UK Immigration Officer - equivalent in Oz?
Jan 10th 2007, 10:58 am
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UK Immigration Officer - equivalent in Oz?
I work as an Immigration Officer in the UK - is it possible/easy to do the same kind of job in Australia? Whats the pay like, and is it one of the jobs on the Highly Skilled/Skilled Occupations lists?
Jan 10th 2007, 11:03 am
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Re: UK Immigration Officer - equivalent in Oz?
It is also an called an Immigration Offficer. The downside is that to do the job, you have to be an Australian Citizen, so it will not be on a Skills list.
Jan 10th 2007, 11:06 am
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Re: UK Immigration Officer - equivalent in Oz?
Don't lose heart though, many government agencies (defence, police for 2) recruit laterally. There may be scope to do the same. Why not email the immigration people? All you have to lose is time...
Jan 10th 2007, 11:16 am
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Re: UK Immigration Officer - equivalent in Oz?
Jan 10th 2007, 12:49 pm
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Re: UK Immigration Officer - equivalent in Oz?
Cheers for this. We're trying to establish if me or my husband should be the main applicant and its looking like my husband (paramedic)...
Jan 10th 2007, 2:25 pm
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Re: UK Immigration Officer - equivalent in Oz?
For Federal Govt jobs they will often accept PR, as long as you are eligible, or will soon become eligible, for citizenship. State Govt - in some States - accepts PR for perm jobs, but I think all Immigration Officer jobs will be citizenship. Certaily DIMA insist on it.
