Skills assessment services

Migration to Australia
Considering moving to Australia? We can determine if your skills meet visa requirements.
- Migration
Migration to New Zealand
If you’re considering moving to New Zealand, we can assist with your skills assessment
- Migration

Skills Assessment Pilots

Gain access to a fast-tracked skills assessment to formalise your unrecognised skills.

If you’re planning to migrate to Australia or New Zealand, you may need a skills assessment to determine if you meet skilled migration visa requirements. As an authorised assessing authority, CPA Australia conducts skills assessments to ensure your qualifications and experience match the required standard of the industry in your chosen country.

Processing times

Method	Time
Standard processing times	approximately 60 business days
Fast Track processing times (applicable to full skills assessments and additional ANZSCO code applications only)	approximately 15 business days

Our processing times are subject to change, depending on circumstances such as increased volumes of received applications. The processing time is only indicative, it may vary from the time you submit your initial application to the time we begin the assessment of your complete set of supporting documents.

The processing times exclude weekends, public holidays, our end-of-year office closure period and applies to all application types: new, updates, appeals, requests for skills assessment (additional ANZSCO codes), and skilled employment assessments.

Note: If your application requires additional supporting details, it will delay the processing time of your application. We will notify you via email about any request for further information and your application will be put on hold until the required information is provided to us. The processing time calculation of your application will start again from the date the additional information is received.

To avoid any delays, we encourage applicants to provide all required documentation for their assessment at the time of application, while ensuring the documents meet our document standard requirements. Please note that a pending application will be deactivated if the requested supporting information is not received within 6 months from the date of application submission. Once deactivated, an applicant must re-apply for an assessment by completing a new application and attending to the payment of the application fee.

End-of-year office closure

CPA Australia offices will be closed during the 2023/2024 festive season, from Monday 25 December 2023 to Monday 1 January 2024 (inclusive), and this period will be excluded from the processing times for skills assessment applications. We will endeavour to process received applications as soon as possible after our office reopens on Tuesday 2 January 2024. We thank you in advance for your patience and wish you a happy and safe holiday season.

Assessment fees

Fees will vary depending on your location and whether you’re migrating to Australia or New Zealand. Head to your chosen destination’s page to view the relevant fee schedule.

Assessment fees for Australia

Assessment fees for New Zealand

Disclaimer

These landing pages (including any third party landing pages referred to on this website), and any information CPA Australia Ltd (“CPA Australia”), its staff, contractors or agents (“Representatives”) may provide you (from time to time) throughout the skills assessment process is of a general nature only. Such information does not consider your personal objectives, situation or particular needs. CPA Australia and its Representatives will not provide you with specific information on the migration process, including (but not limited to) awards, visas or migration application process and cannot recommend any organisation or person to provide you with such information. Please ensure that you seek your own independent professional advice with respect to your personal needs.

CPA Australia makes no warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of any information contained on its website (including any third party landing pages referred to on this website) and any information CPA Australia or its Representatives may provide you from time to time. To the extent permitted by applicable law, CPA Australia, its employees, agents and consultants exclude all liability for any loss or damage claims and expenses including but not limited to legal costs, indirect special or consequential loss or damage (including but not limited to, negligence) arising out of or related to: (a) information contained on the landing pages (including third party landing pages); or (b) any information that CPA Australia or its Representatives may have provided.