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Australia’s Work-Travel Visa Deal Confirmed with Israel

Australia is following in the footsteps of New Zealand, Germany and South Korea with the governments recent agreement with Israel releasing 500 work-travel Visas allowing young Israeli residents to work and travel around Australia for one year.

The Visa (subclass 462) is a mutually beneficial agreement with Israel reciprocating the offer for young Australian citizens to work and travel throughout Israel for twelve months. The requirements were outlined when the deal was signed by Australia’s Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection, Senator Michaelia Cash and the Israeli ambassador to Australia, Shmuel Ben-Shmuel.

To be eligible for this Visa to Australia some of the requisites include:

• Meet character and health requirements
• Have functional English
• Be 18 years of age or over but no older than 31 years of age at the time you lodge your Visa application
• Have a letter of support from the Israeli government
• Have sufficient finances to support yourself and return ticket funds
• Meet the educational requirements
• Will not be with a dependant child while in Australia
• Have not previously entered Australia on a Working Holiday visa (subclass 417)

If you would like to speak to a qualified migration agent here in Australia about this new work-travel Visa opportunity, please contact our head office today.

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