
- 9 Miscellaneous visas
- 10 Common visa requirements
- 11 Compliance: unlawful non-citizens, removal and deportation
- 12 History of the Refugees Convention and definitional framework
- 13 Refugee and humanitarian visas: the statutory structure
- 14 Convention grounds
- 15 Persecution
- 16 Well-founded fear of persecution
- 17 Limits on protection of refugees — cessation, exclusion exceptions and protection by another country
- 18 Time for a fundamental re-think: need as the criterion for assistance
- 19 The determination and review process for migration and refugee decisions
- Index
Summary
Overview
The migration legislation provides a range of visas for temporary workers and business people, and working holidaymakers and students, as well as visas for tourists and people visiting friends and relations. In addition, some temporary visas are issued for special purposes.
Temporary workers
Temporary workers and business people can be employer-sponsored or independent. They range from working holidaymakers to those with a need for long-term, but not permanent, residence.
Working Holiday (Temporary) (class TZ)
Subclass 417 (Working Holiday)
The subclass 417 visa aims to allow young people who are holders of passports issued by specified countries to holiday in Australia and supplement their funds through incidental work. The application procedures are relatively simple and brief and in many countries can be done on the Internet. Applicants cannot have held a previous working holiday visa and must be between eighteen and thirty years old and not have any dependent children, demonstrate the intention to have a working holiday (that is, not dedicated to either work or residence) and that they have sufficient funds for that purpose. PAM advises that ‘generally, AUD 5 000 [in addition to funds for a return airfare] … may be regarded as sufficient to cover the costs of the initial stages of the working holiday for an applicant intending a total stay in Australia of six months’. There is no provision for members of the family unit, so spouses must make their own application.
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- Migration and Refugee LawPrinciples and Practice in Australia, pp. 120 - 138Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005