Australia 2nd Mates

Course Title: 

Advanced Diploma of Applied Science, Nautical Science – Leading to AMSA 2nd Mates STCW II/1 CoC.

Course Start Dates:

▪ Feb 

▪ June

They run 2 batches in a year.

Course Duration:

10 months.

Visa Duration: 

13 – 14 months.

Course Fees: 

Au$ 28,000.

Health Insurance:

▪ Single student: Au$1,000.

▪ Married couple: Au$4,500

▪ Married couple with a child: Au$5,500.

The insurance rates are set by MEDIBANK, and it may vary a bit depending upon your nationality.

The University admission letter will mention the health insurance cost applicable to you.

Eligibility: 

Deck Cadet / Deck Rating with 36 months of sea time on vessels > 500 GRT including 6 months of bridge watch keeping certificate.

Deck Cadet with a non-approved pre-sea training but with AMSA Training Record Book may be eligible after 24 months sea time.

If you are not sure whether your sea time will be accepted by AMSA, Australia, please apply for AMSA eligibility by filling the AMSA 419 form and sending the relevant documents by courier to AMSA in Australia. The AMSA fees payment is to be done online. If you face any issues in filling out the AMSA 419 smartPDF form, kindly let me know.

AMSA eligibility is advisable but not mandatory for university admissions and visa procedure. Sometimes, the University may ask you to get the AMSA eligibility letter before issuing you an admission letter if they do not feel confident of the sea time documents that you have submitted for admission purpose. 

You need to mandatorily have the AMSA eligibility before sitting for the AMSA orals. Students can apply for AMSA eligibility before travelling to Australia or during their stay in Australia as well. The AMSA eligibility processing time is around 6 weeks.

Seat Booking Procedure:

Please email or WhatsApp me the following documents for seat booking with AMC, University of Tasmania.

▪ Passport front page and address page.

▪ CDC front page and sea service stamp pages.

▪ STCW basic courses – PST + PSSR + FPFF + EFA.

▪ Company sea time letter of 36 months.

▪ Bridge Watch keeping certificate of 36 months.

▪ Class X (O Level), Class XII (A Level) and any other higher Diploma / Degree level school qualification.

Kindly make separate PDF files with proper file names and send them to me on WhatsApp for e.g. one PDF file for Passport, one PDF file for CDC, one PDF file for CoC, one PDF file for all STCW courses, etc., and so on.

If your family (wife and children) wish to accompany you to Australia, we will need their passport and your marriage certificate as well. 

No payment is to be made to the University for booking your seat.

E-mail: kunal.anshuman@springdaleindia.com 

After submission of all documents, the University will issue you a conditional offer letter in about 3 – 4 weeks. This will come to you by email directly from the University and CC to me.

The conditions mentioned in your offer letter would be the following:

▪ Submission of IELTS Academic or PTE Academic test results. The score required is 5.5 band overall in IELTS Academic with no score below 50. The PTE Academic score required is 43 overall with no sectional score below 36.

You can book the IELTS Academic test on:

www.ieltsidpindia.com 

You can book the PTE Academic test on:

www.pearsonpte.com 

▪ Payment of the 1st semester course tuition fees + overseas student health insurance (OSHC) charge. 

This payment will normally be made about 1 – 3 months before the course start date. The balance tuition fees for the 2nd semester will be paid about 6 months later whilst the course is ongoing in Australia. The course is divided into 2 semesters. The first-semester course fee is paid to get the visa letter issued by the University. The 2nd-semester course fees are paid before the start of the 2nd semester in Australia.

STCW advanced courses (AFF + MFA + PSCRB + Medicare) and Tanker Courses (Oil, Chemical & Gas):

AMSA, Australia does not accept DG Shipping, India advanced STCW courses as well as tanker courses. So, these courses will have to be mandatorily done in Australia and are included in the course fees.

If you are a student of some other nationality, please email to AMSA at:

quals@amsa.gov.au 

or amsaconnect@amsa.gov.au 

and check if your country STCW advanced courses and tanker courses are accepted by AMSA or not.

Total Cost & Part-time work in Australia:

▪ Tuition Fees: Au$28,000.

