Immigrating to Australia

Your occupation is currently on the CSL - Critical Skills List which should benefit from 'priority' processing but i still think it will take 8-10 months to process just your visa.

The quickest way is to gain sponsorship from a state and go over on a 176 visa. This will take about 3-5 months processing.

This is of course excluding the 2-3 months the ACS will process your skills assessment. Also what percentage of computing makes up your media degree?
 
how can you gain sponsorship from a state, wouldnt you have to be **** hot at what u do? My degree is interactive multimedia, its like php, photoshop, flash, things like that, its about 50/50 IT and media
 
The problem you have I think is that you dont have a trade - you will be unemployed whhen you finish your degree and so they wont want you? Thats how it seemed to work when I had a quick look the other day.
 
Spleenus said:
Could you expand on this? Just curious as to why you think this (admittedly I have no experience in this area).
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They are so STRICT if you want to go over there to work or even to live.

They have such a strong policy of letting people into their country. its like a prison trying to get in!

its a perfect system stopping immigrants getting in, thinking about it its IMPOSSIBLE for them to get in. they should have a system like that here.
 
Jamesdavid3 said:
They are so STRICT if you want to go over there to work or even to live.

They have such a strong policy of letting people into their country. its like a prison trying to get in!

its a perfect system stopping immigrants getting in, thinking about it its IMPOSSIBLE for them to get in. they should have a system like that here.
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All you need is a set of qualifications that they are looking for. Our last secretary spent over 12 months filling in forms and waiting while my teacher friends got offered jobs at Easter and were set up and living there before the start of the new term in October, with all their expenses paid
 
My mates in the middle of the process now, however his is a bit different because he will be joining his girlfriend and her family who have citizenship. They've been together for 5 years and the amount of paperwork and evidence he has had to provide has been crazy.

The company helping him to get the visa have just took final payment from him (i.e. they are quite sure he will get one now) and he's just waiting for the result!

If you want to know the company he used or any information let me know and i'll ask him, although I appreciate his situations a little bit different to yours.
 
I'd be careful about selling up here first. Two of my friends went over about 9mths ago on a 12mth visa looking for a sponsor.

They're now having to come back, and are selling up. All that buying and selling has cost them.

Ones a fully qualified Barrister, the other a fully qualified CCIE (Cisco Expect) with 10yrs experience. Neither of them could find a sponsor willing to fork out the extra fees.

So my advice is, don't sell up until you KNOW you have a sponsor lined up.
 
Greebo said:
And AFIK you still need an AIDS test? Which screws you in this country if you don't end up going as it affects your insurance and stuff no matter what reason you had to have one.
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really how so?

I thought that was stopped in the 80s.

I have an aids test every year in work (not complusory) but why not take it if it's free. They use the same blood that they take for all the other tests anyway.

I'm really surprised that this is a reason to increase your insurance premiums.

Next they'll say prostrate and mammograms also increase your insurance?
 
Try to spend some time there and figure out whether you could live there first. People see Australia as some sort of Utopia, and while I'd agree it's a better place to bring up kids, it's not without problems of its own :)

I've spent a total of 4 months in Aus (3 months was living and working in Sydney) and while I love the place, I really don't think I could live there.
 
Your major problem is for .NET certification you will need "evidence substantial skills and experience" - like years of experience. Just saying you know it won't cut it - particularly with a media degree.

I'd suggest looking at the ACS requirements (2231-79) and the info on the Critical Skills List and MODL.

If you can get someone to sponsor you, either temp or permanent, you can have a slightly easier time, but I think you still need to demonstrate experience, even with the job offer. Currently everyone is running after state sponsorship since without it or employer sponsorshop, things are very slow.
 
boycee said:
I'd be careful about selling up here first. Two of my friends went over about 9mths ago on a 12mth visa looking for a sponsor.

They're now having to come back, and are selling up. All that buying and selling has cost them.

Ones a fully qualified Barrister, the other a fully qualified CCIE (Cisco Expect) with 10yrs experience. Neither of them could find a sponsor willing to fork out the extra fees.

So my advice is, don't sell up until you KNOW you have a sponsor lined up.
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I'm interested to read this as should myslelf and family wish to emigrate anywhere we worked out one of the few places we could go is Australia as the law is fairly similar over there to our own. You see my husband is also a barrister (a criminal barrister) and at the moment we feel rather tied to the UK. I'm sorry things didn't work out for your mate and would be interested to hear why not - was it simply because they couldn't find a sponsor? Or did they find the work side of things tricky to break into too?

Mind you Australia really is an awfully long way away from family back here in the UK - but the lifestyle is such a draw for children and family life!
 
I am also looking into various options for when I finish my degree - but without an employer looking to sponsor you and a long term job prospects it doesn't look so promising. Relevant work experience during degree vacations appears to go a long way (and it's also good idea in general)
 
Solari said:
Try to spend some time there and figure out whether you could live there first. People see Australia as some sort of Utopia, and while I'd agree it's a better place to bring up kids, it's not without problems of its own :)

I've spent a total of 4 months in Aus (3 months was living and working in Sydney) and while I love the place, I really don't think I could live there.
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See the problem is that you lived in Sydney:p

There are better areas around.
 
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