The qualification must be a specific qualification in social work.

Please ensure all copies are certified, as per our Certifying Documents guide.

Academic transcripts for each year, for each qualification.

If you do not have these, copies can usually be obtained for a small fee by contacting your awarding body (eg. university)

Please ensure all copies are certified, as per our Certifying Documents guide.

Your qualification must enable registration/licensing where such conditions exist in the country of training. Provide either:

• - copy of your licence/registration
• - evidence your qualification is eligible for registration
• - evidence the qualification is accredited.

Please ensure all copies are certified, as per our Certifying Documents guide.

For your skills assessment you are looking for a minimum in Listening, Reading ,Writing & Speaking of 7 in an IELTS Academic test.

You may submit two test results dated within 6 months, if no score is below 6.5, to evidence a minimum of 7 in each area over two tests.

Please note, depending on your results, your emigration specialist may suggest, at a later stage in your migration case, that you sit an IELTS General test to boost your points for migration purposes.

You can provide either:

• - certified copies of secondary results, OR;
• - a letter from your secondary school or the relevant department of education in the country of study which states that your secondary education was completed, taught and assessed in the English language, with submission of certified copies of your tertiary results evidencing that they were successfully completed, taught and assessed in the English language.

Where certified copies of secondary and/or tertiary results cannot be supplied, a Statutory Declaration certifying that the education was successfully completed, taught and assessed in the English language may also be acceptable. Ensure you include the name of school/s, years studied and country in which you studied.

A statutory declaration is signed in front of a solicitor in the UK (or appropriate local body overseas), who will witness your statement. We have provided an example template here that you may find useful.

Please refer to the AASW Guidelines which details the items your reference(s) MUST contain.

Employment references must be on organisational letterhead and signed by a Supervisor/Team Leader or the Employer.

Ensure the reference states:

• - the position title within the organisation
• - duration of employment (exact start and end dates)
• - nature of employment (full time/part time and the number of hours completed per week)
• - qualification required to undertake this position.

Please refer to the AASW Guidelines which details the items your reference(s) MUST contain.

Job descriptions should be on letterhead detailing the key roles and responsibilities/tasks completed in this position for each position held.

This could include:

• - employment contract(s)
• - payslips
• - tax documents eg. P60/P45 etc.

Each document provided that is not in English must be accompanied by an official translation.

Translators in Australia must be accredited by the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters.

Translators outside Australia do not have to be accredited. But on each translation, they must include their:

• full name
• address and telephone number
• qualifications and experience in the language they are translating

These details must be in English.