[pandj6224]

Hi,
The short answer is yes..........You need to write a very long and well worded Commonwealth Statutory Declaration ie: I did this and I did that give all the dates and places and really pad it all out, it's vital that you get a second opinion on what you write from a decent migration agent or maybe someone who complete's forms for a living. The key is the wording....... I bet your wondering how I know this.... Well my wife trained as an Enrolled nurse and qualified in 1988, we decided in Nov 2002, after our second family holiday to Qld that we wanted to get there ASAP, but she needed convert from SEN to RGN, to be eligable, she manged to get on the conversion course in late 03, she had to do it part time as she still needed to work, to cut a long story short we had a letter in Nov 05 from the NMC stating that she had finished the course... This confused us somewhat as she still had one final 2 week placement to do but had been unable to do it because of the pressure to stay on the ward from management and patient numbers, eventually she got it done april 06, so she sent the paperwork back to the NMC (The Nursing midwiffery council) as nurses have to be on the prfessional register to practice, sorted we thought all the paperwork done we already knew she would probably need to be at that qualification for a year, well early last year we started the ball rolling, thinking we had it all sorted three months after submitting her quals our agent emailed us to say the ANMC had initially refused to pass her as the quals were not good enough !! RN1 that blew us out of the water....

We managed to get three letters along with other the training syllabus from the University of Wales, the first two were no good, the final one was, at the same time we had been told by our Migration agent in Brisbane to complete a Commonwealth Statutory Declaration, this was initially eleven A4 pages long yes eleven !! this was then reduced to six, still a pretty substantual document, she then had to attend a solicitor and swear an oath on the Bible that it was a true account of her training etc, it was then singed by my wife and then the solicitor and then had to be stamped with the office seal...........That was it, all done we came home scanned and e-mailed it to our agent and sent it out to Brisbane later that day....we then had to wait, by now it was August we got a reply to say it was all OK in late September or early October, everything is ongoing we are going for our meds at the end of March.......

Right thats enough from me I'm rabbiting on, if you haven't got one I may have a blank stat dec form still on th pc, if it's there still, I could send it to you, Via e-mail, or if someone knows where you could download one from then better still, you really need to start by listing all your training and the go for a draft copy and don't forget to make backup copies on the pc....

I hope I have been of some help, your not alone I only wish we had joined this site last year, we thought we were alone....your not we've been there and got the tee shirt

Bye and good luck with the Stat Dec, by the way we would have given up if it wasn't for our agent....Stick with it, sometmes I think it's done to see if we are really serious about going!!

Pat & Janie.....

Also give any reference to the jobs andpositions and tasks/ duties carried out..........We still needed to do the Stat Dec even though she had the employer reference, I can't stress enough it's all in the wording......