1973hel

Hi Everyone,

Im new to British Expats, so please bear with me!

Im currently retraining as a hairdresser in the UK so I can emigrate to Australia. I have already got and NVQ 1 in Hairdressing and Im now doing NVQ 2, but with VTCT, vocational training charitable trust. Will this be enough for me to start me visa application process, along with the required 600 hours of work experience?

Any helpful hints, tips or advice would be greatly apprecitated. We really do want to move to Aus, we are now here spending Christmas with friends, but have to return to the UK in January

Hope to hear from you soon

Helen

Bermudashorts

If you are applying as a skilled migrant, then you need to have been employed full-time as a hairdresser for at least 12 of the last 24 months. Do you meet that requirement?

1973hel

Not as such, but I have a beauty business and that has been running for 5 years, and have been doing hair for over a year. Now just getting the qulifications to back it up.

Not sure of my next step

charw

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Next step would be comment on visa processing times. Can you wait for 3 years for your visa to be processed?

Bermudashorts

Your first step is to get a skills assessment, you would need to do this with TRA.

http://www.deewr.gov.au/Skills/Progr...ages/home.aspx

Maybe worth an email to TRA to clarify what is required, as I couldn't find it in here specific to haridressing.

It might be worth having a read around in the hairdressers section of the forum, I have had a quick look and firstly it looks like 900 hours are required not 600, also one or two people talk about needing several years of experience in order to get a TRA positive assessment.

http://britishexpats.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=81

You should also note that the 12 in 24 months requirement is required and will be assessed by DIAC independently of the skills assessment. As you are not working full time as a hairdresser, I think you should be aware of this and look into whether having a general beauty business would qualify as work experience.

Out of interest, did somebody professional advice that this was your best route into Australia?

Bermudashorts

Yes it will be 3 years, however 3 years is better than never if Australia is the goal.

charw

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Exactly Bermuda. Now Australia is fundamentally following Canada's FSW framework of migration. Selected are processed fast . Others slow and painful waiting.