To be more specific about the permanency residency visas, these days Australia is mostly looking for engineers, computer scientists, and the like. If you’d come last year you could have gotten in by being a hairdresser or chef.
Oh and the marrying? I know it was intended partly as a joke, but the immigration people are very suspicious of people trying to claim residency that way. Be prepared to jump through lots of hoops to prove that it’s not a scam to be allowed to stay in the country.
Do note that being an American (fellow first-worlder) and having already been in the country for some time won’t set off as many alarm bells as the typical case. But yes, an obvious sham marriage wouldn’t work. I would expect that a rationalist would be more than capable of deceiving the officials in this case.
To be more specific about the permanency residency visas, these days Australia is mostly looking for engineers, computer scientists, and the like. If you’d come last year you could have gotten in by being a hairdresser or chef.
Oh and the marrying? I know it was intended partly as a joke, but the immigration people are very suspicious of people trying to claim residency that way. Be prepared to jump through lots of hoops to prove that it’s not a scam to be allowed to stay in the country.
Do note that being an American (fellow first-worlder) and having already been in the country for some time won’t set off as many alarm bells as the typical case. But yes, an obvious sham marriage wouldn’t work. I would expect that a rationalist would be more than capable of deceiving the officials in this case.