SID visa 482
Skills in Demand visa (SID visa) SC 482 visa lets an employer sponsor a suitably skilled worker to fill a position they can’t find a suitably skilled Australian to fill. It facilitates targeted use of overseas workers to address temporary skill shortages, while ensuring that Australian workers are prioritised.
The application process for the initial 482 visa involves three stages:
- Sponsorship : lodging an application by an employer for standard business sponsorship status or negotiation of a labour agreement with the Australian government represented by the Department to sponsor overseas workers;
- Nomination : lodging a nomination application by the employer concerning the position to be filled by the nominee; and
- Visa application: lodging a visa application by the applicant and their accompanying family members.
There are three streams available under this visa program:
Core Skills stream – The Core Skills stream allows employers to address labour shortages by sponsoring skilled overseas workers for occupations listed on the Core Skills Occupation List (CSOL). This visa enables workers to stay in Australia for up to four years (or five for Hong Kong passport holders) and offers a pathway to permanent residency if eligible.
Labour Agreement stream – The Labour agreement stream is utilised where an employer has executed a labour agreement with the Commonwealth to source skilled overseas workers, because there is a demonstrated need that cannot be met in the Australian labour market and standard visa programs are not available.
Skilling Australians Fund (SAF) levy (Paid by the Employer)
The employer must pay the applicable nomination training contribution charge (referred to frequently as the “SAF Levy”) at the time of lodgement of the nomination. The calculations and amount of the SAF levy are as follows:
- For businesses that have an annual turnover of < $10 million ( $1200 per visa per year for each employee )
- For businesses that have an annual turnover of > $10 million ( $1800 per visa per year for each employee )
Labour Market Testing (LMT) for TSS
As part of the LMT requirement, sponsors are required to demonstrate that there is no suitably qualified and experienced Australian citizen or permanent resident, or eligible temporary visa holder who is readily available to fill the nominated position.
When sponsors nominate an applicant they must provide a copy of the advertising material used to advertise the position (that is, copies of all advertisements that meet the advertising requirements).
For most nominations, the position must have been advertised for at least four weeks within the four month period immediately prior to lodging the nomination application.
If an Australian citizen or permanent resident worker has been made redundant or retrenched from the nominated occupation within 4 months before lodging the nomination application, the advertising must have occurred since the date of the redundancy or retrenchment.
Note: information about these redundancies or retrenchments must also be provided with the nomination.
In addition, the advertising of the nominated position must meet all of the requirements below:
- – the advertisement was in Australia, in English and included the following information:
- – the title, or a description, of the position
Note: multiple positions in one advertisement is acceptable - – the skills or experience required for the position
- – the name of the approved sponsor or the name of the recruitment agency being used by the sponsor
- – the salary for the position – if the annual earnings for the position are lower than AUD96,400
Note: it is acceptable to publish a salary range (for example, AUD80,000 to AUD90,000).
- – the title, or a description, of the position
- – at least 2 advertisements were published in any of the below:
- – on a prominent or professional recruitment website with national reach that publishes advertisements for positions throughout Australia
- – industry specific recruitment websites relevant to the occupation that are in significant use by the industry are an acceptable method of LMT advertising
- – a general classifieds website or an advertisement solely through social media notification (such as Twitter or Instagram) are not acceptable methods. LinkedIn’s online recruitment platform is acceptable for LMT purposes. Job vacancies restricted to LinkedIn profile members only are not acceptable for LMT purposes.
- – in national print media (that is, newspapers or magazines with national reach that are published at least monthly and marketed throughout Australia)
- – on national radio with national reach
- – on the business’ website if the sponsor is an accredited sponsor.
- – on a prominent or professional recruitment website with national reach that publishes advertisements for positions throughout Australia
- – advertisements, including on websites, are expected to have run for at least 4 weeks
- – applications or expressions of interest for the advertised position must have been accepted for at least 4 weeks.
Note:
- – the nominated position may be advertised in the same medium (such as newspaper advertisements, on two separate occasions) or in any two different mediums simultaneously, or on two separate occasions
- – the nominated position may be advertised over two or more overlapping periods totalling a minimum of 4 weeks
- – advertising may have been undertaken by a third party if authorised to do so by the sponsor (for example, an associated entity or a contracted party, such as a recruitment agency) – there is no requirement that the sponsor placed the advertisement themselves.
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