Larad86

My partner declared his caution and like yours came back no live traces and he also submitted a subject disclosure and we had no problems at all. We just went with honesty is the best policy. Also I believe you have to submit all convictions including cautions.

@louwilkins I have just arrived in Perth. So it is all still fairly new. The process took took me a little while- the first thing I did was apply for my AHPRA in Nov 2016 however having read something just recently on this site there is a post stating that AHPRA no longer give you 12 months in which to present yourself so I would actually leave this until you are sure you will be able to present yourself within 3 months of receiving a registration in principle. I would start with the Academic IELTS, I'm going to guess that for visa points you will probably need to score and 8. I struggled with the ISLTS and ended up taking around 6 tests. I got a score of 7 in the Academic (which is the level you have to take for your ANMAC skills assessment) I then took the general to obtain a score of 8. After a successful IELTS score of 7 or above you car start you skills assessment. You will need to contact the NMC and ask them to send a confirmation of your registration you can also request a copy to be sent to AHPRA which they will hold at their office until such a time that they receive your application. The document must be sent directly from NMC to ANMAC & AHPRA. You will also need to contact your university and request your transcripts- again ask for 2 both for ANMAC & AHPRA. once you get your positive skills assessment and you have the required 60 points you can submit your EOI. I submitted my EOI at the end of July, submitted our visa mid August and received a grant by the end of October. Given that the rules for AHPRA are changing I would consider applying for this last. It was the one application that did take the longest to process but it was also the one I did not want to have to repeat. I received my registration in principle in Jan 2016 and I have only just presented myself and this morning received confirmation of registration...I'm soooo lucky I just scraped through!!! I hope ole that helps a bit, I'm happy to help wherever I can Lara

I wondered if someone is able to help. We are using Anglo Pacific to ship a few boxes and although their website states they are open on a Saturday 8-1pm we are unable to get hold of them. Is anyone else trying to contact them? It's just our boxes get collected on the 3rd Jan and that is the next working day and the paperwork we have to send off has to arrive before the boxes get collected. Our plan was to get them off today. But we are unable to contact this international company. Any advise

I wonder if someone is able to give some insight??

Please does someone know the answer to my question. I need to get on this quite quickly!!

Please could someone with experience help. I am flying out to Perth on the 4 January in order to register with AHPRA prior to the 13 Jan. My letter in principle states that I need to provide the following: Certificate of Registration Status or Certificate of Good Standing validity. What at exactly do I need to do... -print off the stat Dec and get it signed by a JoP or; - can I contact NMC to re-issue my confirmation of registration to confirm validity?? I I would be grateful for any response. Contacting the NMC will be much easier that arranging a stat Dec to be signed because I don't think my local JoP carries out document signing anymore. TIA

There is statement on the application explains that if you are applying outside Australia you cannot supply those documents therefore when you they give registration it's 'registration in principle' which means within a year you have attend their offices with your identity documents (passport) and I think confirmation of an Australian address.

This is great news!! Congratulations!! We are getting impatient. We wanted to get out for early Jan in order to meet a registration deadline!! Hope ours is as speedy!!

Just wondered if anyone had a similar experience. I started this long process of moving over a year ago. The thing I thought tthat would take the longest was applying the AHPRA so it was where I started first. I received a registration in principle in January 2016 and I requested the 12 month extension in which to present myself to complete the registration. Unfortunately everything else has taken longer that I anticipated and I only got our visa application submitted in August I did think that it should be sufficient time and would hopefully expect a grant by November at the very latest but I think I may have underestimated that and I'm not sure that I will be able to present myself by early Jan. I plan to contact them to get a definitive answer and just throw it out and request a few extra weeks. But I just wondered if anyone else has come across this. I'm just really reluctant to go through that application process again. THANK YOU

Any news?!?! Still early days yet but the wait is agonising!! Not heard a single thing since we submitted our additional request on the 9 September. I didn't expect to just getting inpatient.

I've just seen this thread and it has got me thinking. I plan to head to Oz in Jan 2017 if not sooner- visa depending. My NMC will be due to expire in March 2017 and I am due for revalidation. But I wasn't planning on renewing my NMC mostly because I don't plan to work in the uk as I will be setting up life in Oz. Am I missing something and should I should be keeping my registration going???? I figured that if it didn't work out in Oz I could return home to England and be able to prove that I have been a nurse elsewhere in the world. Is this not right?? I never intended on having to pay for registration to AHPRA and NMC. could someone please clear this up for me!! Thank you xx

Hello Ciaran, i just saw on another post that you recruit nurses in Australia. I'm awaiting a PR visa grant and plan to move to Perth wi my partner. I already have AHPRA in principle which will need validating in Jan 2017 so all being well we hope to get there for then. I have already made contact with a temporary nursing agency who have said that I'm at interview stage but they suggested that I update them with my visa process before proceeding. Anyway, I'm a paediatric nurse, I've been qualified 2.5 years and have had experience in adolescent health, general paediatrics and currently I'm working in teenage oncology/haematology. I would also like to explore opportunities in PICU. I just wanted to have an idea about the recruitmsnt process, current vacancies, ideally permanent based in Perth. Also what I should prepare for interviews. Your help and advice would be greatly appreciated. Lara

