tomwilliam

On 15/01/2018 at 09:44, lothar said:

* To have your work experience assessed you need your experience signed off by your manager of that role or a more senior person. So if you are looking to claim points for the experience in your current role, then you would need to get your manager to sign it off or a more senior person like CEO if you dont want to speak to your manager. So you could bypass your manager but someone in the company would know as they will be signing it off. 

* My wifes skills assessment was around 2-3 pages per role, she was in each role between 2 and 4 years.

Go to the CPA or ICAA websites, they are very detailed with what you need to provide, they even point you to a Aus Gov website which explains what they consider duties of an accountant. (IPA is the third body that can assess and they might have the same info but I never used their website)

* The websites above list documents they will accept if you do not have payslips, things they accept are the job contract, proof of employment letter from HR, P60's, Proof of employment from HMRC (this takes about a month to come), Bank Statements. There might be more but check on the Accounting body you intend to assess through's website.

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You can try here for unofficial estimates: http://www.iscah.com/news-page/ 

Or go here: https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/trav/work/skil 

You can then go down to "Invitation Rounds" and you will see what the "Date of Effect" is. When you submit your EOI that date is your date of effect, you need the departments date of effect to reach your date of effect before you get an invite.

From current estimates, if you submitted EOI of 75 points January 2018 you might get invited before the year roll over end of June 2018. Anyone on 75 points submitted Dec 2017 or earlier should be ok to get invite prior to June 2018.

With 80 points you should get an invite in 1 or 2 rounds. 

There are two rounds a month and you can see the next round on that website above.

The draws are at 0h00 Sydney on a Wednesday. So 1pm Tuesday afternoon in UK. The rounds are two weeks apart.

Hi Lothar - quick question regarding the work experience assessment! Did your wife have to go back to her old employers to get her experienced signed off? Do you think they would accept an statutory declaration regarding experience? 

Thanks for the reply guys much appreciated!!! 

Hi, Can anyone tell me if there is any priority given to you if you have already been granted a skilled visa but have let it lapse but want to apply again from scratch. 

Could it still take a couple of years? 

From reading other posts i think our chances of an RRV have past as we initiated  our visa back in 2010 and it expired in 2015 however we have been back on holiday both in 2016 and 2017 on a holiday visa. 

Any advice would be appreciated

Thanks