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Working on a tourist visa

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#1 ·
Hi, I have a specific question regarding working while on a tourist visa. Charlie is currently on a working holiday visa and works for an agency paying his taxes. His visa runs out in about a month and will thereafter prolong his stay for one more month with a tourist visa. Now to the question: If Charlie stay enrolled with the agency and keeps working past his working holiday visa deadline what exactly is going to happen? The agency doesn't know about his visa deadline but Charlie wonders if by keeping on paying taxes past his deadline he will get in trouble? Like I mentioned, Charlie only intends to work for one month after his deadline. Do you reccommend he stay with the agency or should he just get a cash in hand job instead? Hope this question doesn't get Charlie in trouble. Thanks
 
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I recommend that Charlie doesn't break the law and his visa conditions and does not work when he is clearly not allowed to do so, be it for cash or otherwise. The agency would also be breaking the law by continuing to employ him and trying to evade tax by paying him cash in hand.

I don't think it is likely he'll be granted a tourist visa anyway after a year on aWHV.
 
#5 ·
Tourist visas come with very strict no work conditions. If he performs any work, whether paid legally or paid illegally (cash in hand) then he is breaking that visa condition. He would get deported and banned from applying for many types of visas for 3 years (and the fact that he breached a visa condition would likely cause much deeper scrutiny into any further visa applications he lodged).

Tell him not to do it. It's not worth the risk, and it's not fair to the tens of thousands of other visa applicants who have to jump through multiple of hoops to prove they won't breach similar conditions.
 
#6 ·
If Charlie is on the bones of his bum he could seek permission to work on a bridging visa E, for which he could apply if he becomes an unauthorised non-citizen. If he were to apply for a subclass 457 visa, he could continue to work until the application was refused, or for the period of grant.
 
#8 ·
If Charlie will deposit $20,000,000 in to my Nigerian bank account, I can get him/her a legal tourist visa to work in Australia for cash in hand for 1 month.

As proof this is not a "dis-honest offer/scam" only a $2,000 payment is required now, the balance in 90 days after Charlie gets his/her visa.

I don't need Charlie to fill the application form honestly, only need birth cert, passport, bank details, all credit cards he/she can find (copy front and back).


Stop cheating the system visa holders, in many countries you would get many HARD years jail for doing such things.
 
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