Pumpkin

I still don't understand your accounting status. What is "CPA board exam"? You are coming out with these very unusual terms and I simply cannot tell if you are a qualified accountant or not. I think you are not?

Also I was asking what your job is, not your job title. What is an Accounting Manager? What does your job involve?

If you are willing to put these questions to a form, you really need to explain a bit more. As it is, I am definitely leaning to what the others said, that you should not apply.

To give you more detail about my case, I'm a license CPA and completed my Bachelors degree in Accountancy from my country 2004 and 2001 respectively. And works as accounting manager overseas from 2006 until now. Recently I got negative assessment from CPA Australia with regards to accounting theory. I did my best to claim the exemption from accounting theory but no luck at first attempt. I made a second attempt to dispute. I received a positive assessment this time but they included my other certification that I just finish last December 2013 in order to get an exemption. So basically I got 12/12 from all the subjects.

2nd phase it for work assessment. They only recognized that I'm "skilled" in work experience from Dec 2013 to date on the same capacity.

For what they explained to me, they can only recognized work experience after i got the exemption from accounting theory which on Dec 2013 onward.

My question is on the side of migration officer, are they also consider the same decision with CPA Australia.

can an you explain further. What is a "licence CPA" for example? Never heard of it, what country CPA is it? What did you do in 2001 and 2004? What Is an accounting manager? Can you describe your role? What type of company did you work for?

In the absence of good information, then I have to say, you should probably not risk it and let this invitation lapse.

Wouldn't CPA have taken that into account though? The OP has said "I have 8 years work experience overseas as an accountant (in managerial positions) but on CPA Australia work experience assessment they only recognized from December 2013." so it appears CPA has considered what he's provided and only considers him qualified for the past 20 months.

What CPA think is irrelevant. I don't know why people even spend their money on these work experience assessments.

I am not saying that OP can count the 8 years, I am trying to find out more. Part qualified accountants often do the same work as fully qualified accountants and if someone has worked in a managerial accountant position for 8 years, I think it is worth exploring more.

I don't think it is necessarily true that it is only work experience from December 2013 that counts, not for accountants, pre-qualification is sometimes counted. But OP needs to provide a bit more information - sounds like they are still not actually qualified but have just done some papers.

When did you become fully qualified? Which body are you qualified with? What type of work do you do?

Maybe it is an unfair post, but it does accurately describe how I'd feel if my mother-in-law was researching what might go wrong and presenting it to my partner. Once she has created doubt, she stretches it further by offering to pay for what nearly everyone describes as a useless piece of paper. Like I say, I would want my partner to tell her to mind her own, before she starts complaining about the quality of schools or spiders.

I guess mothers never stop being mothers. She is not conspiring, she is trying to protect and advise her daughter.

umm pumpkin umm well he was TOLD he was probably going to lose at the begninning of the court case at which point he could have come to an arrangement with me but he decided to force me through four court hearings and untold expense instead. Money that I could have spent on his children instead of lawyers and court fees. Price of a decent car instead of the overpriced shed I am now driving! (Gosh aren't cars expensive here!!)

 

And yes of course he wants to be near his children but hey, he could have done a lot of things a whole lot different instead of winding up / slagging off / cheating on / blackmailing (etc etc shall I go on?) the mother he could have been working with her to come to an arrangement which suited everyone instead of trying to keep me prisoner so I could babysit his children whilst he carried on like nothing happened. If I had a visa and my children were possibly going to be taken to the other side of the world I would leave no stone unturned to make sure I was on the side of the parent leaving. I would want to be as much a part of their life as possible without having to force my way in, but if you refuse to work with the other parent then you are going to get their back up and that is not going to be productive is it? If you have to use force then everyone resents it, and the bully along with it. Personally I wouldnt have done half the things he has done but he cant seem to see how destructive his behaviour is, and indeed continues to be.

 

Mothers are entitled to a life too, they do not exist to facilitate everyone elses life yet we get the short end of the 'life' stick too often because we are only here to be bullied by the system, the fathers, the state, etc etc. I am pleased I stuck through to the end to be here, even miles away from home I am happier than I ever was in the UK even with my amazing friends there.

 

Susie, thank you. xx There were times I was going to give up but I didnt, I had a dream and now we are living it.

Parleycross, thank you I hope it works out too but until he grows up and stops bullying me I am not hopeful.

Whilst your OH is not somebody I feel particularly endeared to (I can think of very few things lower than leaving a pregnant woman) I also think that men should not be denied access to their children because they have decided that the relationship with the mother was not working or even because they are a cheating scumbag. Nor should the children be separated from the father.

Would you fight it in court if your children were going to be taken to the other side of the world against your wishes? I expect so. Would you say oh never mind I will let him take them and will buy them some presents instead of fighting for my children. I expect not.

So by the same token I think there is nothing unreasonable that he decided to go to court. Just as I think there is nothing unreasonable about him deciding that he wants to live in the same part of the world as his children. I don't understand why you don't understand this and have posted as if it wrong that he chose to live near his children. I don't really understand why you are not glad that your children can maintain a closer relationshiip with their father after you have dragged them to the other side of the world. You seem to want to punish this guy and who would blame you, but this is just not the way.

Well just to add another possible outcome here, I followed this thread with interest whilst going through the courts in the UK to secure permission to leave the UK to come to Australia with my children and I thought I would add my story.

 

Short version - was married to the father of my children, we got PR visas in 2006, he left me in early 2007 whilst I was pregnant with our twins, after we had validated our visas and delayed coming for family reasons (elderly relatives). He went off with someone else leaving me and three children under 5 including the twins. Anyway once the fog of newborn babies and no sleep wore off, I decided I still wanted to emigrate even without him (brave or stupid not sure!) and I went through court to get permission to come.

 

I got Leave to Remove permission after 18 months, lots of intrusion into my life by Cafcass, and £15000 later - despite his best attempts to stop me from coming. He resorted to lying, stealing, intercepting and recording phone conversations and blackmail but I still got permission and came over in late 2010. It was getting a bit late in the day as the visas nearly expired (Jan 2011) but we made it. I applied as a single mother for the twins' 101 visas and was accepted. I was expecting somewhere along the line that something would go wrong. I waited shaking when we arrived at Sydney airport, expecting that the immigration officer would point out the reason why we should not be coming into the country! Bleary eyed I was waiting for that knock back but it didnt come! We arrived at the end of 2010, are settled and loving it. Its been an uphill struggle but the pleasure of hearing the kids playing out day in day out til the sun goes down makes it all worth while. I am now trying to buy somewhere for us to live so we can set down roots and they can grow up in the sunshine.

 

HOWEVER.

 

Despite trying to stop us from coming, costing me an arm and a leg, trying to dictate my life to me and failing to see how the constant attacks on the mother of his children might actually have an impact on the lives of the children..... their father decided to emigrate as well and followed us out here at the end of 2010.

 

So now, potentially, having already faced a battle and a half to get here, I could, if things dont work out for me or the children any reason (not that I can see one) potentially face a battle to go back to the UK I would have to reapply for Leave to Remove from here which I understand would probably not be granted - I am now where I want to be, but still half way round the world from my support network with my abusive ex living a few k's away. Nothing I can do about it and I am now awaiting him starting a custody battle with me here because he can. So, I thought I had escaped to start a wonderful new life without wondering each day where the next attack was going to come from only to have the fight transferred miles from home.

 

Groundhog day.

Ummm is it possible that after he saw he was going to lose the court battle he decided he just needed to be on the same side of the world as his children?

If he had custody and brought the children to the other side of the world, and you have a visa, then maybe you would come over as well. Just a thought.