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If you have gained your required points by other things and got assessed with the assessing body too for skills. Do DIAC still needs evidence on education?

When did you apply? Did you mean bridging visa?

If case is straight - do it yourself! Nothing much complex in terms of process as its quite streamlined and well defined now.

This is generic list below.. apart from this you need to go for meds when you have lodged your visa. You can be done with meds before CO asks for it - infact it is suggested that you do asap after your lodge your visa! For Main applicant 1) University transcripts 2) University degree cert 3) University_grade_card 4) Assessment_Letter_ACS 5) Higher_sec_school_cert 6) IELTS_TRF certificate 7) Secondary_school_cert 8) Form80 9) Identification_cards(ID cards from different countries) 10) Passport 11) Experience Letter in company Letter head 12) Reference letter(with detail of roles etc) from my managers in stamp paper ,along with it i attached business card of the manager(wherever possible) 13) Payslip for all the companies (at-least few months payslip from each employer,CO generally never asks for entire payslip from each company) 14) Tax details wherever applicable ( e.g. form 16 from India). 15) Company offer letters 16) Promotion letters 17) Appreciation letters 18) Relieving letter 19) PCC

Were you asking that how to prepare or how to register :-p ?

+1 to above post!

Process is simple: 1. Look at skill select site to see which visa would be good for you. To check this: a) check different ANZSCO codes out there - and their desription - check which one will suit main applicant. b) check if this anzsco code lies in SOL or CSOL c) using the points table on skill select site - check how many points you have. d) if your occupation is on SOL and you have/can make 60 points then you can go for 189 - skilled independent. e) if your occupation is on CSOL and/or you have/can make 55 points then you can go for 190 - state sponsored. 2) Get IELTS and skill assessed. In any order - keep in mind you have to score IELTS atleast 6 in each module to be eligible for skilled migration. min 7 in each module = 10points. min8 in each module = 20 points. 3) Lodge EOI (expression of interest) with successful assessment + IELTS. EOI is free of cost, EOI does not need any doc upload, just declaration of your details. 4) if get invite - lodge visa .. and so on.. You should have a clear picture of where to start at least?

There's some scoring relaxation for people with the speech problem (at clearly pronouncing words) for speaking test (I have heard this) - please check if there's anything for situation like yours.

she would need to take general and score 4.5 to avoid paying this 2nd installment!

I guess after total 2 years (1 year from now) your sponsor would initiate the pr process.. meanwhile if you qualify for 60 points you can yourself start the process before also I believe. 189 - you need 60 points. 190 - you need 55 points (as you will get 5 points from state sponsorship).

Better to lodge EOI asap if you have assessment + IELTS (you would need TRF though) When you are invited - you have 60 days to lodge visa. Then when you lodge visa you would have 6-10 weeks for CO allocation, before that you should upload all required documents - including pcc + done with medicals. If something is missing when CO is allocated - then CO will ask for those missing docs - and will give you 28 days to provide for the same! So plan accordingly.. some country's pcc takes time so apply accordingly! Best of luck!

I also agree with being out sick.. what's wrong with that option?

Contributory visa would be AUD40K - takes 18 months. Other non-contributory visa takes 12-14 years.. has minimal fees!

I believe you need to notify of any such things as change of address for a month or something. Am not sure though!

Yes. currently its just showing the dates of March: http://www.immi.gov.au/skills/skillselect/#accessibletabscontent0-3 I believe it would be same (1 and 3rd Monday) - being an automated process, it should not be affected by holidays!