Who Needs A Skills Assessment?
Other than a family sponsor or investment visa. There are 5 types of visas that can get permanent residency
- 482
- 189
- 190
- 491
- 494
4 of these 5 types of visas need a skills assessment!!!
How do you get a skills assessment?
Either:
- Accredited qualification; or
- Work experience
What types of accredited qualifications are there:
- A lot of university studies in Australia
- A lot of engineering studies from Australia or overseas
- Very limited VET courses in Australia e.g.
- Civil engineering draftsperson
- Telecommunication engineering draftsperson
- Some community services studies
So, if you don’t have accredited qualification / want to study accredited course. You need to use work experience to get skills assessment.
Does this experience have to be in Australia? NO.
Example:
- Our client studied hotel management in Colombia and worked as restaurant manager in Colombia
- In Australia she studied VET level childcare. This is not accredited for skills assessment.
- We used her overseas experience to get skills assessment.
THE CATCH
For a skills assessment you always need at least 1 year work experience in the last 5 years. Sometimes you need at least 1 year of experience in the last 3 years.
So, if you have work experience from Brazil, you need to get a skills assessment ASAP. Skills assessments are typically valid for 3 years.
Most skills assessments do not need english language test scores so don’t delay getting your skills assessed as after your experience is 3 or 5 years old it may be too late.