Eligible jobs for a second year visa in Australia

There are many different industries you can work in to qualify for a second working holiday visa. You can work in agriculture in such industries as harvesting, cultivation, processing as well as forestry, fishing and pearling, mining and construction industry.

Remember that you have to work in a regional area.

Here is the list of all the jobs eligible to renew, extracted from the Australian government website (www.homeaffairs.gov.au).

Plant and animal cultivation

– The harvesting and/or packing of fruit and vegetable crops;
– Pruning and trimming vines and trees;
– General maintenance crop work;
– Cultivating or propagating plants, fungi or their products or parts;
– Immediate processing of plant products;
– Maintaining animals for the purpose of selling them or their bodily produce, including natural increase;
– Immediate processing of animal products including shearing, butchery in an abattoir, packing and tanning;
Note: Secondary processing of animal products, such as small goods processing and retail butchery is not eligible.
– Manufacturing dairy produce from raw material.

Fishing and pearling

– Conducting operations relating directly to taking or catching fish and other aquatic species;
– Conducting operations relating directly to taking or culturing pearls or pearl shell.

Tree farming and felling

– Planting or tending trees in a plantation or forest that are intended to be felled;
– Felling trees in a plantation or forest;
– Transporting trees or parts of trees that were felled in a plantation or forest to the place where they are first to be milled or processed or from which they are to be transported to the place where they are to be milled or processed.

Mining

– Coal mining;
– Oil and gas extraction;
– Metal ore mining;
– Construction material mining;
– Non-metallic mineral mining and quarrying;
– Exploration;
– Mining support services.

Construction

– Residential building construction;
– Non-residential building construction;
– Heavy and civil engineering construction;
– Land development and site preparation services;
– Building structure/installation/completion services;
– Other construction services.

Some examples of eligible/no eligible jobs

Here is a list of jobs you can work in which qualify as specified work:

– fruit picking;
– feeding and herding cattle
– landscaping the grounds of a construction/house site
– conservation and environmental reforestation work
– zoo work involving plant or animal cultivation

Some jobs won’t be qualified as eligible, such as :

– town planning or architecture
– working as a nanny on a farm
– working at a cellar door providing wine tastings
– cooking/catering on a mine site
– cleaning the interior of mine complexes or buildings.

Official source: www.homeaffairs.gov.au/Forms/Documents/1263.pdf

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