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WELL SAID RAUL!!! This person will not stop

Yes, but the TRT scheme uses the separate 186 visa. The understanding that you can apply for TRT route to permanency comes with the 457 visa and this is the understanding of the new employee and the employer.

I have sent my details. Thank you

Does anyone know which agents in Sydney area would deal efficiently with an urgent PR visa application? Thank you.

Hi everyone. I wonder if you can help. We have been here for under a year on a 457 , my question is...I am 45 this year. Will I still be able to apply for PR next year when the 1st 2 years are up? Have the new 457 rules changed this from 50 to 45? Thank you

Hi I have just moved to the Penrith area from the UK and will be at Shellharbour on Saturday as my brother lives there. We are hoping to move to that area when our rental is up. So if you fancy meeting up that would be nice. Have yoiu found any more ex-pats in that area yet?

Thanks,but I was definately told this information and have it in an email from the dept. I realise the cost of international fees, so I was thinking of doing a UK masters (distance learning)?

Thank you for this. I wasn't making it up. That's what I was told. So if I do a Special Ed Masters in UK or Australia would this qualify me to do that job even though I've never studied or worked in a special school? Also, isn't primary teachingon the CSOL and therefore, as long as you can get sponsored by NT, is it ok to apply that way?

Yes absolutely Sammy. I had mine rejected and would not apply to AITSL until I have my other year. There is no chance of being accepted which is why I will take my fourth year of study.

Ditto. I have the same qualification and feel your pain! It is an absolute nightmare and I am still trying to decide what to do about it! However, I rang the registration board in NSW and they said I would be likely to get conditional registration to teach casually whilst getting my extra year in order to be provisionally registered.

We had to send certified copies. These were scanned over. This had to be signed, dated and stamped by a notary public and not just any solicitor. It cost us £170 for passport page and trade certs!

Hi Sammy. Which one year degree could I do though? Aren't all 1 year degrees just masters? Please see my comments to Rosie regarding the secondary posts. I sent those questions to the wrong person. I would do it if there is a way to do it without doing another full 3 or 4 yr degree. Thanks for replying.

Thanks Rosie. I may be able to come on my husband's 457 if he gets it, so it doesn't necessarily have to be for a visa. However, I have heard it's not definite he will get PR so this was an idea as an insurance policy if you like. I am aware of the over supply of teachers and it worries me, but my strengths lie with teaching and I can't see me doing anything else with a primary teaching degree. Unless anyone has advice? Could I try secondary? If I could do a 1 year course I would try that. Any ideas? It's just that at my age I can't do another 4 year course to get a maths degree or whatever subject really and wouldn't this be necessary to teach a secondary subject?

Everything you said makes absolute sense, but there are reasons I probably can't do these things. I would love to see the system over there, but I think the school based degree is a master of teaching which is 2 years full time. Firstly, I'm too old for student visa (45) and will need to train for just one year as I will need to work. Then there's the international student fees! Unless of course, I work on a casual basis and train part time over a longer period. Very frustrating.

Hi. I am a Primary teacher but I need an extra year of university study in order to pass a skills test with AITSL. I have a bachelor degree in education, but it needed to be 4 and not 3 years. I asked AITSL and they wouldn't advise on which course to take, but I thought an MA in education would be a good idea. I don't wish to study but have no choice, so before I embark upon taking a year out for studying and, in the process, it costing me over £10,000 I'd appreciate knowing if 180 UK credits would be accepted. How do these credits compare over there? I'd really appreciate any advice available. Thanks

Thanks everyone

Thanks, but the letter that has been sent states that they must be certified?

I have been asked to send certified copies of docs to immi account. Who can certify them in the UK please? Does it have to be a notary public or can it be any solicitor or another profession certifying them.

Thank you Bungo. We will get this sorted.

Yes on the same application, but by the time my info is ready to lodge we may already have been told he has his visa granted. So if they then lodge the application for me, and it does come through in the 2 months all is fine, but what if the evidence we have doesn't satisfy them? That's what I mean. Will I then get my tourist visa? Alternatively, if for some reason it doesn't come through on time (as plenty of people on here have gone past 2 months), then what? I really appreciate you giving your time to answer these questions for me, so I'm sorry for asking more!

Thanks again Bungo. So if we apply for me now and it's not through in the 2 months, either due to lack of evidence or refusal would I be able then to go on a tourist visa as we have our wedding booked?

Oh and if we apply now and it doesn't get approved on time (by our flight date in July), will I get a tourist visa to go? Worse still, if it gets rejected due to a lack of evidence, will I get a tourist visa? The holiday and wedding is booked with the travel agent. The Australian request to get married form has been filled in and returned to the marriage celebrant in Oz!

Oh right. We will ring the employer and ask them then. However, apart from evidence in the form of holidays last year, our wedding booking and his money going into my account we don't have anything else to prove our relationship . His money has been going in since December which isn't quite 6 months either. It is a continuing thing though. As we are still unsure if he, and indeed the employer, will have this application accepted (and it really is at the final stages), should we wait until that comes through first (hopefully next week)? I would hate to jeopardise it at this stage.

It was just an agent I rang myself in the UK. The employer are acting for themselves. They offered to wait until we were in Australia but said this would be cutting it fine. They realise I need to be added later and are prepared to do that. With regards to the marriage thing. We booked this holiday last year as a wedding too at the hotel. We didn't have the job then and would have both being just getting married and having our honeymoon there. We had a honeymoon to fiji booked too but have cancelled this as our situation to move there on a 457 means we need the money for this now rather than an exotic holiday. I am very worried too about them thinking that at the border! I just don't know what to do. Will having evidence from the employer in the form of a letter, stating that they will add me and evidence of how long the wedding has been booked for help? I asked my OH to get married in England then just have a blessing in Oz, but that would have spoilt our original plans and made it less special so we didn't do that. My immediate family are Australian citizens and that is the reason for getting married over there. Would that help too do you think?

PS...this agent said that proof of his wages going into my account would not be enough and that it would have to be in joint names!