traceylove54

Hi, ooh goodness that's a real shame! I am no expert by any stretch we have looked into using the same advisory service, I'm just wondering what choice you really have as you say you either get your previous employer to re write their reference based on them omitting what you now understand are key capabilities for the internal auditor role, as per the description or as you say you give up!! Having invested your $130 and god knows how much of your emotional energy is it not worth throwing everything at it and trying to see if you can get a positive skills assessment?? Good luck and keep fighting :-)

With all this talk of refusal of SS visa can I just ask have you still had to pay the full visa application fee for them then to turn around and say NO?? From my understanding the visa app fee alone is nearly £5k??

Apparently vetassess is the only skills assessing agency who provide a 'opinion' service, if you pay something like $130 and submit your basic information like a cv I'm guessing they will give you an opinion as to whether they would be likely to assess you positively. Then if you go onto submit full skills assess they knock off $80 as you've had this service?? Might help before pulling out the full amount needed for skills assess??

Listen you guys it's not over yet do you remember the April a couple of years ago where we had a good dump of snow?? There's plenty of time left in this winter yet!! Spoken like a true northerner!!

Not sure I'm helping here but my OH is a hr manager with 15 years experience in his discipline. We were advised against this option as it would entail an AIM skills assess and advised to drop down to HR Advisor which is a vetassess skills assess which apparently is a lot less scary!!

I don't know but have you tried somewhere like saga who specialise in over 50's insurance?? If your uk based normally that is not sure if there's anything similar in Aus??

Need a bit of advice - have been looking and learning on PerthPoms for the last few weeks trying to work out our options re a 190 visa application. We are at the advice stage and the agent tells us points aren't an issue for my OH he's a hr advisor with plus 15 years experience and a masters degree. We can't go for WA as HR advisor is a schedule 2 occupation on their list ATM and we won't get a visa without a job and we're unlikely to get a job without a visa- chicken and egg. So today it transpires that our only option in Northern Territory?! I know nothing about NT?! We have visited perth, melbourne and sydney we have a vague insight into what it would be like to live in any of those places, we decided on perth as we felt it best suited our lives (young kids 10&6 beaches outdoor life etc) but we have never visited Darwin!! I know it's only a moral obligation to live in NT if we are granted a visa but what is life really going to like if we end up in NT?? Can anyone offer any advice?? T

Love the wor lass comment would you happen to be from the north east:-)

Hi hate to be the bearer of bad news, and I am only new at this too, but what I've learned from my own situation is that you are unlikely to get an invite to apply for a visa from WA with a schedule 2 occupation without having a secure job to go to?? What essentially they are saying with schedule 2 is we'll consider you if you have a job to come to but we don't really need anymore people with your occupation there are enough here already. Sorry but that's what I understand it to be, did you get advice from a migration agent before submitting??

Thanks am going to the down under live expo either in Birmingham next weekend or Glasgow on the 22nd. I am hoping it'll be worth e 6 hour drive to either place!!

That's a good point is it best to be physically near the migration agents office to sign stuff etc? If so does anyone know of any in the north east of England??? Thanks again!!

Thanks guys, you have all clarified one thing I had completely missed despite all my googling!! So it's only one member of the family that needs to get the visa? I was guessing it was both!! Any recommendations on migration agents? I see Go Matilda features frequently in threads?!

Thanks for your valuable advice!! I still have my RGN registration though as I say I've been in the pharma industry for 16 years. I would have to do a return to practice course over here to make sure I was safe to work before I came across if I had to use my qualification to work over there. I would prefer to stay in the pharma industry if I'm honest. One final question: Is it very unusual for a company to sponsor you with a job offer and do visas for you?? My husband has heard in the past of colleagues who've been offered jobs in Australia and the firm they are going to work for have processed visas for them. I'm dubious about this, as everyone was pre recession and surely people don't want the hassle of processing visas for a family of 4 just to get someone out there for a job!!

Hi - as usual with newbies advice is needed pls We are a family of 4, I'm 43, husband 39, girls 10 & 6. Having put this decision off for years, we can't leave family etc, a month in Australia over Xmas has brought us to the conclusion it's now or never and we'd love to move to perth. Why Perth? Well husband works in HR / Recruitment and has worked for quite some time in oil and gas so he's attracted to Perth for the opportunities in O&G, luckily we all loved it whilst we were there. HR manager is on the SOL I think for WA so that's a start. i think I present more of a problem, I'm 42, 43 in a months time, I'm a registered general nurse, but I've working for the last 16 years as an account manager for a large pharmaceutical company in the UK. I think nurse is on the SOL list but I'd prefer to carry on working in the pharma industry?? When I've put myself into some of these online points calculators I seem to scrape between 60-65 which seems to be near the threshold. If I get high scores in IELTS then that may help bump me over the edge. Questions I have are what are the value of the down under live expo type events in the UK? Is it worth using a migration agent especially as I may be near the points limit?? How long should we plan on this taking, is it my age when we first apply or when we go that's the issue?? Any advice gratefully received T