Are you considering applying for Australian permanent residency this year? Each point you can add to your profile such as your age, educational achievement, and grade in the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) will help you towards gaining an acceptable score to enable you to enter Australia as a permanent resident.

There is one way you can add 5 extra points to your total and that is if you have passed the Naati- CCL examination with the required points. This is called the Credentialed Community Language (CCL) test result. 

National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI)

The National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI) is Australia’s officially recognized accreditation body for translators and interpreters. NAATI is the only body that provides certification to practitioners who are interested in working as a translator or interpreters in Australia. NAATI is controlled jointly by Commonwealth, State, and Territory governments. There are many languages on its list that qualify through the Credentialed Community Language (CCL) test such as Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, and Telugu. Once you have gained NAATI certification, you are qualified to work in Australia as a NAATI-accredited interpreter or translator while at the same time you gain those additional 5 points to add to your cumulative total for Australia permanent residence.

What are NAATI accreditation and CCL?

NAATI is the whole certification course that, when completed, successfully offers translators or interpreters the chance to live in Australia. It takes about twelve months to gain the NAATI certificate and the five additional immigration points earned go towards fulfilling the requirements for Australian Permanent Residency. This timeline includes preparing, receiving the test result, obtaining a certificate, and finally claiming the five points.

Get the 5 Australian permanent residency points for just the CCL test result.

If you only apply for the Credentialed Community Language (CCL) test you can take the CCL exam, and after you score the required points, you may get the 5 Australian permanent residency points. There are some other advantages too, such as no ethics part in the test and quite easy questions compared to the full NAATI certification test.

Even though you won’t be able to get an interpreter or translator job in Australia, by only completing the CCL test result, you can still claim the 5 points towards your permanent residency visa.

This additional 5 point is vital, as applicants must obtain sufficient permanent residence points out of 100. Accumulated points are calculated based on the applicant’s age, educational achievements, years of work experience, favorable language skills, etc.

If you have had between 8 to 10 years of relevant work experience outside Australia this help you towards the right permanent residency score as it adds another 15 points.

NAATI now conducts online tests for candidates for CCL

For at least 2 years NAATI has been conducting CCL tests online. This began in response to the COVID-19 pandemic which sent people into their homes for long periods.

Each applicant sitting the CCL test needs to get at least 63 out of 90 marks with at least 29 marks separately in each of the two dialogues to gain the 5 points towards qualifying for the Australia permanent residence visa.

If you sit the CCL test it will help you get an Australian permanent residence visa which means you can work in Australia and will help you move closer to migrating to Australia and gaining Australian citizenship.

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