160 Business owner provisional - IELTS

[Jamie Smith]

LegendCom which is a subscription service, not otherwise available. It is mandatory for RMAs to subcribe to this, or a similar service. Most Australian migration the information, except Procedures Advice Manual 3 (PAM3) can be found on the internet.

No amount of forum surfing, web site browsing and asking questions of mum's second cousin's aunty's brother can solve some cases.

That's why people use agents, becasue of the extra information, resources and experience they have to draw off to develop the right strategies for each client.

[wrussell]

No amount of forum surfing, web site browsing and asking questions of mum's second cousin's aunty's brother can solve some cases.

That's why people use agents, becasue of the extra information, resources and experience they have to draw off to develop the right strategies for each client.

I know.

[jason RM0107604]

for members of public with no legend access, just go to www.austlii.edu.au It has all australian acts and regulations including the migration act, migration regulations, schedule 1 to 8. the relevant exact can be sourced here MIGRATION REGULATIONS 1994 - REG 1.15B Vocational English

[jason RM0107604]

With enough research, i believe anyone can do most things about visas.

if you do your research and feel confident enough about the answers you find, in most cases you should do ok without an agent.

The only thing members of the public dont have automatic free access to is the legend, which is the policy used by the diac in determining what the migration act and regulations mean. this policy can be helpful, but in most cases the actual regulations are usually sufficient.

you will find
validity of application criteria in schedule 1 of the regulations MIGRATION REGULATIONS 1994 - SCHEDULE 1 Classes of visas

visa criteria in schedule 2
MIGRATION REGULATIONS 1994 - SCHEDULE 2 Provisions with respect to the grant of Subclasses of visas

these are the main schedules. the other schedules can be relevant and should be read if you want to research yourself . MIGRATION REGULATIONS 1994

also read the migration regulations MIGRATION REGULATIONS 1994
and migration act MIGRATION ACT 1958

as relevant

Then or before hand read the diac website and migration forums.

[_shel]

With enough research, i believe anyone can do most things about visas.

Thanks for that, but are you trying to talk yourself & RMA's out of a job

[wrussell]

No amount of forum surfing, web site browsing and asking questions of mum's second cousin's aunty's brother can solve some cases.

That's why people use agents, becasue of the extra information, resources and experience they have to draw off to develop the right strategies for each client.

I was tongue in cheek (TIC).

There are numerous cases posted on this forum where it is obvious the DIY applicants have not applied for the most advantageous visa and others who are making a meal of it and some who will be refused for sure.

There is always the Visa Wizard. It must be good. The powers that be gave themselves an award for it (TIC).

I have had numerous cases where I have saved the applicants many times my fee. For example there was a medical practitioner who was about to budget AUD$15000 (more or less) for a skills assessment. He was from a country where he was required to undertake expensive preliminaries including the IELTS rip off followed a clinical examination in Australia.

He was eminent in his field and had three relevant first-class degrees and an impressive collection of fellowships and life memberships. I have no doubt that he would have succeeded DIY.

My advice was to have his wife's skills assessed for AUD$350, which they did and were granted permanent resident visas for a family of five for a total budget of AUD$5200.

If UK national were refused a skilled visa s/he would (typically) lose an amount comparable to six weeks (or so) median UK salary. An applicant from a poor country would lose an amount comparable to annual median salary - often borrowed money. It would be disappointing and annoying in the former case and a financial catastrophe in the latter case.

[wrussell]

In other words if you are an eligble passport holder then no you dont, if not you do.

No so. Must also have English as his first spoken language, whatever that means, and what about his spouse? Does she need to show evidence of English for this subclass of visa?