Regional Sponsored Migration visaA Regional Sponsored Migration – Subclass 187 visa allows you and your family members to permanently live and work in regional Australia.

You must have an eligible occupation, have the requisite work experience, have a positive skills assessment and be nominated by your employer in regional Australia.

The process is:

  1. You must have an eligible occupation;
  2. You must have relevant work experience;
  3. You must have licensing, registration or membership;
  4. You must have a positive skills assessment;
  5. You must be nominated;
  6. You must be less than the required age;
  7. You must meet the health requirement;
  8. You must meet the good character requirement; and
  9. You must have a good level of English language.

We will explain in more detail below.

Eligible Occupation for Regional Sponsored Migration

Firstly, your occupation must be an eligible occupation.

The eligible skilled occupations are contained in the eligible skilled occupations list.

If you have an eligible skilled occupation then you will need the relevant work experience.

You must have Relevant Work Experience

Most Regional Sponsored Migration – Subclass 187 visa applicants need to have at least 3 years relevant work experience in their skilled occupation.

If you have at least 3 years work experience in the skilled occupation, then (if required) you will need to obtain the correct licensing, registration, or membership to your professional body.

You must have Licensing, Registration or Membership

If required, to be eligible for the Regional Sponsored Migration – Subclass 187 visa, applicants need to be licensed, registered, or a member of the correct professional body.

Queensland Law Society for solicitors for example.

However, you may not be eligible for licensing, registration, or membership to your professional body unless you have had a positive skills assessment.

Skills Assessment for Regional Sponsored Migration

You will then have to have your skills assessed by the appropriate authority.

For example, for solicitors the relevant State Law Association.  For trades, then Trades Recognition Australia, and so on.

The skills assessment is a check that your relevant skills meet the standards to work in your skilled occupation in Australia.

You will need to provide a scanned certified copy of the skills assessment with the visa application.

You cannot apply for a skilled migration visa if you do not get a positive assessment result.  The skills assessment is critical to the visa.

There are some exemptions to needing a skills assessment, they are:

  1. If you currently hold a subclass 444 visa or subclass 461 visa and have worked for the nominating employer for at least 2 years in the last 3 years; or
  2. Received your qualification in Australia.

After you have received a positive skills assessment, you will need to be nominated by an employer.

You Must be Nominated

An Regional Sponsored Migration – Subclass 187 visa applicant must be nominated by an Australian employer whose business is actively and lawfully operating in Regional Australia.

You must apply for the visa within 6 months of the nomination being approved.

Before being nominated, the employer must advertise the position twice, and not receive any eligible applicants.  The employer must provide evidence of these attempts when nominating.

If the nomination is allowed, the Regional Sponsored Migration – Subclass 187 visa applicant must be less than the required age.

Be Less than the Required Age

To qualify for this Australian visa you must be under the maximum age threshold.

Currently, the age is 45 years old.

However, Australian visa requirements change all the time, so please contact us to provide details in your particular case.

Health Requirements

To meet the health requirement, an applicant must not have a disease or condition that:

  1. A cost to healthcare and/or community service of AUD $49,000 or more; and/or
  2. Prejudices access to scarce health services to Australians in services including most commonly cancer, functional impairment, HIV infection, intellectual impairment, renal disease or failure.

Some of the test for the Skilled Independent Visa – Subclass 189 may include:

  1. Chest x-ray;
  2. Hepatitis b and c test;
  3. HIV test;
  4. Medical examination; and
  5. TB screening test.

This is not required in all cases but depends on where the applicant is coming from and what they intend to do when in Australia.

A Regional Sponsored Migration – Subclass 187 visa applicant must also meet the character requirements of the visa.

Character Requirements

The character requirements mean that the applicant and others included in the application must be of good character and must remain of good character.

The character requirements include (but not limited to) whether:

  1. You have been sentenced to a term, or two or more terms, of imprisonment of 12 months or more;
  2. You are or have been a member of, or have an association with, a person or group or organisation that are involved in criminal conduct;
  3. Serious crimes such as crimes against humanity, crimes involving torture or slavery, genocide, people smuggling, people trafficking, sexually based offences involving a child, and/or war crimes, ect; and/or
  4. Received an adverse security assessment by ASIO.

For more information, the character requirements are provided at section 501 of the Migration Act 1958.

Speak to a Competent Level of English

You must have a competent level of the English language.

To prove you have the required level of English, you will need to provide evidence that you are a passport holding citizen of the following countries:

  1. United Kingdom;
  2. United States of America;
  3. Canada;
  4. New Zealand; or
  5. Republic of Ireland.

Alternatively, you will need to provide evidence of the following:

  1. Score at least 6 for each of the 4 components in the International English Language Testing System (IELTS); or
  2. Score at least 12 for listening, 13 for reading, 21 for writing and 18 for speaking in the Test of English as a Foreign Language internet-based Test (TOEFL iBT); or
  3. Score at least 50 for each of the 4 components in the Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic); or
  4. Score at least B for each of the 4 components of the Occupational English Test (OET); or
  5. Score at least 169 in each of the 4 components of the Cambridge C1 Advanced test.

You will also need to score the required points in the points test.

Cost of Regional Sponsored Migration Visa

Currently, the cost to the Department of Immigration for a Skilled Independent Visa is:

  • $4,045.00 AUD for the initial Skilled Regional applicant; plus
  • $2,025.00 AUD for each additional applicant over 18 years of age; plus
  • $1,010.00 AUD for each additional applicant under 18 years of age.

However, these prices change all of the time.  To be sure use the Visa Pricing Estimator.

You may then also have to pay the second instalment of $4,890.00 if applicable.  The second instalment is payable after you have made your application but before the visa can be granted.

You will need to pay an extra charge called a second instalment for any family member aged 18 years or older who:

  • Applies for the visa with you; and
  • Has less than Functional English.

You might also have to pay other costs to third parties for things such as:

  1. Health checks and tests;
  2. Police certificates;
  3. Biometrics;
  4. Skills Assessment; and
  5. English language tests.

Also, if you decide to use a solicitor of migration agent, then those costs will be extra.

For more information visit – https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-listing/regional-sponsor-migration-scheme-187/direct-entry-stream

 

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