Zippy

Just got the visa grant this morning so happy!!! It came through 5 weeks after loading up the final documents. We're looking at moving there in about a month. Good luck to everyone else waiting hope it comes soon! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just bumping the thread, anyone heard anything back from immigration recently? I'm checking emails every morning but still no news! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hello, good to hear from someone in the same position. I submitted my 190 on 31 oct, then I had the request for more information e-mail asking for medicals, Police checks and relationship evidence on 14th Nov. We had problems getting a vietnamese police clearance (it takes about 4 weeks, IF parcel force don't lose the application for a week) so I asked for an extension to the 28 days, didn't hear anything back until right before Christmas, They sent an e-mail saying they'd review our case Mid January and have a Merry christmas! We've since loaded everything up and hit the Evidence complete button and just waiting now. Good luck on yours hope it comes through soon, you should be ahead of me in the queue if it works like that. What state did you apply for? I'm hopefully heading to NSW.

On the EOI I included all my employment that lasted over a few months. I've heard somewhere that you have to pay for them to work out how many points you can claim on experience! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I spent ages trying to work out which dates to put in. I used the certificate date as the course end date and put the beginning as when I started working in the trade, so about 5 years prior in my case. I also used TRA as the awarding body as had same problem selecting vetassess, I actually tried them all and the only one it let me do was TRA so assumed it had to be that one! I put Australia as 'country of institution' and the 'campus' as the address on the skills assessment/AQF certificate. Good luck with it all mate. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I started with an agent to get the Vetassess part, which they did really well, but as we started to prepare for the EOI I wasn't happy with how they were treating us so decided to go it alone. To be honest its not to bad, the most important part is getting the EOI points right, the actual application after is pretty simple as its just filling out your personal information and uploading the documents, and this forum helped me out loads in getting it all together, We're right at the end now just waiting on a Vietnamese police clearance which is taking forever! but the hardest part of the whole thing for me was the vetassess at the beginning so much paperwork and running around getting statutory declarations etc... You're claiming 30 points for age, 20 for english and 10 for qualification, I'm in almost exactly the same situation as you apart from different trade and losing 5 points due to my age therefor 190visa. I'd worked as a sheet metal worker for 5 years and never been qualified, I was originally going to use this for 5 points but it wouldn't have counted as I wasn't "skilled" As ABG said in a previous post they count work experience as on the job training for unqualified people, but if they've given you an AQF3 thats a 4 year course, so you lose 4 years work experience. Make sure on the previous employment section you mark all of it as "unrelated employment", or it will give you points. The worst thing you can do is over claim points (well ticking yes on the "are you a terrorist?" question is probably worse). Not claiming work experience makes it loads easier as you only need to upload: skills assessment, AQF3 certificate, PTE results and passport/birth cert to get the points!

Exact same thing happened to me, was in right panic for a while until I got advice on the skills assessment qualification being an AQF III.

Hi Guys I'm just finishing up my EOI, I've got all the certificates and points sorted, just wanted to make sure I'm entering my Trade Certificate correctly as its not that straight forward. I have a Certificate 3 in engineering and a positive skills assessment from TRA recognising my UK work experience/qualifications but never did an actual course as such. Under the Education history field I've answered: Qualification: AQF certificate III Course Name: ______ trades worker Institution name: Engineering Training Australia Country of Institution: Australia Campus: ????? (i've been awarded the certificate while in the UK through TRA so I've just put the address thats on the top of my assessment result form) postcode: same as above Date from: ????? must be filled but really not sure what date to enter as not actually studied in australia. Date to: **/**/2016 Date certificate awarded. So its really just the 'date from' field I'm concerned about, do I put it starting from 3 years prior to the end date as thats how long a course should last, (although thats kind of suggesting I've been Australia doing the course) Or should I just put it the day before (but that would make it a one day course) or does it even matter, will they just register as having the certificate and the qualification date so the start date isn't really important. Any help or advice would be much appreciated. Cheers!