Riesta

Hi all, I'm a civil/geotechnical engineer and have been working for 2 years and 7 months now. I'm planning to lodge in my Visa application after I have worked for 3 years, which will be on mid June 2015, so I can claim the extra 5 points. 1. I'd really prefer to submit my skills and work experience assessments as early as possible, but I'm confused whether I can really do it now since I have not reached the required 3 years working experience. If I get my working experience assessed before I reach the 3 years working exp, can I still claim the extra 5 points later on? 2. I've also heard that it is not mandatory to have our working exp to be assessed, but we can still claim our work exp for the points if we don't get our exp assessed? FYI, I'm a civil/geotechnical engineer with Washington Accord qualifications. 3. I understand that all documents need not to be certified if it is a colored-scanned document. But do we really need to have all the non-colored documents to be certified? Or is it just for the formal certificates, such as education cert, birth and marriage cert, etc? My company issues the payslip in black-and-white, so do I need to certify my pay slips too? and every single copy of documents as long as they are black and white? Sorry for this silly simple questions. It took me a hard time to clearly figure out what is really needed to be certified and which is not. Thank you really much for your time.