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We are moving to Melbourne and our stuff goes in April. We are using Bournes and were quoted £2300 for 590 cuft (ex insurance). We are using Letton Percival for insurance. That is for full packing service, door-to-door London-Melbourne.

I thought if you lived outside of UK you didn't get a tax allowance. Basically the first penny you make is taxed at 20%? I am about to move and will be renting out my home and this is the information I have been given.

Hi all I am hoping that someone can help me here. I am looking to contract in Australia to a UK company. I have full working rights and visa (190), this is more regarding the tax implications. I would transfer this money myself each month and declare it in Australia for tax but what about the UK? Is there anything I need to worry about there? If anyone has done this or can point me in any direction that would be greatly appreciated. TIA James

There is something which not a lot of countries are members of called an ex-pat contract which is essentially a double-tax treaty. I don't know if this will apply to you but you could probably start with searching if your country has one, I know UK definitely does.

Likewise, we are in the same boat and have quotes from PSS, Bournes and John Mason which are comparable and we now need to choose who to go with. I am definitely using Letton Percival for insurance, we just need to choose a mover now! I guess my question after all this would be, given the same situation, would you use PSS again?

My brother did a subclass 190 with Victoria sponsorship. He has set up a site called 190oz.com wth his experiences (not sure if it is finished yet). May help you if you are going it alone. An RPL is recognition of prior learning. It is an assessment of my qualification as they don't recognise my qualification (They being the Australian Computer Society). Unless you are coming under an ICT profession you probably won't need to deal with this

It depends how proactive you are. My brother did the slog himself and got a grant, I used an agent (I had to do an RPL too which was not pleasant) and was an extra Aus$1600 for the 190 and state sponsorship. I had previously paid Aus$2000 for assistance for the RPL so all in this was an extra Aus$3600 and was well spent if you ask me.

I am with Zurich and Royal London (I have 2 policies) and I enquired about keeping both open in the UK while I live in Australia and they confirmed it would be OK so looks like it works both ways (if anyone was interested).

Hi I have just done a 101 for my son, we are like you, a family of 4, 3 of us have PR already but my son who was born in February does not. I applied 20 May 2016 and was asked for some further information, police clearance (AGAIN!!!) and medicals. I submitted these and then to my surprise received my grant on the 1 July. So from submission to grant was 6 weeks and nowhere even close to the advised 10-12 months. I don't want to advise you to go any route as I am no advisor, just letting you know what my situation was Cheers, J

Yup, you pay to apply. This is why it is super important to make sure you understand the DIBP rules as a failed application still incurs this cost.

I am no expert but I would say your chances are slim. If you have a criminal record, the odds of you getting a positive grant, even for a WFV, are slim. They are very strict here. They look back 10 years and as you have records dating back 8, they will certainly show up. All the best thought, hope it works out.

Yup, I have been granted a sub-class 190.

Positive RPL assessment just gives you rights to apply under a certain code. If you then do a MCSE, you will have to get it assessed by ACS again AFAIK. I have a diploma and got absolutely 0 points for it in my RPL. Even worse is that they deducted 8 years of exp to award the RPL. So I lost nearly all my experience and they never included my diploma. I know this doesn't exactly answer you question, just a small bit of the puzzle from my experience of getting a successful RPL.

I am a native English speaker and was in a similar boat to you, with my 'superior' English I would get 60 points, which was a scrape for my visa. I did the testing thinking that I was English, what could go wrong?!?! I got 7.5,8,8.5,9, ie. not superior. The biggest thing for me was not knowing what to expect. It was extremely stupid of me to expect that I would just get it. I went home, re-booked (another £130) and this time, did many examples of listening (my biggest weakness), reading and writing. On repeat I got 8.5,8.5,8.5,9, superior So my advice is, practice, practice. Results don't take long, 2 weeks at the most, not enough to delay anything imho. WRT agent, I used an agent as they needed to help me with an RPL and once I had done that, it was *only* another A$1600 for the rest of the visa which I thought was OK as I didn't want mistakes. My agent was awesome and did all the heavy lifting. The biggest thing an agent can offer is translating laws. Remember that your understanding of a requirement is not necessarily what Aussie immigration understands it as. My advice on agents is this, if you can afford one, do it. If you have a good agent, they take away a great deal of stress. If you don't have the money, you need to do a lot of reading to make sure you really understand what you are doing. Not tricky, just takes time, something you don't sound like you have a lot of.

Short and sweet answer, sadly not.