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Global Talent

The Global Talent Visa Program is a streamlined visa pathway. It is for highly skilled professionals to work and live permanently in Australia.

Australia wants the brightest and best global talent to work in ten future-focused sectors. We designed the program to support the economy by introducing innovative skills to high priority industries. This will create opportunities for Australians by:

  • transferring skills
  • promoting innovation
  • creating jobs.

Australia is also a lifestyle destination. It is one of the most prosperous, safe and culturally diverse countries in the world. Australia offers opportunities for innovation. We have strong trading links and a business-friendly regulatory approach. Through the program, we will grant talented individuals permanent residency to make their new lives in Australia.

In 2021-2022, there are 15,000 places available under the program.

Global Talent Officers are in Australia, London, San Francisco, Singapore, and Washington DC. They promote the program by engaging with prospective applicants, business and industry

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Eligibility

To be invited to apply for a visa under the Global T alent Visa Program, a candidate will be highly skilled in one of the 10 target sectors and able to attract a salary that meets the high income threshold.

We are looking for highly skilled professionals, senior executives and exceptional individuals who are at the cutting edge of innovation within the target sectors, who will help create opportunities for Australia by promoting innovation and creating jobs.

  • Target sectors
  • Talent
  • High income threshold

The current sectors include Resources, Agri-food and AgTech, Energy, Health Industries, Defence, Advanced Manufacturing and Space, Circular Economy, DigiTech, Infrastructure and Tourism, Financial Services and FinTech, Education.

This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:

  • Advanced visualisation technologies, e.g. sensors;
  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies;
  • Beneficiation technologies (improving the economic value of a resource such as ore.);
  • Expertise in energy-saving technologies for extracting and processing ores, such as ore body mapping, geophysical tools and drilling, mineral refinement, automated trucks and robotic equipment or grinding and processing technologies; and
  • Resource waste management.

This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:

  • Agricultural big data analytics;
  • Commercialisation experience within the industry;
  • Future proteins for human and animal consumption;
  • Food and beverage technology;
  • Individual technologies or a combination of technologies related to farm equipment, weather, seed optimisation, fertiliser and crop inputs, and irrigation;
  • Precision measurement and/or application of farm inputs such as nitrogen and pesticides, gene editing, nanomaterials and synthetic biology;
  • Predictive technologies around planting times, climatic forecasting and crop cycles; and
  • Wearable technology, including ear-tag trackers for animal management.

This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:

Advanced visualisation technology (e.g. sensors);
Artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies;
Automation and robotics (e.g. smart sorting technologies for recycling);
Beneficiation technologies (i.e. improving the economic value of ore);
Recycling technology (e.g. feedstock recycling or E-waste processing);
Traceability technologies, e.g. experience with sophisticated material trading systems that make material sources more transparent to consumers; and
Expertise with the following fields in the sector:
Hydrogen technology;
Clean technologies, renewables and hybrids (including solar and wind power);
Battery/energy storage design (specialised, grid-scale and precursors for batteries);
Bioenergy and biofuels;
Micro-grid design; and
Supporting the transition to net-zero carbon emissions.

This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:

  • Antimicrobial resistance;
  • Biochemistry and cell biology;
  • Biostatistician;
  • Biotechnology;
  • Biomedicine and Bioengineering;
  • Cell and gene therapies – genomics;
  • Clinical trials;
  • Digital health;
  • Health economists;
  • Implantable and wearable devices (e.g. 3D printed custom devices, bionics and prosthetics);
  • Infectious disease;
  • Medical devices;
  • Medical physicist;
  • Microbiology and immunology;
  • Nanotechnology and genomics;
  • Neuroscience and neurology;
  • Pharmaceuticals;
  • Precision medicine;
  • Point of care diagnostics; and
  • Regenerative medicine

This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:

Defence

  • Augmented and virtual reality;
  • Cyber Security;
  • Expertise in military equipment acquisition, sustainment and evaluation;
  • Robotics and automation; and
  • Sensors and analytics.

Advanced Manufacturing

  • Advanced materials;
  • Additive manufacturing (3D printing), materials resilience and repair;
  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning;
  • Automation & Robotics;
  • Bio-manufacturing and biological integration;
  • Biotechnologies;
  • Digital design and rapid prototyping;
  • Digitisation and automation;
  • Nano-manufacturing and micro-manufacturing;
  • Precision manufacturing; and
  • Sustainable manufacturing and life cycle engineering.

