How to Use the General Skilled Migration Program to Migrate to Australia

For General Skilled Migration to Australia, you must have the capacity to meet the following fundamental requirements:

Age

You must be less than 45 years old when you apply.

English language

To work in a skilled occupation in Australia you must have an acceptable level of English.  To get a General Skilled Migration visa have to have ‘competent’ English. A further exception applies to applicants who will satisfy with the English language threshold if they have ‘concessional qualified’ English and therefore are sponsored through an eligible relative or a participating state or territory. For some professional vocations, the evaluating authority will demand a higher level of English included in their abilities evaluation procedure.

You’ve up before the time of decision to give evidence that you just meet with the English language requirement.  Still, it is best to provide evidence that you meet the English language condition at the time you use as a decision on your own application will not be delayed if evidence does not accompany the application. A determination on the after the application was received according to the program might be made without evidence available.

In addition, you meet with the English language threshold in case you are, and hold a passport that is valid from a citizen of, among the following countries:

— the United States of America;
— Canada;
— New Zealand.

Qualifications

You should have already been awarded a post secondary qualification that is at least Australian Qualification Framework (AQF) certificate III or IV. In addition you need to have your skills assessed by the relevant assessing authority as appropriate for working in your nominated profession.

In exceptional cases if an applicant without a post secondary qualification
Nominates a very specialized 60 point skilled profession and has wide-ranging proficient work experience this may be accepted. This may only be looked at if the evaluating authority has issued a favorable skills assessment on the basis of the applicant’s work expertise in that occupation.

Nominated vocation

When you apply, you should nominate a skilled occupation which fits your abilities and qualifications. Your nominated occupation have to be to the Skilled Occupation Lists (SOL) or the Consolidated Skilled Occupations List. If your nominated occupation is not on the SOL or the CSOL you cannot apply.

Recent work experience

This necessity is different to the demand to have your skills assessed as suitable for your nominated occupation before you apply.  If your nominated occupation isn’t on the Specified Trade Vocations list, you have to supply evidence that you’ve been in paid employment in almost any skilled occupation on the Skilled Occupation Lists (SOL) for at least 12 months in the 24 months immediately before implementing.

In both instances, this period of employment will need to have been accrued when you were in the workplace. This consists of any extended paid leave for example maternity or other family leave. If you’re employing skilled work experience developed in Australia to fulfill this requirement, when and that work must have already been undertaken in the appropriate skill level you held a visa that allowed one to work.

For many skilled professions you may need to really have a longer interval of work experience that is special to be issued with a skills assessment. Recent work experience exemption:

You should note that the 6 month period commences from your exact date of conclusion of the qualification, rather than from the exact date the qualification was conferred, in the event you intend taking advantage of the concession. This exemption cannot be employed to waive any specific work experience requirement imposed by an assessing body within a skills appraisal.

Abilities assessment

You should have had your abilities evaluated as suitable for your profession, before you apply by an evaluating authority. You also should figure out if the occupation you’ve got nominated demands you to be registered, licensed, or be an associate of a professional or industry organisation. An Australian qualification must have already been granted as an effect of undertaking a full time CRICOS registered class while being the holder of an eligible student visa, where it is employed as the basis for a skills appraisal.

These evaluating authorities are not employment agencies, and are responsible for undertaking skills evaluation for migration purposes. The evaluating authorities will not respond to requests for job placement. Nor can they give advice on the allocation. Besides your skills appraisal, you might need before you’re able to work in the state or territory where you settle, to acquire licensing or enrollment in your profession. You can also require additional training or membership of a certain business association. Informative data on licensing, registration, industry associations along with a number of other abilities acknowledgement matters for all occupations on the Skilled Occupations Lists is available from a skills appraisal isn’t required when applying for the Proficient Accepted Grad (subclass 476) visa.