Hi SS23
As I vaguely understand the TRA, you submit your skills assessment and the TRA assess it against the remaining 4 pathways, A, B, C & E.
Please see the following links:
Go Matilda - Your Gateway to Australia - News
Go Matilda - Your Gateway to Australia - News
In the second article, Alan Collett's thrust is to describe how Pathway B might be a possibility for applicants who can no longer rely on Pathway D.
However, please click on the link at the bottom of the second article and scroll to the very end of the PDF file where you will see a table. As far as I can gather from the Table, Pathway E appears to require specific Australian qualifications, plus 900 hours of work experience if the qualification has been obtained in Australia, or 4 years' experience for AQF III holders who have undertaken a satisfactory workplace assessment.
I am guessing, but I think the reference to AQF III and the workplace assessment could be aimed at people with one of the skills listed inthe article below, which does not (yet) appear to include plasterers:
Go Matilda - Your Gateway to Australia - News
Please note that I have said, "could be" - not "is" - because I am trying to piece this together as much as you are, chooks!
My logicc (which could be hopelessly wrong) suggests that the next thing is to discover what CRICOS is.
CRICOS is defined (more or less) here:
General Skilled Migration
So all in all, muttering about Pathway E seems to me to be a rather vague and (perhaps intentionally) veiled way of saying, "Consider obtaining a Student Visa for Australia and undertaking a CRICOS-recognised plastering course lasting for not less than 92 weeks. In addition, do 900 hours' of on the job work-experience/training over and above the amountof on-the-job hours required by the syllabus for the course."
"Have a stab at going to the village green via a highly expensive and uncertain trip to the moon," strikes me as a being the interpretation that a reasonable le sceptic might put on the idea that has been suggested to you.....
What hapens if your OH undertakes all this training etc but Plastering is removed from the MODL before he has a chance to secure a positive TRA assessment under Pathway E? That scenario would leave you significantly poorer, for sure, but not necessarily any closer to being able to obtain
PR - or necessarily even TR - in Oz, I suspect.
In your shoes, I would also be asking your latest Agent-informant, "Here's what Alan Collett said about our situation. If this Pathway E idea is a good one for us, why did Mr Collett not mention it in his reply to my post?" Please see here:
General Skilled Migration
Trust me, if an idea is definitely both viable and desirable (plus safe, with no very reat likely or potential downside) it does not take Alan Collett more than about 10 seconds to identify the possibility and to describe it.
I think the fact that Alan has not mentioned student visas to you is significant. He seems to think that 2 years' (minimum) of employment on a 457 temporary visa could lead to
PR without any need to involve the TRA at all. This strikes me as a safer, more streamlined and more elegant idea than messing about with th uncertainty and the significant cost of trying to obtain Australian qualifications via a student visa instead.
Also, why did your new Agent fail to suggest doing the training for the formal qualifications in the UK so as to be able to rely on Pathway B instead in due course? That seems to me to be vastly safer than risking a student visa in order to train in Australia?
Have you been in touch with Go Matillda about this? If so, what was their advice, please?
For what it is worth, my own opinion is as follows:
The fact that somebody wants to migrate to Australia today is NOT a good enough reason for risking their capital base on bundling them out to Oz on a student visa today simply because that is the only visa that the person would be 99% sure of being able to get. This Kwik-Fix idea strikes me as selling a product (which might as well be double glaing or a used car) without offering any warranty whatsoever that the iproduct will be prove to be the basis for a reliable and safe goer in the long run.
For what it is worth, ducks, I think you need to forget your impatience to move to Oz quickly and instead focus on trying to do so safely. If you can't do it safely, without unnecessary risk to any financial and other (eg health) nest eggs that you may have built up, is it a risk that you really want to take at all?
Best wishes
Gill
PATHWAY E anyone????