Space

  • Aviation in space
  • Experience that would be of benefit to the National Civil Space Priority Areas:
    • Position, navigation and timing (PNT) infrastructure (global navigation satellite systems);
    • Earth observation technology and services;
    • Communications technologies and services (lasers for data communication, quantum technologies forsecure communication, and hybrid radio and optical communications);
    • Space situational awareness and debris monitoring (including space traffic management);
    • Leapfrog R&D, which includes new rocket technology, high-tech materials, space medicine, syntheticbiology, quantum communications, in-orbit servicing and optical wireless communication technologies;
    • Robotics and automation on Earth and in space;
    • Access to space, which includes international space missions and launch activity;
  • Engagement with international space and astronomy regulatory bodies.

This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:

  • Artificial Intelligence and digital technologies;
  • Bioenergy generation;
  • Bio-methane production;
  • Commercialisation experience within the industry;
  • Development of sustainable production and supply chain practices that reduce atmospheric land and marine pollution;
  • Energy infrastructure;
  • Recycling and responsible manufacturing to support industries (plastics, paper, glass, tyre components, e-waste and lithium batteries);
  • Reducing emissions and increasing efficient use of natural resources (including energy, water and materials);
  • Waste treatment (management and reuse) and emissions technology; and
  • Waste to Energy (WtE) technology (the ability to generate reliable baseload electricity that is also capable of diverting waste away from landfills and reducing carbon emissions).

This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:

  • Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning;
  • Automation;
  • Big data;
  • Blockchain technology;
  • Cloud computing;
  • Cyber security detection, prevention and response services;
  • Data and eResearch infrastructure;
  • Data management and analysis;
  • Data science;
  • Disruptive technologies;
  • Front-end development;
  • Internet of Things;
  • IT integrated with control systems for plant and machinery;
  • Machine learning engineering;
  • Network engineer/architect;
  • Quantum information and computing;
  • Robotics;
  • Senior experience in developing and producing digital games and immersive technology;
  • Smart cities;
  • Smart tech;
  • Software and product management/development;
  • Start-ups and Entrepreneurs in the industry;
  • Systems integration; and
  • 3D printing

This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:

  • Infrastructure

    Potential or ability to:

    • Drive economic development in regional communities;
    • Develop gateways to support Australia’s international competitiveness;
    • Improve and expand Australia’s energy infrastructure; and
    • Improve water security across Australia.

     

    Tourism

    Potential or ability to:

    • Increase the economic benefits to Australia from tourism;
    • Target high-value travellers in the markets and tourism segments that deliver the greatest returns; and
    • Foster a sustainable and innovative tourism industry.

This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:

  • Automated and predictive financial advice;
  • Blockchain technology;
  • Commercialisation experience within the industry;
  • Digital wallets;
  • Financial advice (e.g. automated and digital);
  • Financial data analytics, compliance and ‘RegTech’;
  • Micro-savings;
  • Next-generation lending, investment and wealth management;
  • Online banking; and
  • Platform banking and payments (e.g. contactless).

This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:

  • Cutting edge innovation within the Education sector
  • Research and education infrastructure planning;
  • Characterisation (Technologies in advanced microscopy and microanalysis that underpin modern science, medicine, engineering and industrial innovation);
  • Digital Data and eResearch Platforms; and
  • Platforms for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.

To be eligible for a Global Talent visa, individuals must:

  • prove they are internationally recognised with ​ evidence of outstanding achievements
  • still be prominent in their field of expertise
  • provide evidence that they would be an asset to Australia, in their area of expertise
  • have no difficulty obtaining employment in Australia or becoming established in their field
  • have a recognised organisation or individual with a national reputation in the same field in Australia nominate them as global talent.

Candidates must meet a high standard and show an exceptional track record of professional achievement. This may include:

  • senior roles
  • patents
  • professional awards
  • International publications
  • memberships.

Places are also available to PhD graduates who can prove exceptional talent and international recognition in a target sector.

Candidates should have the ability to attract a salary at or above the Fair Work high-income threshold of AUD158,500. This figure is adjusted annually on 1 July.

When assessing this, we will consider:

  • current salary shown through payslips or a contract
  • future job offers outlining remuneration
  • recent PhD graduates in the target sectors.

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