Milley

My job title might change after I submit my visa. My duties and responsibilities will stay more or less the same.

Will this affect my ACS application as well? Will I have to resubmit?

edie209

I believe that if you have submitted your visa you will be ok (someone please correct me if I'm wrong)

newjersey

ACS considers relevance/duration of your duties based on references, and I am assuming you provided one from your current job.

Anything happening past the application date is not taken into account. As long as you had shown relevant experience for number of years that's all that matters.

NJ

sehmbi

I Guess there is a form which you need to fill and send

Change in circumstances.

http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/pdf/1022.pdf

newjersey

This form has nothing to do with the ACS assessment.

NJ

Milley

So it doesn't matter if my title changes? But what will happen if DIAC call our HR department and they verify that the title has changed?

newjersey

Titles do not mean all that much, responsibilities do. I did not provide DIAC with the updated reference (even though it was just the date that needed changing) and submitted the same ones that went to the ACS.

Look at it this way - DIAC needs 12 out of 24 months for "recent" and 3 out of 4 years for "specific" (i.e. +10 points one) work experience. Soooooo, if you submit same ACS references **within a year** of ACS application, they will fit DIAC criteria. Remember, ACS criteria of 4 years minimum are broader than DIAC's, which means DIAC does not even have to know about what happened after ACS submission date and you still pass formal criteria.

But if you want to be, umm, excessively thorough then prepare a new letter in addition to the ACS one, and put a paragraph in, stating change of title and what, if anything, changed in your job responsibilities. "Closely related" occupations, i.e. minor changes to your job, are perfectly acceptable to the DIAC as well. In all, you have nothing to be concerted of, imo.

NJ

nevsy

Hope you dont mind if I post a Question on this thread as it is along the same lines.If you go out on a 457 visa do you have to remain in the same post with the company.For instance if a promotion became aviable could you

a, apply
b,if suucessful accept such a post

Milley

Thanks NJ, that makes sense.