skilled visa

[willwilders]

hi, after completing my work references on my independant visa i was wondering what other stages are left?

[anj1976]

Hi

can you elaborate please, skilled visa, the assessment is done? its not clear

anj

[willwilders]

i am doing a independant skilled visa to australia and am at the stage where all my work references have gone back. i am using an agent but just wanted to know if anyone else had been through the process, and weather they knew what was left paper work and time wize

[anj1976]

You mean you have submitted the application?
There is a checklist at the Immigration site, I would suggest you download it and recheck from that. I think it is by the name 175_checklist, search for it. I can tell you from my application what all we are sending, there is the 1276 which is the application form, and the form 80 which is a personal particulars form for each applicant in the visa application, then proof of employment for my husband who is the main applicant, all references, proof of education, all proofs in form of certificates or degrees or diplomas for any professionals qualification, business cards of all those who have given references, birth certificate, marriage certificate, then my certificates of education, birth, ielts results in original for both of us since we are from India and the ielts adds to our points, ACS assessment result in original. Passport copies. a change of name affidavit for me since I use my husbands family name now

after submitting the application, we wait till we hear from our lawyer for the medicals and police clearance.
I guess this is it,

[Dolly]

Yes, I am getting a bit confused to.

Sorry for being a numpty but just to clarify, you have submitted your skills assessment and it's been passed, you are now getting paperwork ready to submit your main application?

Dolly

[Dolly]

Originally Posted by anj1976

I can tell you from my application what all we are sending, there is the 1276 which is the application form, and the form 80 which is a personal particulars form for each applicant in the visa application, then proof of employment for my husband who is the main applicant, all references, proof of education, all proofs in form of certificates or degrees or diplomas for any professionals qualification, business cards of all those who have given references, birth certificate, marriage certificate, then my certificates of education, birth, ielts results in original for both of us since we are from India and the ielts adds to our points, ACS assessment result in original. Passport copies. a change of name affidavit for me since I use my husbands family name now

Phew..I feel tired just reading the list

Dolly

[anj1976]

Originally Posted by Dolly

Phew..I feel tired just reading the list

Dolly

hehehehe I was tired writing these down, took two breaks and when I was back to writing, I did not know what I was putting down

[Dolly]

Originally Posted by anj1976

hehehehe I was tired writing these down, took two breaks and when I was back to writing, I did not know what I was putting down

One of the things that amazes me about going through the visa process is that when you get to the end of it, do an enormous sigh of relief then look back at exactly what you did. It's actually quite incredible that any of us make it LOL There is so much paperwork to do, so much writing for the skills assessment, organising meds - the list is endless.

Dolly

[anj1976]

well, the biggest goof up was day before yesterday, while we were filling the forms, I use a mac and the forms sent to us by our lawyer were in ODF format, I opened them on preview and started to edit them not realising that the preview is like windows fax previewer, and the changes wont be save, me and my OH sat through it, filled every detail, he asked me to save and I told him Its on auto save, once everything was done I closed the window and said sh*t, everything is gone, hehehe, we saw each others face and laughed like crazy, then we opened it on acrobat and did everything again. heheheh

looking back, whatever we did for acs, it sounds like nothing at all, now that all our papers are ready, again it looks like a piece of cake, only when the things get stuck, we panic and everything looks so impossible. but once the things are done, we feel a sigh is worth it and with the sigh everything that looked so difficult becomes so easy.

Trust you me, getting things done in India isnt easy, its super difficult and super irritating. Now we have to get my husbands birth certificate translated and then attested, and I need to get affidavit made supporting my birth certificate. another issue that we r facing is the wrong birth date on my staandard 10th certificate. I dont know how it happened but we need these small bits done and we r ready to roll I wonder how boring life will become after submitting the application. Since we are so used to action all the time now that things are falling into place, leaving us relatively free, we are not liking the free time