▪ Health insurance: Au$1,000 (mandatory)

▪ AMSA fees: Au$1,000

▪ Living Expenses: Au$1,200 per month (i.e., Au$14,400 per year)

▪ Flight travel: Au$3,000

▪ Miscellaneous: Au$1,000

▪ Visa Medical: Au$50

▪ Visa fees: Au$650

Total: Au$49,100

PART TIME WORK:

Students are allowed to work part-time in Australia during their studies. You can work up to 40 hours every fortnightly during term and full-time during holidays. The minimum wage in Australia is Au$ 23.23 per hour. 

Earnings per month: (40×2) x 23 = Au$1,840

Assuming, you worked for 10 months out of 12 months of stay in Australia, your part-time earnings will be: Au$18,400.

Total expense for a student who works part time in Australia and one who does not work part-time in Australia are as given below:

▪ Au$30,700

▪ Au$49,100

Australia is a very expensive place to study and hence most students will do some part-time work to offset at least their living expenses in Australia. 

During vacation time, you can work full time and hence earn 2.5X what a student earns monthly part-time, but we have not considered that additional earnings for calculation purpose.

Your spouse is also allowed to work part-time in Australia. 

The cost involved if carrying your wife to Australia is as explained below:

▪ Living Expense: Au$400 per month i.e., Au$4,800 for a year.

▪ Flight ticket: Au$3,000

▪ Health Insurance: Au$3,500

▪ Visa Fees: Au$300

▪ Part time work earning at minimum pay if working 10 out of 12 months in a year: Au$18,400

Net SURPLUS earned by a working spouse will be Au$6,800.

So, if both student and spouse are working part time during your Chief Mates course in Australia, the actual cost will come to: Au$23,900.

Approximate net expense for a student and spouse under different conditions are given below:

▶ Total expense for student is Au$ 49,100 (26 Lakhs INR if 1 Au$ = 53 INR) if the student does not work in Australia.

▶ Total expense for student is Au$ 30,700 (16.30 Lakhs INR if 1 Au$ = 53 INR) if the student works part time in Australia.

▶ Total expense for student and wife is Au$ 60,700 (32.20 Lakhs INR if 1 Au$ = 53 INR) if none of them work part-time in Australia.

▶ Total expense for student and wife is Au$ 23,900 (12.70 Lakhs INR if 1 Au$ = 53 INR) if both work part-time in Australia.

Visa Processing:

We will be guiding you with the visa procedure. The visa procedure is totally online now and is similar irrespective of the nationality of the student.

▪ The visa processing time varies from 3 – 6 weeks normally.

▪ The length of visa is for around 14 months.

▪ The breakup of funds that you need to show for your visa is as explained below:

▶ Tuition Fees: Au$28,000

▶ Living Expenses: A$24,505

▶ Health Insurance: Au$1,000

▶ Flight Ticket: Au$3,000

Total visa show money: Au$56,505 (INR 30 Lakhs if Au$ = 53 INR).

If your tuition fees are less, then the visa show money will reduce accordingly.

If you are carrying your wife, the additional visa show money will be as below:

▶ Living Expense: Au$8,574

▶ Health Insurance: Au$3,000

▶ Flight Ticket: Au$3,000

Total extra funds to show for your wife will be Au$14,574 (INR 7.70 Lakhs at Au$ = 53 INR)

If children are to accompany you, the extra show money will be as below:

▶ Au$3,670 per child for non-school going children. 

▶ Au$9,661 per school going children.

▶ Travel cost per child: Au$3,000

▶ Insurance cost per child: Au$1,000

Educational Loan / Personal Loan:

As you would see, the amount to show for Australian visa is huge. Hence, most Indian students take loans be it personal loan, educational loan, loan against property, home loan top-up, loan against insurance policies, loan against jewelry, etc. If you wish to apply for a loan, please do let us know and we will ask the concerned person to get in touch with you.

The money for visa can be shown as cash in bank account, fixed deposits, or bank loan. You can also show funds held by your parents, in-laws, and own brother / sister. Any sudden reflection of large amount of money in your bank account will need to be explained with documentary evidence regarding its source as otherwise that can be a ground for visa refusal.