We submitted our 189 on 16th August for myself and my partner. We got assigned a CO on 22nd August and a request for furhret information: form 80, medicals and further evidence of de facto. I had already completed the medical questionnaire upon submission and had our medical on Saturday 3 September. Results are all now uploaded with no further assessments required and all our docs are uploaded including what we are hoping to be additional evidence of de facto ( I literally don't know what else I could provide). This all went up on Friday 9 September and the wait begins.... We we are also not using an agent. So we feel very in the dark but at moment we be,I've we have done the right thing. This forum has been very helpful!!

Please help... I have submitted my application for visa 189. I am in a defacto relationship and have been for the last 13 years. We provided as much as we had as evidence: bank statement for joint account, joint utility bills, council tax bill. This has not been sufficient and we have been asked for further evidence of our relationship. Having read up, I understand that both my partner and I need to complete a declaration of our relationship and I have used the Partner booklet as a reference which i understand does not need to be a formal document just an account of your relationship in your own words using the relevant headings. Silly question, but does this need to be signed and witnessed by someone- I cant work out where it clearly says this. in addition this i have compiled a word document with photos screenshot from my social media account with dated photos. Would this need to be signed and witnessed?? Any help would be hugely appreciated.

No I wouldn't think 6 years of payslips is applicable. Maybe for this financial year. But I don't think it's mandatory more just to show evidence of you current employment. I provided a letter from her which confirmed I am employed, what date from and my salary. It was email pdf attachment so I just attached it. It's on letter head. I have no no agent either but so far it's going ok but I'm in the dark to an extent. My CO has asked for additional info that I haven't yet provided so my assumption is that he/she has looked at the info already provided and is happy thus far. Anything you haven't provided they will ask you for. Also pre-fill a form 80 for all applicants aged over 16. You are more than like,y to be asked (we were) and it's a lengthy document. FYI!!!

1. Do both these documents need to be certified copies? I did get all my docs certified but actually if you read the DIBP website it does say scanned coloured copies but if you already have them certified, even better On the DIBP website it states I need to provide an employment reference. I already have a certified reference that I provided for my ACS assessment but it was written 6months ago (I am still in the same role). 2. Do I need to provide an updated reference? they want everything you sent for your skills assessment- I sent payslips and p60s for that 2.5 years because that's how long I have been qualified and doing my skilled job. The DIBP also states the reference should include: payslips, tax returns and salary earned 3. Do I need to upload payslip(s) to my employment history? Or just the latest one? 5. Does the payslip need to be a certified copy?Mine were e-p60.s and e-payslips but again I guess that comes under coloured scanned copy My final question relates to timelines. I have 8 weeks since receiving the invite to lodge my application and I am coming up to 3 weeks: 6. Once I've paid the VISA fee does the 8 week deadline become extended if I need to upload further information? Once you have paid your fee you have 28 days to submit evidence. You are best off getting it prepared, scanned and ready to upload before you pay. Also you want to scan each document separately... Eg. Main applicant birth certificate , partner birth certificate, main applicant passport, partner passport etc...make sense. You upload each document under the respective section. Just label them clearly a make sure each doc is 5mb no bigger. It's fair,y straightforward to upload but just get them all prepared. 7. Is there a minimum document requirement at the time of lodging the VISA? For reference, I don't have police clearance or medicals completed ye once you have submitted your visa and you get assigned a CO (mine was assigned within a week of submitting application) you then get issued a HAP ID for each applicant and then you can book your medical at your closet immigration hospital. Police checks- we got ours prior to submitting our application but they are only valid for 12 months so it is advised to apply once asked by your CO but they don't take long to process 10 working days. I still in the process of submitting my docs and doings bits here and there so I'm not an expert just giving you an idea of the process so far if it helps. My case officer has seen the docs already provided and asked for further information so what I have already submitted must be sufficient...or at least that's what I'm hoping!!

I wonder if someone can help with regard to stat decs for de facto relationship. We have been asked by our CO to provide additional evidence of our de facto relationship. I have put together a few photos with dates for the last 10 years. But I am now thinking I may as well just do a stat Dec. I just need to clarify....does this need to be signed by anyone I.e. Solicitor or can we just sign a copy declaring that the information is true. Also so would we both need to type one out or is one joint stat Dec sufficient. Please help... We have a deadline!!! thank you

We have also already completed our form 80 in preparation.

