Nursing experience and the 175 visa application

[Guest Woody and Jane]

Can anyone help with a bit of advice? While training to be a nurse I was paid a bursary by the university so therefore I was classed as employed as a nursing student. The 175 visa asks if you have 3 years experience in your profession, I qualified in 2007 so just hitting the 2 years post degree experience now but i began training in 2004 ... will the visa people accept that I have had relevant work experience in nursing , all in all its almost 5 years .... has anyone else had this concern. Thanks for any advice, Jane

[Guest Tracey]

Hi, I don't think it counts whilst you were a student, it seems ages since i first started the whole process last year. I think you have to be a registered nurse for three out of the four years.

Good luck

Trace

[Guest thekings]

Hi, I agree, I think it says somewhere that you have to be employed for a certain percentage of time since qualifying. I understand what you mean about getting a bursary and being classed as employed, the only benefit I have found from that is that it increases your holiday entitlement as it shows you have been employed longer. But the same rule doesn't wash with the ANMC.

[Guest northernstar200]

Hi there. My opinion on the matter seems to be a little different from the others. When i first started this process i was told that i would only have to use the three year post qualifying thing for the points system, if i was over 30 years old. I would never dream of asking your age, but all i think is, that if you are over 30 you lose x many points, and therefore the only way to get more points is by having been qualified for over three years.

 

If i have got this totally wrong i do apologise, but i have also been qualified since 2007 and have never been told i need to wait for the three years.

 

Tracy xxx

[Guest Woody and Jane]

Hi all, thanks for the advice , sadly I am over 30.. ( happiest days of my life !) I had a creeping suspicion that my training wasn't enough to count towards the points, so on to plan B. We will go for the 176, I have heard that you just contact DIAC and advise them you are going state sponsership and they process with your 175 info .... fingers crossed. I didn't realise how much I want to get to Oz until I thought I couldn't. Stressssssssss.