Documents typically required
- Overseas qualifications — degree, diploma or trade certificate
- Academic transcripts and grading legends
- Employment references, letters of service and payslips (where in Spanish)
- Employment contracts describing role, duties and dates of service
- Police clearances from every country lived in for 12+ months
- Birth and marriage certificates for the primary applicant and family members included in the application
- Passport identity pages for the applicant and family members (where not in English)
Skills assessing bodies that commonly require translated documents alongside Home Affairs include Engineers Australia, VETASSESS, ACS, AIPT, TRA, ANMAC and NACLC. Each assessing body publishes its own document list — the NAATI-certified translation is a shared requirement across all of them.
Why NAATI certification?
The Department of Home Affairs, Australian courts and skills assessing bodies only accept translations prepared by a NAATI-certified translator. NAATI (the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters) is Australia's official standards body. A certified translation carries the translator's NAATI stamp, ID number and certification statement, confirming to the case officer that the English document is a faithful representation of the original.
Trans Lingo prepares every Subclass 189 translation to this standard, priced at $59 per page with same-business-day delivery.
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