Hi all, After all this time, I'm not not sure if my degree would be considered highly relevant for an environmental consultant role and I am freaking out a bit. The core of my degree was assessing how the environment affects human health. It touches on a lot of risk mitigation of hazards and how to communicate those risks. There are elective courses on conservation management, environmental impact assessments, and climate change. How strict are they in differentiating Environmental Health Science vs Environmental Science? Would my degree still be considered a highly relevant degree for this oc ..read more

please can you help.  in 2004 my self and my family immigrated to austarlia , we was there for 10 years i was on the 457 , then it kept extending it was so cruel . i had my own business , went to the local mare , th e local community put apttitions in.  i need some advice please. we decided to pack up to unfortunatly go back to the uk. we had no money left.  we went over with 110,000 pounds.  on the night before at the airport austalia immigartion rang me to say we were granted permanant residency our container was on the way back to the uk. . my children are adults now. t ..read more

Hey guys, I'm pretty worried; I had my skills assessed as an Industrial Designer with VetAsses, and had a positive result, so went ahead and applied for my 186 DE visa. The application has been in with a month, and I was just looking over my VetAsses letter for another random reason and noticed that the dates on the positive skills assessment are wrong. I've looked at my application and all employment documents i supplied and all point to the correct dates, yet for some reason they've invented dates on the letter. Either they made a mistake in typing up the letter, or botched the whole applica ..read more

Sorry for the generic question but hoping someone might be able to tell me if I would be wasting my time or not. My sister and her long term partner mentioned that they would like to come out to Australia. Neither of them have any professional qualifications or skills, pretty much just both retail jobs. Both mid 30's. Is there any visa pathway open to them that gives them PR ..read more

Hi I have also got my technical interview coming up for the metal machinist (mechanical trade technical assessment) it says that Topics discussed during the interview will include the units of competency found in the completed Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ). any help with questions that might be asked would be appreciated thanks ..read more

Hi, I am dipping my toes into researching what is available for me and my family in re locating to Oz. Would anyone know or maybe have used any kind of fee assistance or loan schemes for the money required in the process of emigrating? Thank you for any advice or guidance ..read more

We’re at the beginning of looking into moving to Aus, both me and my husband are gathering the paperwork we need to submit to AASW to verify social work qualifications (both child protection social workers). I’m autistic and ADHD, only support I require is ADHD medication. I naively thought that working full time in a profession on the skills shortage without any supports in place beyond a monthly prescription, would be enough to demonstrate my neurodivergence isn’t going to be an excessive cost. Now it’s coming to paying $$$$ for skills assessments, I’m not so confident. Anyone have any exper ..read more

Hi All,    I am a 32 year old, British Citizen with a fiancé and a young child. We would like to relocate to Australia as a family.  I am an experienced merchandiser and demand planner (which isn't a recognised skilled job in Aus) and my partner is a sales manager for a Freight Forwarder.  As we have a dependant, we cant go on a working visa and as I'm not a skilled worker, I'm not sure where to go.  We are really keen to make a move before we get 'too old'. We are happy to consider anything, like possibility to retrain etc.    Can anyone help with: Which Vi ..read more

Apologies if thisbhas been heavily discussed elsewhere. I am currently exploring the possibiluty of a mkve to Australia and wanted to hear sime thoughts from those that have gone through the process. Ive got no fixed timelines currently so I guess I am at the very early stages and have done a bit of research. Essentially I am curious to hear others stories who were in a similar position to myself. I am 38 years old, UK national currently working for a major global university doing all things video - marketing, events, producing online learning programmes, resources for staff and students, live ..read more

Hi all, I’m back here again after a loooooong hiatus, I was a moderator on here for a while.   I applied for and was granted a 189 Skilled Visa in 2015, I activated the visa before returning to the UK.  For various complicated reasons I was unable to return to Australia and instead remained in the UK. Obviously my 189 has expired now, I’m aware that there’s a chance I could apply for an RRV, but before all that I may need to travel to Australia for an interview in the next couple of weeks. I have an old drink driving conviction when I was stupid teenager so I’m aware that I can’t ap ..read more