Jlew

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Hi, long time since I posted on the forum. Family of 4 granted our 190 visas back in December 2014, booked one way flights and then for various reasons we just couldn't make the move. Moved within the UK instead, but now back talking about emigrating. question I have is that in terms of timing, we'd most likely be close to the end of the time window before we could move (oldest sons exams), and would want to stay at least long enough for citizenship. What happens if we need to leave the country (uk visit for example) after our 190 arrival period expires but prior to gaining citizenship? Apply for some kind of residents return visa? We have been back to activate our visas. Thanks, Jamie

We're booked with them for September

How's greensborough as an area to live? It's not one that's come up in my research, but does look nice.

nice car choice!! We've an 89 3.2 as well which will be coming with us to Melbourne.

Possibly a bit of an unusual question. We're heading to melbourne in September and will be taking our classic car with us. The question is, do I need to put it through all the road worthy elements eye straight away, or can I just import it, but the customs elements and then deal with registration etc at some later date? Intention would be to trailer it from the docks to our new house.

Heading to australia I'm swithering as to whether to do this or not. We don't have a huge amount of furniture to take with us, and will be taking out classic cat with us. Wondering about innovative options to get the lot in one container.

The Brisbane then melbourne route is the one we nearly took but managed to find a through Perth option. I don't think they do the 40kg option. That said, 30kg plus I think 10kg hand luggage each is quite a lot. We're going toget a couple of big heavy duty holdall bag things as well as two large suitcases as we'll need to get them in the hire car at the airport when we arrive.

Fantastic! Reckon we've managed to secure a pretty reasonable deal

Etihad phoned this morning saying that we will be getting £71 back for the duty on our youngest child's ticket so all in we're £1935 for three adult fares and one child singles from Edinburgh to Melbourne in September.

We've been running 'bangernomics' cars as part of gathering some cash for the move. Each one had been no more than £750, run it for a few months, then sold for what we paid, and purchase something with longer MOT. You do of course need to watch what you're buying, but so far, so good. Our car budget when we arrive should be 6k aud which is slightly better, but not massive. I'm expecting to purchase something for that which will be fine until we get work sorted out and then it will become the second car. If you're not too fussy in terms if what you drive, its amazing what you can pick up.

Phone direct to the airlines and see what they can sort out for you.

Book when you get a price you're happy with. Risk of waiting is that you don't get the dates you want, the price goes up, or something else. Once you book, stop looking at prices. We planned to wait until January but got a great deal through etihad (phoned them and got much cheaper than site when they worked through route options) and knew it was about as good as we could get so booked. Flying in September

We'll be about 15k to 20k and that should give us enough for about 5 months worst case before finding work.

On the etihad flight, we touch down in Perth and then fly on to melbourne. Leaves Glasgow at 9am, and gets to Perth around lunchtime local time the following day. Only a couple of hours stopover in Abu Dabi.