19/06/2026
🚨 DON’T RISK A FINE: Your email RSA is ONLY temporary! The PDF certificate you received via email after finishing your RSA course is just an ‘Interim Certificate’ and it is ONLY valid for 90 days. To keep working legally in Australia, you MUST visit Service NSW to register and get your official competency card!
To get your official competency card, you must satisfy the strict 100-point identification.
Here is the list of acceptable documents from the official form. Make sure your documents total at least 100 points! Bring more documents just in case👇
📌 THE 100-POINT ID CHECKLIST (Save this for later! 🔗)
⭐ PRIMARY DOCUMENTS (70 Peach)
• Birth Certificate
• Birth card issued by the NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
• Citizenship Certificate
• Australian Passport
• Current passport from another country or diplomatic documents
⭐ SECONDARY DOCUMENTS - With Photograph & Name (40/25 P)
⚠️ NOTE: The FIRST item used from this list is worth 40 points. Any ADDITIONAL items used are worth 25 P each!
• Current driver photo licence issued by an Australian state or territory
• Identification card issued to a public employee
• Identification card issued by the Australian or any state government as evidence of a person’s entitlement to a financial benefit
• Identification card issued to a student at a tertiary education institution
⭐ DOCUMENTS - With Name & Address (35 P each)
• Document held by a cash dealer giving security over property
• A mortgage or other instrument of security held by a financial body
• Council rates notice
• Document from current employer or previous employer within the last two years
• Land Titles Office record
• Document from the Credit Reference Association of Australia
⭐ DOCUMENTS (25 P each)
• credit card or account card from a bank, building society or credit union
• telephone, water, gas or electricity bill
• Foreign driver’s licence
• Medicare card
• Electoral roll compiled by the Australian Electoral Commission
• Lease / rent agreement
• Current rent receipt from a licensed real estate agent
• Records of a primary, secondary or tertiary education ins
