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Dissatisfied wth Skills Assessment Result

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Dear All

 

I need your suggestions on my below case:

 

My skills assessment result for HR Adviser is released in 7 weeks. That is positive!!!. However, Im am not satisfied with the result. They have reduced my experience and considered upto only 3 years rather than 5 years. Also I have done Bachelors of Arts and 2 years post graduation in HR but they have considered upto Bachelors degree and that too have mentioned that this Bachelor is not highly relevant to the profession. Everybody knows that Human Resource is studied in either Post Graduation or masters not in Bachelors level.

 

They have reduced my 5 points in experience and 5 points in qualification which becomes only 45 points in total and even if I achieve IELTS 7 band in each I will get extra 10 points and still 55 points.

 

As I am disappointed with the result. I have written them an email pertaining to my concern. If I apply for appeal or reassessment the fees is very high almost $650. Kindly suggest what should I do.

 

Regards

Mamta

 

 

 

Speak to a registered migration agent.

I think there are more blokes that think like that than would admit it Naomi, especially to their wives.:wink:

 

I also know a few who (in private) say "being married is good, but it's not as good as being single".:laugh: Once married everything is a compromise.

TBF I know a fair few women like it too.

I know we didn't get a chance to plan anything with our first but I'm kind of glad it happened that way I suppose because on paper we certainly could not afford to have her and we certainly couldn't afford for me to not go back to work, and we couldn't afford childcare it was a catch 22 situation and it took us a good while of penny pinching and robbing Peter to pay Paul. I do think that had we waited until we were in our thirties we would have enjoyed the process more. We wouldn't have loved her any differently but I could have afforded to be a stay at home Mum for awhile, which would have been great. So what Im trying to say badly is yes financial planning for the right time.

Your a legend Kev, well done mate.

I have said it before and will say it again, surely we have children out of love, I cannot understand people that say we can't afford children, If having children is based on affordability, then, I ask how has the human race survived so far?

when planning/dreaming of our life's together Linda & I wanted children, and we decided to have them whilst we were young, that way we would ourselves be able to enjoy them whilst we would generally be more energetic, fit and healthy. Also that Linda would stay at home and have quality time with them until they started going to school, we talked about how we would decorate their rooms. None of our dreams of having family was based on affordability, purely love!

Unfortunately people do have to plan nowadays as there aren't many couples who can afford a mortgage on one wage.

Agreed.....though sometimes I think 20s would be easier. I had more energy. Could stay awake till the small hours then still get up and be vaguely human. That's a bit more of a struggle in your mid 30s!!

I went and did both! 23, 27 and 33! Definately had more energy at 23 but far more patience at 33.

I think the best age would be to have them in your 30's. I think a lot of people are too selfish really in their 20's really.

I wasn't interested in having children really. I got married at 21 and we got our dream house and no way could we afford for me to go part time, so we put it to the back of our minds. Thinking we'll address it again when I'm 30. 2 years later following a holiday to The Gambia I came back pregnant. We were both in a state of shock. But after the initial panic we managed. I did go part time and I think maybe the only thing I really remember missing out on was our holidays, to start with and maybe a few less nights out. But to be honest a hangover and having to change nappies doesn't mix anyway :laugh:

Perfect ages to make he move in my opinion. So wish I'd done it when mine were that age. You are over thinking it. Have you ever taken them on holiday? To them itwill be the same. They are merely going on holiday. After a few days I'll bet they will be fine. Take them to Target and choose some new toys. Take them to the many parks and the beach. Exciting times. Enjoy :wubclub:

Reading paper today I am wondering if they will get nurses from overseas soon as we seem to have many many many nurses coming out of university and not being able to get graduate positions here. This is a disaster and they need a job first to get the experience. We cannot ignore our own graduate nurses. They should take priority.

Spot on this is just absolute common sense, in any profession. Not nice maybe for those still wanting to come but Australia has to look after its own first.

I would say you need an Agent for this very specialist advice.

Nothing is forever necessarily and life is fluid with lots of twists and turns. He may come back, he may pay for you to visit ( which my Husband does for his Mum) . You're right though it is as bit like a bereavement, I know when my Daughter emigrated I thought my heart would break but I managed to work through it and waved her off with a smile, it took me a long time to stop crying but eventually I did. I'm not going to pretend its going to be easy but there are ways and means to get through. Good luck my lovely :hug:

Have they changed the medicals then? We only had to have a normal basic eyesight test , you know where you read out the letters on the board. That's it.

