Subclass 485 Temporary Graduate Visas

Legislative Instrument – Migration Amendment (Temporary Graduate Visas) Regulations 2020, amends the Migration Regulations to provide COVID concessions to allow SC 485 Temporary Graduate Visas (TGV) applicants to apply offshore and presents the opportunity for second regional SC 485 TGV Post Study stream visas to be allowed under specified conditions.

Second SC 485 Temporary Graduate Visas
Definitions and amendments: This Instrument substitutes and provides definitions for the following terms under Regulation. Contact us now the best immigration agents in Canberra.

Designated regional area - new definition substituted with means a part of Australia specified in an instrument under new registration. This is an inclusive term that provides for the total area covered by the definitions of the designated city or major regional center and designated regional area and may also be used to describe either area.

Designated city or major regional center - means Perth, Adelaide, the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast, Newcastle/Lake Macquarie, Illawarra / Wollongong, Canberra, Geelong, and Hobart

The designated regional center or other regional area means all other areas of regional Australia apart from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Perth, Adelaide, the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast, Newcastle/Lake Macquarie, Illawarra / Wollongong, Canberra, Geelong, and Hobart (i.e the areas listed in the definition of a designated city or major regional center).

Postcodes – the postcodes that define these areas are those in LIN 19/217 Regional Areas Instrument 2019.
Applications for a second Subclass 485 (Temporary Graduate) visa in the Post-Study Work stream can be made from that date. Ask the experts at the best immigration agents in Canberra that is IME Advisors.

Schedule 13 – 9303 – makes clear that the areas specified as a regional center or other regional areas on 20 January 2021 are also taken to be a regional center or other regional areas for all purposes relating to the assessment of where an applicant was living, working or studying before 20 January 2021.

Schedule 13 – 9304 – confirms that an area that was a selected regional area under the old definition continues to be a designated regional area under the new definition, to assess where the applicant lived, studied, and worked before 20 January 2021. When assessing where an applicant lived, studied, or worked after 20 January 2021, the new definition and new legislative instrument under the new version of regulation will be applicable. Ask about subclass 485 to the best immigration agents in Canberra.

Schedule 1 And 2 Requirements.

• Candidates must hold a first Post Study Work 485 visa at TOA for a following Post Study Work 485 visa.
• Applicants must have worked, lived, or studied only in a designated regional area for two years constantly on their first Post Study Work 485 immediately before applying for the second TGV. Contact us now the best immigration agents in Canberra.
• All primary applicants, and members of their family unit, must be in Australia to register for the second TGV application.
• Those who have graduated held a Post Study Work 485 and only lived, worked, and studied in a designated regional center or other regional areas will be eligible for the grant of a second two year Post Study Work 485.
• Applicants qualified to be granted the two-year Post Study visa are prohibited from applying for a one-year Post Study visa. 
• This might include remote work for an employer situated somewhere else and distance education provided by an educational institution located somewhere else. For more details contact the immigration agents in Canberra IME Advisors.

One year second Post Study 485 visas

• New Regulation 485 uses the broader definition of studying, living, and working in a designated regional area as its basis, thus an applicant who has completed some of their time in a designated regional center or other regional center but cannot meet the full requirements for regulation 485 may still be eligible to apply for a second one year TGV visa.

Visa validity and second visa commencement

• The additional Post Study Work 485 commences when the first Post Study Work 485 expires or would have expired i.e. the grant of the additional Post Study Work 485 does not cease the first Post Study Work 485 enabling the holder to gain the full benefit of both visas.

Conditions

• Latest Conditions 8601 is inserted into Schedule 8 this condition requires the primary and secondary second Post Study Work 485 holders to work, live or study only in the relevant designated regional areas for which their visas were granted.
• Applicants and MOFU must announce in their applications that they will abide by this condition.
• The visa may be canceled under s 116(1) (b) of the Migration Act if the visa holder does not comply with this condition. For more information contact IME Advisors the best immigration agents in Canberra.