You can leave and re-enter
Australia within the 12 months from the date of initial entry to Australia.
However, if you depart Australia during your 12 month stay, you are not able to
recover in any way the period of time spent outside Australia.
Click here to go to
application form # 1150
Second Working Holiday Visa
If you are
planning to apply for A Second Working Holiday Visa, it is advisable to start
early on your 3 months of work in Regional Australia, rather than doing it at
the end of your first year, as people often end up running out of time and will
fail to qualify if they are 1 or 2 days short of the required 3 months.
Remember, if you are building up the 3 months at a number of different WWOOF
Hosts, or with a mixture of paid work and WWOOFing, to allow for travel time in
between hosts as this does not count as days worked.
Click here to go to
application form # 1263
To be
eligible for a second Working Holiday visa, you must meet a number of general
requirements:-
-
have
completed three months of
Specified work
in
regional Australia while on your first Working Holiday visa
-
be aged
between 18 and 30 years (inclusive) at the time of applying
-
if
applying from outside Australia, be applying no more than 12 months before
you intend to travel to Australia
-
not
have any dependant children
-
hold a
passport for a country or region participating in the Working Holiday
program.
WWOOFing is accepted by
DIAC
as a suitable activity to qualify for this visa, you must ensure that the Hosts
you work for are located within the areas set out by
DIAC.
Go to the DIAC
website for more information
For the purposes of meeting the
requirements for a second Working Holiday visa, see the DIAC definitions for 'Specified
work' and *'Regional
Australia'
*Regional
Australia: is defined as
anywhere in Australia except Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong, the NSW Central
Coast, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Perth, Melbourne or the ACT. Check the
Postcode list on DIAC's website for details of places that qualify, work
MUST be done within these postcode areas in order to be included in your
application.
Three months is considered to be
three calendar months. Time worked is taken from start date to end date e.g., if
a person works for one employer for two weeks, weekends will not be deducted.
Work must be full time. Full time work is taken to be the norm for that
employer, that region and that industry, as WWOOFing is 4-6 hours per day, this
is considered the norm for WWOOF.
The work need not be paid
work e.g.: "work undertaken as a volunteer or through the WWOOFing scheme
(Willing Workers on Organic Farms) may be counted toward the three months of
specified work if your WWOOF Host is in
regional Australia.
You will still need to provide evidence that you have done a minimum of three
months of
specified work".
Three
months work can be spread over a number of WWOOF Hosts, each Host must be
located in one of the postcodes listed on DIAC's
Postcode list, and must sign your form stating the number of days you
have worked with them, so make sure you ask the Host prior to staying with them
if they are happy to sign your form. Hosts will only sign these forms if
WWOOFers have actually done the required amount of specified work each day as agreed with
the hosts when arranging to stay. DIAC randomly check one in every seven
applications with WWOOF Hosts & other employers to see if the specified work has been
done for the number of days stated on the form, so ensure your host records this
information in their guestbook.
Please note: Hosts do not need
to be a commercial operation or hold
an ABN to sign your form, but you cannot lodge the form online if they don't
have one, in this case you will need to mail your completed form.
