By Emmanuel Ayomide-Praise (Eapgold Travels Limited). Today, in continuation of this series, I would be looking at the most popular visa types amongst the most powerful and most sought-after countries I initially mentioned (United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and Schengen Europe. AUSTRALIA. Australia is one most beautiful countries in the world with a forward-looking immigration system that seeks to attract the most educated, talented or gifted individuals from other parts of the world through several migration programs. Australia has many popular visa types and I would talk about few of the most popular ones here: *Sub-Class 600: this is probably Australia’s most visa popular type just like the US B-1/B-2 visa type and this visa allows you to visit for tourism, business, meeting new friends, visiting family etc. It is strictly a visitor’s visa and anyone who possesses this visa should not attempt to use it to work or live as it may lead to being visited in your home by immigration or border security officers or even being put in immigration jail pending a total removal from the country. *Sub-Class 482 (Skills in Demand Visa): this is one of Australia’s most important work visas which allows Australian employers to sponsor foreign workers when they cannot find suitable local workers. It is a temporary visa type which can eventually lead to permanent residence. *Sub-Class 186 (Employer Nomination Scheme): it is a permanent residence visa type in Australia that allows you to live and work anywhere within the country. Most people on this visa usually come in via Sub-class 482 from where they transition to Sub-Class 186 later through their employer. EUROPE (SCHENGEN): this is likewise one of the world’s most powerful and most sought-after visas being a single visa which enables access to around 29 countries with some of the most popular ones being France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Austria. Schengen has a few important visa types that are unique and should be treated as such and not lumped together as one visa type to avoid confusion and misunderstanding. *Type ‘C’ Visa: the direct equivalent of B-1/B-2 in the United States, Sub-Class 600 in Australia, Visitor’s Visa in Canada and Standard Visitor Visa in the UK. It basically means the same thing and is intended to be used solely for similar purpose (tourism, visiting family & friends etc.) although this visa has one of the highest rates of overstays or misuse (e g visit visas being converted to work or visas. This explains the reason behind the high rates of Schengen visa refusals in certain countries and regions such as Africa where people take the type ‘C’ Schengen visa as an opportunity to relocate. *Type ‘D’ Visa: The ‘D’ visa is the visa that allows to study and work or do both. If you are applying to go and study, you will get a ‘D’ visa. If you are also applying to go and work anywhere within the Schengen states of Europe, you will equally get a type ‘D’ visa.