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Migration process: Why is PR (Permanent Residence) the best option?
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We strongly advise our candidates to apply for permanent residence, in order to be in the best personal and professional position when they come to Australia. If that option is available to you, it is the best choice for the following reasons:
- It leads to full Citizenship after 2 years of living in Australia.
- It enables you to be in the best personal position as you don’t have to worry anymore about going in and out of the country as a tourist or other visas ( business or employment sponsorship).
- If you are on an employment sponsorship visa, employers take advantage of your situation and pay you less and they know that you depend on them, as you have to leave the country in a month if something goes wrong with the employer.
- You are in a far better marketable position if you apply for jobs as a PR otherwise you will find that employers don’t even want to consider you because the employment sponsorship is a very complicated procedure for them to go through.
- Even if you just decide to be a student (or your partner wishes to study in Australia) it’s still the best choice as studies in Australia are very expensive for overseas students and once you become a PR you immediately enjoy the benefits of a local student, and pay from half to a third of the price for your studies and you are eligible for various Government grants. Students that came from overseas found out that they would have been in a far better position if they had applied for the PR from overseas and came into Australia already as a permanent resident.
- You get immediately free Medicare that is the basic governmental insurance package. As to social benefits you will get them only after 2 years of living in Australia as a PR.