Hello everyone! My name is Nasir Nawaz and I am registered migration agent in Australia.
Today we will discuss if engineers can get PR without work experience or not.
I am talking about subclasses 189, 491 and 190.
I will try to make you understand the procedure
and tell you the general information about it.
It is a general advice not the specific one because it can happen that your case may vary with this.
So, I will talk in this context.
The important factor in general skills migration is that it include 3 major steps.
The first step is that you must have completed full skills assessment.
Most of the people take membership on the basis of body and think this is their skills assessment
but that's not the skills assessment.
Second step is that you must have received invitation be it pre invitation or final invitation.
Subclass 189 holders receive final invitation, 190 holders receive pre invitation
and 491 visa holders receive pre invitation and then final invitation usually.
Third step is that you need to apply for visa after final invitation.
So, first of all does skills assessment can happen without work experience?
Yes it is possible.
There are different categories of engineers.
Then there are fields which include electrical engineers, electronics, telecom, civil, mechanical etc.
So these all are engineers.
How can their skills assessment can be done?
Engineers skills assessment is mainly divided into 2 categories.
First is accredited one and second is non-accredited one.
Who are the accreditation ones? Washington accord, Dublin accord and Sydney accord.
These all comes under the category of accredited.
The second one is non-accredited.
In non-accreditation, there is a pathway in which you have completed your academic or work projects.
You have to submit competency report on them.
In this way your skills assessment is done.
The second question is, "Do you need English language proficiency for this skills assessment?"
Yes definitely you need it.
You need competent English which is 6 each
every engineer needs each 6 to complete his skills assessment.
Visa application is other requirement but you need this competency for English language proficiency
to get your skills assessment done.
Your engineering degree must be of 4 years.
It could be from any country and any university which is recognized.
There can be some institutions in India and Pakistan whose degrees are not recognized.
They will not take them as engineers.
What to do if your degree is of 3 years?
If it is engineering technologists' degree it will be considered as associate degree.
Many people study in UK and they offer 3 years degree programs.
They say "my degree is of 3 years and I am an engineer."
Then you will be an engineer in UK but your skills assessment in Australia will be done as a technologist.
Thirdly, many people do diplomas or advanced diplomas,
associate diplomas, and completed degrees.
What they need to do?
They have only 2 solutions.
Number 1, their competency report pathway could be of draftsperson
secondly, if they have work experience then their skills assessment can be done on the basis of technicians.
So the skills assessments of these engineers happen this way.
There are different skills bodies who do skills assessment differently.
Australia's engineering body is known as Engineers Australia.
But if you want to go for technicians there are more techniques and bodies.
There are many engineers of telecom and electronics but their work experience is of networking and computer.
They will go for computer and IT's bodies and they will need skills assessment for that.
Secondly you need to do ROI or EOI which are Expression of Interest and Registration of Interest.
State wants you to do whatever you have claimed.
They ask you to provide the documents regarding your claims.
Then you give it to them. In the documents if you have claimed you have done bachelors,
masters, work experience or competency you need to provide all those documents.
After pre invitation when you have submitted your documents
in many of the states, you need to give the fees and it can vary from AUD 300 to 1000.
Once your documents are verified the state will give you final invitation.
Final invitation means you are ready to apply.
So what we have discussed so far, skills assessment is done, assessment body assessed your documents
then state assessed your documents.
The third thing is Immigration department which is federal government of common wealth.
Now your documents will be verified on this stage too.
You should not attach any document which is non-verifiable or fake.
People often say "I have completed skills assessment and my document worked."
It is because they had less power and they could not check things like this.
Sometimes, state do due diligence.
If you get away from state's eye but federal government will definitely check
do double verification and third party will check validation because they are going to give you PR.
PR is very sacred and it has sanctity and integrity so they will remain this.
So these are the processes.
Engineers usually ask that their PR can be done without work experience or not?
So, yes it can happen. This is a general guide you can follow this.
I have talked about 491, 190 and 189.
If you have any query you can comment in the comment section.
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