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Re: New user, Pls help me experienced people!!! Posted on: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 07:40:19 +0000


Dear Sam_jeyan,

It is very difficult for other people to make an assessment unless they
have the exact same diplomas and qualifications which is improbable.
But, saying that, there are numerous ways you can get answers to your
questions.
1. From my experience and as we speak, there has been a slowdown of
visa issuance. People who submitted their highly in demand modl
application for offshore skilled migration (175) like the one you may
be hinting at with your qualifications, have been waiting since
August-September 2007, some of them have been waiting for almost 2 yrs
if they applied from less developed places in the world.
2. With the kind of questions you have, you may be better off paying
for a service like www.liveinaustralia.com where you pay about $300
(AUD) and you have a preliminary assessment and then you pay for 150
days of unlimited questions and get really excellent help while you
formulate your application. We did it the hard way and had similar
questions in 2001 and encountered so many stumbling blocks while
attempting to make sense of it and do everything ourselves. We gave up.
Then we decided to try again and this time payed for the service
mentioned above which guided us painlessly through all our questions
and which helped us file a successful application (although we are
still waiting for our visa like everybody else).
3. Long distance education, if it is accredited, is absolutely
accepted. But you have to see if the University has been accredited bu
the Australian/US/UK Board of studies. Foremost however experience is
very important. AND as we speak changes are underway for September 1,
2008 to make skilled immigration more accessible to people who have a
more heavy load in work experience qualification as opposed to those
who have more academic qualifications. You have to go on the
immigration site for more info or look up the "live in australia" site
mentioned above.
4. At the end it is such: 1. Submit a nice and genuine skill
assessment. Be very professional with that because they will look up
every detail and will nail you on any mistake. It may take a couple of
months to get all the letters of recommendations. Plus from our
experience, part time jobs do not count and university lab assistants
are not valid work experience. 2. While you have your skills assessed
which takes about 2 months, get police checks from all the countries
you have lived in the last 10 yrs and where you don't intend to go back
for a stay of more than a year (you will have to do your police checks
for Singapore and your medicals right after have applied for your visa,
because you cannot validate your visa if your medicals and police checks
(for the last country you lived in) are over a year old).
Anyway, I hope this helps. We are Americans who have
lived/worked/studied/ had 4 children on 4 different continents/numerous
countries in the last 10 yrs, so it's been super difficult to gather all
the info for our assessments and applications.
Take good care, and good luck. It will be discouraging at times, but if
we did it, so can you. The human spirit can do anything.
Namaste,
Annie


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