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Applying for a Visa in Australia

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A Working Holiday Visa allowing me to spend the next year enjoying the beaches, exploring the vast country of Australia and making a little cash to make it all possible. Using an Agent I used VISAFIRST but there are many great companies out there offering working holiday visas. Look around, ask around and find one that works for you. Applying Applying for the 417 visa was easier than writing this blog. It took less than 48 hours to process and the company I chose did a lot of the work for me. They applied for a bank account and tax Read more

My First Aussie Sunburn

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I always had a vague idea of what Australia would be like when I was growing up. Beyond the typical images of kangaroos bouncing around and boomerangs zinging past, I pictured the country as sitting in the center of a never-ending rain of sun rays. After being granted my first Working Holiday Visa in January, I couldn’t wait to book my flight and come to the land of sunshine and warmth. Although I didn’t know it at the time, I picked a great city enjoying the sunshine while simultaneously being cooled down by the energetic winds- I didn’t know that Read more

Why I Decided to Move to Australia

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As an Englishman, Australia is awfully far away from home. Fourteen thousand, four hundred and twenty kilometres from the village in which I grew up, to Perth, where I live now. In truth though, I haven’t lived in England for many years – nearly five – since leaving university. After graduating with a degree in mathematics, I didn’t feel like I was ready to enter the corporate world of finance. Instead, I wanted to teach English, volunteer somewhere I had never been, and work a ski season so that I could improve my board skills. As chance would have it, I Read more

Taking The Chance – Backpackers Working Holiday Visa

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Australia has been my dream destination since I was a kid, and I guess it’s understandable: it is pretty much as far as you can go from Finland, and in Oz they have cute and exotic animals such as koala bears, kangaroos and apparently also penguins (I’m not leaving before I see those)! Growing up, I wasn’t really sure how I’d end up in Australia, but I knew eventually I would. I got my chance when I was traveling in South-East Asia for 3 months, tired of the backpacking and moving constantly from one place to another, but not yet Read more

Second Year Visa Rules Could Change

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Regional Operators are looking for new in occupations to be added “ specified work” list that allow workers on the 417 Working Holiday Visa to stay another year and obtain the second year working holiday visa. Regional restaurants, caravan parks, motels are amongst the stake holders pushing for this too happen. Backpacker Jobs- Second Year Visa   Letting backpackers work in tourism to extend their stay in Australia was an idea suggest by the Labor Government back in 2012. Legislation currently requires the backpacker jobs to be in the following sectors: Plant and Animal Cultivation ( Fruit Picking Jobs) Fishing Read more

You Have A Visa, What’s Next?

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First off, congratulations on reading this. It shows that you are serious about wanting to get the very best from your working holiday and enjoy every moment of this unique (and expensive) opportunity that you have paved out for yourself. In 2012/2013 over 210,000 visas have been issued by the Australian government to people just like you. Firstly, its great to remember that you are not alone! There is a fantastic community of us offering both work and travel advice to help you out along the way. My name is Joel Mitchell and at the date of writing this I Read more