Joeybee

Where did you find this out ? I looked on the Skills Select website and can't see anything about prices going up again.

I'm getting fed up of people asking "So have you booked your plane tickets yet?" I have to keep explaining that I'm nowhere near as I have to have the assessment before i can even apply for the visa. It is frustrating isn't it?! Apparently ANMAC are on Aprils assessments, so for you hopefully only another month or so to wait. Good luck!

Ugh, getting so frustrated with waiting for ANMAC skills assessment. They received all documents on 28th May, still waiting. I know it can take 13 weeks or more, but I'm getting so fed up of waiting now to get the next part of the migration process underway. Looking at AHPRA, it seems just as tedious a process for registration. Anyone got any tips to help cope with the frustration of waiting?!

Thank-you. Ugh its so frustrating. Booked on to do academic on 22/6 so hopefully this won't delay things for me too much. Things like this make me wish I had the money to get an agent

Okay, really stressed now. I submitted all my documents to ANMAC and they've emailed back today to say they've received my IELTS but require me to have done academic not general IELTS. I'M so confused. It doesn't state which IELTS they require on the 5 selection criteria areas, just says requires IELTS above 7 in each part. I'm British, have done all my education in UK and got 9 for general IELTS. Is it true I have to do ACADEMIC instead?!

Thanks so much for the reply. That sounds like what I was expecting, so I'm happy now. It will be nice to get a pay rise each year too :-)

Hi folks, I posted this I the nurses' thread but have had no response. Can anyone help?: "Hi folks, I've got a quick question regarding pay bands in Oz. I am currently a Band 5 on Agenda for Change and am at pay point 18 (£22,903pa), and will have 4 years post-reg experience when we move. What pay points would I commence at in Aus (specifically in WA or QLD)? Would I start at the bottom of the RN bandings and work my way up, or would I commence a few points in? ​Thanks in advance :-)"

I've done my IELTS now, so the next step is nursing skills assessment/registration. I believe I need a statement of service for each job I've had, so I've contacted previous employers, and most of them have got back to me to say they are sending it out. I also need to get professional references from each employer in the past three years for NMAC/DIAC. So far I've contacted two managers to request this. I'm not telling my current employer about my intended move till the latest possible time, so I've not asked there yet. I have a feeling that waiting for all the references to arrive in the post may take some time. Have others found this? Also, I was wondering if anyone here has done full time bank work before? I worked for 6 months on the nursing bank, and as such, I didn't have a manger who was a registered nurse to provide a reference for that time. I was hoping the nursing bank officer would be acceptable or if not I could try and contact ward managers from the wards I did work on and request a reference from there. Is this what others have done? I wish I'd tried to get all these references earlier because I know once I do get the references and my documents certified, it'll still take three-ish months to wait for AHPRA/ANMAC to process the documents! Oh and the NMC are sending me an application pack for verfication. I didn't realise how many little bits there were to the skills assessment!

Awesome. I've just registered there (same username and avatar as here). Thanks! :biggrin: