Introduction

The 189 visa Australia or a visa subclass 189 is a skilled worker visa for those workers who have not received sponsorship from any of their relatives or family members. This also applies to those who have not had sponsorships from a company, employee or even an Australian territoryor state. The visa subclass 189 can help skilled workers who want to move permanently to Australia, as it is the most popular visa for immigration to Australia. People looking forward to having a lucrative career in Australia with indefinite options can not apply for the visa 189 Australia under circumstances where there are any relatives or employers living in Australia nor would the Australian government or its territories sponsor or nominate them. 

Migration Agent or Immigration Agent Adelaide would be able to help those aspirants for this visa, as they have years of experience in assisting people to obtain the Australian immigration visas throughout the visa process.

Those who can benefit from this visa are:

• Trained tradesmen
• Qualified experts from other nationalities who can help in bridging the gap of skills lacking in Australia
• Immediate families of applicants such as children, partners or stepchildren, to live as permanent residents with the primary visa holder while they work or acquire education

Key requirements of the subclass 189 visa:

An application for this visa could be made by fulfilling the given requirements-

• There should be an invitation for the person before applying for this visa
• The age of the person should not exceed 45 years at the time they are invited
• A skill must be nominated related to the qualification that matches with the person’s skills on the Skilled Occupations List
• An assessing authority for the respective skill needs to assess the skills nominated by the applicant which are related to their selected occupation
• The applicant must be proficient in English
• A minimum of 60 points needs to be scored by the person in the points test
• The person needs to meet the character and health requirements in their respective assessments

Process requirements for 189 visa

The visa 189 Australia has three stages for the application process:

• 1st stage – it needs the completion of the skills assessment that applies to the government body dealing with it. The applicant’s assessment would ease the DIBP’s ( (Department of Immigration and Border Protection)decision on whether the selected occupation by the applicant has the necessary skill levels appropriate for practicing in Australia.
• 2nd stage – once the results of the skill assessment come out as positive, an EOI or Expression of Interest would follow in SkillSelect. This is the online system of the Australian government designed for efficient and fast potential ranking of visa applicants and enables a link between the employers of Australia and their potential migrant employees.
• In the third stage – an applicant can move from the stage of DIBP only after they receive an invitation to apply. it is then that they can submit a complete application to get the DIBP approval for obtaining their visa.

The visa 189 Australia has the following streams:

• Points-tested– skilled workers invited for the skills needed by Australia are allowed to work or live permanently in any part of Australia

•  These workers don’t need anybody to nominate or sponsor them
• They need to be invited for applying
• They should be aged less than 45 years
• It would cost starting from AUD4045
• It could take nine months for most of the applications to be processed

• NZ or New Zealand – eligible citizens of New Zealand are allowed to work and live permanently in Australia after assessing their contribution and commitment towards the country through their actions. 
• They must be subclass 444 or NZ Special Category visa holders
• Their stay in Australia should at least be of the preceding five years
• Their stay in Australia must have begun on or before 19 February 2016
• the cost for this visa would start from AUD4045 for the primary applicant. This is broken into two installments – 20% at the time of application and 80% before the visa grant.
• Most of the applications take 19 months to process

Conclusion
A Skilled Independent Visa 189 holder can stay in Australia permanently with either of the mentioned streams. A program known as General Skilled Migration is available for skilled workers to migrate to Australia. The only method to migrate and proceed with the application is through this program, provided the applicant fulfills the basic requirements listed above. It is imperative for the visa aspirants to successfully clear the points test for migrating and hence be eligible for obtaining the visa. It is an extremely popular visa for skilled workers. They can easily move to Australia without the help of an if the skills possessed by them are in demand at that point in the country.