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Australia Immigration Visa (Sub-class 189) is one of the most sought-after visas for skilled workers who want to migrate to Australia permanently. This visa permit is meant for people who have not been sponsored by relatives or employers and have not been nominated by the Australian state or territory government but still want to build a lucrative career in the wealthy country with a market-based economy.The 189 Visa is offered to the applicants on the basis of a points-based system. If you have the required skills and relevant work experience in an occupation in demand in Australia, are proficient in English, and meet all the other eligibility, immigration to Australia can be a breeze.With years of experience in providing Australian immigration services, our experts can help you all the way - from setting up your Immi Australia account on SkillSelect to getting your Australian immigration visa. They are qualified and knowledgeable enough to answer all your queries regarding the process that needs to be followed for Australian immigration.Visa 189 is the visa meant to facilitate the trained tradesmen and qualified experts from abroad to migrate to Australia and help the country bridge the skill shortages it is facing at the time. Those who hold this visa can live, work and study in Australia as a permanent resident and can even include your partner, your child, and/or your stepchild in your visa application. If the visa is granted, your family will also be considered the permanent residents of the new country and have the same rights as you do.189 visa also empowers you to enrol in Medicare - Australia's scheme for providing health-related care to all its residents as well as travel to and from Australia as many times as you like for five years.A skilled worker has to be less than 45 years of age and has a point score of 65 points or more to be able to apply for the Skilled Independent Visa. It takes about 8 months to a year to process this visa type.Processing TimeIt usually takes 8 to 11 months for the Australian authorities to process the 189 visas. However, the actual processing time of this Australian visa depends on your individual circumstances. On July 1, 2017, the Australian government announced that the Visa 189 applicants whose occupation is on the current Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List (MLTSSL) will be given highest priority.Fee & CostYou will need to spend around AUD 3,755 to migrate to Australia. There can be additional costs too on the case-to-case basis.You'll have to pay an additional fee for each additional family member you add to your application. Moreover, if you meet all the visa requirements and one of your family members (who is 18 years or older) does not meet the functional English requirements, you will also have to pay a fee called Second Instalment or VAC2 or second VAC (which amounts to AUD 4,8552.5).The visa processing fee discussed above does not include the costs you incur on your health assessments, police certificates, and other required biometrics.Rules and ConditionsYou can submit the Expression of Interest (EOI) through the SkillSelect program for the visa for free. The Australian authority will rank you against other migrants on the basis of your point score and invite you to apply for the visa if you rank high enough. You'll need to apply for the visa within 60 days of being invited.Your nominated occupation should be on one of these three lists to be able to apply for the visa:Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List (MLTSSL)Short-term Skilled Occupation List (STSOL)Regional Occupation List (ROL)If your visa was cancelled or refused while you were in Australia, you will not be applied for the Immigration Australia visa again.Requirements and checklistThe documents you require for Australia migration include:ID proof (such as birth certificate, Aadhaar card, passport, proof of change of name etc.)Health documents (send directly by the physician electronically)Character certificate and police certificates (if required)Documents to support your EOIPoints Required and Point CalculatorOne needs a point score of 65 points or more to be eligible to apply for the 189 visa. The points are allotted for different parameters as follows:You can get 15-30 points according to the age group you belong to.You get 0-20 points depending on your proficiency in English.You get 0-15 points depending on the number of years you have worked outside Australia in the last 10 years.You get 0-20 points depending on the number of years you have worked in Australia in the last 10 years.You get 10-20 points for your educational qualifications recognised by the Australian authorities.You can get 5 points for a degree, diploma or trade qualification you have done from Australia and another 5 points for a Master degree by research or a Doctorate degree from an Australian educational institution.Additional 5 points each can be earned for having community language accreditations, studying in regional or low-population metropolitan area of Australia, skill qualifications of the partner, and working for one year in Australia in a relevant profession.

