1. The importance of a properly nominated occupation

A properly nominated occupation is one of the key factors to your success. The same occupation in other countries may be different form the Australian one in requirements. For instance, the same overseas job titles of architects, teachers, accountants and translators etc., which result from different education systems, job responsibilities and requirements, can vary to a certain degree from those in Australia. Thus, it is advisable for you to seek guidance and assistance a professional in your nominating your occupation so as to pass your Skill Assessment.

2. Strategies for Occupation Assessment

Once your occupation is nominated, it is your responsibility to contact the Relevant Australian Authority for your nominated occupation and undertake a Skills Assessment. However, if your nominated occupation fails to meet the Australian requirements, recording an unfavourable assessment, this will become a serious obstacle to your application. The reason is that since the assessment has entered into the files of the assessing authority, it is no simple and easy matter to have your occupation re-assessed or reviewed. Therefore, you should seek help from a professional who can make a well-mapped plan in your Skill Assessment. On the basis of your educational background, qualifications and work experience, we will provide you with a professional statement and application document to reflect your skills and the Australian requirements in every aspect, and as a result it will certainly facilitate a smooth processing of your application.

3. Early Lodgment of your Application

The Reasons

A. The impact of age and work experience on your Points Test for Age.

Your Points for Age are based upon the age when your application is lodged. In light of previous criteria for age assessment, different age groups mark distinctive differentials in the Points Test. If your age falls in the changeover of two age groups, you will obtain a considerably different Points.

Your period of work experience is also counted at the time of application. In light of previous criteria for Skill Assessment, the Points will be credited according to the period of work experience gained prior to the lodgment of the application. If a certain period is neglected, your Points will be affected as well.

So, timely preparation before your application is lodged will favour your Points Test. Please note that before you can lodge your application (ie. before the lodgment of your application), a lot of preparation needs to be done. For example, a large quantity of documents for the occupation assessment have to be prepared before the lodgment of your Migration Application. Obviously, it is favourable to make a first step early in your application and try to achieve a good score in all the items of your Points Test.

B. Quota Control

As more and updated information in applications are far more easily accessible to applicants in Australia than those overseas, we advise that you should make use of this advantage. Because there are a lot of overseas prospective applicants who meet the requirements for Skilled Migration to Australia, DIMA tries able to be to control the immigration quota by applying limits (Caps) to the number of visa granted each year. If the quota is reached, you will not be able to be granted a Visa that Financial year. As such, we suggest that you should lodge your application as soon as possible.

C. Changing Policy

DIMA not only uses a Quota Control (ie. Caps) to control the numbers of migrants to Australia, but can also modify or change the actual criteria for determining who is eligible for a Visa to Australia. Though all applications are determined according to the Regulations in force at the time of application, early lodgment of your application may enable you to avoid any future changes the Government is contemplating. Further, some changes are only effective from a certain date, and all application lodged before that date may not be susceptible to those changes.

As such, lodging your application sooner rather than later may enable you to avoid changes to the Migration Regulations, Pass/Pool Marks and the SOL that could have a detrimental effect on your application.

4. What are the benefits of having a Registered Migration Agent to assist in the preparation of your application?

Migration Agents are migration advisors who have sat for an exam and are Registered professionals. They have more professional migration knowledge and experience, and with respect to application guide, they will certainly have a positive effect on preparing application materials. Skilled Migration by Points Test is a complex category with long processing times and complex legal Regulations. It is really quite difficult for a non-migration professional to prepare a complete and accurate set of application materials. Migration is not buying or selling goods that can be refunded or exchanged when not satisfied. Once the application materials are lodged, it will affect the applicant's whole life destiny.

As the increase in age cannot be avoided, whether the selection of the nominated occupation is correct and the duty description is appropriate, are all key points that will lead to the success or failure of the application and remain on the file records that affect future applications. This is a high-risk adventure with very high costs involved.

Therefore, we advise readers to be sure to seek professional advice before taking action. But to find a good Migration Agent organisation is a key issue.

5. How to find a good Migration Agent organisation?

When formally entrusting a Migration Agent organisation to handle a case, you need to pay attention to the following several aspects:

The scope of the company (Small company has higher risks) History of the company. (Migration Regulations are ever changing. To master and flexibly apply the Regulations requires experience. Practical experience is a valuable asset.)

Reference from successful cases. (The previous successful cases are one of the factors to evidence experience.) A professional organisation with quite large score will have specialised migration Policy/Regulation research department, specially conducted research on the newest Policy trends and Regulations of the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. The concerned information held by this research department should be first hand and the most up-to-date available. A professional organisation with quite a high level of scope will possess a group of highly qualified and extensively experienced migration advisors. For individual category Visa applications, it is these professional experts who take responsibility of the application, and for each section there is a special person who is responsible for that section to ensure the client's application is of high quality and a high success rate. With the large scope our professional agent organisation the number of cases processed by this organisation will be several times more than the number by other companies, even up to a dozen times more. Hence, the accumulated successful experience will be more t hat others too. The extensive experience makes every clients avoid the distress of failure, which is difficult for other companies to accomplish.

6. What are the benefits of handling the application via a Migration Agent?

Many people think that handling an individual category of visa or migration is just a simply process of filling out an application form, then lodging it with an Embassy/Consulate General. But, as a matter of fact, this is not the case. The complex Australian Migration Regulations are not those that can be mastered and applied correctly by most people. The professional who knows the Migration Law can apply related conditions flexibly and adjust application strategies according to the client's situation, within the legally allowable scope. They can turn hopeless cases in satisfied results so the applicant can avoid detours and obtain their visa within the shortest time.

7. What are the advantages and features of our Migration Centre in respect of handling the cases and providing services?

A. Professionalism

Our Migration Agents possess vast knowledge and experience in handling migration applications. They can apply their extensive experience in handling the cases and analyze every application from both the Case Officers' and the Migration Agents' perspective to increase the application success rate and to raise the applicant's confidence.

Our Centre is equipped with various categories of visa information for the applicant's reference and also provide free consultation and free pre-assessment. The applications that are assured of success will be accepted and processed professional and never handled blindly.

The history and record of our Centre has a good reputation in Australia. Because our Centre is relatively large in scope, it has spread to the major cities in Australia, such as Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. There are many branches in major cities in Asia as well. The number of cases processed in our Centre is several times more than the number processed by other companies, even up to a dozen times more. Hence, the accumulated successful experience will be more that others too. Our extensive experience makes every client avoid the distress of failure, which is difficult for other companies to accomplish.

Our Centre has set up the special migration Policy/Regulations Research Department, specially for the purpose of conducting research into the trends in the Regulations of the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. The concerned information held is first-hand and most up-to-date.

"Seek truth from facts" and putting the client's interests first is this Centre's code of conduct.

B. Fast Information

The International Computer Internet in our Centre and the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs are linked together, so we will obtain information first-hand if there are any policy changes. It is crucial to master the first-hand information under frequently changing migrating policies in Australia.

When preparing application material, our Centre is in accordance with the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs' newest processing recommended information. If there are any amendments in this information, we will obtain updated contents at same time.