Specified work is one criterion for some repeat Working Holiday visas, not a guarantee of another visa. For a second 417, Home Affairs requires at least three months of specified work and defines the minimum as 88 calendar days completed at the normal full-time work pattern for the role. Part-time work takes longer, and qualifying periods can be combined. UK passport holders do not need specified work for repeat 417s lodged from 1 July 2024; subclass 462 uses different work-and-area rules.
The current subclass 417 page lists nine work-and-area pairings. Cultivation, fishing and pearling, tree farming and felling, mining, and construction use the regional-Australia table. Tourism and hospitality, bushfire recovery, other natural-disaster recovery, and historical critical COVID-19 work use separate area and date rules.