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Your positive skills assessment is your admission to practice as a solicitor. Once you are admitted as a solicitor you can then apply for a visa. In in order to get admitted, you need to apply to the law society and find out what quals they require you to do. You then study and pass them. Then you apply to the board for admission and attend the admission ceremony

Thanks - does this create any additional obligations on the employer?

I have been offered sponsorship on a 457 which is great, however I would like to be a permanent resident - if I get a 457 can I immediately apply for PR or are there any time restrictions?

If you have to issue Court proceedings you wont be able to move at Christmas, you will be lucky to get a first hearing before Xmas! Have sent you pm

permission to apply for a passport is not giving consent to travel. You are wrong.

You are right both parents' approval needs to be in place, however the parents' approval had already been given by signed on passport application form, and will be remain in force as long as the passport is valid. Parent will need to inform the authority if any one of them wants to withdraw the approval this is misleading advice.

Please do not follow this advice! A parent does not give approval to relocate to another country based on a signature on an application form for a passport. I have already told you what the procedure is - go to mediation and then make an application at Court on a C100 form. if you take her out of the country you could find yourself subject to proceedings under the Hague Convention.

You need to go to mediation and get an appointment. Either he turns up and you get him to agree or mediation signs the form and you issue an urgent application to court. download c100 form and pay fee of £215, the court will list for a hearing date in about 6 weeks time. Cafcass will call on the phone and prepare a safeguarding letter in readiness for the hearing. Depending on the outcome of that letter depends on next steps. if cafcass want a section 7 report then that will take another 8 weeks, if they don't want one it will be listed for a final hearing. Hope that helps

They can't marry! That's how they are discriminated against if you don't approve of gay marriage then don't marry someone of the same sex, it's quite simple !

WA told me what universities offered the courses in WA but only 1 of them did online and the other was over 2 modules and was very expensive. I asked the board if could study elsewhere and provided my reasons and they approved UNE which are very geared up to online study.

http://www.pomsinoz.com/forum/migration-issues/211160-solicitor-applying-visa-189-skills-assessment.html have you read this thread, lots of info on here that should answer all your questions.

Well the minimum subjects I mentioned above - the constitutional law ran from Feb to June and The other 2 you studied at your own time but they suggest 8 weeks each. when you get skills assessed it takes about 2 months but I fear even f you apply with 2 years qualification you will have to do lots subjects. I have heard lots of stories of people doing 6/7 subjects. If you factor in the time and cost plus the risk that the occupation could be removed id be concerned. If you are working full time you will not be able to manage 3 modules a semester. I struggled with 1 subject, it was intense. I I think you have 4 years from grant of visa to move to oz. Good luck anyway.

You need to apply to the law society in the state you wish to be admitted to, they will assess your skills and decide what modules you need to take to be the equivalent of a lawyer in Australia. As as a trainee or NQ you will struggle. As a minimum you will have to study the following professional responsibility trusts and accounts australian constitutional law all of these can be studied in line from uk. As as a trainee you will not be able to rely on experience for some of the modules and if you got a grade of c or less then you will have to take the equivalent subject. Once you you have done these subjects then you have to apply to be admitted and attend the ceremony in the state you applied to. Once you are admitted you can apply for a visa.

It doesn't suggest anywhere that she removed the children without his consent and why should she be grateful they are his bloody kids and he has a legal and moral responsibility to financially support them. As as I said above the cms do have jurisdiction of the children of they are in uk and she should make her application.

sorry only just seen your message. I would say that you need to put an extraordinary amount of detail on your application to the board, tell them exactly what areas of company law you have done and hope for the best. I did did constitutional law law220 module online, some unis offer it as 2 modules but clearly that increases the costs so I did the 1 module online. Myself and libbyyella had to also do professional responsibility and accounts. Again online.

Child maintenance service have jurisdiction over the children so she can make a claim as she would normally. Enforcement will clearly be more difficult but it is possible, be warned however that CMS are absolutely useless and it will be a battle

Quick question, we have applied for our holiday visas which have been granted with no issue but one of the conditions is no criminal convictions. My partner has a conviction from 2008 for drunk and disorderly. I'm bit worried that if we don't contact them and say he has this conviction we may run into problems later because he didn't declare it but on the other hand I don't really want to open can of worms and create problem for holiday visa! What do you suggest?

Well you have done well to secure the offer of a training contract so well done. You need to go with where your heart is? Is it in law or accountancy? if you want to emigrate to Australia then I don't think accountants are on the list and solicitors are on the list but you will need good few years experience and then at least 3 exams and be admitted in oz

just go to a local solicitor and ask them to do it

I cant wait to visit in August

My understanding is that they all follow the same principle rules but I'm guessing there is some room for human differences. As far as I know once you have been admitted in one state you can apply to any other state and its just a case of completing the admission process in the other state. Did you consider appealing against the decision?

I can't agree with this based on my personal circumstances, I am 12 years qualified and have studied these subjects at uni and I have only been told to study constitutional law, professional responsibility and accounts. None of the others that the guy above has been told to do. im sure I read that you can appeal on the basis of experience and appeal generally, it may be worth doing that to see if can reduce the amount of subjects?

wow, that's a lot to study. Has he not studied these subjects a UK degree level? How many years qualified is he?

As I said above ask that particular board if you can take exams elsewhere. All I did is email WALPB and send them copy of the course description and an explanation of why I wanted to study it at that uni and they replied immediately and said absolutely fine. but yes I can't see a problem with your plan other than I'm not an expert !

WALPB gave me permission to do elsewhere other than WA unis. I just emailed them and said the one on their list wanted constitutional law as 2 units and therefore twice the cost and here is where I want to goo. They said that was fine and hence I'm nearly finished.