BNO Australian Working Holiday Visa
BNO Australian Working Holiday Visa
In response to the entry into force of the free trade agreement between Australia and the UK, the Australian Department of Home Affairs announced that there are also changes to the working holiday visa (Working Holiday visa) for British passport holders, and the British National (Overseas) passport, or BNO, will also receive the same treatment. The Ministry of the Interior announced that from July 1, 2023, the upper limit of age for Hong Kong people holding a BNO to apply for a working holiday visa will be raised from the current 30 to 35; from July 1, 2024, they will not be required to do farm work, etc. “Specific types of work”, you can apply for the second and third working holiday visas, and stay in Australia for 3 years, and the 3 visa periods do not have to be consecutive.
Like most countries and regions, holders of Hong Kong SAR passports apply for working holiday visas, aged 18 to 30, who can travel and work in Australia for one year at the same time. If they work in a specific type of work for at least 3 months, they can apply for the second For the second visa, the third visa requires you to work in a specific type of work for 6 months in the second year. Specific types of work are usually manual labor jobs, such as agricultural work such as picking fruit, but also packing fruit in factories, as well as working in mines such as coal mines, and tourism work in very remote areas such as tour guides, restaurant chefs and tour buses The driver waits.
Holders of SAR passports can stay in BNO for two more years
The latest announcement of the Ministry of the Interior mentions that if you hold a Hong Kong SAR passport and a BNO at the same time, after entering Australia with a Hong Kong SAR passport for the first working holiday visa, you can use the BNO to apply for the second and third visas. If you use BNO to apply for a second visa from July 1, 2024, you do not need to work in a specific type of work for 3 months. In addition, whether it is a British passport holder or a BNO, other requirements remain the same, such as the same employer can only work for 6 months, and can only study for a maximum of 4 months. For Hong Kong people who hold a BNO, the biggest benefit is that they can work and travel in Australia for 3 years without doing manual labor work, and they can apply for a working holiday visa at the latest when they are 35 years old.
2023-07-31 20:30:23
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