Skill Matching Scheme Visa to Australia

Skill Matching Visas are intended to give encouragement to potential migrants that do not have a sufficiently high enough score for the General Skilled Migration Points Test. For this category you only need threshold qualifications regarding your age, skill, work experience, and English language ability. The initial entry cost for this visa is quite low. People with skills not high enough for other Australian visas use this visa as a chance to come to Australia.

Skill Matching has been designed to assist to overcome certain skill shortages by supporting would-be migrants to establish in places of Australia in which their skills are in demand. This is accomplished by placing the candidates’ details in a skill matching database. The Skill Matching visa is points tested but you only need to meet the pool mark to be able to apply. You should consider this visa if you are not certain or it is unlikely you will pass the points test but you satisfy the basic requirements for skill, age and English language proficiency, but with a lesser recent work experience requirement and meet the pool mark.

Candidates that choose this visa will have their details placed in the database for up to 2 years. If you are not nominated within the two years, your details will be removed from the database and your application will be refused.

Costs and charges: There is NO INITIAL FEE to have your application lodged for inclusion in the skill matching database. You pay the full visa application fee only if you are selected by a State or Territory government or an employer. You pay the fee which is current at the time you are selected. The current visa application charge is $1,845.

For further information on the Skill Matching Visa to Australia, click here.

Generally speaking, the points test is a simple evaluation of your ability to succeed in an application. If you fail the points test, you will not receive a visa in that category. Today the points needed for Skilled Independent Visa to Australia is 120 points with 110 points necessary for the Skilled Australian Sponsored Visa to Australia, and because the pass points can change at any time, it must be consulted right up until the day your visa application is made. Skill matching may be the best way to avoid slipping through the net and not getting an Australian visa.

ASSISTANCE WITH THIS VISA OR OTHER VISAS?

Each visa candidate must meet the full requirements of the visa. The help of a migration agent may be advisable. Here is our general link to the Migration Agents Registration Authority so that you can better understand what migration agents do with regard to visas, their responsibilities and your rights as a member of the public in regard to Australian visas and Citizenship.