10 articles — the latest immigration news and visa updates for Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the UAE.
AustraliaPriority Processing From February 06, 2023, Vetassess will increase the cap on thier Priority Processing service to 55 places a day. Priority Processing is available for general and professional occupations and eligible applications are assessed in 10 business days. Vetassess can accept urgent requests for Priority Processing from applicants who can send them evidence of…
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AustraliaBefore it expires, find out how to renew your skills assessment. If your skills assessment was successful and you’d want to be reevaluated, you could be qualified to submit a renewal application through VETASSESS. For a variety of reasons, including the addition of recently acquired skills and/or work roles that weren’t previously appraised, you might…
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AustraliaAll technical interviews for trade jobs will start on Monday, July 25, at locations authorized by VETASSESS. Please be aware that this has no bearing on the arrangements for scheduled interviews. In addition to China, Fiji, India, Iran, the Philippines, South Africa, Nepal, Vietnam, United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom, they currently have venues…
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AustraliaHere is an update from VETASSESS: Applications for several professional and trade applications are now being processed slowly. While we address COVID-related personnel concerns, we anticipate this to be a temporary situation. We regret the inconvenience. We prioritize responding to consumers quickly, and we are aiming to shorten the time it takes to conduct assessments.…
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AustraliaFrom June 1, all successful applicants under the occupations of Baker and Pastrycook who apply for a Pathway 1 skills assessment for migration purposes will receive a new Certificate III qualification. This will ensure applicants have the most up-to-date qualification. The new qualifications are: • Bread baker (ANZSCO: 351111) will receive the qualification FBP30421 Certificate…
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AustraliaVETASSESS plans to resume offshore practical skills assessments for applicants in licensed trade occupations in May 2022. They will hold practical assessments in the United Kingdom in late May for air-conditioning and refrigeration mechanic and plan to hold assessments for the occupations of plumber, electrician and air-conditioning or refrigeration mechanic in South Africa in June…
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AustraliaFrom May 15, VETASSESS will no longer accept new applications for assessment for the Temporary Graduate (Subclass 485) visa. This follows the Australian Governments announcement last November that skills assessment for this visa will no longer be required from July 1, 2022. You can read the Government announcement here. The May 15 cut-off date will give…
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AustraliaNetwork maintenance – Sunday, April 03 We will be conducting scheduled maintenance on our systems on Sunday, April 03. We expect intermittent outages between 7.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m to our services for: • Skills Assessment for migration purposes for trade occupations • Independent Assessment • Skills Assessment Support • VRQA • Payment online We…
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AustraliaFrom 15 June 2021, applicants will need to provide at least three types of identity document when applying for a skills assessment for professional occupations. This is due to updated requirements from the Australian Government. What identity documents do I need? Applicants must provide at least one form of primary document and two…
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AustraliaVETASSESS currently uses only month and year to calculate the employment dates. As of 14 February 2019, we will be considering the exact date, including day, month and year for the Date Deemed Skilled to align with the Department of Home Affairs requirement for the date an applicant’s employment is considered ‘skilled’. Please note that we will continue to…
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