ACS Skills Assessment - how long?

[Guest Chris_J]

Not being able to get into the ACS site happens quite often. Don't sweat it, the site will be back online again at some point.

[Guest MarK Jowett]

yep, it's back, and i'm still at level 4, and my occupation is probably full, and i won't get my visa, and I haven't had a job offer from a reputable IT company in Adelaide, and Holly Valance didn't take time out from her busy schedule to give me a one to one tutorial. So basically none of my dreams have come true today!

[Guest MarK Jowett]

Chris - how is the SS going - was it hard work, or had you done most things already? how long do you think it will take?

[zebedee]

I just google'd images of Holly Valance - hubba hubba.

[Guest MarK Jowett]

I'm toying with the idea of emailing my CO and seeing if it's possible to speed up the process given that the job on SA has gone to medium availability - don't want to seem pushy though!

[Guest oidara]

Hi Mark,

 

I would do it. We have been in a similar situation this week (actually, worse, as our occupation went from high to low and is now special conditions unfortunately) and we called ACS to see if anything could be done. They have been brilliant and our assessment is now finalised despite only having submitted it 4 weeks ago.

 

Good luck!

[Guest MarK Jowett]

Wow that's great - i will give it a try!

 

Thanks Oidara!

[Guest oidara]

Only down side is you have to stay awake until 12:30am to make the call (1:30am for us as we're in Europe!), but it's a small price to pay!

[Guest MarK Jowett]

I've emailed my CO, I have his/her email address because they had to get in touch as it took ages for my documents to arrive (bloody royal mail!). Anyway, will wait and see what happens.

 

I'm sorry to hear about your situation, fingers crossed it goes back on the list soon!

[Guest oidara]

Ah yes, email - much more civilised!

 

Thanks for the sympathies. Actually, we are hoping to have our case reviewed and get skills assessment in a different ICT field (something ACS have also been really accommodating and helpful about), so fingers crossed we can get that sorted before that occupation goes off the list too!

[Guest MarK Jowett]

That's also good to hear - i think if the same thing were to happen to me, it wouldn't be too difficult to change from Sys Admin to Sys Analyst, it's basically just semantics anyway!

[path2aus]

Hello All,

 

I have my Skills Assessment pending too. Hopefully the Sys Analyst does not go away by the time I get the results. My status too is on stage 4, not sure how long it will take. I hope it to be sooner as I don't want to delay my SS submission. I am done with my IELTS too and got the required score (7 in each band). So just ACS remains before I fire off my SA application.

 

Path2aus.

[Guest MarK Jowett]

welcome to the gang path2aus - there are plenty of us geeks in this thread

[path2aus]

Thanks Mark. The ACS process is too long for my liking but thats the way it is. All we can do is wait at the moment

[zebedee]

*waves at path2aus and oidara*

 

The waiting is driving me crazy, but this thread does seem to be offering some comfort - a bit like some IT Assessment Anonymous Club.

 

 

Hi, my name is Dave and I've been waiting for 6 weeks.....

[Guest oidara]

Just as long as the wait doesn't make us all turn to drink...!

[path2aus]

Yup, 12 weeks seem too long for me. I hope it were sooner. Does it mean that they take roughly 12 weeks for all the applications?

[Guest oidara]

Have a look here:

 

https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?hl=en&key=0Atr_7rmpAJmAdEhRUDhIcG11Mk5SbDFFZmp2UXczWVE&hl=en&f=true&gid=34

 

Looks like it often goes faster than 12 weeks, though it can take longer sometimes. Ours is looking to be very fast - around 6-7 weeks. Good luck!

[zebedee]

That's really useful thanks - quite interesting reading, a few people without IT degrees seem to have made it which helps me cling on to some hope....as well as clinging on to this bottle of hard liquor....

 

*hick*

[Guest MarK Jowett]

Well, I got an email back from my CO and it turns out he was just about to finalise my application that morning anyway and.....

 

 

...... I PASSED YAY!

 

Great feeling it really is, now I need to crack on and get my SS in!

[zebedee]

OMG! That's brilliant news - well done! Well chuffed for you! Although you don't have to fill that SS in too quickly you know!

[Guest joseph1801]

Hi All

 

Another anxious sys admin here!

Just wanted to say hello and wish you all best of luck.

IELTS completed, ACS application stage 4 - visiting the SA state sponsored list far too often for my health!

 

cheers

[Guest MarK Jowett]

crikey, we're getting quite a gang here! Welcome Joseph, feel free to share your stories here about the application process. what sort of work do you do?

[Guest joseph1801]

Hi Mark,

 

My current job title is Infrastructure Analyst for a social housing company - sounds grand but is basically a sys admin role looking after windows, citrix and vmware infrastructure - but also get dragged in to ip telephony, blackberry admin etc etc. Congrats on the positive assessment - by the way how did you get hold of your CO?

[Guest joseph1801]

sorry - just seen your previous post about them emailing you