Chen Wei believes that in addition to her employer bankruptcy, visa approval time is too long is also a major cause of her plight. (SBS picture)
Some employers end their business while they are still doing employer-nominated immigration guarantees, leaving immigrant applicants in trouble.
Wei "Mira" Chen, a Chinese woman, told her story, according to SBS. Despite guarantees from prominent employers, she has twice applied for permanent residence in Australia.
It is reported that 29-year-old Chen Wei earlier in the industry training, in Sydney in Jamie' S Italian found a job as a junior chef, and because Perth had no experienced staff, Chen Wei, who had just graduated for two weeks, moved to the local Jamie' In December 2016, the company secured her application for permanent residence under the remote area guaranteed Migration Program (RSMS),).
(Keystone Group), the cornerstone group that owns six Jamie's Italian restaurants across Australia, voluntarily went bankrupt in 2016, while her application for permanent residence was pending approval, and could no longer provide her with a two-year employment contract.
Ms. Chen said the approval time for RSMS was 13 months, while she worked in Perth`s restaurant for only six months because her application for permanent residence was rejected because of the instability of her job. To make matters worse, Perth was no longer listed as a remote area in March 2017, meaning that Perth would no longer be eligible for a RSMS visa in downtown Perth.
While Chen Wei continued to work at Jamie's Italian Restaurant in Perth, Jamie's Italian Catering Group bought back the Australian stores in 2017, and Chen Wei moved to Jamie' in Canberra. S Italian worked and her new employer reguaranteed her RSMS visa.
Chen said she and her husband have traveled from the east coast to the west coast in recent years, driving for the job for six days and returning from Perth on the west coast to Canberra`s home on the east coast.
Unexpectedly, while Chen`s permanent residence visa is still being approved, the Jamie's Italian Canberra store closed in April, and employees knew nothing until then. Last month, Ms. Chen was denied an employer-guaranteed permanent residence application for working in the same restaurant, and she is now seeking compensation for her severance pay and mandatory notice period.
It is reported that when the authorities refused to sign Chen Wei, she admitted that she was "negatively affected" by factors beyond her control. Two companies operating the same restaurant group went bankrupt twice in two and a half years, causing a negative impact on Chen, the letter said.
"I worked in the same business for three years, in three different cities, from east to west, but twice failed to apply for a [permanent residence] visa," Chen said. Now I have to leave the country without getting any rights. "
In addition to her employer`s bankruptcy, Chen said the lengthy visa approval time was also an important factor in her plight, as the longer the time was for applicants who had no control of the business, the greater the risk. "I didn`t do anything wrong, but I ended up throwing away time, money and hard work, and there was nothing I could do about it."
