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Posted on: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 07:52:09 +0000
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Hi Annie,
Thank you for the valuable points.... Its really helps...
Can you pls send me a personal mail to my mail id? So that I can mail
you when I have some queries...(if you dont mind)... my id is
sam_jeyan@yahoo.co.in
Thanks,
Sam
Cepheidsannie;175813 Wrote:
> 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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sam_jeyan
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