Pertenhall
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Seeking advice on citizenship timelines. We were lucky enough to get out visas granted in Sep 2018 and in Nov 2018 activate them with a trip out. We then had to return to the UK to sort out our affairs and finally moved over on 7 Nov 2019. It would seem that our "permanent residency" would be counted from 13 Nov 2018 when we activated our visa. However I am a bit confused over the definition for "lawful residence" . The website states " You need to know the date your 'lawful residence' started, that is, when you first started living in Australia on a valid visa. For example, you might have arrived in Australia on 1 June 2012 holding a temporary visa. Then on 4 September 2016, we granted you a permanent visa. So, your lawful residence date is 1 June 2012 and your permanent residence date is 4 September 2016." But this doesn't cover our situation. Can we start our citizenship application now (more than 4 years since our permanent residency), or do we have to wait 4 years from when we finally moved here - i.e. 7 Nov this year? Does anyone have any similar experience.
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Thanks Kath. It looked so genuine in my in box, but I couldn't see it on the forum. Thanks for reporting it.
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Fingers crossed.
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Does this mean your plans have to change yet again?
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No - we just told them that we had applied for the 143. At the time we thought it would only take a year from opening the account before we got here - in the end it was over 3, but there was no problem.
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We opened one with Westpac. It was no problem at all. We went into their branch in London but you can probably do it on line too.
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Totally agree Alan. Guess it's a good job we don't need a mortgage or a loan, I assume the same criteria would apply!
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Thanks Alan - will give that a go.
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Has anyone had a problem in applying for a credit card once you are in Australia? We have been banking with Westpac for over 4 years and have just tried to get a credit card with them. We were so used to using our credit card for monthly shopping in the UK, paying the balance off each month and would have liked to continue that way now that we are here in Australia. We were very disappointed that Westpac didn’t even want to know what our income from our UK pensions was (I have a very good state pension and hubby has state pension plus military pension plus work based pension, all very good). The reply we got was that we needed to have an Australian taxable income. We confirmed with them that we are registered for tax in Australia and that all our UK pensions were liable to Australian tax. Their reply “I have double checked this with our credit team today and they have confirmed that we cannot accept only UK Pensions as a sole income to support a credit card application. Our current policy will not allow it. We would need you to be drawing a Australian pension as well for the UK pensions to be able to be used.” We will try other financial establishments but did just wonder if anyone else has come up against this problem. We are fully retired so won’t be able to get an Australian work based pension and won’t be eligible for an Australian state pension for another 9 years and even then because of our income from UK pensions and assets this will probably be close to zero.
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Fantastic news - look forward to seeing you when you are settled!
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So very pleased that things are at last moving on for you. Fingers crossed it won't be long now!
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Thanks.
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Don't know if anyone can help. We are now well and truly in Australia - hip hip hooray. Has anyone applied for a Queensland Seniors Card. No sure if we are eligible as we are not a Centrelink customer, or have a veterans Affairs file number.
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Look forward to it!
