{"id":27556,"date":"2022-04-05T11:13:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T01:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/?p=27556"},"modified":"2023-10-20T08:33:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T08:33:11","slug":"removal-of-age-restrictions-for-457-visa-holders-applying-for-pr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/news\/removal-of-age-restrictions-for-457-visa-holders-applying-for-pr","title":{"rendered":"Removal of age restrictions for 457 visa holders, applying for PR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Immigration has announced that anyone who held, or had applied for, a 457 visa before or after 18 April 2017 and had been in Australia in the specified period, can now apply for a permanent visa subclass 186TRT, regardless of their age.<\/p>\n<p>Certain temporary skilled visa holders, known as \u2018legacy 457 workers\u2019, may now be eligible to become a permanent residents in Australia by applying for a Subclass 186 (Employer Nomination Scheme) visa (subclass 186 visa), or a Subclass 187 (Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme) visa (subclass 187 visa).<\/p>\n<p>The revised legislation will now exempt those who are on a Subclass 457 (Temporary Work (Skilled)) visa (subclass 457 visa) holders, who had not met the age requirement under the subclass 186 visa in the Temporary Residence Transition Stream (TRT stream).<\/p>\n<p>Known as a \u2018legacy 457 worker\u2019, more subclass 457 visa holders will now be eligible for permanent residence in Australia from 1 July 2022. Legacy 457 worker means a person who, for a subclass 186 visa application:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>held a subclass 457 visa on or after 18 April 2017; and<\/li>\n<li>was in Australia for at least 12 months between 1 February 2020 and 14 December 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ed7d31;\"><strong>For further information, if this announcement affects you or you require any further details, please get in touch with our expert team.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>We will be hosting a live webinar \u2013 register <a href=\"https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/8416491211890\/WN_m4m1SJ9gQgidi1C-1jXIcA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to hear more details from our immigration experts and have the opportunity to ask questions.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Immigration has announced that anyone who held, or had applied for, a 457 visa before or after 18 April 2017 and had been in Australia in the specified period, can now apply for a permanent visa subclass 186TRT, regardless of their age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":46202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-27556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-186-visa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/absoluteimmigration.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}