I am a US educated RN with an Associates Degree and was seeking my RN license to work in Australia. I have received my license to practice in Australia and just wanted to give information to anyone else going down the same road. I am an Australian Citizen who completed my nursing training in the US, but being a citizen had no bearing on my application, I still had to go through all the steps that other international nurses go through. I sent my application to Tasmania Board of Nursing on December 26, 2009 with all appropriate paperwork, on this same day I mailed a request to my school for transcripts and the BON for license verification to be sent over to Australia. On January 18, 2010 I took the IELTS test, did not review anything for this test and scored ok. On February 15th, 2010 I checked the public register for Tasmania via their website and my name was listed as an RN with no limitations. I really was surprised how quick this all happened.
Good luck to others out working through the same process.