SIR 495 Information

[Guest dglamoore]

Hi

 

Many people get confused over what is and what is not available for SIR 495 visa holders such as schooling, health care, purchasing a house etc

 

Here are a couple of links that may provide you with info you require -

 

Letter for Employers - As this visa is reletaively new potential employers may be confused by it. This letter is written by SA Immigration and explains the visa to employers

 

http://www.immigration.sa.gov.au/site/pdfs/sir_Letter_Employers.pdf

 

All the terms and conditions on what you are entitle too and what you must fulfill for PR Visa is laid out in this factsheet from SA Immigration -

 

http://www.immigration.sa.gov.au/site/pdfs/General%20Info%20-%20SIR.pdf

 

As an SIR holder you are entitled to Medicare under the reciprocal agreement with the UK for necessary healthcare, you can buy a house with FIRB approval and schooling is the same as perm residents within South Australia as in you pay an amount per year for books etc

 

Hope these are of use :lol:

 

Lisa

[Guest donna T]

Hi Lisa

 

Thtis is fab - I have printed off a couple for my files - you really are a min of fantastic info - thank you so much

Donna

[Angela]

Thanks Lisa, this is great. I have a couple of printed versions already which I managed to get earlier in my research but I am going to check what I have is the up to date version, so will be printing your shortly, thanks again for the post

 

Angela

 

ps, you may have noticed from my signature that we have received the PCs back & all ok, meds Tuesday :roll: :roll: , fingers crossed

[Guest Guest75]

Thanks for this info.

 

I roughly knew what the SIR visa route was but this explains it much more.

 

When we applied 9 years ago this did not exist in this form.

 

We came out on a Permanent Residency business owner visa (495 I think).

 

Unfortunately we were unlucky and were "randomly" picked for regular surveys and interviews.We did feel under pressure but it worked out.