Best VISAs for South African Engineers To Work in Australia

It's good news for those having a qualification of engineering – experienced or graduates. This is truly an opportunity to immigrate to Australia and get an amazing experience of work from there. You can also take along your partners and children. There is an open visa of 18 month to live, work and travel to Australia. There is a huge difference in packages so offered.

For those having a qualification of a South African engineer, Australia has a few great options open for you. A fresher and an experienced engineer, both are eligible for the same. There are two types of visas:

• Skilled recognized graduate
• Skilled independent Visa – All experienced engineers are eligible for this visa. Engineers are always high on demand in Australia. Both in the medium and long term strategic skills list, various occupations are present that could occupy several qualified engineers. Thus, this visa is definitely the best to apply for in Australia. The age range of 35 years to 45 years old people are mostly the ones applying for skilled independent visa. You can qualify to work for in any place in Australia with this visa and as in any occupational field. Although the application fee for it is extremely high.

Thus, a new option for a lower application fee is also open. The way for it is applying for Skilled Recognized Graduate Visa.

Skilled Recognized Graduate Visa

If you are a fresher and a graduate in engineering, then you can have a hand in trying for a skilled recognized graduate visa in Australia. You shall be eligible even if you a zero experience till now. Being a graduate, you can live, travel and work out there in Australia for up to 18 months.

The requirements to fulfil are:

• You must below 31 years of age
• Your graduation must be complete within 24 months of your visa application
• You must qualify English language test
• Your qualification must be from a recognized institute

In the above discussed visas, you can get your partner and children along with you as well to Australia.

There are various migration consultants, who could assist you in the whole procedure. The migration agent Brisbane, Australia can be an assistant to you while traveling back and forth from Australia to your resident country.

Packages

There is a huge scope for civil engineers in particular, in Australia. The packages vary a lot when compared with that of South Africa.

• A site engineer earns ZAR 342076 in South Africa, and can earn up to ZAR 986000 in Australia.

• A project engineer earns ZAR 411769 in South Africa, and can earn up to ZAR 1299000 in Australia.

• A senior project engineer earns ZAR 766171 in South Africa, and can earn up to ZAR 1560000 in Australia.

• A project manager earns ZAR 369795 in South Africa, and can earn up to ZAR 2286000 in Australia.

The engineers who are an experience in infrastructure engineering are also the ones in demand. So, they can also apply for this visa.

To conclude, if you have engineering qualification and skill set, you must once try for Australian immigration. There are various quorums available in the internet as well as live, to guide and assist you in the procedures of the same.

It should be in the initial stage of your engineering, when you must start thinking from the perspective of applying for Australian migration for work and experience, on completion.