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Hi Derren, Thank you for your reply. I worked for a small local company throughout my apprenticeship so I guess my apprenticeship was an informal one. I will be able to get a letter from the employer stating that I had worked for them and I also a letter from the trade school I went to. I did enquire with the JIB at one time about registration but they said I would have to do the NVQ level 3 along with the C&G 2391 inspection and testing course. For the previous ten years before coming to Oz I was self employed. I really should have brushed up on my quals. I hope these letters will help. I honestly thought if you had an OSTR from Vetassess, then you were deemed to have the appropriate skills to obtain a visa. I am going to send copies of my Licensed Electricians Assessment results also as I soon will have a Cert III in Electrotechnology. I'm not sure if this would be considered given that its an offshore general skills migration visa.

Hi guys, I am looking for a bit of advice regarding the 175 visa and UK qualifications. Ive been in Oz for just over a year now, on my wifes 457 visa. I am currently employed as a sparky full time. I did the Vetassess practical on arrival, followed by the Licensed Electricians Assessment theory and practical exams shortly after. I am nearing completion of my year of eprofiling and hope to be applying for my A Grade license within the next month. Just before the end of June I applied for the 175 GSM visa. I have just been assigned a case officer. As part of my application I uploaded the certificates that I have which are the old City and Guilds Part 1 and 2 in Electrical Installation, which I completed back in the early 90's. The case officer has requested more evidence of trade qualifications "Please provide evidence of your apprenticeship/trade completion (i.e. relevant registration as aqualified electrican, trade certificate/card, apprenticeship certificate/card). Note: the certificates provided state completion of course components only." Starting to worry a bit now as I don't have a card as such and I was never JIB registered. Around that time everything changed to NVQ level 3. Has anyone had the same problem, or submitted a visa application with the 236 parts 1 and 2 ?

Hi guys Has anyone gained their license through the Vetassess route in Victoria by completion of a logbook. I've completed my Vetassess practical in July 2011, have been in employment since August 2011 in Melbourne. I currently have a supervised workers license. But I'm having serious problems trying to get signed up for eprofiling / logbook to document the work I do on site . I don't think the system is availablle yet in VIC. I have also completed my LEA and gap training in a local tafe. I've tried through the tafe, through EPIC and directly with the Eprofiling to get this set up. No one seems to know anything about it. When I first applied to Vetassess I was advised of the route I needed to take to gain my license and now that I've spent all this money to get to this stage I've hit a brick wall. To say this is frustrating us a complete understatement . Has any1 had the same problem ?

Hi all With regard to Electricians for the 175 or 176 visa is the Vetassess practical test sufficient or do you need to go through TRA. I called immigration to query this and was told that I need to go through TRA for my skills assessment . I am currently in OZ VIC as a dependant on my wifes 457 visa but we ultimately would like to obtain PR. I competed my Vetassess in July and I've almost completed my LEA to gain my certificate III in electrotechnology. I just need to complete my log book and then hopefully apply for the Unrestricted License. I explained all this to Immigration and the lady insisted that even if I have all my exams and even my full license I still need my skills assessed by the TRA. Surely this can't be right ? I've read a lot of the other post and a lot of guys have come the Vetassess route. Has something changed in the past year regarding this ?