I see a very simple solution. They will just make the helpers go home for a month or so and renew their contracts from abroad at least once every 7 years. Then they are not continually resident for 7 years and cannot get PR.
I see a very simple solution. They will just make the helpers go home for a month or so and renew their contracts from abroad at least once every 7 years. Then they are not continually resident for 7 years and cannot get PR.
Just to add, this foreigner is on a dependency visa, if I was not married to a local I probably wouldn't be eligible for PR either, so what....that's the way the cookie crumbles.
I've said it before, you can't have it both ways. Either make it the same for everyone, ie, helpers have to fit the same criteria as everyone else and have to be paid the statutory minimum wage. This would mean hat nobody would hire them over a local.
Hull, if you don't think there are many, many people who wouldn't sign up for this you're an idiot.
How long until enterprising people are getting 'helpers' to pay them for doing paperwork and then not really doing the job - it's so obvious it almost makes me want to slap my forehead that people can't see how insane this is.
My helper, Harni, is studying IT and English so that she can eventually apply for a work visa in her own right....I plan to support her in any way that I can....that is the correct way to do it.
Hull, this debate happened a month or so ago and I said then that I don't care either way. It should either stay as it is or the playing field should be completely levelled, I'm happy either way.
If people come here on dependent visas fine.
If people come here as bonafide asylum seekers fine.
If people come here with a skill that can't be met by the local workforce fine.
If those people are from the moon, Timbuktu, Phillipines, or even France, fine!
If anyone comes here on a visa allowing them to work, even though they do not meet the above criteria on the proviso that they will be unable to get PR then that is called a choice.