If you are in Australia on a temporary visa, such as a working holiday, and wish to stay in Australia, you need to lodge the new application while your visa is current.

If you lodge the application for the wrong class of visa or a visa for which you are not eligible (even if you are eligible for another class of visa) the decision on your application will usually occur after your temporary visa has expired. When your incorrect application is rejected, you will not be able to lodge another application which you would have been eligible for up front.

Your only option will be to leave Australia and start again!  The incorrect application has cost you the chance to remain uninterrupted in Australia. Proper advice is necessary to ensure that this does not happen.

Like all things of value, you should expect to pay a fee for proper advice. Free Consultations" are not free if they lead to incorrect advice or are simply built into the overall price to do the application. A reputable solicitor/agent will acknowledge that you have paid a consultation fee and take that into account in setting the final fee. Generally, all agents offering free consultations have worked this cost into the fees they charge for their professional advice and assitance.

At Turner Coulson Immigration Lawyers we charge a consultation fee. When you pay the fee, we offer to set this consultation fee off against  against the final agreed fee. In this way you are fully aware of what is being charged and confident that the consultation fee is in real terms an investment in your own furture.