I am currently traveling on a working holiday visa through Australia. With this particular visa in Australia there is an option to extend the visa for another year if you meet the criteria. This is something I am seriously considering as I’m looking at this as a once in a lifetime opportunity and have no intention of rushing back to England any time soon.
To extend your working holiday visa in Australia, you need to do do three months of specified work in areas classed as Regional Australia.
The main options open are farm work and fruit picking, but there are other sectors to work in like mining or construction. The list of specified work goes into this in more detail.
Whilst working you will need to complete a form or provide evidence of the work to qualify for the second year, so bear that in mind when you start. To extend your visa, or for more information regarding specified work and qualifying regions in Australia, download the second year working holiday visa form, which you will need to take to work with you when you start.
That is all you need to do. Australia is obviously short of workers in certain areas so this is an excellent opportunity for all travelers to extend their stay, and one I think people should seriously consider if they have no commitments back home.
I am writing this post because I am looking to extend my working holiday visa. This work can be done at anytime within your first year and I still have eleven months to go. However personally I would like to do it soon if I can, before the weather gets too hot, and so that I am not rushing around panicking in my last few months.
I am looking to settle down somewhere soon and find a “real job”. Until I do this I will not be able to work on this blog as much as I would like. As I have said before, if I appear to stop blogging in the near future, it probably means I am stuck on a farm in the middle of nowhere with no internet access.
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