Go through the below step by step process.This is basically a 3 step process. You first submit an online Express Entry profile and you receive an ITA and after that you apply for permanent residence.So, let’s get started. I shall explain the process in 3 parts: Pre-Application, Pre-ITA and Post-ITA. (Don’t worry, you’ll soon find out what an ITA is).I’ll give you a brief description of the 3 parts I have mentioned above.Pre-application phase – A phase where you have NOT created an online Express Entry (hereafter referred to as EE) profile. You do not have a profile number.Pre-ITA phase – A phase where you have created an online profile and you are waiting to get your Invitation to Apply (hereafter referred to as ITA).Post-ITA phase – A phase where you have received an ITA and you are all set to submit your Permanent Resident (hereafter referred to as PR) application to Citizenship and Immigration Canada (hereafter referred to as CIC).PRE-APPLICATION PHASEYou will go through the following in the pre-application phase:Deciding to come to CanadaTake a piece of paper and write down why you want to come to Canada. Outline your settlement plan; try to research how you would support yourself and the job prospects in Canada. Please do not paint a rosy picture, don’t think Canada will be a land of milk and honey right after you land here. You have to build a life for yourself so DO NOT plan to relax as soon as you get here.If you are determined to work smart and put in sincere efforts once you get here, you will be a successful immigrant in your new home – Canada.Checking if you are eligibleTo apply to Express Entry, you must satisfy certain criteria. We shall discuss this below.You should be eligible under one of the Economic Immigration programs (Federal Skilled Worker Program [ hereafter referred to as FSW/FSWP], Federal Skilled Trades [hereafter referred to as FST] or Canadian Experience Class [hereafter referred to as CEC].From this point on, I will limit the information to FSW program alone.For FSWP, you need to score at least 67 points out of 100 to be eligible. You can manually calculate your points based on the criteria outlined in the CIC webpage (on the link that is provided).So, are you eligible? Do you score at least 67/100 points? If no, I’m very sorry, you are not eligible to apply under the FSWP. If yes, keep your fingers crossed, you have another set of criteria to satisfy to be eligible for Express Entry.You must use the to check if you are eligible under Express Entry.Provide answers to the questions and the tool will tell you if you are eligible or not. The basic eligibility criteria are as follows :A) You need to have your language test results ready (English or French – I shall write a separate post about this later).B) You need to have an ECA report for your academic degrees/diplomas if they were not obtained from Canada. You can learn about the ECA process atC) You need to have at least one year continuous, full-time (at least 30 hours per week/1560 hours per year) or equivalent part-time experience in an occupation that is categorized under NOC 0, A or B in the past 10 years.D) You need to have unfettered access to sufficient funds (that are unencumbered) depending on your family size (for the case in point here, “dependents” include your spouse and your dependent children). This money may not be borrowed from another person. You can check how much funds you need ()So, what does the tool say? Are you eligible? No? I’m sorry, you can check if you are eligible under any other immigration program. If yes, congratulations, you have cleared one hurdle on your path to attaining your Permanent Residence. You will receive a code that is called the “Personal Reference Code”. You need this to create your online EE profile.Creating your online Express Entry profile:Congratulations! You are eligible and all set to create your online Express Entry profile. To proceed you will need a couple of things:A) As mentioned before, you would need the Personal Reference code.B) You need to create a myCIC account, if you do not have one already.C) You will need your language test’s Test Report Form (hereafter referred to as TRF) number AND your ECA report number to create and submit a complete profile.D) You need to register with Canada’s “Job Bank” for CIC to deem your application as complete. The only people who are exempted from this requirement are the ones who have a job offer endorsed with a positive Labor Market Impact Assessment (hereafter referred to as LMIA) or people who are already working in Canada.Please note that you need a login credential to create a myCIC account; you can login through a sign-in partner or by creating a GC key. I will discuss, in pristine detail, the end to end process involved in creating an EE profile (with screenshots) in a separate post since the scope of this post is only to provide some basic insight on how the EE system works.You will have created your profile by now. Now you have to sit down patiently and wait for your ITA. The odds of getting an ITA are directly proportional to your CRS. Higher your CRS, higher the chances of getting invited. This is the end of the pre-application phase.Please find the step-by-step detailsPRE-ITA PHASEAs I have already mentioned before, this phase requires you to wait and have patience. Roughly speaking, CIC conducts draws twice a month. The Minister of Citizenship and Immigration decides the cut-off score for the particular draw. You can see the rounds of invitation (). If your score is greater than or equal to the cut-off score selected by CIC, you will get an ITA.One thing that you’ll have to do here is keep an eye on the draws and your CRS. You have to see how close you are to the previous/recent draws. I must admit that CIC is extremely unpredictable in this regard; the draws are random and the CRS cannot be predicted