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Thanks you Capt. for the reply. I appreciate your time.
I would request to tell me if there is any other line of work in which my 9 years of experience would be recognized.
I will surely try for pilotage, vts jobs, lecturing and agenting jobs. But if there is any other line of work where I can try my luck please guide me.

On 8/30/2015 at 02:50, CaptainR said:

UPDATE 1st July 2017

IMPORTANT UPDATE JULY 2017 - REMOVAL FROM SKILLED OCCUPATION LIST
 On the 1st July 2017 the occupations Ship's Master, Ship's Officer & Ship's Engineer were entirely removed from the Australian Skilled Occupation list. It is no longer possible to obtain a temporary or permanent visa on the basis of these occupations. 
 This change is driven by the local unions and is reflective of the state of the Maritime Industry in Australia which has been in decline for several years and has an oversupply of skilled seafarers for the few domestic vacancies available. 

 

Introduction

I started the original thread in 2012, and subsequently obtained my visa in 2013, I now live in Sydney and work offshore out of Western Australia.

 

The original thread reached over a 1000 posts with a lot of valuable information, so I thought it would be worthwhile consolidating it into a new thread with some of the key information.

 

This forum is a migration forum primarily aimed at British (poms) migrants, it isn’t a specialist seafaring forum and the members are mostly just people who have been through the process before, none of the information is authoritative.

Please only post specific items relating to the thread topic, for any generic immigration guidance please post in the relevant sections of the website.

 

You will see some information below on the process and some links to the guidance on the AMSA website, if you have serious difficulties understanding this then I would suggest you contact a MARA registered migration agent. Do not underestimate the difficulty involved in the migration process for a Ships Masters/Deck Officers and the costs involved.

Hello Capt.

I have just got my Australian PR subclass 189. I am a second officer with 9 years of sailing experience on container vessels. And I am in doubt to where to go in Australia. 

I've registered on all job finding apps but there is no response, may be because I've entered an Indian address. But I seriously want to know where I should move to have better number of job options and availability. 

Would appreciate all the replies.

Hello all,

I have just got my Australian PR subclass 189. I am a second officer with 9 years of sailing experience on container vessels. And I am in doubt to where to go in Australia. 

I've registered on all job finding apps but there is no response, may be because I've entered an Indian address. But I seriously want to know where I should move to have better number of job options and availability. 

Would appreciate all the replies.