Boomerang Australia Studies

DESCRIPTION

Since January 2004, some countries have been eligible to the working holiday visa.

This visa allows you to travel and work during one year in Australia . The advantage is that you can work to cover your main daily expenses and to save to travel around, and the visa application is easy and fast. the visa costs AU$195.

CONDITIONS

Australia has reciprocal Working Holiday maker arrangements in effect with the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, Japan, Republic of Ireland, Republic of Korea, Malta, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) of the People's Republic of China, Finland, the Republic of Cyprus, France, and Italy, Belgium, Estonia and Taiwan.
Consult the following website for further details.

The conditions are the following:
- Valid for one year from arrival in Australia
- You can only apply for this visa OUTSIDE of Australia
- You will receive an electronic virtual visa if you apply online!!
- You must be between 18 and 30 years old;
- You can study a course of maximum 3 months (12 weeks)
- You can work full time for one year but not more than 6 months for the same employer
- When your visa expires, you can renew it into different visas such as visitor visa (AU$ 200), student visa (AU$420), Sponsorship visa

For more information about our working holiday Starterpacks especially prepared to provide you with airport transfer, acccommodation, english course and job assistance, see below.

NEW!! Upcoming changes to the Working Holiday Maker Programme:
From 1 July 2006, several changes will be made to the Working Holiday Maker (WHM) (visa subclass 417) programme, including:
Increasing the work limitation with each employer from 3 to 6 months;
Increasing the study/training limitation from 3 to 4 months; and
Expanding the definition of ‘seasonal work’ (for second WHM visa eligibility) to include some primary industries (see new definition below).

These changes apply only to WHM visa applications lodged on or after 1 July 2006.
Seasonal work completed before 1 July 2006 in the industries listed below may be counted toward the three months of seasonal work in regional Australia requirement for WHM visa applications lodged on or after 1 July 2006.
Expanded Definition of ‘Seasonal Work’
‘Seasonal Work’:
picking fruit, nuts and other crops
pruning and trimming vines and trees
general maintenance crop work
immediate processing of plant products
other work associated with packing or transporting the harvest
cultivating or propagating plants, fungi or their products or parts
maintaining animals for the purpose of selling them or their bodily produce, including natural increase
immediate processing of animal products including shearing, butchery, packing and tanning
manufacturing dairy produce from raw material
conducting operations relating directly to taking or catching fish, turtles, dugong, beche-de-mer, crustaceans or aquatic molluscs
conducting operations relating directly to taking or culturing pearls or pearl shell
planting or tending trees in a plantation or forest that are intended to be felled
felling trees in a plantation or forest, or
transporting trees or parts of trees that were felled in a plantation or forest to the place where they are first to be milled or processed or from which they are to be transported to the place where they are to be milled or processed.

OUR ADVICE

Even if you think that you have a competent level of English, we advise you to apply for our STARTER PACKS that include an English course since it will allow you to become familiar with the “Aussie” accent (quite different from the English and American accent!), to make friends quickly and receive an official certificate of attainment confirming your level of English.

To find a job easily in restaurants, cafés, clubs..., it is recommended to seat for the RSA Certificate (responsible for serving alcohol), a compulsory qualification to work in hospitality in Australia. The training lasts one day and you receive your certificate the same day. We offer a very competitive rate (AU$75) and can organize a course for you. Contact-us or call us on (02) 9356 4125.

Don't think that being a Working Holiday visa maker will allow you to find a very valuable job: most of the vacant jobs are in the hospitaliy industry, fruit picking, labouring... and you have to change employers every 3 months!!

OUR STARTER PACKS

To assist you start on good feet in Australia from the first days on, we have prepared some STARTER PACKS in the major Australian cities: they are adapted to your needs and include services essential to adapt and integrate as soon as possible.

The STARTER PACKS content has been elaborated thanks to our expert experience in the matter and guarantee a safe journey within Australia. they include
- Assistance from the day your contact us until your last day in Australia
- Transfer to your accommodation,
- 7 nights accommodation in clean budget hostels downtown,
- English course,
- Job Assistance (guaranteed or not according to the cities),
- Welcome kit at arrival.

Contact us if you are interested in one of our packs.

APPLICATION

If you are interested in one of our starter packs, contact us and we will send you all the documents you need to organise your coming Down Under!!