in advance, so to speak. So, depending on your CRS, you might want to consider applying for Provincial Nomination, which has been discussed at the end of this section.In the pre-ITA phase, you can start collecting the documents that you are expected to submit once you get an ITA. Some of the documents that you can prioritize on getting are Police Clearance Certificates and your Employer reference letters. I will be discussing this in detail below.A) Police Clearance Certificates or PCC are they are known as are required for the PA, spouse and children over 18 years of age from their country of residence AND all other countries where they have been for a continuous period of 6 months or more. Getting a foreign PCC can be a tedious and a painstakingly long process so it is imperative to be proactive to avoid delays and get things done on time. PCC issued by a foreign county is valid indefinitely if it was issued during or after your last visit to that country. Please note that local PCCs can be obtained after you receive the ITA because it usually takes less time.B) Employer Reference letters are required for the PA. The reference letter must be as specified by CIC. You can find the details of what the reference letters should be like in the link provided at the end of this section.Depending on where the applicant works, the time taken for employers to issue these reference letters vary. So, it is important to be prepared and apply for the reference letter at the earliest. Please note that reference letters issued by employers while you quit the job is valid indefinitely while the reference letter issued by your current employer is generally valid for one year.C) Proof of funds (POF) is a very important part of your documentation. While you are awaiting your ITA, you can prepare to show your funds. You DO NOT need to get any bank letter/document at this stage but if you need to arrange funds (like selling a car or liquidating assets like selling gold etc.) you have to start planning on how you are going to show your funds. CIC requires that the funds be unencumbered by any debt or obligation to re-pay. These funds must be liquid (You should be able to convertit to hard cash whenever required). You can see what CIC allows you to show as POF in the link provided at the end of the section.D) Provincial Nominee Program (hereafter referred to as PNP) can be put to use if you think your CRS is not up to the mark. PNP are immigration schemes of the provincial/territorial governments by which they pick applicants who they think are suitable to fulfill the demand in their province. Some provinces require a full-time job offer from a Canadian Employer and some don’t. Some provinces process the applications electronically and some provinces still use the old-school snail mail method. Some provinces prefer applicants whose job falls under a particular NOC. There is variety. You can check the website of the province that you are interested in to learn more. If you get a provincial nomination, it will add 600 points to your CRS which means, in most cases, you will get an ITA in the very next draw.Alright! So you have certain documents ready and Voila! You received an ITA. Great! Your next step is to accept the ITA and file your PR application electronically (e-APR).Please note that if you will not be able to submit any of the necessary documents, you must consider declining the ITA and re-enter the pool to get another ITA.We have now come to the end of the pre-ITA section.For the complete EE Checklist, clickPOST-ITA PHASEThis is a very important phase and this is where your application will either be accepted or rejected. Once you get an ITA, you have 60 days to file a complete application – e-APR (electronic – Application for Permanent Residence). You need to gather all the required documents. You need to undergo a medical test (The details of the test are outlined later in the section). Once you submit a complete application, CIC will determine if you will receive a visa or not within a period of 6 months or less.POF/Reference letters can be obtained post-ITA too (depending on your personal circumstance).A) Medical examination is, by far, one of the most important post-ITA processes. The medical test is to ensure that you or your dependents do not have any serious/contagious diseases AND you will not be a burden to the Canadian healthcare system initially. You and all your dependents (whether accompanying or not) MUST undergo a medical test. Please note that this medical test must be performed by a doctor who is a CIC designated panel physician. Pregnant applicants or applicants can choose to complete their medical exam after the baby is born (since chest X-ray is a part of the tests) OR can choose to go ahead with the tests by wearing a lead apron. After the tests are done, you will get an upfront medical form. You will upload this form along with the other documents on the checklist.B) Passports/Travel Documents must be submitted for the PA, spouse and for dependent children.These two, along with other documents mentioned above (and in the checklist) must be submitted as a part of your post-ITA documentation.Alright! So now you have all the documents available in the checklist. You are now all set to submit your application. Please follow the instructions given by CIC very carefully and fill the online application. Upload all the required documents. When you feel the need to explain something to CIC (like large recent deposits on your account or any other unusual circumstance), PLEASE submit a Letter of Explanation (LOE) along with the documents so that the officer who is assessing your case understands why you have not submitted the document in the prescribed format/why you are submitting an alternate document. Remember, you only have 60 days to submit your application. If you do not submit a complete