konio

I've been living in Sydney 2.5 years so far - I eventually got the visa.

I followed "less points, but safer" - they generally do not believe you can do any two full-time activities at the same time. Good luck!

Thank you for your prompt reply.

Your experience may be a great help to me.

Indeed, the option of "less points, but safer" is attractive. So, I am going to claim the following experience as "Not Relevant": Software Engineer (full-time, confirmed by ACS): 01/Feb/2005 - 22/Feb/2007

However, in addition to sending all the official documents regarding my confirmed by ACS Doctorate, I am going to send the Ref letter and financial docs regarding my "Not Relevant" (double quotes) experience at Sun - with comments for CO that because the experience was in parallel with the postgraduate studies I JUST IN CASE marked it as "Not Relevant".

 

 

Another point: in November 2006, December 2006 and January 2007 I worked at Sun NOT in parallel with my postgraduate studies, because Doctorate lasted from 01/Jul/2003 to 09/Oct/2006. Do you think it makes sense to "break" my Sun’s experience into a big "Not Relevant" chunk and the 3-month-long piece of "Relevant" experience to show for DIAC?

 

 

Thank you

What happened finally?

Both postgraduate and work experience accepted?

Or you just followed "less points, but safer".

I am really interested to know as my case is same.

I did my PhD and I also worked for some IT company. Both works were separate and my visa was also employment visa, I paid all taxes, insurances and contributed to retirement fund.

Please let me know.