The immigration community has long had little news to discuss. The recent five-year NT DAMA agreement between the Northern Territory and the Federal government aims to address the shortage of local human resources in the Northern Territory. Recently, many Australian local and domestic guests have consulted the compass on NT DAMA policy.
Many people simply think that the policy has been relaxed! There`s a new way to emigrate! The threshold is down! The simple response to this judgment is that these are "illusions" without understanding the NT DAMA policy or the Northern Territory`s government.
In this article, I would like to introduce to you this highly fired NT DAMA policy. With regard to the interpretation of this policy, I would like to introduce the NT DAMA policy from the following three points:
What is the NT DAMA policy?
What kind of applicants does the NT DAMA policy apply to?
Subjective evaluation of the NTDAMA policy
What is NT DAMA Policy?
Policy is complicated, but you only need to learn from the following information:
1. The full English name of NT DAMA is NorthernTerritory Designated Area Migration Agreement. That means the NT DAMA is just an agreement between the Federal Office for Migration and government, NT. This DAMA is not the exclusive government of NT, and each state is bound to sign its own DAMA, with the Immigration Board according to its own circumstances, which means that there may be WA DAMA,QLD DAMA,VIC DAMA,SA DAMA,NSW DAMA. in the back.
2. This is not a skilled immigrant. The Dama policy is to provide employers in the state with a new way to Sponsor (guarantee) overseas employees to meet the needs of the state. Dama uses the Labour Agreement Stream. under a 482 work visa. Therefore, the popular saying that NT DAMA is actually an employer guarantee immigrant, if no employer is willing to guarantee you, this policy has nothing to do with you.
3. DAMA has great advantages over the traditional 482 Labouragreement stream in the following areas:
DAMA can turn green card. This is the most attractive part of the DAMA. The traditional 482 Labour agreement Stream only allows employers to hire workers from abroad, but these workers do not turn green cards, and the attractiveness of non-turning green cards is naturally greatly reduced. And DAMA provides a green card policy, which is the most attractive part of the DAMA policy.
A wider list of occupations. Under the DAMA system, the state government can draw up a list of occupations based on its own needs, which is more flexible and more responsive to the actual needs of employers. As a result, many applicants who did not wish to do so before, now have the opportunity.
Reduce the requirement of English. Usually 482 applications must provide the same level of 4 IELTS 5 or 4 4.5. However, under the DAMA branch, applicants only need to provide the IELTS total score of 5, listening and speaking items no less than 4, reading and writing items without minimum requirements of substantially reduced English requirements. The 482 visa holders of the DAMA branch also need to provide a low standard of English requirements for future permanent residence, which is equivalent to the equivalent level of no less than 4. 5 for IELTS total score of 5 single subjects. This is also a good thing, before, overseas employees may be very good, but the English is not passed, what do you say killing pigs and sheep such a job should be such a good English? At present, the reduction of English requirements will greatly reduce the difficulty of hiring employers.
A certain amount of salary was allowed to be reduced under the DAMA system. This is definitely a big deal. Employers who used to hire overseas workers had to stick to the federal salary line to ensure that overseas workers didn`t come because they were cheap. The downside of doing so is that such salary lines are too talkative and regional employers may not be able to afford to hire such expensive employees at all, which greatly reduces the interest of business owners in exaggerating their operations, and now, under the DAMA system, this salary can be reduced.
NT local employer guarantee. Qualified to be an NTDAMA employer must be a company operating in the Northern Territory for more than a year and the position must always be with the NTDAMA list. At the same time, the employer has to prove that the position cannot be resolved locally.
What kind of applicants does the NT DAMA policy apply to?
The NT DAMA policy was originally designed to further untie rigid labour visas, lower barriers to English, occupation and pay, and provide green card opportunities to attract people to these extremely remote places. If you just plan to use the policy, take shortcuts, then this policy is not for you, the main reason, the cycle is too long! I will discuss this part in detail later. Then what kind of person is appropriate for NT DAMA:?
- To find NT`s employer. If you can`t find an employer, you don`t have a game, so you don`t have to think about it.
- Poor English. For those who cannot guarantee 4.5 points in a single course, there is no chance of any other immigration route, so consider this.
- Traditional 482 non-green card positions. NTDAMA`s biggest advantage is that a large number of jobs were not originally linked to green cards, but are now tied. For example, the cook position, this is the STSOL section on the 482 position list, that is to say, you can only get a job visa, not a green card. And under NT DAMA policy, Cook position can turn green card. This DAMA is an absolute boon for the work of the mechanic field. And for high-skilled jobs, such as accounting, IT, and so on, in the traditional 482 can also turn to green cards, so look at the DAMA policy is more chicken ribs.
