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There has been a lot of confusion regarding the ACS policy of experience deduction. Based on the qualification, ACS deducts 2-8 years relevant experience from the applicant's experience history. The exact amount of deduction depends on mainly 2 things - the level of qualification & relevancy of qualification with the nominated occupation. Furthermore, if the applicant does not have any ICT related tertiary degree or vendor certification, he needs to submit an RPL as an additional requirement. However, submitting an RPL does not change the situation regarding experience deduction. In this post, I tried to summarize all the ACS assessment criteria.
Summary of Criteria:
1. Post Australian Study Skills Assessment
This application is only if you have completed an Australian Bachelor degree or higher at an Australian educational institution in Australia and you would like a skill assessment for migration purposes in general. You need
2. Skill assessment with non-Australian degree
* whichever provides the earliest skill date
Experience Before Qualification:
If your work experience is completed before the completion date of your qualification, the Skill Level Requirement Met Date will be determined on the earliest date that BOTH the relevant work experience and the qualifications are completed.
All relevant work experience completed after the Skill Level Requirement Met Date will be considered Skilled Employment and eligible for points under the skilled migration points test.
The work experience required to meet the suitability criteria is NOT included as Skilled Employment and is NOT eligible for points under the skilled migration points test.
Example:
ACS Assessment Outcome Sample:
A sample outcome letter of ACS assessment is generally sent in below form (for a case where ACS deducted 4 years):
Above statement means that you can claim points for your experience from April 2009. Any experience prior to that has to be declared non-relevant while submitting EOI (thus no points should be claimed).
ICT Major Criteria:
ICT Minor Criteria:
A Bachelor or higher qualification is assessed as a Minor when the ICT content is at least two-thirds of the requirements for a major.
Insufficient ICT Content:
All qualifications with ICT content less than the requirement for a Minor are assessed as Non-ICT qualifications.
Claim points for post-assessment experience:
As long as your ACS assessment remains valid and you continue in the same job with similar responsibilities, you can claim those extra post-assessment experience without any additional assessment.
Detail From ACS Rules Book:
Summary of Criteria:
1. Post Australian Study Skills Assessment
This application is only if you have completed an Australian Bachelor degree or higher at an Australian educational institution in Australia and you would like a skill assessment for migration purposes in general. You need
- an Australian Bachelor degree or higher with a major in ICT which is closely related to the nominated occupation (ANZSCO) plus one of the following requirements for a suitable skills assessment:
- 1 year of relevant work experience completed after the completion date of the relevant Australian degree, or
- Completion of an ACS Professional Year Program
2. Skill assessment with non-Australian degree
| Qualification | Field of the Qualification | Is the Qualification closely related to the nominated occupation? | Experience Deduction |
| Bachelor Degree or Higher | ICT Major | Yes | 2 Years in last 10 Years OR 4 Years in total experience (anytime) * |
| No | 4 Years in total experience (anytime) | ||
| ICT Minor | Yes | 5 Years in last 10 Years OR 6 Years in total experience (anytime) * | |
| No | 6 Years in total experience (anytime) | ||
| Diploma and Vendor Certification | ICT Major | Yes | 5 Years in last 10 Years OR 6 Years in total experience (anytime) * |
| No | 6 Years in total experience (anytime) | ||
| Non ICT Diploma or Higher Degree | Non ICT | Not Applicable | 6 Years in total experience (anytime) plus an RPL |
| No tertiary education | Not Applicable | Not Applicable | 8 Years in total experience (anytime) plus an RPL |
Experience Before Qualification:
If your work experience is completed before the completion date of your qualification, the Skill Level Requirement Met Date will be determined on the earliest date that BOTH the relevant work experience and the qualifications are completed.
All relevant work experience completed after the Skill Level Requirement Met Date will be considered Skilled Employment and eligible for points under the skilled migration points test.
The work experience required to meet the suitability criteria is NOT included as Skilled Employment and is NOT eligible for points under the skilled migration points test.
Example:
- You complete 2 years of relevant work experience from Jan 2003 until Jan 2005
- You complete another 2 years of relevant work experience from Jan 2006 until Jan 2008
- You complete a 3 year relevant Bachelor degree in Jan 2011
- You complete a final 1 year of relevant work experience from Jan 2012 until Jan 2013
- The “Skill Level Requirement Met Date” will be Jan 2011 because this is the date BOTH the relevant work experience AND the relevant qualification are completed
- Only relevant work experience completed after Jan 2011 is considered “Skilled Employment” and eligible for migration points test
- All work experience completed before Jan 2011 is NOT eligible for migration points test
ACS Assessment Outcome Sample:
A sample outcome letter of ACS assessment is generally sent in below form (for a case where ACS deducted 4 years):
ACS ASSESSMENT LETTER said:
Above statement means that you can claim points for your experience from April 2009. Any experience prior to that has to be declared non-relevant while submitting EOI (thus no points should be claimed).
ICT Major Criteria:
- A Diploma, Advanced Diploma or Associate degree must have at least 50% ICT content.
- A Diploma, Advanced Diploma or Associate Degree with ICT content less than 50% is assessed as a Non-ICT qualification.
- A Bachelor degree must have:
- 33% ICT content for a 3-year course
- 25% ICT content for a 4-year course
- 20% ICT content for a 5-year course
- A post graduate qualification (Graduate Diploma or Masters) that do not require a Bachelor with an ICT major for entry into the course, must have:
- A minimum of 3 semesters or at least 1.5 years of full-time study
- At least 2 semesters or 1 year of full-time equivalent ICT content
- A minimum of 12 units or subjects (overseas degrees may contain fewer units or subjects)
- 50% ICT content for a 2-year Graduate Diploma or Masters qualification
- 33% ICT content for a 3-year Graduate Diploma or Masters qualification
- A post graduate qualification (Graduate Diploma, Masters or Doctoral qualification) that requires at least a Bachelor qualification with a major in ICT for entry into the course, must have ICT content of at least 33%, all of which must be at post graduate level.
ICT Minor Criteria:
A Bachelor or higher qualification is assessed as a Minor when the ICT content is at least two-thirds of the requirements for a major.
Insufficient ICT Content:
All qualifications with ICT content less than the requirement for a Minor are assessed as Non-ICT qualifications.
Claim points for post-assessment experience:
As long as your ACS assessment remains valid and you continue in the same job with similar responsibilities, you can claim those extra post-assessment experience without any additional assessment.
Detail From ACS Rules Book:
ACS said:
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