Please help.... I'm totally clueless

[ShelSte]

Hi all, after trawling through all the old post on here and finding out loads of useful info I have decided to join and ask for help!!!

I am 32 years old and married, my OH is also 32, and we have 3 children aged 8, 4 and 2 and we REALLY want to move to Perth. My OH also has family there.

Now after doing some research I am a little confused as to whether we would be entitled to go on a skilled visa or not, and/or if there is any other way of getting over there.

I am a hairdresser with NVQ level 3 but I havent worked for 3 years as I gave up to bring my children up. I am now at college doing childrens care learning and development NVQ level 2.

My Husband is a HGV driver.

If anyone has any info whatsoever to help us then I would appreciate it so much


Thankyou

[tracy123]

Hi all, after trawling through all the old post on here and finding out loads of useful info I have decided to join and ask for help!!!

I am 32 years old and married, my OH is also 32, and we have 3 children aged 8, 4 and 2 and we REALLY want to move to Perth. My OH also has family there.

Now after doing some research I am a little confused as to whether we would be entitled to go on a skilled visa or not, and/or if there is any other way of getting over there.

I am a hairdresser with NVQ level 3 but I havent worked for 3 years as I gave up to bring my children up. I am now at college doing childrens care learning and development NVQ level 2.

My Husband is a HGV driver.

If anyone has any info whatsoever to help us then I would appreciate it so much


Thankyou

Hi welcome to pio,
sorry no help with being a hair dresser but as for your husband there is a thread on truck drivers may be some help to you. I know as a truck driver in Australia coming over to the UK all i got off the dvla was a car licence and i had to do all my driving tests again! in OZ they are mostly crash boxes (double the cluch) so he may find it a little harder.
Good luck and i hope all works out well for you

Geoffrey

[Pinhead]

Hi all, after trawling through all the old post on here and finding out loads of useful info I have decided to join and ask for help!!!

I am 32 years old and married, my OH is also 32, and we have 3 children aged 8, 4 and 2 and we REALLY want to move to Perth. My OH also has family there.

Now after doing some research I am a little confused as to whether we would be entitled to go on a skilled visa or not, and/or if there is any other way of getting over there.

I am a hairdresser with NVQ level 3 but I havent worked for 3 years as I gave up to bring my children up. I am now at college doing childrens care learning and development NVQ level 2.

My Husband is a HGV driver.

If anyone has any info whatsoever to help us then I would appreciate it so much


Thankyou

Hairdressing has been an occupation on the MODL (occupations in demand) for as far back as I've been looking (2002) re Skilled visas. There seems to be a chronic shortage in Oz. You may have a problem having not worked in the last 3 years though.

[BRAMBLE]

Hairdressing has been an occupation on the MODL (occupations in demand) for as far back as I've been looking (2002) re Skilled visas. There seems to be a chronic shortage in Oz. You may have a problem having not worked in the last 3 years though.

Hi, On a skilled visa you have to have worked a minimun of 20 hours a week contract for at least 12 months out of the 18 before you can apply. You will find the visa requirements for a skilled independent 175 on the DIMA website. Hope this helps.

Sarah x

[Gollywobbler]

Hello Shel/Ste

Welcome to Poms in Oz.

As others have said, my (amateur) understanding is that if you go back to work for a year, for not less than 20 hours a week, then you may well be eligible for skilled migration thereafter.

HGV drivers are not on this list:

http://www.immi.gov.au/asri/a-z.htm

They are not on the ENSOL list either (which covers a wider range of skills) so an employer-sponsored visa is not easy for an HGV driver. It is not on the list even for “regional” Australia, it would seem, covering the regional 457 and RSMS visa schemes:

http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/skilled-workers/sbs/occupations.pdf

(Ignore the pages about pay. There is a list of skills at the end.)

However, Heavy Vehicle Driver is within Codes 5-7 on the main ASCO Code (as a group 7 occupation.)

http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/ausstats/free.nsf/Lookup/A86A0162E6F672DFCA256ADB001D10D4/$File/asco.pdf

Therefore it should (in theory) be possible to take advantage of the exemptions available for the RSMS visa provided that the “Exceptional Circumstances” argument can be made out successfully:

http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/skilled-workers/rsms/index.htm

http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/skilled-workers/rsms/eligibility-employee.htm

http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/skilled-workers/rsms/exemptions.htm

I don’t know whether Phil Olsen managed to succeed on the thread below. He never said and he has stopped contributing to Poms in Oz:

http://www.pomsinoz.com/forum/jobs-careers/17360-our-trucking-friends.html

However, there are other trucking threads on here, and a whole section devoted to truckers on British Expats, and the feedback that I have had from truckers who are members of both forums is that DIAC HQ in Canberra are said to have given instructions that HGC drivers cannot be given employer-sponsored visas nowadays. Nobody really seems to know why, though. There seem to be lots of theories, but nothing definite that I have come across. (My own Latest Suspicion – though this is all that it is – is that somehow foreign HGV drivers are automatically being lumped in with Truck Driver’s Offsiders, which is a Group 9 occupation and therefore a non-starter for migration, possibly. I do stress that this is merely a guess on my own part, though.)

Which is a bummer for your OH, I know, but the easiest way to sove this would be for you to go back to work for at least a year, I suspect.

Phone round some Registered Migration Agents, however (loads of threads on here recommending different firms) and see what they say, I suggest. I’m not a migration agent, so I can’t say for sure whether or not an idea might work.

Best wishes

Gill

[TaniaColin]

Hi and welcome to PIO, as Sarah has already said you have to be working and prove that you are doing 20 hours a week. Why don't you phone an agent and get a bit of advice, we used Go-Matilda and found them to be very good, they helped me to pass TRA, I to am an Hairdresser.
Good luck with it all
Best wishes Tania X

[ShelSte]

Hi all

Thankyou for all your answers, although my heads spinning lol Im kinda grasping whats needed from us.

The thing is I really didn't want to go back into hairdressing at the moment, hence why I am now doing a childcare course, is nursery nursing etc on the SOL? As Im am totally clueless.

Or is there any other way at all of getting a visa???

Am I best off talking to an agent?

[Pinhead]

In order to get any skilled visa you'll need experience in your occupation not just the qualification. I suggest you contact an agent to advise what other options are available to you.