Basically, login to your SkillSelect account and you'll see under your EOI that a button now says "Apply Visa"
Click that and you'll receive a message prompting you if you wished to start logding your visa application. To cut a long story short, you'll soon find yourself at ImmiAccount where you'll be prompted to create an account and then import your information and invitation over from SkillSelect.
A reference number will then be allocated to your case. Next up was a 17 step process of entering information into ImmiAccount. If you're at this step, it would be a great help if you had another pair of eyes with you.
We also settled the visa application fee which was AUD$7000 or so. There was an additional administrative fee of $30 or $40, I can't recall the exact figure. I had read somewhere that it had cost only $3060 for an entire family for applications lodged before 1 July 2013. Pretty hefty increase wouldn't you agree?
Anyway, once you are done with entering all the information and paying the fee, you then have the option of uploading all the relevant documents that are required - proof of age, language ability, skills assessment, just to name a few. There are two that you wouldn't be able to do right away - Evidence of Health and Evidence of Character.
It was really late when we completed entering most of the data so we decided to tackle the health and character checks on another day.
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