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State Sponsorship Services Pty Ltd is the home of business plans for business migration to Australia. Our ultimate goal is to stimulate growth in business migration to Australia.

As a professional immigration agent, you will be taking steps to anticipate and reduce the risk of failure in any application you are making on behalf of your clients.

State Sponsorship Services can help maximise the potential for success in your business cases by strengthening your business skills visa applications and saving you time. Your free time can now be spent seeking new customers and growing your business.

We specialise in providing market research, business planning and start up support for business migrants who are the clients of immigration agents. More essentially, we “sell” business people to State Governments and DIAC - we give the business plan assessor several compelling reasons why they should sponsor your client’s business and obtain the relevant economic benefit.

We are professional business consultants and affiliate members of the Migration Institute of Australia. Immigration agents are our customers.

Our targeted services are based on our expertise in preparing business proposals that not only earn State Government support in the form of State Sponsorship but also act as an operational guide for the business.

NB. We are not immigration agents and do not give immigration policy advice. 

Australia’s immigration laws requires that advice given to applicants by people residing in Australia is delivered by a registered agent. Refer to www.themara.com.au. Although we can prepare business plans for individual clients, Australian law specifies that discussions about immigration policy issues cannot be directly entered into with applicants.

Interested? Click here to go to the sections that show the physical differences between the rules for sponsored and unsponsored applications. It is an agent’s job to decide which visa is most suitable, but we can work with you to identify any risks in your applications.

Our company specialises in supporting business cases related to:

• Business Owner provisional visas (subclass 160, 163),
• Senior Executive provisional visa (161, 164),
• Temporary Business Entry - Long Stay (457), including Further Application Onshore (457ieFAO)
• Business Owner residence (892),
• Business Talent residence visa (132)
• Established Business residence (845),
• Regional Established Business residence (846).

We conduct market research and prepare business proposals for businesses that will be operating in all States, be that Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, Northern Territory, West Australia or ACT.

Together with our sister business in New Zealand*, State Sponsorship Services Pty Ltd has been serving the business migration market since 1999, having completed over 480 business plans. Why do you need to use a specialist business planning company like ours? Click here to see 20 reasons why you should use our services.

Our work is most often used to secure State Sponsorship for Business Owners and Senior Executives who are pursuing a visa under subclasses 163 or 164, or the 457 categories.

Our particular talent lies in understanding the relevant Government’s requirements for sponsoring business proposals, then developing strategy and business plans that reflect those requirements - while at the same time providing a proper business plan that you could happily show to a bank manager or business partner.

The starting point is to make sure that the client is not overcommitting themselves, and here the State Sponsored visas allow for lower investment levels, reduced English skills, older age group and reduced employment risk.

Professional preparation usually means guiding clients towards lower risk visas and bringing in professional support, rather than going it alone and “trying to be all things to all people”.

Doing everything yourself is one way of retaining income and it works well for smaller agencies. However, it also limits your annual income and restricts your business’ growth.

An internal operation will consume more of your valuable time that could be spent on marketing and growing business income - to say nothing of requiring you to have good skills in immigration law, business management, financial planning, market research, report writing if you are to succeed.

It’s a big requirement, and there are some very good agents who can do all things, nevertheless there is a common complaint from State Governments and DIAC is about the quality of the business proposal.

To maximise the appeal of a request for sponsorship, we advocate that people who lack business planning skills should focus on applying their core expertise, in the exact same way that we choose not to act as immigration agents so that we can specialise in providing a professional and highly successful planning service.

The whole objective is to make sure that the application is not weakened in any single area, that the whole application is specifically prepared to be as compelling as possible in each individual section.

*NZ Business Planners

(C) State Sponsorship Services Pty Ltd 2007. This web site does not contain Australian immigration advice. Viewers who need this advice should consult a registered migration agent, refer to Migration Agents Registration Authority. Entry to and use of this web site means that the viewer acknowledges that State Sponsorship Services Pty Ltd does not provide immigration advice and cannot be held responsible for the outcome of any immigration application that is lodged as a result of the viewer accessing this web site.