Originally Posted by
Horatio Leafblower
Bendalot
Type endorsements have been abolished for a great many aircraft types but we still tend to do the same 3-4 hours of training per type and we still refer to it as an "endorsement", because everybody understands immediately what you mean and what it encompasses.
....but they have been replaceed by some other category of visa that does substantially the same thing and when we refer to "457 Visas" everybody understands what it means and what it allows someone to do.
Sorry no they don't.
In Fact even Register Migration Agents are not familiar fully with the new visas - they are the only people qualified to give advice about migration in Australia.
So if they don't know how to you know?
In fact very few of the new visas have even been applied for.
They are so new the 457's are still in processing stage due to process time and most of the new visa category follow the same processing requirements and time frames.
It fine to bag out some thing if it if fact - but your statement is not correct.