There are many ways to stay in Australia for an extended period of time. These include sponsorship, de facto visas, permanent residency and gaining citizenship.
Australia Migration and Visas - SPONSORSHIP/ EMPLOYER NOMINATION SCHEME
If any of you here in Oz have managed to bag yourself a job that you love, are pretty damn good at, and want to stay on longer than your working holiday visa allows, then you can do it.
All you need to do is suck up to your employer and hope that they like you enough to want to sponsor or nominate you to the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs to stay.
There are two sponsorship schemes you can apply for. First is the Employer Nomination Scheme (ENS). This has been developed for Australian employers to recruit permanent, highly-skilled staff from overseas when the employers have been unable to fill a vacancy from within Australia.
