Hi all,
I've been watching this forum since its almost started and thinks its such a great idea, however I'm gonna be contraversial!
Why move to OZ? Ok the weathers better most of the time than England and the standard of living is better but...what makes you want to move?
You leave you friends and family and everything you know. Maybe I'm jst trying to convice myself!
I think I might be thinking along the same lines as yourself, me and boyfriend got confirmation of our approval to Auz and we are going to be leaving about Feb 06, doing as all you auzzies do earn the wonga and take it with us. When I heard that we had been accepted was over the moon as we thought "no way will we get it", there were only a couple of flys in my ointment brother, two sisters and mum and dad oh yeah and good friends I have made..... Then I actually sat down and drew up a list which listed pros and cons, pros as you say were weather, pretty classless society, young country, more opportunities for me and possibly family, friendly people all round, more outdoor life etc etc etc, the pros for Uk at the mo, with the state the country/goverment are pretty limited while the cons are Goverment is full of cr&p and they seem to be succking the life out of the county and unless you are on the dole with handlfull of kids (hey if you are just normal worked all your life and tried to get on in life forget it) is it worth actually getting up and doing a good days work etc etc. I am off the mind I am going to take the chance which has been given to me, hey whats the worse scenario, it all goes Pete Tong (nice eh) and I end up coming home?????? As far as I am concerned, don't want to end up with regrets, at the end of the day all you need is you flight back to sunny England and a floor to lay your head. If you have the idea already in your head you need to investigate instead of just disregarding. Good luck in whatever you do.
At least you are willing to give it a go. There are many people who I bet are living with the chance they had to go and passed it over. Truth is, if you don’t like it you can always come back to the land of rain!
Yip we used the Migration Bureau, as we were a bit more complicated than the normal, not married, and boyfried, who is the main applicant had some minor driving offences and a further record. The steered us in the right direction as to what way we should apply, cost us about £2½K for them to do it for us, but thinking back there is no way i could have done it in my spare time. Go on girl get on and fill in one of there free assesments for and see if it really is an option for you!!!!
How did you find the Agent that you used? (sounds quite costly or is it about right?) I'm thinking of getting an Agent to deal with the issue myself too as I don't think I'll be able to cope (esp. my hubby is not certain that he really wants to move, he'll be the main applicant). I'm trying to find out how native English speakers prove their English to them without sitting a test (no way my hubby will sit for an English test :shock: , he would probably drop the whole idea if he had to). He said he's lost all his school reports. Can anyone out there give me some idea???
If your a Native English Speaker you don't have to prove you English, Just specify on the application for that you a proficient english speaker. The rest will be obvious.
Cheers for that. :D I read an Agent's website that we'll need to show them school reports in order to prove that you're a native speaker, otherwise would have to sit a test! :shock:
My partner is a bit like you hubby tests of any kind a no no, even though he would probably fly through. Parntner had 3 GCSE allunder grade E, the main thing they were interested in is that he could prove his trade as a brickie as it is was appearing on there Trades in demand, so other than proving his apprenticeship, providing a copy of his City and Guilds Bricklayer Certificate, they only wanted proof that he has been doing is trade for past ten years. You can imagine nightmare we had as being a brickie he worked all over the show sometimes for cash in hand etc, took us quite a while to track people down etc etc, but was worth it in the end. I would confirm that unless you partner is 100% wanting to make the move you need to consider that any monies you pay out to have his trade recognised (about £500) and your DIMIA application (about £1100) is non refundable! so it is a big enough gamble to take that you might not get accepted without getting accepted and he doesn't want to go. I know that initially it was my partner who was driving our immigration, but now I am really looking forward to it, although we both work hard we don't seem to be able to get on in this country at the mo, with house prices etc, and personnally i don't want to spend my life work work working to attain a nice house and a nice car, which is what most Brits are obsessed with. Can't wait to get there and our lives to change forever, hopefully think about having our first baby in next 2 years, something we can't even consider here.
