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You will
probably be required to undertake a security check to either:
- Protected Status or
- Highly Protected Status
To achieve this clearance, you will need to complete a number of forms
and possibly undergo a security interview. You will need to provide the
following information:
PERSONAL DETAILS
You will need to provide:
A full birth certificate.
Extracts are not acceptable. If you have misplaced
your birth certificate you can apply for one at the Office of Births,
Deaths and Marriages in your birth state. The titles ‘Birth Certificate’
and ‘Birth Extract’ are often interchanged between countries
and, indeed, states. The document required should bear the details of
your parents as well as yourself.
All personal passports.
This includes current and expired
passports. These passports are used to verify both your identity and the
countries you have visited. These countries are of interest from a security
point of view.
Evidence of the last five years of previous employment for protected
status and ten years for highly protected status.
The documentation
can include employer references, payment summaries/ group certificates,
pay slips, bank records or personnel statements. If the five year period
includes educational studies you can use a transcript, Higher School Certificate,
trade certificate or university degree, as evidence.
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Evidence
of your residential addresses for the last five years for protected status
and ten years for highly protected status.
Evidence can include
leases, water/electricity/telephone bills, bank statements, mortgages,
etc. You may use documents provided for previous employment from a particular
address.
Proof of all educational qualifications.
This includes school and any tertiary
or other qualifications for highly protected status only.
REFEREES
You must nominate five referees who can comment on your character and
personality. Referees should know you well. They must not be family members,
de factos, partners or relatives. Do not nominate professional people
(i.e. doctors, lecturers, professors, clergy, accountants, department
heads etc) unless they know you well personally. Both partners in a relationship
should not be nominated. Referees must be willing and able to be interviewed.
The most valuable referees are friends whom you socialise with and previous/current
supervisors. Please do not nominate supervisors only. The referees you
nominate must have known you for five years collectively. For example,
if one referee knew you from 1990 to 1991 and another from 1991 to 1993
and another from 1993 to 1994, their knowledge of you collectively would
span five years.
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