I really appreciate your response to the above. We have now received our police checks and as you have said, my partners has come back with 'no live trace' we have already made a note on the visa application that he has a caution- I hope this is the right thing to do. I will look into the subject access disclosure. I I have just one more query with the visa/EOI that I have realised... I have made what I hope to be a minor mistake on my EOI. I plan to apply as the lead applicant and claiming no points for my partner with a ttotal of 65 points. I realise now that on the EOI when asked if adding family members I did not include you partner as being on the application. Now we have been invited I plan to put him on...will this be a problem? I believe eve it won't be a problem but wonder if anyone has done this mistake and hopefully reassure me. I would appreciate your advice regarding this?. thank you

Just nudging this hoping for a reply...I'm super keen to submit today.

Please could someone respond to my query re: EOI omission. I did not include my partner on the EOI. We have been invited to apply and I want to clarify that By adding him to the visa application will not be a problem. It was a silly oversight on my part and the EOI is now locked so I cannot make any amendments. Please help!!!

I just wondered if someone could please just clarify something for me please please!!! i have today realised that I have made what I hope to be a minor mistake on my EOI. I plan to apply as the lead applicant and claiming no points for my partner with a ttotal of 65 points. I realise now that on the EOI when asked if adding family members I did not include you partner as being on the application. Now we have been invited I plan to put him on...will this be a problem? I believe eve it won't be a problem but wonder if anyone has done this mistake and hopefully reassure me. Thank you

Thank you!! I appreciate your quick response. I I have spoken with my mum and she has provided the details. I answered the question because if asked- have you ever lived abroad- I ticked yes and then it requires to fill in the next part before allowing you to move on. We we got the police checked prior purely because we thought it was essential at EOI- we now realise it isn't. I appreciate the validity of the check is only 12 months but I guess it's just the risk we took. Time will tell. I have printed the form 80 to fill out for both my partner and I and readiness for the additional scrutiny. Essentially we are trying to prove as much as we can. Thanks again lara

[h=2][/h] I would be grateful for a couple of pointers please for completing the 189 visa application. We we have been really lucky and received an invitation to apply within a few days of submitting our EOI. I am a nurse with 2.5 years experience I claimed 65 points for age (30), degree (nursing), IELTS (superior) I did not claim for experience. I am applying with my partner of 13yrs but he has no relevant experience/qualifications so no points there. My queries are... 1) Whilst filling out out the form, we have been asked for my partner's secondary qualifications and work history. Although we are happy to provide this- his highest qualification is GCSE's- do I need to list all of his qualifications even though they are not relevant. We we have listed his 10 years work experience with a brief explanation of duties as requested to which there are no significant gaps. However he did work in France for an English ski company receiving an wage via his English bank account for 6 months within this 10 year period but he was still registered as living at home- does this count as living abroad and do we have to provide anything in specific for this. 2) I am a British citizen through having a British mother. I was born in South Africa and moved to the uk with my family when I was 11. I have only ever held a SA passport as a child and now I only have a British passport. I have obviously provided all This information I.e. Birth certificate. But it has asked me if I have lived in another country and what the address was and when I moved....I can provide part of this details but I was a child and I don't really have any records to this effect as they are most likely held by my parents who I know will not have this information. 3) we have submitted requests for our police checks already and are planning on waiting for them before submitting the application. My partner received a caution about 11 years ago and we have declared this and listed it on the visa. Again we have no evidence of this apRt from the pending police check. Do you think this will affect our visa application in any way. Any my help is much appreciated. If this post is not appropriately posted in this section would someone please relocate it. Kind regards.

I would be grateful for a couple of pointers please for completing the 189 visa application. We we have been really lucky and received an invitation to apply within a few days of submitting our EOI. I am a nurse with 2.5 years experience I claimed 65 points for age (30), degree (nursing), IELTS (superior) I did not claim for experience. I am applying with my partner of 13yrs but he has no relevant experience/qualifications so no points there. My queries are... 1) Whilst filling out out the form, we have been asked for my partner's secondary qualifications and work history. Although we are happy to provide this- his highest qualification is GCSE's- do I need to list all of his qualifications even though they are not relevant. We we have listed his 10 years work experience with a brief explanation of duties as requested to which there are no significant gaps. However he did work in France for an English ski company receiving an wage via his English bank account for 6 months within this 10 year period but he was still registered as living at home- does this count as living abroad and do we have to provide anything in specific for this. 2) I am a British citizen through having a British mother. I was born in South Africa and moved to the uk with my family when I was 11. I have only ever held a SA passport as a child and now I only have a British passport. I have obviously provided all This information I.e. Birth certificate. But it has asked me if I have lived in another country and what the address was and when I moved....I can provide part of this details but I was a child and I don't really have any records to this effect as they are most likely held by my parents who I know will not have this information. 3) we have submitted requests for our police checks already and are planning on waiting for them before submitting the application. My partner received a caution about 11 years ago and we have declared this and listed it on the visa. Again we have no evidence of this apRt from the pending police check. Do you think this will affect our visa application in any way. Any my help is much appreciated. If this post is not appropriately posted in this section would someone please relocate it. Kind regards.