Guernsey2612 Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 Good morning, My wife has been accepted by AHPRA in principle and has till November 2017 to attend in Australia with ID. Does she need to get this registration finalised before we can apply for a 457 visa? Can she start sending out CV's to various employers? Hope you can help Andy & Georgina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxlornaxx Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 No she doesn't need it finalised for 457...yes she can apply for jobs and explain in CV that ahpra process almost complete so will be no delays wth that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VERYSTORMY Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 Be aware that if she accepts a 457 but does not gain a later permanent sponsorship before turning 50 then it is very unlikely she will and as a result you would have to return at the end of the 457. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guernsey2612 Posted December 18, 2016 Author Share Posted December 18, 2016 Thanks for replying.... So can you please advise what is the best way forward and what is the best visa to apply for? AHPRA ready to go, and we would ideally like to go for PR, but she is 50 in May 2017 Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VERYSTORMY Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 The 457 is probably your only route as most people can't get a permanent visa after the age of 45. Australia doesn't want old migrants who only have a limited time to contribute to the economy. So, it limits visas by age. There is a age limit of 50 on most visas, though business sponsored pr is available after 40, it comes with special conditions. One of which is that the applicant has earned the higher threshold for 4 years. That is about $132,000 per year. Well above a nurses salary. As as a result, she is unlikely to qualify for pr and you will eventually have to return. It it is important to note though that anyone going on a 457 treats it as a temporary move as that is what the 457 is designed for. The he choice you are likely to have to make is are you happy to go through the expense of the move in the knowledge that you will be returning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bungo Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 Thanks for replying.... So can you please advise what is the best way forward and what is the best visa to apply for? AHPRA ready to go, and we would ideally like to go for PR, but she is 50 in May 2017 Thanks in advance It is very difficult to pass the points test after the age of 45 but not impossible. For example maximum points for English (20), a degree (15), max points for work experience (15) and regional state sponsorship (10) provides 60 points in total. Has this option been ruled out for any reason already? She would need to get a wriggle on though, as a skills assessment is required for the visa process, not APHRA registration, that could have been done later in fact. I think it may be possible to do a modified skills assessment once APHRA registration is obtained though, so that might save some time. Other than that, the only way she can secure a permanent visa is to find an employer willing to sponsor. She would need a skills assessment for this too, so if you have any chance at all, then perhaps this is a process you need to start urgently. After she reaches 50, I would be pretty certain that there will be no way of obtaining a permanent visa as nurses do not typically earn enough to qualify through the over 50s route. In this case as Verystormy mentions, you just need to weigh up if you are happy to move over for an adventure for a few years as return will be inevitable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guernsey2612 Posted December 18, 2016 Author Share Posted December 18, 2016 Thanks so much for this info.... seems like a minefield.... Bungo, this is what someone sent us that was organising her AHPRA registration, but now it seems that we should have gone for PR first, and not AHPRA.... We have satisfied AHPRA with our English, but do we now need to do an ielts? Also she has been working as a nurse for over 5 years. [TABLE=class: cms_table] [TR] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Criteria[/TD] [TD]CurrentPoints[/TD] [TD]Possible points[/TD] [TD]Comments[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Age under >45 Yr[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]No points after 45 yrs[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]English Criteria[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]May be eligible for 20 points if youscores IELTS 8.0 in each module.[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Overseas Employment <5 years[/TD] [TD]5[/TD] [TD]10 ( upon completion of 5 years[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Bachelor’s degree[/TD] [TD]15[/TD] [TD]15[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]State Sponsorship[/TD] [TD]5[/TD] [TD]10 ( only for 4 year temporary visa)[/TD] [TD]To gain 10 points you need to gain employment in regional Australia[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Partners skills[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]No points awarded over 50 yrs of age[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]TOTAL[/TD] [TD]25[/TD] [TD]55 [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bungo Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 Thanks so much for this info.... seems like a minefield.... Bungo, this is what someone sent us that was organising her AHPRA registration, but now it seems that we should have gone for PR first, and not AHPRA.... We have satisfied AHPRA with our English, but do we now need to do an ielts? Also she has been working as a nurse for over 5 years. [TABLE=class: cms_table] [TR] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Criteria[/TD] [TD]CurrentPoints[/TD] [TD]Possible points[/TD] [TD]Comments[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Age under >45 Yr[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]No points after 45 yrs[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]English Criteria[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]May be eligible for 20 points if youscores IELTS 8.0 in each module.[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Overseas Employment <5 years[/TD] [TD]5[/TD] [TD]10 ( upon completion of 5 years[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Bachelor’s degree[/TD] [TD]15[/TD] [TD]15[/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]State Sponsorship[/TD] [TD]5[/TD] [TD]10 ( only for 4 year temporary visa)[/TD] [TD]To gain 10 points you need to gain employment in regional Australia[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Partners skills[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]0[/TD] [TD]No points awarded over 50 yrs of age[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]TOTAL[/TD] [TD]25[/TD] [TD]55[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] How many years of work experience does your wife have? And how much post degree? If she has eight years experience then she would get 15 points for work and she could aim to get the 60 points as per my earlier post. To that table you have posted I would make two comments. Firstly it is not necessary to gain employment in regional Australia to get 10 points for state sponsorship, sometime states ask for it but it is not a requirement. Secondly in the box showing 10 points for regional state sponsorship. This is actually a provisional visa not a temporary visa in the usual sense. The regional state sponsored visa can be converted to a permanent one after two years. As to what you should do next, well it depends what path you want to pursue. If she can get 60 points then I would have thought the regional state sponsored skilled migrant visa would be the best course and for this she will need to take IELTS as she needs the points and she also needs a skills assessment -APHRA registration is not required for the visa application. If she cannot get 60 points, well then as already mentioned she would need to find an employer willing to sponsor for a permanent visa before she turns 50. She would need a skills assessment for this visa too and that is probably something you should be looking into now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VERYSTORMY Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 It here is any chance of getting 60 points for a pr visa then that is the route you need to take. Given you you are against the clock, I would strongly recommend using a good registered migration agent. She he will need to revise for the English test. Do not assume it is a given as we have had many people fail more than once. There are good resources on line. I would also research thing like the wisdom of making the move at your age / starting again from scratch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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