AHPRA - Problems with registration

Hi Ksrig,
My story is pretty much identical to yours, except I have been lucky enough to have got my registration today. There is a way of getting around the police check now, if you go into the AHPRA office first thing on Monday morning, you can ask them to give you a statutory declaration to get signed by a JP. This stat dec will basically cover you until the police check comes back, so you should basically be registered within 24-48 hours, if not straight away. So get the statutoary declaration off them, walk up to the magistrate's court on the corner of George & Turbot Streets, get the JP to sign it for you and take it straight back to AHPRA and "kindly request" that your registration be completed ASAP.

Just out of curiosity, which Uni are you from? We have figured out that out of the 120 or so grads from UQ and QUT, only a handful (less than 10) have their rego's back so far..

Hope this helps you a little :)

Ok update...

I went in this morning on good advice and as it turns out a couple of hours after doing the suggested I am now registered!! Yay so happy, Now to start working! thanks for your insight grglngfld :D

I don't get it guys. You were given your rego on the spot when you did a stat dec? This is at the Brisbane office? I finally got through to a specialist yesterday on the phone who told me the only things missing from my application were my medicare and d/licence, a stat dec saying I had done high school in Aust and the $115 fee - all of this new requirements from what the QNC requested. I submitted all of that yesterday in person at 2pm and still haven't got my rego. How did you guys manage to get yours so quick?

My criminal history chech has already been done. It was just the id, fee and high school they required.

Sue I know ALOT of international students with the same problem! :-(
I just don't know if there is anything we can do.
It might be fair enough that you have to sit an English test since English isn't your first language, but surely AHPRA could have told you that MONTHS ago - not right before your visa expires.
If you haven't realised it already - everything run by the government in Australia is useless and does nothing but waste taxpayer's money.
Unfortuantly even if Labor is out on Saturday the Liberals will be no better - maybe even worse :-(
It is seriously depressing.

Hi all,

I am an overseas trained RN and I applied for reg with the old QNC in april. AHPRA have all my stuff (I even did IELTS which is now no longer needed!) and apparantly I am at the top of the pile but I'm constantly fobbed off with the line; 'processes aren't in place to asess overseas applications yet'. The QNU are trying to assit me and I've contacted media and my local MP with no luck as of yet. I am going to call the Courier Mail today.

I am seriously keen to organise a protest. Who would be keen? I think we would need at least 50 of us. I was meant to start a grad programme last month and although they are keeping my place open for me this whole situation and the way in which AHPRA are behaving is absurd.

Annie

Looking forward to the article Annie. QNU has also taken up my case but no news yet...

Why don't we lodge massive formal complaints to the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission?

Look what I found at their website:

If we sent lots and lots of complaints, they would notice nad try to have a look at this issue.

Just one idea, in parallel to other avenues (Today Tonight, A Current Affair, your local represntative at parlament, class actions, etc.)

We need to be united and make the as much fuss as possible to get this situation solved, as this is clearly discriminatory and illegal. If we have degrees from Australian universities, treating us differently because we completed secondary school overseas is ilegal.

We wil succed in our numbers.

migrant_health_student

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Hi all,

In my experience as a nurse of 30 years,,, always go directly to the top! Anne Copeland is the DON at Wesley Hospital in Brisbane. Why don't you all meet,, get the media on side and demand a meeting with her? Also when dealing with AHPRA always ask to speak to a Senior Nurse Case Manager or whoever is the most senior nurse on at AHPRA when you call and tell them you want a face to face meeting with them and demand the street address of their location and you have x amount of nurses who WILL be flying to the head office in Melbourne with media coverage to Demand Answers. Once you say all of the above or something similar,, you will be heard. Good Luck Guys! Go straight for the throat!

Hello everyone,

I feel relieved to know I am not the only new grad having problems with my registration. I am on overseas student, finsihed my degree in july 2010. My registration came out fairly quickly. I did the ielts, and after that I got my registration in mid august. However it is september 8th and I still don't have my initial certificate of registration which I need for my ANMC skills assessment and subsequently for my PR application... This is getting so complicated. The AHPRA told me they "can't give me an exact date of issue of my certificate of initial registration, that they are issued "periodically", altogether at any time and that they can not give me a date, could be a month could be two months or more..." Is that legal?? I mean I need that document to get my skills assessment. I already called the ANMC and they say they won't approve my application until I get it. On the other hand the AHPRA gives me a different story every week. Until last week I was told I was going to get that document early this week and to call them if I didnt. When I called nobody answered and I even left a voice message and nothing, no response. I had to go there today and now they changed their minds saying they will take longer and can;t even give me a date.