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Email skillselect support to get the number. You should be able to find email address on website.

If you deleted the email and cant find it in trash you will need to email them to help recover the number.

Your username is your EOI number. If you have submitted an EOI you should have a record of this number in your email.

Surely a marriage certificate is enough? A marriage certificate should have both your full names on, so what more do they need?

Hey, I won't be too much help here, fortunately my wife has been with the same company for 10 years so she was able to get a detailed letter of all her responsibilities from each of her previous managers. I seem to recall that during my research I came across a case where they couldn't get letters from previous managers. In this case you can submit: "Statutory Declaration/Affidavit - This will only be accepted for job description/task list;" (this was taken from ICAA website)

Yes, if the accounting body you submit your degree and syllabus to deems that your degree and/or MBA syllabus are comparable to an Aus degree and cover the required areas for Management Accounting then your work experience will count from that point. On your second question, when you submit your degree to the assessment body you can select an option to do a work experience assessment as well. But as you mentioned they will only assess the work experience once they deem your qualifications are sufficient. Bear in mind that there are three bodies you can submit it to: CPA, ICAA and IPA. I submitted my wifes to both the CPA and ICAA just for good measure. Both CPA and ICAA have very good pages on their websites showing exactly what is needed to be submitted to them for a skills and skilled employment assessment. I think the syllabus part is critical in convincing them you covered the areas. My wife was fortunate enough to do an accounting degree so we were able to get positive assessments from both CPA and ICAA but we spent about a month collecting and formatting the documents to be perfect before I sent them off.

Are you a full CIMA member, or do you only have the advanced diploma? If you are not a full member then the advanced diploma will not mean much. What was your degree in? Generally, They will start there and see if it is comparable to an Aus degree, they will then check that you cover each of the areas required. Your work experience will count from the point where they are satisfied that your degree is Aus comparable and you have covered the required fields. Non accounting degrees usually fall short on the Financial Accounting, Accounting Theory and sometimes business law subjects. They could then use your CIMA subjects to fill in those gaps but your experience will only count from the point you passed those subjects. If your degree is comparable and you meet all the subject requirements in your degree your experience will count from the minute you completed your degree and the CIMA will be ignored. Hope that makes sense, if not let me know.

In General yes you can as 6 in each band meets the "Competent English" requirement of the 189 visa (I assume 190 too) But Two things you should look into: 1) The assessment bodies for Accounting/External Auditor required that you have 7 in each band before they assessed your degree. For Internal Auditor I see the Assessment body is VETASSESS, so I am not sure what they require you would need to check with them if you need a certain score. 2) For Auditors (External or Internal) you would need at least 75 points to have a chance at getting an Invitation to apply in a reasonable amount of time if at all and having a 6 in each band will give you 0 points towards that 75. I think it would be extremely difficult to get to 75 points without being able to claim any points from English Language ability.

It has gone up for everyone, so I wouldn't look into that too much.

Power board is a multi-socket, multi-plug, power strip, extension socket or whatever else people call it. So if you have a 5 plug UK multi-plug, you can just its plug and then can put in 5 UK plug devices.

To claim points the qualification has to be related to the profession you apply under. You can't claim points for hotel management diploma when applying under accountant. Also even if both are related you only get points for the highest one and you cant claim 10 + 10 if you have two diplomas.

1) You would need to get your qualifications assessed. Only the assessment body can say at what level your qualification is comparable to Aus standards and contains the required subjects etc. You can browse various forums etc. to try find an answer but until the assessment body has given you your results it's all speculation. 2.) You can get a max of twenty points for qualification (not counting the 5 bonus) how many points you get depends on the level your qualifications or a combination of them. 10 if it is comparable to a diploma, 15 if it is comparable to a degree and 20 if it is comparable to a doctrate. 3) You can only get 10 points for your diploma or advanced diploma, they do not add all your qualifications together, they take the highest one you have an assign points based on that, but you should be able to claim the 5 bonus points if: "At least one degree, diploma or trade qualification from an Australian educational institution that meets the Australian study requirement" So 10 + 5 in this case. In short the best thing would be to have them assessed and take it from there, we can speculate on you getting 10 + 5, but its down to the assessment body on what they think your degree is comparable to and whether or not you meet the study in Aus requirements.

