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ACS Skills assessment update
Migration Alliance members will be interested to learn about the following ACS updates which were received today:
Dear ,
This email is a notification of up coming changes to ACS skill sassessments.
Temporary Graduate - 485
As of Oct 28, 2013, the Recent Graduate application type will change name to Temporary Graduate - 485.
The assessment criteria will remain the same –
• Bachelor degree or higher with a major in computing that is closely related to the nominated occupation.
All applications lodged on or after Oct 28, 2013, will receive a result letter stating that the result has been issued for the purpose of lodging a visa subclass 485.
Graduate Skills Assessment
As of Oct 28, 2013, the Recent Graduate wanting experience considered application type will change name to Graduate Skills Assessment.
Only applicants that hold a valid Recent Graduate or Temporary Graduate - 485 skills assessment will be eligible to apply for a Graduate Skills Assessment.
The Graduate Skills Assessment is to allow applicants that have previously applied for a Temporary Graduate - 485 to have their work experience assessed for a permanent skills assessment.
The assessment criteria will remain the same and the Skill Level Requirement Met Date will be noted as the completion date of the relevant Bachelor degree or higher on the ACS result letter.
This change will affect all applications lodged on or after Oct 28, 2013.
End of Year Closure 2013
The ACS office will close from Dec 23, 2013 and re-open on Jan 13, 2014.
Phone and email enquiries will be not be available during this time. Please refer to the skills assessment website for information.
All skills assessments not completed before Dec 20, 2013 will be finalized after Jan 13, 2013.
Due to a high number of applications at this time, we cannot guarantee any application time frames.
Kind Regards,
The Skills Assessment Team
Australian Computer Society
Web: www.acs.org.au E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Comments
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Monday, 10 February 2014If you are going to court then use Christopher levingston who has a proven track record of fighting and winning cases.
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Tuesday, 25 February 2014
Can you give me his contact detail please ?
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Monday, 10 February 2014
Can you give me his contact detail ? I need enough support to lodge the petition.
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Friday, 21 February 2014
I am deeply traumatized by this new change, I will be completing my masters in July 2014 and I am left with no other option but to comply with these new changes. I will advice all the students planning to come to Australia for studies to do otherwise.
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Tuesday, 25 February 2014
Why the heck we all sleeping and doing nothing to change this biased rule ? We all should wake up and lodge a petition in court to provide recent graduates and other affected students a transitional arrangement or a cooling off period.
Come on guyz it's a matter of life not just career. Who is with me ? -
Tuesday, 25 February 2014
On what legal grounds do you reckon you can get this change overturned? Do you have any knowledge of the law??
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Tuesday, 25 February 2014
I am afraid not hence, need a strong guidance to overturn this sick rule. If you do know someone please let me know.
Any help regarding this matter will be highly appreciated ? -
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
Yeah whether you are afraid or not really doesn't matter. If you're not afraid, why can't you get a 485 visa and get a job or is it just that you want to use a loophole to migrate and are now blaming the ACS because you can't?
You have now grounds on which to sue the ACS so best of luck. If I were you I'd be focused on finding a way to migrate legally. -
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
I am not threatening ACS for implementing the rule. I am only requesting a transitional arrangement or cooling period for recent grads like me and students who are adversely affected by this rule. FYI, I have already been on 485 visa, migrated legally and I don't need your advise to save my future. I'll take every necessary steps to avert myself from such situation.
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Wednesday, 26 February 2014
@ Leagleagle
Imagine taking a train for a specific place and the driver decides he will drop us 50 km away from the location we intended to reach. It is our future at stake here and people at ACS can't care less. I am pretty sure a petition can help our cause here because I don't see any harm in trying. -
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
You didn't engage the ACS to deliver you a visa, as that's not what they do. The situation with the train is simply not relevant. There is nothing you can take the ACS to court for. You can, however, comply with the rules and migrate legally if you want.
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Tuesday, 05 August 2014
The professional year course is nothing but a joke/money making scam...
I had a friend who enrolled for it last month. I had meet up with him after a class last week and asked him how the course was going. He said they spent most of the day learning how to greet people and shake hands in the office. An invaluable skill indeed...
ACS at its finest.... -
Monday, 13 October 2014
Hi,
I want to assess my work experience from ACS and I have selected application type
(Post Australian Study Skills Assessment) does this effect it to my Assessment letter. or should I need to select application type (Skills Assessement) for work exeprience puporse.
Please advise as I am really worried because i have already $500 for it.
Can someone please advise.
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Wednesday, 24 February 2016
It took only 5 days for acs assessment for me
Immigration blog
I think we all should put our hands together and lodge a petition against this biased rule implemented by ACS. They are keeping the life's of thousands of students at stake and not realizing the detrimental effects of such rules. Any advise or suggestion on this matter is highly recommended. Like above, cooling period or transitional arrangement would be a great help.
Let's join together to save our lives ppl.