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It's probably an E-3, which was created as part of a free-trade deal between Australia and the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-3_visa

Source: I've had one.

Is that the "thanks for all the help in WWII" program that I hear Australians refer to? Many Australians I've met have mentioned that it's really easy for them to come and work in the US because of "this program", but I've never been able to figure out the official name of "this program." TIA!

It's only been around since 2004ish. Our PM back then was really chummy with Bush. Dunno if it was a thanks for military help but we've been war buddies plenty of times since ww2. We rarely invade people on our own initiate and mostly use our military to help you guys out.

Also, I don't know why you guys would be giving us thank you privileges for ww2. We were at a lot more risk from Japan and you put in far more work to stop them. If anything it'd be the other way around!

Yeah this was around before 2004.

As for the thank you, it was probably compensation for whatever damage was caused to the MCG. ;)

More like "thanks for going to Iraq with us".

Either way, us Australians are certainly lucky to have this visa.

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