@trayturn I grew up and went to school and university in south africa, but english is my first language. So I mainly spoke English at home and went to the English classes at school and university.

We did academic.

I booked the IELTS test for my wife (main applicant) and myself (went along for support didn't need to do test). Once I had booked I read that PTE was easier but it was too late for us to change so we wrote IELTS. My wife did a bunch of mock tests before hand to study for it, I did a few listening ones with her for support, and skimmed the writing section. I got 9/9/9/9 and she got 9/9/8.5/9. (8.5 was for writing) Reading, writing, and talking are pretty easy for anyone with English as a first language, the writing is very tricky. Read up on how they expect you to answer the writing as it is quite formulaic as to what you need to say. Especially the first part where they give you a graph and ask you to compare it. We had no issue getting top score, but as a general consensus the PTE one sounds easier.

We got 189 application in on 6 Dec, tomorrow we hitting 90 days waiting and haven't heard anything yet. Hoping to hear something by the end of the month.

Sorry taking so long to get back been on holiday. My wife has been with her current employer for 9 years, doing four roles over that period. so that was lucky. But she had to go to all her previous managers to sign off that particular role. So she submitted four different letters. If you cant get letter from previous experience I believe you can submit an affidavit with the reason why and then your experience. This will need to be signed by a notary. Please check cpa or icca websites I believe they mentioned this there somewhere.

70 points under those categories will not get an invite this cycle, which ends 30 June. From July 1 a new cycle will begin and then its anyone's guess. If you could go for state sponsorship to NWS and add 5 points and submit EOI on 75 points you would have a much better chance.

Yeah, I believe it is what you were brought up with. My wife and I are originally from the center of South Africa, pretty much nothing goes on there, most people don't even know it exists. I spent most of my time fishing and camping as a kid. We have lived in London for the past 10 years. I have loved my time here, and I am glad we tried it for the experience. Definitely the capital of the world in my opinion, but now that we have kids we would like to go back to a quieter, more outdoor lifestyle. I have friends in Perth who moved there 5 years ago, they come from the same town as me in SA and they are loving it there. Although saying that I have been to Melbourne, and it is also awesome.

My wife and I have applied for our 189, and hoping to get a grant in the next month or two. I like open spaces and remoteness so going by this thread Perth is a clear choice

Your points can change while EOI has been submitted, so if a professional year can expire during that time then you can lose points. Same with age etc. But as far as I know once you receive an Invite your EOI is "locked" at that date, so you can't lose points for changing age etc, not sure about professional year, I assume it will be the same

Two options I know of, there may be more: * Remaining Relative Visa, if your whole family is in Aus, (ie your mom and/or siblings are not in the UK) and you have no close family outside of Aus you can try this route, your dad will be able to sponsor you. * If your job is on the list you can apply for a Skilled Points Tested Visa (189, 190 etc). You can claim 5 points for having close family in Aus There may be more but this is the ones I know.

@Renebo Ok, sorry couldn't be of more help. Will follow this thread to see how you get along as I might come across this too.

I believe the 5-8 months if from Initial Lodge to Grant, for 75% of the cases. What I have been able to take away from the various sources are the following: * The CO will contact you after 2-3 months * If you have submitted all documents IE) Decision Ready application, they will give you a direct grant at this point. * If they need more documents, they will request it at this point * Once you submit the documents, it is another 2-3 month wait for the grant So the 5-8 months I feel is an estimate based on application who did not submit all documents to start with.

Hey, I have not read up on this yet, but I guess I would need to do the same soon. I would start here: https://www.gov.uk/tax-right-retire-abroad-return-to-uk