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From 1 July 2011, a new
points test aplies to
all applications for migration to Australia in the General Skilled
Migration visa subclasses. These subclasses are:
- Offshore:
- 175 - Skilled independent
- 176 - Skilled sponsored
- 475 - Skilled regional sponsored
- Onshore:
- 885 - Skilled independent
- 886 - Skilled sponsored
- 487 - Skilled regional sponsored
If
you have lodged an application for any of these subclasses before 1
July 2011, the changes do not apply to you. Your visa will continue to
be processed under the previous points test.
To apply under the new
points test, you will still need to have an official skills assessment
in an occupation on the Skilled
Occupations List.
However, while the old test ranked occupations into three categories
(60 points, 50 points or 40 points), the new test gives does not give
points for the occupation itself so that all occupations on the list
have equal value.
This could improve the
chances of some applicants with paraprofessional or semi-professional
occupations such as the ones listed below, especially if they have 3 to
8 years of work experience:
- Actuary
- Agricultural consultant
- Agricultural scientist
- Audiologist
- Cartographer
- Chemist
- Civil engineering draftsperson
- Civil engineering technician
- Construction project Manager
- Dental hygienist
- Dental therapist
- Electrical engineering
draftperson
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- Electrical engineering
technician
- Forester
- Internal auditor
- Land economist
- Landscape architect
- Medical administrator
- Other Spatial Scientist
- Project Builder
- Psychotherapist
- Radiocommunications technician
- Ship's engineer
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- Ship's master
- Ship's officer
- Special education teachers nec
- Special needs teacher
- Teacher of the hearing impaired
- Teacher of the sight impaired
- Telecommunications network
planner
- Telecommunications technical officer or
technologist
- Urban and regional planner
- Valuer
- Welfare centre manager
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The
new test also gives points for overseas qualifications that were
previously ignored, and gives more emphasis to work experience than the
old test.
Points for age are shifted
towards more
mature applicants, and for the first time applicants aged 45 to 49 are
not treated as too old to apply.
The minimum
English language requirement is 6 across all parts of the IELTS test.
Applicants with Canadian, Irish, UK, US and New Zealand passports
automatically qualify, and higher points are awarded for scores of 7 or
8.
Contact
us if you are interested in finding out whether you can
qualify for migration to Australia under the new points test.
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