application within this period, the validity of your ITA will lapse. You would then need to re-enter the pool and wait for a brand new ITA and have to start your e-APR from scratch.Any changes to your personal circumstance (like the pregnancy of self/spouse, birth of a child, death/divorce etc.) MUST be reported to the VO at the earliest. If you DONOT reportthese changes, it amounts to misrepresentation and your application will be rejected and you will be barred from re-applying again for 5 years.After you submit your application, your medical records are checked. If everything is fine, your application goes into processing. At this stage, the background checks are performed. CIC might sometimes choose to call your employer to verify your employment history if they feel they need to verify. If the VO feels he/she needs more information, then you will be asked to upload further documents. You *might* be asked to attend an interview if the need be. If everything goes fine, you will get a Passport Request (PPR) and a Decision Made (DM) within 6 months of submission of complete application.You can submit your passport (along with dependents’ passport, if they are accompanying you to Canada) at the nearest VFS. They will send your passport to the embassy and deliver your passport back to you after the stamping is done. You will get a Confirmation of Permanent Residence (COPR) letter along with your passport that is stamped with the Maple Leaf Visa. You need to carry BOTH your passport(with the stamped visa) and the COPR when you are travelling to Canada.Please ensure that you verify all the details on your Visa and COPR. If there are any discrepancies, report it to your VO at once.Please note that you and your dependents MUST land in Canada before your (and their) medical test expires (The validity of the medical test is 1 year from the date of the test) OR before your current passport expires, WHICHEVER COMES FIRST. Also, please note that the dependents can either land ALONG with the PA or at a later date after the PA has landed BUT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE CAN THE DEPENDENTS LAND BEFORE THE PA LANDS.Credit for this answer should go to the original author, unfortunately I do not know who he/she is.Good Luck..!

My end of active service after 8 years in the Marine Corps was in June of 1994 but I understand most of the process is still the same. It more or less starts about a year before your contract is up when you have to go and see the Career Jammer...I mean Planner. This is an NCO or Staff NCO whose job it is to try and retain Marines that the Corps would like to keep. My MOS (Military Occupational Skill) was undermanned at the time so the career jammer tried a few times pretty slyly to talk with me about the merits of staying in the Corps but I had made my mind up and it wasn't going to be changed so the conversations were cordial but short. If you want to explore possibilities, they will present those to you of course keeping in mind that their job is to do what's best for the many (The Corps) and not the few (you) necessarily.Getting closer to actual EAS, you have to take a separation physical where you get thoroughly poked and prodded and the doctor, in my case our squadron flight surgeon, reviews your medical record for any abnormal change in your medical condition since you originally enlisted. There are really three things they are looking for...any condition that needs to be treated immediately so you can be healed up before you are separated, any chronic conditions that will require treatment long term and any condition you may have that is a result of military service and will be the basis for a Veteran's Administration claim following your separation. I had to get my annual aero-medical (flight) physical anyway and it was more stringent than the separation physical so I just went down about 90 or so days before I was supposed to get out and killed two birds with one stone. This also involved a trip to the dentist for full checkup and cleaning and a trip to the optometrist to have my vision checked and be issued new glasses.Next I had to sit through a few classes on transition to civilian life, some of the things that would be different, how to look for a new job, how to create a resume (C.V.), different resources available to me, etc. Keep in mind this was pretty much pre-internet so I was given about 15 lbs. of literature (no shit, 15 lbs. I just found the stuff in an old box and tossed it out a couple months ago)After my transition classes the other Marines at work got me what is called a "Short-Timer's Calendar" Most of them might not be appropriate for me to post here, lest someone take offense, but if you want to see a short timer's calendar just search 'Short Timer Calendar Marines' on Google and have a chuckle. I filled in a space each day and the spaces for Saturday and Sunday when I came in on Monday. It was prominently displayed behind my desk. (My last year in the Corps I was an instructor at the Marine Corps' new helicopter crewchief academy and had a desk in the instructor's area) I made sure to point it out to all the other instructors and remind those unfortunate souls who had made the decision to make the Corps a career that it would be years, in some cases, more than a decade, before they would see one of these. Usually this resulted in a string of epithets that Marines are so artful with, typically starting with F&^% and ending with F&^% and often liberally punctuated with this same word in all it's forms and uses, which are many.Around the same time I had to talk with my boss, a Gunnery Sergeant (E-7) and his boss, a Mastery Gunnery Sergeant (E-9) about taking terminal leave. For the uninitiated, Terminal Leave can be granted when the Marine has a balance of leave (military term for vacation) on the books and wants to take it at