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By: Ben Lear
It’s a familiar scenario to many mobility professionals: a line manager in your business needs an overseas colleague to travel to Australia urgently. Perhaps they are needed for a series of client meetings, to attend a training session, or to collaborate on a project for a month or two. They look at the Department of Immigration website and find the quickest and easiest visa. Before you know it, an unexpected visitor is reporting in to your workplace every day, but the visa they hold has no work rights or, even worse, has expired.
In November 2014, the initial entry and maximum stay period of the Temporary Work (Short Stay Activity) subclass 400 visa was extended from three to six months. The expansion of this subclass program facilitates a more adaptable approach to business travel and short-term work assignments where a permanent position in Australia is not required.
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Are for a clearly defined period of up to six months, and not part of an ongoing role in the Australian business;
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Involve highly specialised skills in a managerial, professional or trade role that are specialised and/or proprietary in nature and cannot easily be sourced from the Australian labour market; and will not adversely affect employment and training opportunities for Australians.
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