How should i response to Aus Immigration Authority??

[rahatrubaiyat]

Hello, I am from Bangladesh and I have submitted my visa application under subclass 189 as a civil engineer. Australian Embassy has enquired about me as per my submitted document. Based on the report of enquiry, Australian immigration authority are not satisfied with one of my previous job role and nature of company I have served. The incident was that I have served in an asset management company (works on stock market) as a research associate and my job was to analyze various companies of real estate sector.

 

Australian immigration authority opined that the above company I have served is not a construction company where civil engineers are supposed to work. Rather, it is an asset management company whose task is to work on stock market and form mutual fund. Australian Immi authority also asked me to provide them necessary explanation within 28 days.

 

But the reality is that an asset management company invites diversified educational background employees to do equity research. I was an equity researcher and I have demonstrated my civil engineering knowledge to do the following things like :Conduct construction project feasibility study, Track latest technological innovation in civil engineering and its impact on real estate sector, Analyze industry input variables like cost of cement, reinforcement bar, pre-fabricated concrete block and other engineering materials and their impact on company operating cost, Communicate with architects, civil engineers, project managers, procurement specialists and other relevant personnel of real estate etc etc

 

My question is what should be the process to answer them? What sort of document should I include to support my answer?

I like to inform you that civil engineering is a very diversified segment of engineering where an engineer’s task ranges from doing design, drawing, construction supervision, construction feasibility study, engineering material procurement, man management, cost control etc. I have done many of such things in that company but aus immi authority are not satisfied. What should I do? Please help me.

[Bungo]

I think you are onto a loser here. I spent many years in the asset management industry and cannot see how you could possibly justify your time with an asset manager as civil engineering work experience, even if you did research this sector. Why on earth did you include it? I would suggest some professional advice is required here, but on the basis of what you have said and assuming you need this work experience points, I do not feel hopeful.

[MaggieMay24]

I think you should speak with a migration agent to a) see if the experience you've claimed should have been claimed, and b) get professional guidance on how to respond to DIBP.

[Quinkla]

An engineer’s task ranges from doing design, drawing, construction supervision, construction feasibility study, engineering material procurement, man management, cost control etc.

You don't actually do these things in an asset management company - you comment on other companies who do this. DIBP wants hands-on experience, not evaluation of other people doing this work. I suspect they are giving you an opportunity to withdraw your application to avoid having it rejected.

[wrussell]

I think you should speak with a migration agent to a) see if the experience you've claimed should have been claimed, and b) get professional guidance on how to respond to DIBP.

 

From what the OP posted, it looks grim. A RMA might be able to suggest a way forward.

[MiM]

Do you have an employment certificate detailing the tasks you did while working for the company in question?

 

Have you included it in any of the career episodes in your CDR with Engineers Australia?

[ptlabs]

My question is what should be the process to answer them? What sort of document should I include to support my answer?

 

Being dual qualified (in engineering and law), I agree that civil engineering is a diverse segment, but there are limits to the flexible interpretation of what constitutes civil engineering

 

As others before me have suggested, it may be time to get proper (dare I say paid) advice from a registered migration agent. But ultimately the facts are the facts.

 

Regards

Peter

[rahatrubaiyat]

Do you have an employment certificate detailing the tasks you did while working for the company in question?

 

Have you included it in any of the career episodes in your CDR with Engineers Australia?

 

 

Dear Mim, i have provided employment certificate from that company in question with proper roles and responsibility which demonstrate my civil engineering practice. As you know, in my cdr i have mentioned 3 career episodes and in that cdr the company in question was not among the 3 episode. But, i have mentioned the company in question in relevant skilled employment record in my submitted cdr.

 

As per aus immi authrity letter to me, they claimed that they did not have proper feedback from my company in question which can justify my claimed responsibility as a civil engineer. The true matter was that (what i came to know from my former colleagues) aus immi authority called my office and a HR executive received that call and answered their question. Ironically, that HR personnel did not know me as he joined the office after nearly 1.5 years of my leaving that company. He did not know nothing about me. If aus immi authority contacted with my line manager or senior persons in HR department, then they got the right feedback. That the main problem for me.

 

Do you have any idea how can i proceed?

 

Thank you all for your supports.

 

rahat

[MiM]

Cam you get the CEO to write a statement about the new person in HR department etc?

[Quinkla]

This is a waste of time. The issue is not that the company is supplying incorrect information, it is that the correct information being supplied does not support claiming the period of employment as relevant experience. DIBP are deliberately playing dumb to avoid rejecting the application - creating a legal fiction that they are awaiting better information - in order to give the OP a chance to withdraw the application.

[Bungo]

Dear Mim, i have provided employment certificate from that company in question with proper roles and responsibility which demonstrate my civil engineering practice. As you know, in my cdr i have mentioned 3 career episodes and in that cdr the company in question was not among the 3 episode. But, i have mentioned the company in question in relevant skilled employment record in my submitted cdr.

 

As per aus immi authrity letter to me, they claimed that they did not have proper feedback from my company in question which can justify my claimed responsibility as a civil engineer. The true matter was that (what i came to know from my former colleagues) aus immi authority called my office and a HR executive received that call and answered their question. Ironically, that HR personnel did not know me as he joined the office after nearly 1.5 years of my leaving that company. He did not know nothing about me. If aus immi authority contacted with my line manager or senior persons in HR department, then they got the right feedback. That the main problem for me.

 

Do you have any idea how can i proceed?

 

Thank you all for your supports.

 

rahat

 

From what you said initially, I did not get the impression that this was about immigration not reaching the right person. Or is it? Because that is quite a different matter to your experience not being relevant. Maybe you should clarify exactly what the issue is, however I am not at all surprised that your time doing research with an asset management company will not be applicable to civil engineering experience.