bainser

How long is the ACS skills assessment valid for? I'm looking to submit my main application October/November time this year and am not sure how soon to send off the ACS application.

xris079

Hi Bainser if I'm not wrong the ACS skills assessment is valid for 1 year after the result letter is issued.

Greetz

Christian

McG

    >> How long is the ACS skills assessment valid for? I'm looking to
    >> submit my main application October/November time this year and am not
    >> sure how soon to send off the ACS application.
    >Hi Bainser if I'm not wrong the ACS skills assessment is valid for 1
    >year after the result letter is issued.

This is my understanding also.

McG

Francis DS

That's a good question....could an ACS assessment expire while the main
application is in process?

For example, my ACS assessment was dated Feb 1 2005, and my main
application was received June 1 2005 and still in process. If my visa
is not yet granted by Feb 1, what will happen to my ACS assessment?
Will they ask me for a new one?

Francis

George Lombard

Hi Guys,

The ACS assessment is valid for lodging a skilled migration application for one year from the date of the assessment. Leave it too late and you'll need to apply to ACS again - apply too early and you might be depriving yourself of valuable claimable time as an IT professional.

Cheers,

George Lombard

www.austimmigration.com.au

McG

    >For example, my ACS assessment was dated Feb 1 2005, and my main
    >application was received June 1 2005 and still in process. If my visa
    >is not yet granted by Feb 1, what will happen to my ACS assessment?
    >Will they ask me for a new one?

I don't know - but I would have thought that once you had lodged your
application with DIMIA including your positive assessment with the
ACS, as far as DIMIA were concerned, you would have satisifed this
aspect of the visa application and in effect it wouldn't time out.

In other words, just as if a person goes from 29 to 30 (29 when they
lodged but 30 subsquently and while the visa is being processed), the
number of points remains unaffected: the person is deemed to be 29 for
the entire process...

So presumably using the same logic, someone with a positive assessment
woud have this for the duration of the visa application process (but
I'd assume things would be different if a visa was denied and then an
appeal was lodged).

Ptlabs

If you lodge your DIMIA application before your ACS result expires,
DIMIA won't ask for a new ACS assessment. The key point to note is that
you have to *lodge* your visa application with a valid skills
assessment result. It doesn't matter if DIMIA looks at your application
after the ACS result expires, so long as it was valid when your visa
application was lodged.

Peter

bainser

I'll hold off a couple more months before sticking the ACS application in but I'll make sure I don't leave it too late so it delays the main application going off.

Great help, thanks a lot everyone.