karen and andy

hi all

Finally after 8 years and 2 visits to australia we have decided to apply for migration.
we have forwarded our skills assessment and we are just waiting for the reply.
Skills assessments, professional engineer qualifications washington accord , has anyone any idea how long for a reply?
We intend to head for Adelaide.
Great news to hear that shelly and paul our x-neighbours are jetting of to Adelaide in March.

Grateful for any info and advice.
thanks
karen.

mashiraz

Welcome aboard. See you and Shelly both in Adelaide soon
Mash...

CrunchieFrog

Good luck with the whole experience. it takes a LONG time. just ask Mash ( sorry Mash but i think you are the true oldtimer now)im also hopefully heading to adelaide. wish you luck

CrunchieFrog

shellypuss

Hiya Both,

Will see you both for a chinky and some lovely South Australian wine in a couple of weeks, I will mail you.

We will all be together on the beach for Xmas getting smashed (and burnt).

Everyone on here is so helpful, your in good company.

Speak soon.

Shelly

r.bartlett

i've just sent my tra in and been told @6 weeks for notification as a 'priority' application

forgive me but what is 'washington accord'??

cheers

richard

adleaide bound -now as mr & mrs bartlett!!

ptlabs

The Washington Accord is an accord that allows for the mutual recognition of Engineering degrees by signatory countries, including Australia, the UK, the US and a few other advanced countries.

IEAust uses the Washington Accord to immediately grant recognition to persons holding an accredited degree from a signatory country. Thus an automatic positive skills assessment.


Peter

Ev'n'John

My assessment via the Washington Accord (for a Civil Engineering degree) took 25 days from the date of posting last November. Although the IEAust quote 10 weeks as a processing period, they seem to be able to do Washington Accord assessments a great deal quicker.

I won't actually be using my Skills Assessment now as I have since successfully "resumed" Australian Citizenship and we are now going down the Spouse Visa route instead!!

Good luck with your application.

Regards,
Evelyn.

karen and andy

To all that have replied to our mail,
Thank you for all your advice and welcomes. Its good to know there are plenty of us in the same boat.

Thanks again,

Andy and Karen