Subjective evaluation of the NTDAMA policy
First of all, it is stated that the following content is extremely subjective, does not represent the Compass Company, only based on the author`s 8 years of experience, in the NT DAMA policy just announced at the point in time, to express their views.
This NT DAMA policy, which I`ve broken down into three parts, is NT,DAMA,NT DAMA..
[let`s talk about NT]
I have lived in Australia for many years, and I still know little about the Northern Territory. I just think this place is really remote, and I don`t have much Chinese. Imagine that NT should be very short of people. It should be a larger state of immigration (see Tata). But in fact, immigration officials in government, NT, seem to me to be dominated by extremely conservative, uncommitted, policy-playing people who control NT`s immigration gates. The policy of these years can basically be described as chicken rib. By contrast, the state`s immigration policy has opened its doors to, economic, prices at an early stage. And NT? It feels like squatting there and looking at the world.
Take a look at the NT`s state government guarantee policy for international students, and you can judge what the NT immigration officials are doing:
Both 489 and 190 must graduate from NT for two years. (Tazhou takes 489 for 1 year and 190 for 2 years).
The demand for local employment is also mentioned in the material requirements for government, NT. The exact amount of execution is unknown, but this thing is put here, and when it is used to card you, it is very panic. The state policy is written very clearly, that is, a two-year study requirements, you can see the picture below to make a comparison.
Without comparison, there is no harm. From the perspective of emigration, we can find that, NT government has not let go of immigration, it is a cautious state, very "conservative".
Why did I mention the NTL government "not keeping its promise" and "playing with policy"?
This is a real hammer. If you know the immigration news, you should have an impression of last year`s MINT project in the Northern Territory, that is to say, a $ five hundred thousand investment in the Northern Territory State government fund, which can be used in Northern Territory State guarantee.
At first I was in charge of this project, the threshold of this project is very high, the compass has about 10 guests to do this project. But in the end, government, NT, changed his mind. They rejected all local Australian applicants for "not being in the Northern Territory or not overseas when grabbing MINT places." The reasons for this rejection were not emphasized at the time of the previous application. The compass also has another guest, a pure overseas applicant, who was supposed to be foolproof, but recently, the state government also refused because "the applicant had an Australian tourist visa two years ago and went to Sydney. NT government does not believe that applicants will live well in NT in the future. This is why I say that NT government will "play with policy" and that the power of interpretation of the policy lies with them, and it is true that there is no reason why there is no crime in addition to desire. If it`s more welcome to immigrants, or to the state of government, which has a good attitude, it can be taken away, or a little bit more open, and NT`s approach is, "NO, we don`t want it!" Even in the case of NT`s government hooliganism, Darwin Innovation Hub, who is working with the Northern Territory, has charged a guest occupancy fee and still has a 90% rebate, and each of our guests has lost A $4500. Is such an approach too much to be described as "shameless"? (this sentence is very subjective and definitely does not represent the company`s remarks!)
Well, that`s it. It`s not good to say that these are subjective things, but personally, I can`t trust the state of government.
[let`s talk about the DAMA policy]
Calm down and say the DAMA policy, which I personally think is a very good policy for the Federal Office of Immigration. I think this is Australia`s immigration reform and opening-up, let some state policies first untied. The lack of people in Australia is self-evident. The previous one-size-fits-all policy clearly does not apply to Australia as a whole. I am a fan of Friedman, I support the high market economic, as a new immigrant, I also hope that Australia economic will be good. The harsh minimum salary system, the strict qualification system, of course, protect local workers, but will only make local people more lazy, Australian products, will only become less competitive.
The DAMA policy, which was the last time the Liberal Party was in power, shows us a very good direction in which Australia`s future labour system should move in a freer, lower threshold. Looking forward to more state government signing DAMA.
[finally, NT DAMA]
For DAMA policy, NT government this "early morning", I don`t want to see them "catch up late". I hope you will live up to all your promises. But in fact, I think that NT DAMA as a whole is still very attractive because the list of occupations is still very limited. If we can further open up pure labour, such as carrying bricks, killing pigs and slaughtering sheep, this type of position may be even more scarce. I`ve really broken my heart about NT. If an employer is really willing to hire you and send you an salary, you can choose. But if some organizations are talking to you about some grey immigration program and think that this low threshold will definitely be possible in the future, then I suggest you think twice.
My personal attitude is that I don`t want to be the first crab eater, and I prefer to be the 100th crab eater. It is also suggested that when you select immigration policies, you should choose the more stable policies as far as possible. So far, you can focus on Tasmania, which is the most open state I have seen so far, and I am also happy to see the development of Tasmania. This is what the state of Tahrenheit deserves.
Author: compass Beijing Company Jason
