What Do You Do If Husband Has No Formal Qualifications For Skilled Visa?

[AnxiousMum]

Help,

 

We have just looked at the skilled visa process in more detail. Problem is my husband works at Royal Bank of Scotland has has done since left school. We has worked in various departments within the bank and at the moment is a data analyst/computer programmer.

 

The problem is he is a jack of alot of computer based trades, doesnt fit completely into one. Knows about alot of things to do with computers. He also doesnt have any of the formal qualifications listed on the skills page. But annoyingly he is highly skilled, in a nutshell just cant prove it on qualifications.

 

What do we do now. We were looking at an independant skilled visa.

 

Someone please help point us in right direction as now really worried wont be able to do it.:twitcy:

[KazzE]

Trade him in for a better model:twitcy:

 

But seriously................ have you spoken to any agents? in this sort of situation they are really worth thier weight, I am sure there is one who specialises in IT - sorry the name escapes me but I am sure that some one will know who I am thinking about.

 

Good luck

 

Karen:wubclub:

[Lancashire Lass]

Sounds like you are in a similar situation to us. My husband is a self employed General Builder who does all sorts of trades and doesn't necessarily specialise in one particular one. Also he doesn't have any formal trade qualifications. We have taken advice recently from a couple of migration agents and they both said that he would need to get a qualification (he is fast tracking through the bricklaying city & guilds) and that he would have to choose which trade he was going to go through the process with. He does Roofing, Brickwork, Plastering etc etc but we have chosen to concentrate on the bricklaying. This means that he now has to get more work in this particular area so that he can demonstrate his work experience.

 

All this means is that it is going to take much longer for us to get to OZ but there is no other way at the moment. It's really difficult to get in now without formal qualifications. I'm presuming that this applies to the I.T. industry as well.

 

Hope this helps.

Mandy

[AnxiousMum]

How annoying is that!!! I have just told him. He doesnt seem bothered by any of it. Typical man!!!! I will have to get on his back to definately do a course. We have noticed a particular qualification in the I.T. field called the Oracle. I will have to look into that and see if he can do a course to do with that.

[Lancashire Lass]

Good idea. I have been looking at job vacancy websites and they seem to be crying out for people who are qualified on Oracle. He will probably need to do the course and then demonstrate that he has a lot of work experience in it. Failing that....if he can get qualified in Oracle then he could start applying for jobs over there and hopefully get an employer to sponsor him for his visa.

 

Good luck

Mandy

[AnxiousMum]

O.K this is going to sound stupid, but I have only looked at independant skilled visas. If we did the sponsered visa how does it work. Is it quicker that independant. Dont know anything about this visa at all?

[Guest Gollywobbler]

Hell Anxious Mum

 

I'm not a migration agent, so I'm just repeating what I've read on the forums.

It seems that in some situations the ACS will do something called Recognition of Prior Learning or RPL. I don't know how it works but I've also seen mention of CDR in relation to computer skills. That seems to stand for Competency Demonstration Recongition or something roughly along these lines.

 

In your shoes, I would contact Peter Chiam, a Registered Migration Agent who trades as ptlabs. Peter is a computer professional in his own right in addition to being an RMA. Quite a few other Agents send any computer-expert clients of theirs to Peter so that he can help them with their skills assessments.

 

I'd recommend a word with Peter before you do anything else. His fees are said to be very modest and a lot of computer-skills based visa applicants absolutely swear by him. I haven't a clue about the computer end of things but I can tell you for sure that Peter is mustard on the visas as well, in addition to being an immensely nice man.

 

His website is here:

 

Ptlabs Consulting

 

Best wishes

 

Gill

[Lancashire Lass]

Yes it can be quick! When we decided to emigrate we made the decision together with our friends and all planned to go together. We all thought that we would be the first to get there because my husband is a tradesman but then my friend got in touch with an old friend over in Perth who used to be her manager and next thing he offered her a job and sponsorship. All this happened in April and they are going out in September!! We haven't even started yet!

 

I think it is called a 457 visa and if you go on the immigration website Department of Immigration and Citizenship you need to look at booklet 5 (i think). The only problem with this is that it does not provide permanent residency. It gives you a temporary visa for 3 years and then after that you need to apply for the permanent residency. I think that at that stage it must be easier to get the PR.

 

Also you are tied to your employer. If you want to leave the employer who sponsored you, and move to another job you have to move to another employer who can offer you sponsorship and you have to do it within 28days.

 

I'm no expert so if you are seriously considering this you will need to do a bit more reading. You will tie yourself up in knots with it.

Mandy

[AnxiousMum]

Thanks for replies guys, really confused about what to do now! But grateful to everyone for advice. Think best thing is to get over there and make sure we like it first, then decide about what visa to take when we get back.