LuLu2018

Most of the employment was in Ireland & I am not sure that I can get something equivalent from Ireland but I will look into it so thanks for the advise

jon111

you wont be able to cover them all i dont know any plumbers in britain who could. if you do everyday plumbing and know a little about groundworks ie septic tanks and pipe depths etc then youll be fine. i dont have loads of stuff on there and it was no problem.

as for proof of employment then like richard says you can request employment history from hmrc. so far they havnt asked me for that so hopefully iv given enough info.

LuLu2018

Hi Jon111
Thanks for that, has your application been finalised? We got a request for further info (to complete Practical Experience Summary - PES), I had downloaded it from VETASSESS but misunderstood & thought it was relating to Stage 2 of the application, we will get it submitted tomorrow & hopefully Stage 1 will get processed fairly quickly after that!

jon111

yeh all finalised and im waiting to hear back for the visa iv done the part your on yeh the PES is a bit of a sod its just going through the paperwork and the whole process takes ages. for example i started feb 2017 so have been 13 months now overall. submitted my eoiin jan and got an invite to apply for a visa in march so submitted in march and now just waiting to hear something so ball ache but hopefully worth it lol

LuLu2018

It will all be worth it!! We actually have the visa part done, back to the skills assessment stage for my husband so he can get his plumbing licence when we arrive. We applied for the visa based on my skills, our application was submitted in Jan 18 & visas were granted in June 18 (yay!) so 5 months in total for us! If you submitted in March then you are likely very close to a grant at this stage if you have any questions in relation to our application let me know but you are probably just at the waiting stage now! I put a lot of work into making sure we submitted a decision ready application & it paid off, in the end, it is a long process tho, I hope you get your grant very soon!

Do you have any advise on the PES completion? We are trying to get it completed this evening but it's difficult to remember dates etc so just wondered did you complete it at length and add additional pages with info or did you give an example of each area that you covered & leave it at that or what was your approach? Given that the CV and references etc outline experience I thought maybe an example in each area might be sufficient. Also do you give exact dates & times? If we had known we needed dates etc then we could have been keeping a record but unfortunately we are too late finding out and it is a bit of guessing for dates! Again not all area's were covered but you had said previously that you hadn't covered all & that was ok, we have nothing for Gas & Roofing other than what was covered at college & that wasn't in the last 5 years so its a no for all those area's on the PES!

Thanks

jon111

ah i see right then most of what they said was the pes is a rough guide for what youve done in your job based on employment mostly. i didnt put dates and times just looked at what the nvq 2 covered and my gas safe and put it next to the corresponding slots. if it was bathrooms for example that was nvq 2 plus i put what company i worked for to do bathroom installs. i wasnt that specific tbh and they didnt ask any extra info, as you have to do gap training when you get there to be a plumber anyway. which i assume you know about??

LuLu2018

Yes we found out about that, it's running into a lot of expense to get the licence isn't it!!

Have you any travel plans made yet or decided on what part of Australia you will go to? We have been looking into the gap training & MPA are running a 3 week Plumbers Migrant Gap training course commencing 5th November, its approx $4k I think!! You have to have the provisional plumbers licence to be eligible but you you would be able to apply for that now you have the skills assessment as far as I know, unless there is a requirement to be in the state? I am jumping ahead here as I am not sure what state you are going to, they may all be similar but I have only looked into WA!!
So far we have just put examples on the PES so what I might do is add the employer name so that the assessor can cross reference back to the CV if needed. Yes for Gas there is nothing only college based & it is more than 5 years ago but might just note that rather than a direct "no"

jon111

i had to apply for a 190 in nsw as didnt have the points but when i was on the course they did say about training providers i cant remember WA tbh. i spoke to a guy who done it in queensland and it cost him 3k for the certificate 3 and if you wanted cert 4 then another 4k but i think 4 is to run your own company still need the one year as a glorified apprentice though and yes gets every expensive. got the feeling nothings cheap lol

travel plans no nothing yet just waiting for the nod on the visa then we can plan moves

LuLu2018

No certainly nothing cheap about it!! Well good luck with it all, and I hope the planning all goes well so you can get moved over & start to enjoy it after all the hard work

Aimz

jon111

i am indeed still waiting to hear back did my medicals and police checks when they asked for them and that was 6 weeks ago now and heard nothing since.

trade assist is for the first year of work in your trade so yeh straight away. you can work as self employed on lvl 3 but not run a company i believe i,e you can sub to a plumbing company or builder for example is how i understand it.

now we wanted to move to that area aswel but there is a slight issue. if your close to the boarder then the chances are your work as a plumber will take you across the boarder which means a whole different set so certificates from how i understand it, qld has different rules and regs to nws and they both need you to be registered in each states to work there so just some food for thought. not an issue i just assume its more money as always.

Aimz