Olibeneli

Hi everyone – OliBenEli is back

Having read many posts here giving myriad views on UK and Oz life – both good and bad – I have decided that there isn’t too much to lose to at least kick off the visa application. At least this gives us the option of emigrating should in years to come my family like the place enough.

So now I need all the help you folks can throw at me on the skills assessment and visa application.

As my wife has nurse/midwife/sonographer qualifications and based on discussion with others the points needed is a done deal. We will apply under her skills for a skilled migration visa for our whole family – she is 34, I am 38
with 3 boys of 8 and 6 and 6 (twins). ASCO code is 2324-11

Please can you folks offer up advice on the correct sequence of tasks we will have to do as it seems like throwing away money to employ a migration agent – I’d much rather pay for specialist financial advice on pensions and tax, etc.

Task 1
Skills assessment – this will be under my wife as a midwife.
We will need a professional reference from her employer – is there anything specific it should definitely say or not say ?

Transcript or academic record from educational institution – trouble here is that my wife qualified as a midwife in the old days when you trained at hospitals on the job and then took exams – all passed first time.

How can we possibly get such transcripts when they don’t exist – what do we do here ?

We have asked the nursing council in the UK to send details of her registration direct to the Australian Nursing Council ages ago – is there any time constraint on when the ANC get this and when they eventually get our forms for the skills assessment ?

The rest of the skills assessment for her is reasonably straight forward – certifying copies of all documents, etc etc

Task 2
Visa application itself

When the time comes – do you send it all off in one go – skills assessment plus visa forms plus medicals plus police references or do you have to do some things step by step ?

Hope you folks can help.

Meantime I’ll continue to read up on just where in Oz would suit us as there does seem to be (like in the UK) good and bad all over Oz.

Thanks to everyone

arlene

first things first you need to get your skills assessed by the ANCI, for this you get an application form from them and have to go through it and get all the relevant documentation they require to send it back to them

then you can start on the main apllication which has to have the skills seessment with it

hope this helps somewhat

arlene

Paul&Ann-Marie

speaking to a lass last week who is also emigrating to aus, she works in the " problem children " area for the local nhs trust.
She too is going on a skilled visa.
She told me that she has a job waiting for her when she arrives and that it was all set up through the trust internally.

Perhaps your wife could speak to a union representative concerning her qualifications and the equivalent in aus.

Just an idea, plus it would give YOU some free time to surf all the lovely pics on the net :-) lol

Hope it helps.

Paul

rumbletum

My ASCO code is 2323-11. Trained in the 80s so also 'old style' Your wife will not need transcripts for 'old style' training. Or at least I didnt and I only sent in my visa application mid Sept (got visas granted 3 weeks later).

With regards to the NMC sending off details of your wife's registration - this is known as 'verification' and they will send a total of 5 in a three month period for a fee of £34. You just need to ring the NMC Registrations dept and ask them to send one directly to the ANC and also one to the Registration Board of the state that your wife will be applying to work. They will do this straightaway and send by post to you a letter to confirm this. Take a photocopy of the letter as the ANC may say that they haven't received verification. They emailed me after 4 weeks to tell me this, but it wasnt a prob as I just rang the NMC again in London and they sent out another one.

I actually got my Registration first and then had a modified assessment done... much easier, less pages and a lot cheaper too Took 8 weeks in total for the ANC to do my skills assessment.

With regard to the actual visa application, you should get your meds and police checks done whilst waiting the skills assess and then it can all be frontloaded and sent off. You may read on the various websites not to send off meds and police checks until told to do so, the reason being that if the process is going to take longer than 52 weeks then these documents will be outdated.

However as your wife is a nurse/midwife, she will be processed more quickly than this
Hope this helps.