Heading forward one more step, South Australia approves 174 occupations for the sponsored visa (DAMA program).
The South Australian government has made an agreement with the federal government for “Designated Area Migration agreement (DAMA)”. The new sponsored visa program has been started to cover the shortage of skilled workers in these designated areas of South Australia.
The new sponsored visa program will work under the “temporary shortage skill visa program (subclass 482)” and will also allow applicants to get the permanent residency afterward.
“in a range of selected positions, concessions have been offered for salary, English language proficiency, skills and experience and age factors to entertain permanent residency”.
South Australia has divided this new DAMA in two areas; Adelaide Metropolitan region with 60 occupations and South Australian Regional Workforce Agreement with 114 occupations. Both have different occupation lists and requirements with newly announced concessions.
DAMA will help employers to recruit overseas workers for their businesses with more flexible requirements than are available via the standard skill visa program.
“this new “Designated Area Migration agreement (DAMA)” is expected to start in November 2019″.
1- Adelaide Innovation and Technology Agreement
This agreement offers a total of 60 occupations including Web Designer, Quality Assurance Manager, Metal Fabricator, Illustrator, Welder (First Class) and many others to support high-tech growth industries. This applies to only the Metropolitan region of Adelaide. Concessions have also been offered with the possibility of getting a permanent residency by staying in South Australia for a specified time period on a temporary visa. Age relaxation will also be given for PR, mostly under 55 and 50 years of age level for different occupation categories.
All occupations included in this category give a pathway for permanent residency.
Download here the list of complete 60 occupations for Adelaide Innovation and Technology Agreement.
2- South Australian Regional Workforce Agreement
Almost double occupations have been approved for South Australian Regional Workforce Agreement including health and care, hospitality and tourism, agriculture, nursing and many other occupations with a total number of 114. Applicants under the age of 50 would be able to apply for this program under standard “temporary shortage skill visa program (subclass 482)”. This category covers the whole state of South Australia.
Many concessions (for each job, different concessions apply) have been offered for this category for different jobs such as:
- Skill assessment concession
- Age concession to apply for permanent residency
- Up to 10% decrease in Temporary Skilled Migration Income Threshold
- English language concession with 4.5 band score (no less than 4.0) in each module
DAMA is an employer-driven program and applicants cannot apply for a visa on their own. First, the job offer is a must and then the employer will apply for further procedure with the South Australian government.
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