In Australia the Working Holiday Visa: instructions for use
I'm in London I've never actually lived, but if I had known in advance that the national product of the land of kangaroos was the Vegemite, a thought perhaps I would have done. Fortunately, I have to say, my decision to leave, a couple of years ago, it was not driven by the desire to explore a fine gourmet cuisine, and what convinced me to get to Australia was one of the reasons contained in the more or less long series that more and more young people today seem to use as a motive to charge a backpack. Someone told me that in Italy partly because everything goes wrong, someone in search of gold, someone else is simply tired of everyday life: excuses. A twenty something years and we do not start to not get depressed, you do not start because something turns in the wrong direction. Leaving is not a second choice, not an alternative. A twenty something years and we leave, you should leave, for a spontaneous curiosity, by instinct, to challenge themselves. This is what leads us to travel, the desire to explore, to know.
Explore, learn, travel. Fine words, you know, sin which in most cases require a heavy financing to be pronounced. Travelling in the long term does not mean to go on vacation and, once achieved, there soon realizes that choosing the destination becomes the easiest step. We speak English? Check. There is work?Check. It is easy to find work? Check. There is so much to see that it will hurt your eyes? Check. So that's why you go to Australia. They range in Australia because it is one of the few states that through an agreement with Italy, one of the Working Holiday Visa allows us to stay working within the country for a whole year. It is partly because Australia is one of the few places where finance its working travel is still a possibility, where each day brings, and all are welcome, hundreds of young people from all over the world, and where even without knowing the language is easy to survive . As you move then? Simple, you get the visa, buy a ticket, and off you go. Or maybe not.
"But I'll find work? How much is needed? In which city should I go? And if I'm alone? Where do I sleep?Where can I use? How much can I earn? How much does life? And if you do not know English? As I move?What documents are needed? How do I get them? ". And so on. One could go on for hours, and more doubts assail us, and the further away from the start. Let's do some 'order then.
The first step is Visa, Working Holiday Visa (Subclass 417) , which is obtained by completing a series of online forms on the website of immigration. The questions within the application mainly concern the health, economic status and any criminal history, as well as an idea of your travel plans. The visa costs around 180 Euros, is available to all Italian citizens under the 31-year and allows access to Australia within a year were obtained. Entering Australia visa is activated, at which point you have twelve months available for work and travel. The next step is to find a place to sleep. In one of the most backpacker friendly world, hostels are everywhere. Those arriving on a budget opt for one of these structures, at least for the first few times, where you can share a dormitory with other people for a relatively affordable price, a great way to meet other boys and girls in the same situation. Once settled in, a room in a shared apartment is sifting on sites like Gumtree , or for those who really want to pull the strap opportunities as WWOOFing , Couchsurfing, Au and HelpX cancel the full costs of housing, or nearly so.'s work is immediately after.Once you have your TFN, the equivalent to our tax code, you are ready to get into the game. The works are located in different manners, depending on the skills, industry, and the situation. A typically Australian, the hostel of the work, can help a lot in unskilled jobs in rural areas, mainly in agriculture, while in the civilized world is still Gumtree to contain most of the ads. A curriculum suited to the Australian market can make a difference, as well as being already in possession of the certificates needed to work in certain areas, such as the RSA hospitality or White Card in the building.
It is work, you earn a lot (more or less) of money, then what? Contrary to the advice of any financial advisor, the best investment you can make with their savings in Australia is to buy half of fourth-hand and hit the road with my fingers crossed. The flea market is huge and you can find a machine with a few hundred dollars, if you have the courage to stand in front of the intricate bureaucracy Australian property transfer. But then comes the fun part, the journey that will cross a diversity such that there will be found to be in contact with environments that are opposed within a few weeks. Australia is made for the road, and only with their own transport you will have the opportunity to reach the most remote areas, the tropical forests of the Top End, the endless expanses of red Red Centre, the deserted beaches of Western Australia.You can start from Melbourne and head north passing from Sydney , Byron Bay , Brisbane and reach Cairnsand Cape Tribulation. Or you can cut the middle, moving from Adelaide to Uluru, reaching the capital of the northern territories, Darwin. And then there's the West, with Broome, Shark Bay, up to Perth . The possibilities are endless.
