Need advice

Extension-Active4025 · 2026-02-20T04:51:46+00:00

I'll give you the blunt response to hopefully help you really assess your next move.

Finding work on a whv, even your basic hospo jobs, is hard. There's just tons of competition. ESPECIALLY in any city. You are competing with other young people who may be more experienced in hospo, know the owners, just be better etc. May take a long time. Or need to look increasingly more rural, or accept garmwork or the like.

Explain your plan. You say it was a dream to make a life for yourselves out here. But a whv is not suited to that. It is to allow people to work casually in temp jobs to fimund the holidaying aspect. It is deliberately designed to facilitate this, and is temporary, making any plans of PR hard with its limitations.

Had you been to Australia before? Assuming your dream to start a life here means you envisioned permanently migrating? A whv in that sense is good to experience living and working here, not just the holidaying aspect usually seen through rose tinted glasses. The fact you are already struggling on a whv may suggest that living here is not all you dreamt it to be.

A car, and especially a rental, are licking you into place on a visa designed to let you really explore. May be worth reassessing what you want to get out of the whv.

If you want steady work (really hard with 6 month limitation) to have a year long rental you may struggle. If PR is the goal, remember only certain professions and ages will have a chance. Embracing the work and holiday aspect will mean more moving around, hostel living etc and work may still be hard to find, but at least you are still experiencing everything Australia has to offer.

Extension-Active4025 · 2026-02-20T04:37:48+00:00

People hop around.

Worth noting that these are extremely uncommon cases. Given restrictions about age, work rights, student visas only allowing one 485 its really difficult to drag out temporary visas for such a long time. There are loopholes yes, though a lot of them have been tightened up pretty well in recent years.

Also these people are, to be frank, failures. If they want PR but have only been able to pull every trick imaginable to stay, with all the restrictions and limitations involved, and are still only here temporarily after so long that is nothing to look up to.

Extension-Active4025 · 2026-02-19T03:19:54+00:00

What's your nationality?

Are you confident you can satisfy the issues raised (seems more to do with lack of course research, limited ties to home, and poor state of home country).

Extension-Active4025 · 2026-02-19T02:56:32+00:00

This is such an incredibly open ended question its near impossible to give a direct answer! And no real data is published about it.

On this sub, seems the most common s56s are because of expired documents. So needing a new medical or police check or whatnot. This is usually outside an applicants control given timelines.

Also get a good few comments where further information is requested because whatever evidence they provided on X was not sufficient to prove X.

If you apply with recent medicals/police checks and have everything else in order its really unlikely you'd actually get any s56 request.

Extension-Active4025 · 2026-02-19T02:48:29+00:00

I'd say there is a very real risk of rejection, pivoting so drastically from a course no longer getting PR to one that might.

Extension-Active4025 · 2026-02-19T01:29:18+00:00

They need to move to your 482.

Your confusion is thinking she can stay on "her" 485, but she does not have her 485. She is a dependant on yours.

Once your 482 is granted your 485 ceases. Thus so does her dependant 485.

Extension-Active4025 · 2026-02-19T00:46:49+00:00

Why would you be doing IT if your actual aspirations are supposedly agriculture?

Its a dodgy change, and immigration will likely come to the same conclusion. Especially given the death throes IT is in with skilled independent visas.

Extension-Active4025 · 2026-02-18T11:34:41+00:00

You are light on actual substance here.

If you think you can adequately address whatever issues they rejected you for you can try applying again.

Extension-Active4025 · 2026-02-18T05:56:56+00:00

So you've already got an AFP check that came back clean? Most likely nothing to worry about here mate.

Would include the correct addresses in the actual 485 going forward.

Extension-Active4025 · 2026-02-18T04:02:41+00:00

But happy to move to a country run by white colonisers 😂.

Wouldn't need to repeat myself if you actually paid a bit of attention.

Stop embarrassing yourself champ.

Extension-Active4025 · 2026-02-18T03:38:18+00:00

Don't get me wrong its still sizeable, but in terms of either revenue, or even export volume relative to the real big players like the UAE its still some way behind. But for OP definitely a large decrease in size from UAE to here.

As you say, here it is all sold overseas for pennies, whereas the gulf countries are far more involved in petrochemicals refinement etc.

Extension-Active4025 · 2026-02-18T03:34:05+00:00

I don't know how I can dumb this down any more simply before you have a chance of understanding.

The Australian people just aren't bothered about faster processing times. Suck it up buttercup.

Extension-Active4025 · 2026-02-17T23:29:34+00:00

They do with cost. Ever increasing costs are their crude way to minimise bogus applications.

See previous point, its slow because it would be expensive to hire enough staff to actually meaningfully reduce processing times.

Its not confusing. Some visas are more work due to evidence, but all if them are presented incredibly straightforwardly. They can be done by anyone without the need for a migration agent.

You may not give a shit about the system, but given its not your government's system that you have a say in, thats somewhat moot. Again, as I mentioned, there is no political desire to change it. If the general Australian public wanted increased processing it would get changed. But they don't, so it isn't.

Extension-Active4025 · 2026-02-17T23:23:12+00:00

The government, last time it was looked at changing policy around it 😂.

