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What type of work can I do to get another 1 Year WHM?

Thursday, September 17, 2009
If you are here on a WHM, you are undoubtedly aware that if you do three months (88 days) regional work you can extend your visa by 12 months. But what type of work can you do?

The type of work that you can undertake is identified in the list below:
  • Plant and animal cultivation:
    • the harvesting and/or packing of fruit and vegetable crops
    • pruning and trimming vines and trees
    • general maintenance crop work
    • cultivating or propagating plants, fungi or their products or parts
    • immediate processing of plant products
    • maintaining animals for the purpose of selling them or their bodily produce, including natural increase
    • immediate processing of animal products including shearing, butchery, packing and tanning
    • manufacturing dairy produce from raw material
  • Fishing and pearling
    • conducting operations relating directly to taking or catching fish and other aquatic species
    • conducting operations relating directly to taking or culturing pearls or pearl shell
  • Tree farming and felling
    • planting or tending trees in a plantation or forest that are intended to be felled
    • felling trees in a plantation or forest
    • transporting trees or parts of trees that were felled in a plantation or forest to the place where they are first to be milled or processed or from which
    • they are to be transported to the place where they are to be milled or processed
  • Mining
    • coal mining
    • oil and gas extraction
    • metal ore mining
    • construction material mining
    • other non-metallic mineral mining and quarrying
    • exploration
    • mining support services
  • Construction
    • residential building construction
    • non-residential building construction
    • heavy and civil engineering construction
    • land development and site preparation services
    • building structure services
    • building installation services
    • building completion services
    • other construction services
    Please note that if you have a WHM but you are over 31, you can NOT apply for the second WHM as it is a schedule 2 requirement that you are over 18 and under 31 for both the 1st and 2nd visa.

    If you are interested in moving from a Working Holiday Maker or Working Holiday Permit to Permanent Residency, please take our Free Online Assessment or contact us to arrange a one to one consultation.

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