Joan Prado - Immigration Lawyer
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Rosa Torrefranca is a highly skilled Australian migration lawyer with a great reputation for the National Innovation Visa (NIV). Based in Adelaide, she helps talented professionals, researchers, and business leaders from all over the world get Australian permanent residency under Australia's most competitive visa pathways.
Rosa is known for building strong, evidence-based cases and getting excellent results for her clients. In Australia, she has over 15 years of experience in the migration and legal industry as a paralegal and later as a lawyer.
She finished her law degree in the Philippines in 2001 and became a lawyer there in 2002 to help communities in need. In Australia, she is admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of South Australia and registered in the High Court of Australia
Languages: Fluent in English, Tagalog (Filipino), and Visaya.
Key Practice Areas
- National Innovation Visa (NIV) and the now closed Global Talent Visa (Subclass 858)
- Partner Visas (sc-300, sc-309/100 and sc-820/801)
- Employer-Sponsored Visas, including the Skills in Demand (SID) Visa (formerly the Temporary Skill Shortage Visa Subclass 482) (Specialist, Core Skills, Labour Agreement streams), ENS Visa (Subclass 186), and SESR Visa (Subclass 494)
- General Skilled Migration (189, 190, 491, 489)
- Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) formerly the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) reviews
- Family Migration, Student Visa (Subclass 500), Temporary Graduate Visa (Subclass 485), Skills Assessments, and Australian Citizenship
Experience & Achievements
- Qualifications: Bachelor of Nursing (Philippines), Cert IV in Legal Services (TAFE SA), dual-admitted lawyer (Philippines and Australia). Her background in healthcare gives her a unique advantage in managing complex healthcare visas, skills assessments, and preparing requests and submissions for health waivers (PIC 4005/4007)
- Memberships: Law Society of South Australia (Wellbeing and Resilience Committee) and the Migration Institute of Australia (MIA)
- Policy Impact: Prepared and contributed to submissions for Consultation processes by the Department of Home Affairs (DHA)
- Education & Presentations: Rosa has actively supported Chris Johnston in developing several of his National Innovation Visa (NIV) and Employer-Sponsored Visas presentations.
- NIV & Global Talent Sectors: Critical Industries, Health Industries,Financial Services and Fintech, Agri-food and Ag-tech, Infrastructure and tourism, Education, Circular Economy, Digitech, Sports.
Why Clients Choose Rosa as their Immigration Lawyer
Clients trust Rosa because she is very careful, deeply understands how the government makes decisions, and knows how to build a good visa application. Her past clients always praise her clear advice and great results.
Rosa has worked at Work Visa Lawyers since 2021, the best immigration law firm in Australia, helping people all over Australia with their complex National Innovation Visas.
