Larad86

Hello Julie! You got a job in a hospital in Perth? And got sponsorship? Can you tell me which agency you applied through. The 457 visa is something I would like to explore- I am a children's nurse looking to apply. Would appreciate some recently experienced advice. Thank you. Lara

I think I have worked this out...I plan to apply for my nursing registration via APHRA which because I am from the UK I qualify under their English requirements, once I obtain the registration I will begin to look for jobs and fingers crossed get offered sponsorship because yes I understand that it isn't a choice and that you do have to be offered the sponsorship. Once I am registered I will only need the modified skills assessment from ANMAC. Hopefully I will then be successful under the 457 visa and then once I am in Australia I would go on and apply for either the 189/190. We are just keen to get there soon!!

I thought I was well read with this IELTS test....I was absolutely sure all I required was the general test and now it looks as though I have to complete the academic test as well??? I just cannot believe this!!!!

I wondered if some of you lovely helpful people on this forum could help!!! I have so far found it so helpful. Going to Australia has long been a dream of myself and my partner's and we are starting (quite slowly) to put the wheels in motion. I am a degree educated nurse with 18 months experience, and 29years. This on the Australian visa points gave me 45 so I knew the place I had to start was the IELTS to get me ideally 20 points requiring and overall score of 8 or if I got 7 I would have 55 points needing a further 5. I have today received my results and I am not sure if I am happy or let down. I got: listening: 8.5 reading: 7.5 writing: 7.5 speaking: 9.0 overall: 8.0 I am of the understanding that they only accept your lowest result as the overall result therefore that is 7.5 and therefore only achieve 10 points which overall gives me 55 visa points. I still have a few options open to me and I'm just wondering what the best option would be.... 1) we opt for th 457. By the time the visa and my registration gets sorted I would have the required 2 years nursing experience that WA would accept before issuing a work sponsored visa and then once I have worked in WA for a further year that will bump my points up in the work experience in Australia section and then we could apply for the 189. 2) we could opt for the 190 visa (state sponsorship) which will give us an additional 5 points totalling to 60 however my concerns with this visa is that state sponsorship has their own detailed criteria to be met which pretty much mirrors the visa's criteria and my downfall there is work experience. 3) I could do the test again and hope that I have get the all important score of 8 and apply for the 189. My concern with this is that having read the registration paperwork for APHRA the amount of tests taken can go against you!! Is that the case??? Another quick question is....should we take the plunge and get a migration agent. I have heard several things....one being that if you independently submit your application you are likely to get rejected however if you submit the same application via a migration agency it is likely to get accepted??? i would absolutely appreciate anyone's advise and feedback and I am crossing my fingers that by stroke of luck my overall result counts....(but I'm doubtful ?) thank you Lara [TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=colspan: 2][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]

@supercow I have come acrossed your thread and have found it an excellent read! I am a nurse looking to start the application process and due to insufficient points for the permanent visa I am relying on maximum points on the IELTS test. Having now read your post I had a look of the PTE Academic website and the ANMAC website where I need a skills assessment I don't think the PTE Is an accepted English assessment...do you know if that is the case? I would appreciate your opinion and possible knowledge. Going by your written English mine is definitely not that good!! :dull: Thank uou again!

Thank you all for your input!! It's really helpful. Just to clarify the above comment...I scored 65 points for the visa taking into account my qualification, experience, English national etc, I also have GCSE in English so do I still need it? What is the requirement? Also...what's the difference between a modified assessment and full assessment? Thansk again!

Please could I have some advise and clarification on a few points.... my partner and I have started it look into emigrating to Australia. We recently went to an expo and took on board a lot information which just generated a load more questions. So we plan to got to WA on the 189 visa on the basis that I am a registered nurse. I have been qualified a year this April. The process as we understand is as as follows... 1) apply to APHRA (our version of NMC) 2) apply to ANMAC which is the skills assessment 3) apply for the visa however having read posts would it not be best to apply to ANMAC first because being only a year qualified WA want at least years experience but I have also been told that if we apply for 189 I only need a degree and 3 months experience as nurse to apply under the skills list- is this right. What I don't want to do is send my application to register for it to be rejected on the grounds of not enough experience. With regard to the ILETS assessment....will my partner have to take this too. What about police checks, medicals etc- just me or my partner too. Can somebody help with my ton of questions....???