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:

  1. Our client studied hotel management in Colombia and worked as restaurant manager in Colombia
  2. In Australia she studied VET level childcare. This is not accredited for skills assessment.
  3. 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.