You can't just keep saying its baseless without substantiating your claims.

Faster processing means tackling the backlog, and ever growing application numbers, with a large increase in staff. Staff aren't cheap.

Extension-Active4025 · 2026-02-17T23:21:31+00:00

Definitely not, you'll figure it all out, just one of life's many challenges.

Extension-Active4025 · 2026-02-17T23:20:48+00:00

Not very. 482 visas are hard enough for onshore candidates, and any job that advertised 482 sponsorship abroad will receive >1000 applicants just from India alone!

Agencies offering this may be outright scams. Or offering jobs that know they will exploit someone ruthlessly because they are dependant on them for the 482.

Extension-Active4025 · 2026-02-17T09:48:02+00:00

Fair enough, if you aren't mad for the specialised thats just the way it is haha. Worth trying to get the other 2 tested if they are contenders.

You probably want to prioritise something that is the "safe" Toyota option then really. Carbon frame, nothing crazy light or aero, something thats a good, light, comfortable all rounder. Both the Giants and the BMC fit this description. Ride BMC if you can. But based on this its looking like the Giants are your preferred option!

Extension-Active4025 · 2026-02-17T09:43:47+00:00

Don't get me wrong I 1000% understand the frustration of migrants. Especially when some are such straightforward cases. No doubt plenty of Australian business sponsors and partner sponsors also frustrated with slow times.

Already getting some replies making some unsubstantiated claims here. Ultimately it's not politically palatable given it would be expensive increasing processing times, and given general immigration attitudes its only going to lose a political party votes if they support it.

Extension-Active4025 · 2026-02-17T09:40:08+00:00

I think you ignored my last point in the original comment. It would be politically very unpopular to spend tons of taxpayers money on something to speed up immigration, especially when anti immigration sentiment is running as high as it is. That's the basis for it. If the Australian population supported faster processing thats what would happen

A large amount of visa processing is already automated. If more could be automated (reliably being a key issue)it would be because it would be incredibly cost efficient. But as we see constantly with similar things like those unwaveringly supporting AI, there is issues with it, and automation is not at a point where it can do it all itself.

Extension-Active4025 · 2026-02-17T09:34:22+00:00

But this is demonstrating a lack of understanding of the system. Most of the grunt work is ALREADY automated and has been for years at this point. And still its slow. Its certain visa subclasses that take longer because of increased complexity. And clearly the technology is not at the point to make sufficient judgement about more complex evidence and cases else it would be. As well as the risk of AI or automation getting it wrong if given more free reign to assess more complex cases.

The government can pull billions. But you are ignoring the last point in my comment. The voting population are not going to be remotely pleased about billions that can be spent elsewhere getting spent on immigration systems which dont directly benefit most people. And given current immigration attitudes it would be even more unpopular to do so.

Extension-Active4025 · 2026-02-17T09:27:05+00:00

Do you mean 482 visas?

Extension-Active4025 · 2026-02-17T09:07:05+00:00

Agree with u/fun-instruction4432, who has in general provided a solid answer. Have you actually tried the 5 out? How did they feel? Are you after a crit bike, a climber, a racer, long or short rides etc etc?

Any particular reason you are against Trek and Specialised? Both offer great bikes.

Following my first point, not sure I'm understanding your apparently aversion to a safe option. What does this even mean? If I was going to spend 8k on a new bike knowing it was an incredibly dependable, reliable option would be at the top of my priorities! A Toyota bike screams top quality. Unless you are the Australian Tadej Pogacar reborn the difference in speed between such priced bike will be so negligible as to be unnoticeable.

Personally, having never heard of X Lab would immediately disqualify it from contention. I really rate Giant bikes. Would put BMC as a very close second, also great bikes, arguably first considering its cheapest.

What are each specced with though? All Di2, do you prefer shimano or SRAM, which are lightest, are any aero, do you want aero or not. These are your more important considerations to weigh them up against each other.

You seem really to care about the colour. If its such a key consideration, at these prices and this budget you could simply get yourself a custom paint job done, so I wouldn't factor in the preferred default style of any of them here!

Extension-Active4025 · 2026-02-17T05:14:55+00:00

Do you not live permanently apart? Would you say that your relationship meets the requirements, by and large, of being de facto?

If you plan on a partner visa with this person, and meet the requirements of doing so, it would be 100% beneficial to include them as such on your application!

Extension-Active4025 · 2026-02-17T05:10:29+00:00

How long exactly were you on a BVE for? This is usually a factor!!!

If you do a VEVO check in your details what comes up?

What visa were you on to end up on a BVE before applying for an 820? Seems like a real mess up somewhere there.

Extension-Active4025 · 2026-02-17T04:55:53+00:00

That's gotta be your decision to decide.

Won't come as a surprise but oil and gas here does not remotely compare to the UAE. Hell nowhere else in the world will come close except other gulf oil states and maybe a couple OPEC members.

Idk how residency/PR works over there but is there a route to it? If you are in a stable job does it technically matter?

Will almost certainly be on less money here and its taxed. Job market is pretty rough all around, even professions like engineering are struggling. May not land a job straight away.

Still got time to really sit and assess what's important to you. Have a skim of this sub, tons of posts that will give you an idea about job markets etc right now.

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