Employer Nomination Scheme

The ENS visa is a permanent visa allowing the sponsored employee and their dependents to stay indefinitely in Australia. It is a common way of most 457 visa holders to apply for this visa, higher skills and English requirement is mandatory.

There are two stages to the ENS subclass 186 application:

• Nomination:  Involves review of the business as well as the position being sponsored by the employer.

• Visa Application:  There are different ways to approach this, which may require English language test, skills assessment, and police checks.

There are three possible application pathways for an ENS visa:

• Temporary Residence Transition: This is where the employee has worked with the employer on a 457 visa for 2 years. After March 2018 and with the replacement of the 457 visa with the new TSS visa, this would be changed to 3 years.

• Direct Entry Stream: For this stream, the employee does not have to work with the employee for 2-3 years. This is a direct pathway to permanent visa and requires skills assessment and 3 years of prior experience.

• Agreement Stream: where the employer has a Labour Agreement

• ENS visa is a permanent visa and usually entails higher documentation than a 457 visa. Some of the problems include.

• Skills assessment- Each skills assessment authority demands a different level of skills/experience/English scores.

• Employer should meet the “satisfactory record of training”

• Please book a consultation with one of our advisors if you would like assistance with your visa application.