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Queensland joins STNI scheme QUEENSLAND has, as of October 23, 2007, joined the State and Territory Nominated Independent Skilled visa programme (STNI). This means that now every State and Territory participates in the scheme.This particular programme allows each State and Territory to nominate certain occupations that are in demand in their respective area, if a person has these skills then the State or Territory will consider sponsoring for migration. The big advantage is that the point's score required for this stream is only 100. When you consider that sponsorship under this programme also entitles you to a further 10 points, anyone with a score of 90 points will qualify, provided their occupation is listed by the State or Territory. One of the requirements for sponsorship under this programme is that you acknowledge that you will remain living and working in that State or Territory for two years after your visa is granted. When this visa programme was first introduced many years ago there were only three States participating being Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia. Since that time other States and the Territories have joined the scheme. It is a programme that can really assist some who would not normally obtain sufficient points. A word of warning to those that participate in many of the online instant assessment tests, many of these do not take the STNI programme into account. In recent months many of the States like South Australia, which had quite a large number of occupations on their list, have now reduced the number of occupations considerably meaning that the programme has obviously worked well for them. |
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