Hoops

Australian Dolla Beal?

ROFL.
Unfortunately in Basketball you are only allowed 5 players on the court at any one time. You can't just say "oh we need rebounds" and stick on a "rebounding workhorse."

"Some bureaucrat somewhere had done their projections (probably based on falling apprenticeships) and determined that in the near future Hair-Dressers would be in demand."

I believe that decision about the shortage of hairdressers came about after the minister concerned was shown a photo of David Barlow.

Love that line up #578187 to bad that's probably approx 58 points on 6 players. 12 points for a bench of any kind...not likely. Wagstaff will be 6/7 depending on loyalty discount, Hire will be 4/5, Kenny a 6 coz he got plenty of game time, fill it out with 3 Development Players... We are set if they raise the Cap to 100

One thing I will say is this. I have previously worked for firms who were also migration agents (mostly "business") and I have also known a couple of people who applied personally. I have also worked for companies that absolutely rorted the 457 Visa system.
I believe they have tidied it up some, but it used to be there were so many different classes of visa, and different programs, it was a minefield. If you have an agent that knows what they are doing, they can make a way "appear" through the layers of red-tape.
NOTHING surprises me.

I remember watching a "Current Affairs" type show a few years back about a migrant family from the UK. They decided they would like to come to Australia, but apparently hubby's skill (he was some sort of tradie) was not "in demand" in Australia. So they asked what was. Some bureaucrat somewhere had done their projections (probably based on falling apprenticeships) and determined that in the near future Hair-Dressers would be in demand. So the mum, who admitted to never even cutting her kids hair, went to her local tech and did a 6-week course, produced her certificate, and the whole family got accelerated migration under the skills-shortage program.

I also remember when my brother died. His wife had a friend visiting from o/s who "fell in love" with her brother.
Just so happened by brother's best mate worked for immigration. He fell so bad for the family that he granted this friend permanent residency.
At the end of the day, a clerk somewhere makes a decision and stamps a form. Unsuccessful applicants can appeal up the wazoo, but who's going to appeal a successful application?

Local employees complained to Immigration about being replaced with unqualified migrants under the 457 rort, and we got nowhere.

Yeah, really don't see how Beal would meet the 4-year requirement, even if he had done everything else right on the money.

Lisch however might be excused the time he spent away because of his Australian family. I would not be surprised to see Lisch naturalise sometime in the next year or so.

Perhaps Beal applied when he first visited Australia?
I THINK his college team may have visited at one time?
LOL
Or maybe Dr Jack is going to adopt him?

Clearly he hasn't got that

Yes, I must say I'm surprised, but then we are only going off that one article...
I have no idea of the residency status of any import, but how do we know Beal doesn't have is?

The other issue may be taxation?
Now, Residency for tax purposes is not the same as residency, you can easily be one without the other. (I was resident in Indonesia for Tax Purposes despite only being there on a work permit.)

However similar concepts such as family & domicile do enter in to it. I don't know if the ATO looks at your residency status, but if you're earning big bucks in Europe, you probably don't want to be deemed a resident of Australia for Tax Purposes.

So his link has been continous due to her but not according to immigration expert koberulz. Is there anything that kid doesn't think he knows.

The first step in the process is Permanent Residence.
But players can play here under a visa, so when or if they have applied for or received residence could well vary dramatically.

Once you have residency, you must demonstrate a continued connection with Australia. That CAN be demonstrated by having a house and/or family, not withstanding that they may travel.
So if two NBL imports leave Australia to play in Puerto Rico, one leaves his wife & child at home in Australia, and the other's wife & child are in (say) the USA, then the 1st would still demonstrate a connection to Australia, the 2nd wouldn't.

Now how that applies to Lisch and Beal, I have no clue.
With Beal, it may be that he wasn't gone long, literally only played a handful of games in PR, and I think some play-offs is SA.

With Lisch, purely speculating, but maybe he already has dual-citizenship (USA & Italy) and maybe somehow that makes it more difficult?

Lisch spent two years in Europe, Beal's been here the whole time. That might be the difference.

Lisch spent two years in Europe, Beal's been here the whole time. That might be the difference.

Any favourites for this year as yet?