If you are worried that your job may not be on the new Skilled Occupation List – SOL -for Australia (, which will be announced on the 1st July), then help may be at hand.
The phasing out of both the Critical Skills List, and Migration On Demand Lists mean that many applicants are now facing an anxious wait to see if their job is on the new SOL. One option is to ensure that any application is received by Australian Immigration before midnight on 30th June if you have an occupation that was on the old list.
You may though want to consider using VETASSESS – who work with the General Skilled Migration Program (GSM) in Australia to assess the skills of people wanting to emigrate to Australia from the UK. VETASSESS have announced on their website that skills assessments for occupations in the Australian Standard Classification of Occupations will continue to be accepted for the purposes of migration from the 1st of July so long as the application was received before this date. The ASCO list can be found on the Australian Department of Immigration website – immi.gov.au.
You can then use your skill assessment to support an application to emigrate to Australia under either the GSM program, Employer Nomination Scheme or state sponsorship scheme. Skills assessments can also support other visa applications.
This effectively means that although some GSM visas are suspended until 1st July when the new SOL comes into effect, if you apply for a skills assessment with VETASSESS before the 1st of July you can, in theory, still apply for a GSM visa under the old scheme.
Let us know whether or not this is something you are considering at editor@australiamagazine.co.uk
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