the end of their contract. Let's say you have 45 days on the books and want to get out 45 days earlier than your end of service date for whatever reason. A lot of guys I knew that were getting out and going back to college took terminal leave to be able to start school at the beginning of a semester. I put in my request for terminal leave and it was approved so now I actually had a last day on the calendar which was formally approved.Once this was in place I had to schedule some different meetings: review of my flight records, review of my maintenance qualification records, review of my flight qualification records, review of my service record book, make sure every damn list of documents that was supposed to be read and signed off on was done and signed and everyone was happy, etc. I also had an debriefing by our intelligence folks to talk about classified information and the fact that there were a few things I shouldn't ever discuss unless I was specifically told it was okay to do so by the proper authority. This is typically the case only where you have had access to specially compartmentalized information. You have a review of what the rules are, a bit of Q&A if you need it and then you get to sign a few more things with bold sections about prison and other horrible possible outcomes from failing to follow the rules, which you have just signed in 15 spots to acknowledge you thoroughly understand.Did I mention there's a lot of signing and initialing? I should also mention that you have to schedule all of this crap around the things that you have to do in the performance of your regular duties.A few days before I was supposed to get out, I had most things done (and signed) and had already transitioned most of my classroom and flying duties over to other instructors so I spent some time at other squadrons catching up with some old friends, swapping contact info, etc. Would have been great to have had FaceBook back then! I also went back to the squadron I had been with for 6.5 years and did some flying with them, some with my students and some just taking flights with other crewchiefs or pilots that I liked. I even spent a day washing a couple of helicopters with my old buddies. We had a couple of parties at work and other Marine's houses, the enlisted club, couple pilots took me to the Officer's club for beers and shots, etc.About a week before my last day I started doing a final checkout on base. I had to go to a bunch of different places and make sure they had no files open with my name on them, pick up medical records, dental records, etc. and turn any field gear in, clean my weapon at the armory and turn my pistol and rifle cards in, etc. Of course I had a checkout sheet and every person I dealt with had to put a note on it or sign it, or both. Pretty much the last thing I did was turn in my flight gear. I got lucky in that they were going to retire my helmet, probably since no one else would ever want to put that nasty sweatbucket on THEIR head. So I walked away with a complete checkout sheet and a souvenir. I then went to the squadron offices and they gave me my personnel records and a Check-IN sheet for separations. I was told to show up over at their offices the next morning around 0800 or something.I appeared at Separations on time and in the Summer Service C uniform (versus a flight suit or cammies which were my norm) and stood in a formation where they called everyone's name. I turned in my record packet and was told to go away and be back at 1300 for another formation. This went on for 2 days. At the end of the second day, the day before I got out, I was told to show up at around 0900 the next day and pick up my walking papers and a check for moving allowances and final pay.My memories of my last day are bit funny. I showed up a bit before the designated time and as it was a little chilly, I had on my leather flight jacket with my uniform. A Staff Sergeant, who must have been having a really bad already, I say this because of the look of twisted rage on her face as she approached me, decided that I would be her target of opportunity. As I got within 50 feet of her heading towards the building she started yelling and shrieking at me in a loud voice. She went on and on about me being out of uniform and that the leather flight jacket was only authorized for commissioned officers, (which isn't the case) blah, blah, blah, blah. I stopped, smiled at her and told her she, with all due respect, should go straight to hell and she could start digging the hole about one meter from where she was standing off to the side of the walk. I pointed. She really cranked the volume up then and started cursing, really pouring on the coal too, she was seriously pissed. I laughed at her, smiled and said, have a nice day, I have to go pick up my discharge papers. I walked off into the building.The final act was to go and review my discharge papers, Department of Defense Form 214 or DD-214 and I believe sign it. I was handed a check for pay and allowances and told that upon my effective date of full discharge, 45 days hence, they would mail me the finished copy of my DD-214 to my home of record and they recommended that I go and have it officially recorded in case I ever lost it. When it was all said and done, this old crusty Gunnery Sergeant came from the back, shook my hand and thanked me for my service to my country and the Marine Corps. The last two things he said to me were have a nice day and to remember, once a Marine, always a Marine. It was a strange feeling when I went back to my apartment and took my uniform off for the last time officially...relief and a bit nerve wracking at the same time.This was my experience anyway. I wish that I would have had those online checklists that Thomas Snerdley talked about but I'm sure there still would have been some a-hole to yell at me on the last day...haha.