If you want to migrate to Australia as an engineer, you need to have your skills formally assessed. Engineers Australia is authorised by the Australian government’s Department of Home Affairs to assess your qualifications, skills and experience to work in Australia
You’ll need a migration skills assessment outcome letter from us before you can apply for a visa to come to Australia.
Your qualification is the main factor in choosing the right assessment pathway. It’s determined by:
the country you received it
the type of qualification
whether it’s accredited.
Accredited qualifications are engineering qualifications that are recognised through agreements known as Accords. There are three relevant Accords – the Washington Accord, Sydney Accord and Dublin Accord. We’ll recognise your qualifications under these Accords if:
It was completed after, or in the same year in which the country was accepted as a full signatory under the Accord.
Your program falls within the time period specified as accredited on the signatory’s website for your country. This may be referred to as a program’s intake, commencement or graduate year.
Your program is listed as fully accredited, provisional accreditation isn’t sufficient.
Use the qualification checker on the International Engineering Alliance website to check if your qualifications are accredited.
If you completed your qualification in Australia and it’s listed in Engineers Australia’s list of accredited programs, then you can apply directly through the Australian qualifications pathway.
Engineers Australia recognises four occupational categories for skilled migration:
Professional Engineer
Engineering technologist
Engineering associate
Engineering manager.
Based on your qualifications and skills, you will work in Australia in one of these occupational categories.
If your qualification is accredited, you can choose between four assessment pathways or types:
Australian qualification
Washington Accord
Dublin Accord
Sydney Accord
If you have a French qualification, you can apply under the Washington Accord.
You can apply via the Australian qualification pathway if:
you have an ASQA-recognised Australian associate degree or advanced diploma in engineering and you’re looking for a role as an engineering associate.
If you have an Australian provisionally-accredited qualification, apply through the competency demonstration report (CDR) assessment pathway.
If your qualification isn’t accredited, apply through the CDR pathway. In this case, your knowledge, skills and competency are assessed against internationally benchmarked factors.
In the online application for the CDR pathway, you’ll be asked to choose your engineering occupation (or qualification) from a dropdown list. Currently, there are 31 engineering occupations listed which are determined by the Australian government.
If your assessment is successful, both your occupational category and your engineering occupation will be reflected on the outcome letter.
For degree attained from Pakistani universities, Check PEC website, if it comes under level 2 Washington Accord, you don’t need CDR.
If it is in Level 1, you need CDR reports for skill assessment.
Please note that the Washington Accredited Engineering Qualification assessment route applies only to accredited engineering programs that are delivered by a signatory that has full rights of participation in the accord.
Best of luck!!!
