Sorry, DIMIA require 12 months in the last 18 of send experience for 139 and 40 or 50 point nominated occupation - so your lead-in experience would be 6 months not 12 months as I previously stated.
What I mean is that the occupation you nominate via VETbuttESS has no bearing on the likely clbuttification that DIMIA will buttess your required recent experience. So you have to convince them that you have been working as send Analyst-Programmer. You have high level IT qualifications plus 6 months work experience before you get to the required 12 months for DIMIA. So yours is a strong case - stronger than the following scenario:
Appolicant has B.Comm degree, worked as Analyst-Programmer for last 2 years. As 139 this applicant can apply for the same Nominated occupations as you through VETbuttESS and can get a reference to say he has worked as an Analyst-Programmer for the last 2 years - looks OK on the face of it but DIMIA would probably not be convinced he is working at the required Professional IT level to clbuttify his recent experience in any of the IT professional Codes. With no IT related qulaification, this applicant has not got enough IT experience to reasonably argue that he is working at the professional level for at least the second half of his 2 years.
Tony
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