Re: Permanent Residence

Australia is also pretty efficient at processing applications.

We have one customer in the mining business that moved it's tech R&D centre from Canada to OZ because Canada was taking 5+ years to process permanent residency applications, then 3+years before you can apply for citizenship which is then taking a further 2years to process. And every new government throws out the entire application backlog and changes the rules.

Oz was a few months for the visa then IIRC 1year residency before you can apply for citizenship.

The downside they mentioned was that although N.America / UK workers were welcomed other nationalities had a bit more trouble being accepted.