Every year tens of thousands of people from all over the world settle in Australia. These are mostly people with suitable qualifications and good professional experience, spouses, partners or fiancés of Australian citizens as well as political refugees.

All the formalities connected with migration to Australia are handled by MARA registered migration agencies, that is private companies licensed by the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship. The registration of an agent can be confirmed here.

Bridge Agency works with one of the biggest and most renowned migration agencies - Southern Cross Alliance located in Sydney. We are their sole and exclusive official representative in Central Europe.

Southern Cross Alliance was first established in 1989. The company has several branches all over the world, for example in Southern Africa, China, India, Brazil and Mexico. It has been very successful in all aspects of migration, having assisted literally thousands of clients. Their clients include both large international and Australian corporations as well as individuals from virtually every country in the world. Southern Cross Alliance has a very good reputation among their clients because as much as 98.6% of applications lodged with their help were successful.

Southern Cross standard migration service includes three main categories:

• Family migration - allows family members of Australian citizens or permanent residents to become permanent residents of Australia. These include: Parents, Child, Spouse, De Facto / Same Sex Partner, Aged Dependent Relative, Last Remaining Relative, Carer;
• Economic migration - a group of migration visas aimed at highly qualified workers, business people and investors. These include: Skilled Migration, Employer Nomination Scheme, Business Skills;
• Special migration - is a category special types of migration visas, for example for distinguished individuals with special or unique talents of benefit to Australia. These include: Former Australian Resident, Persons who were part of the Australian Military, Distinguished Talent.

Bridge Agency as the sole and exclusive representative of Southern Cross Alliance in Poland offers in Warsaw and in Sydney offices a free Australian migration assessment. The migration agents from Southern Cross Alliance assess the chances a person has to successfully apply for permanent residency in Australia. Assessment forms filled by the potential applicant are checked by the migration agents and returned to the client by Bridge Agency within 3 business days. In our Sydney headquarters we organize regular migration seminars for all our clients. You can also have an individual consultation with one of our registered migration agents (the fee is around $200 AUD).

Australia’s General Skilled Migration Programme targets migrants who have skills and relevant work experience that will contribute to the Australian economy. The skill must be listed in the Australian Government’s “Skilled Occupations List”. Those eligible for skilled visas must satisfy the following basic threshold criteria:

• have at least vocational English language proficiency (IELTS certificate 6.0);
• be 18- 45 years of age at the time of application;
• have nominated an occupation on the “Skilled Occupations List” (SOL) and have the appropriate qualifications for this occupation;
• have undertaken a skills assessment from the relevant assessing authority for their occupation;
• have appropriate education in Poland and/or in Australia;
• have recent work experience in their skilled occupation or have recently completed an Australian qualification;
• good general health condition.