Permanent Residency (PR) in Australia

The PR for deck officers, engineer officers and Ships Master was stopped in Australia from 31 July 2017. Prior to that many seafarers did the Chief Mates or 2/E CoC from AMC, University of Tasmania and took PR in Australia. It is not certain when PR for seafarers will start again for Australia as PR for professions is demand-supply based. Once the seafarers who took PR in Australia move back to shore-based jobs in Australia, one expects that demand will then outstrip supply and seafaring professions will again get included in the shortage occupation list (SoL). It may happen in 1 year or 5 years, that is something nobody can predict. That it will open again is almost a certainty but when it will happen can’t be predicted. As it is over 6 years since PR was stopped for seafarers, it is anticipated that it will reopen in the next 1 – 3 years’ time.

This leaves a student looking to do the 2nd Mates CoC course from AMC, University of Tasmania with 2 options primarily:

▶ 1st Option: Obtain your AMSA CoC course and your Advanced Diploma in Nautical Science from UTAS. Come back to your home country and start sailing. Whenever PR starts again for seafarers, apply for it from your home country only. PR processing takes about 6 months, and you will need to contact Australian govt. licensed migration agents who are called as MARA agents.

▶ 2nd Option: After obtaining your 2nd Mates CoC and Advanced Diploma in Nautical Science from the University of Tasmania, proceed to enroll for the bachelor’s degree in Nautical Science (Year 3 i.e., Chief Mates course) from the University of Tasmania. This is a one-year course. You will get the bachelor’s degree in Nautical Science but not the Chief Mates CoC from AMSA as for Chief Mates CoC you do not have the necessary sea time as a deck officer after obtaining your 2nd Mates CoC. Together the Advanced Diploma in Nautical Science course and bachelor’s degree in Nautical Science (Year 3) will ensure that you have done 2 years of continuous full-time study in Australia. The rule in Australia is that if you do 2 years of full-time study at degree or above level, you get 2 – 4 years of post-study work visa in Australia. As Tasmania is a regional area, you get 3 – 4 years of post-study work visa if you work in Tasmania. Look for employment in Tasmania during your post study work visa. After completing 2+ year of relevant skilled employment in Tasmania you may be eligible to apply for PR under different occupation category (not seafarer category) depending upon your shore-based job experience in Australia. Your MARA licensed migration agent who files your documents for PR will check your prior academic qualification and work experience. He will guide you accordingly under which occupation (ANZSCO code) if you wish to file for your PR.

We have given links of x2 MBA courses which may be of interest to you in future:

▪ MBA in Maritime Management:

https://www.utas.edu.au/courses/cse/courses/p7h-master-of-business-administration-in-maritime-management 

▪ MBA in Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management

https://www.utas.edu.au/courses/cse/courses/p7e-master-of-global-logistics-and-supply-chain-management 

Someone with a bachelor’s degree can opt to do this MBA course directly without doing the Bachelors or Advanced Diploma in Nautical Science course.

I work for the University of Tasmania, Australia and am not a MARA licensed migration (PR) agent. Hence, though I can help you out with admissions and student visa procedures as I am appointed by the University of Tasmania, but I cannot file your PR application.

If you wish to enroll for the 2^nd Mates course at AMC, UTAS please send the documents as mentioned in the earlier message. Also, do send me the following information as well:

▪ Your residential address and postal code.

▪ Any visa refusals for any country in the past.

▪ Travelling alone or with family. If with family, their name and relationship to you.

▪ Any relatives in Australia. If yes, their name,  city of residence and relationship to you.

▪ Which batch you wish to join: February or June

▪ Your O level (Class X), A level (Class XII) and any Diploma / Degree certificate as well as course start / end date in the MM/YYYY format for the O level, A level and other diploma / degree qualification.

▪ Your email address.

Contact Details:

Kunal Anshuman

Springdale India

529, Mastermind 4,

Royal Palms, Aarey Colony,

Goregaon E, Mumbai – 400 065

Maharashtra, INDIA.

Email: kunal.anshuman@springdaleindia.com

www.ukcoc.in 

File Attachments:

1. Admission Letter – Sample

2. Tuition Fees – 2nd Mates course

3. Australian Visa – Updates

4. Financial Matrix