Emigrated here just over 3 years ago. It took a very long time to get our visa"s ( there were various changes that DIAC made during the process that kept putting us to the back of the queue ) and selling our house was a nightmare for various reasons mainly that the value dropped by over £30,000. Anyway we managed to salvage approx £10,000 from the sale of the house after debts were paid and visa application paid. We engaged Go Matilda even though we were strapped for cash and in hindsight it was one if the best decisions we ever made. We had a very small 70's 3 bed semi with one bathroom with a tiny garden and we moved into our smaller rental to wait out the visa wait. We waited in total 18 months then finally 6 months later we hopped on the plane with a son a daughter very little money but a determination to make this work. My OH had had two tentative job offers but they were really more like " pop in when you get here " so nothing was certain. I'd chosen the area because a few friends that I'd met both on here were already there and loving it.

We secured a rental within the first two weeks in our holiday home and it was the first one we looked at and the first one we applied for . My OH went to the workplace of one of the job offers. They gave him a casual interview and told him to start work the following Monday ( it was Thursday!) he's still there 3 years later! We now have our own brand newly built home and I have two part time jobs. Life is good, we feel blessed and feel like we have a mini holiday most weekends. We've not pushed ourselves too hard financially preferring a cheaper house in a cheaper suburb with a cheaper brand new car. No debts well apart from a smallish mortgage and we've swapped from that 3 bed semi to a 4x2 with a theatre room, study just over a kilometre from a beautiful beach. We live 10 minutes from Mandurah "city" with its restaurants bars and my favourite wine bar. Looking forward to citizenship in 10 months time. We've made some lovely Aussie friends and some lovely Brits too.

If he's a lazy bugger, (and I haven't yet met one who isn't) and is carrying a small parcel/packet for you that needs signing for, he'll leave a docket in your letterbox telling you to pick it up at the post office................as opposed to getting off his arse and knocking on your door.

Yep I would agree but because my OH works nights every bu**er on the planet finds an excuse to knock on our door! But yes we do seem to make a fair few trips to pick up parcels !

The refuse bins are emptied even on a public holiday . Our first Christmas Day morning we were amazed to have our bins emptied at 7 am!

The bin "men" is one oerson sat in the truck who drives it on their own and who operates an automated arm that comes out grabs the bin tips it up puts it back then drives off!

The post "man" drives a motorbike and doesn't get off it to drop it in the mailbox.

A rashie is not something you'll catch it's a kind of tshirt that people wear to swim !

Take a deep breath and don't do anything yet until you have spoken to the Agent. She won't work on Public Holidays but then neither will DIAC so just try and keep calm . The fact your partner didn't mention the conviction on the landing card I would have thought adds weight to your claim he didn't know . Look the two couple I knew with this problem did go on to visas so all may not be lost. Wait and see what the agent can do .

Is it true that immigration would not be concerned about recent shoplifting in Coles when considering an application.

 

Shoplifting is such a problem for retailers, and given this was fairly recent, and the applicant subsequently lied about it, I'd think they would be concerned.

not the sort of migrants we would be encouraging I would have thought.

i think this is the issue isn't it? It's a character test. I not being judgemental but if you don't think misdemeanours such as those are serious then what sort of character are you? I just wish kids nowadays realised just what consequences these "minor crimes" could have on their future in one way or another.

But if it has been removed from the official records, then theres no way of DIAC finding out anyway..right?

I mean, noone in Sweden is entitled to dig into a past more than ten years ago.

its never fully removed and your case officer can ask for a further check called a person check. This shows up anything that is on the computer database . So every entry in your name ie even parking tickets.

I can only give advise on what au have been told. Whilst applying for our visa two separate friends I met on here were in serious trouble for not declaring their convictions both fortunately were using an Agent who managed to advise them on the best way forward. It is very serious and people need to be aware that failing to admit to crimes is a comment on your character therefore you can fail the character test. Not that surprising really is it?

All I can say is I really feal for you but if my children and my Husband were happy and it were just me that werent I would never drag them away for the sake of my own happiness. I have had this conversation many times with my Husband, if I am lonely when all are out of the house then I will get a job or volunteer or get myself out and about but I could and would not risk my families happiness because it were taking me longer to settle.

Having said all this I am not yet in your situation and I may well feel the same as you but I you owe it to your family to try before you uproot them again.

I have an idea of your pain my eldest daughter wanted to go and live with her Father in Australia and I had to let her go because to deny her would have been too cruel, that was 4 years ago and I have seen her once since. But its her life and I could not allow my selfish hurt to stop her future.

I wish you all the best and the greatest strength to get through this trauma and I do strongly believe it will get better.:hug: