DarrenJDell

Hi All, Thanks to everyone's valuable advice so far, have enjoyed reading through! Apologies in advance for the mini life story... My wife and I have lived in Australia for nearly 3 years on a 457 visa. I'm the primary applicant and she's on a partner visa My wife is a centre manager for a 148 place centre and has been for the past two years. Prior to this she was a "senior room leader" for 1 year. Previous experience in the U.K. was "senior nursery practitioner" 8+ years. We now want to apply for PR on a 189 as her being the main applicant and applying as a CCC manager. The confusion we're finding is with the qualifications/skills assessment. Her UK qualification (Level 3 Diploma in Child Care and Education - awarded by CACHE) was only assessed as a Cert III. We found this out soon after arriving in Oz, so she studied and has just completed her Diploma (28 Aug). Her employer looked beyond the Cert III assessment when they offered her the centre manager role, but assuming TRA will not do the same, even though she's been in the position locally for two years and now has the diploma qualification? I'm guessing the "post-qual" experience rule still applies? Here's our confusion though... her UK qualification is assessed by ACECQA in Queensland as Diploma equivalent, but Cert III everywhere else (we're in NSW). Does TRA take in to consideration your location when assessing qualifications? How would this be assessed if we were in the U.K. and didn't yet have an Oz location? It seems strange that you become eligible/ineligible dependant on where you choose to live! Hope this makes sense! Any advice appreciated!