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Hi Gill,
Thanks for your reply. You've given me alot to think about there.. Will get stuck in to some of those links immediately.. We're looking ideally for the Brisbane area as we have family and friends there but, it's not essential. I (would've) come under the Electronic Equipment Tradesperson on SOL & MODL and have been working as a Security Systems Technician for the last 6 yrs. OH needs approx another years formal training for Child care Co-ordinator, but is currently training as a Hollistic therapist in UK. I'm 36 and OH is 41 so looking to get something sorted soonish.. It's good to get some feedback on some of these issues as there are so many options and routes to look down that it can get a bit mind numbing sometimes..(Especially when the goalposts keep moving).. Thanks again..
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Hello again Nigel
I've copied your response on Lisa 32's thread onto here so that we do not confuse the two threads and also to avoid hi-jacking Lisa's thred.
From what you say above, the student route sounds unnecessarily expensive and long-winded to me.
Only one of you needs to be under 45, remember, so you have more than enough time in hand.
Family and friends in a particular area is always a promising start because they can help to collate lists of local employers who might consider you and so forth. (Plus cheap accommodation if you decide to do a rekky trip to try to drum up some interviews.)
As you are interested in Brissy, have a chat with Workforce Solutions as well, and with the Sunshine Coast TAFE, I would suggest:
Workforce Solutions UK Website
In the UK, you want a guy called Richard from Workforce Solutions. He is in touch with their HQ which is in Brissy.
PomsInOz Forum - View Profile: WorkforceSolutions
Richard does all the posting on Poms in Oz for WS, so an e-mail sent via PiO will reach him. Or you can contact him thus:
richardt@workforcesolutions.com.au
WS are unique in that they could sponsor you themselves. They are the only recruitment agency in Oz at the moment who can do this, I gather.
Richard did tell me that they insist that anyone they recruit on a 457 (the only visa they themselves use) must have a positive skills assessment. At the moment that is a potential glitch for you because of the Pathway D thing, but the Brissy base of WA may be able to help to arrange for a workplace assessment in Oz, if not via the TAFE then perhaps via somebody else. TradeTrain maybe but there may be other companies like TradeTrain as well - I don't know.
Have a look at the Sunshine Coat TAFE as well. It never hurts to pick up a phone and ask questions, I reckon. At the minute I can't get the link to work but just Google Sunshine Coast TAFE and it will come up.
If WS sponsor you for a 457 visa, they would hire you out to an end-user. In the longer term you would be looking for the end-uer to sponsor you via an ENS visa probably.
But if you can get your claws on a positive skills assessment, you could probably get a skilled independent visa subclass 175 or 176 anyway. The way I can envisage this for you might be:
- Go to Oz on a 457 Visa.
- Get a positive skills assessment via TRA Pathway E. (No reason why you cannot do your own private deal with the TAFE, TradeTrain or whoever about this.)
- Get an ENS or RSMS visa if someone makes you an irresistible offer.
- Get a subclass 175 or 176 visa if not.
Given your particular skill an RSMS visa would not be your only route to
PR, I feel sure.
Also I'd be looking to do this on your own skills rather than via worrying about Ally's age, given that she does not yet have enough experience as a childcare co-ordinator.
Best wishes
Gill