Petrus

It's eleven months I'm following this thread and your misfortune, Viking. It's unbelievable: you lodged before me, and I'm in Australia from three months. Reallu unfair, the way you are being treated...

Definitely! :yes:

No, not exactly. The idiomatic Italian meaning is something like "I know my friends so much that I can foresee what they are going to do even before they do it".

Oooh, I'm sure about it but I think that your statement is quite hard to understand for a non Italian speaker...

Hi Vale, welcome aboard :biggrin:

Absolutely not. That's the rule as reported on my grant letter: "You have been granted a permanent visa which allows you to remain in Australia indefinitely. This visa allows you to travel to Australia as many times as you want until 09 August 2018. If you wish to travel to Australia after this expiry date, you will need to apply for, and be granted a Resident Return Visa (RRV)". As you can read, no mention to a minimum stay during the first five years.

Well, not exactly one year from the grant... it's usually about ten months, but you can even fly to Australia, pass the custom checks and then come back to your "old life" for up to five years after the grant, before the visa expires. It gives you a plenty of time to organize the move in every detail.

As Alnaibii wrote, it's one year from PCC or meds, but don't worry: it will be clearly specified in the grant letter.

On the immi site they just say that the partner profession must be on the same list to claim the 5 points, but there's no mention about the visa class. There I read that: "Partner skillsYou can receive five points if, when you are invited to apply for this visa, your partner provides evidence that they: were under 50 years of age had at least competent English had nominated an occupation on the same skilled occupation list as your nominated occupation had been assessed by the relevant assessing authority as having suitable skills for the nominated occupation". Every skill on the SOL is also on the CSOL, so in any case, both if someone applies for 189 visa (being on SOL) or for the 190 (being on CSOL) and the partner has a profession on SOL or CSOL, if the rule is applied as written the points could be always claimed. It is a very interesting question...

Cancer is a lucrative business for the pharmaceutical industry, they can't give it away...

We've lodged, paying the 3060AU$ fee only, just yesterday. So I can confirm that if you lodge the application before 28th of June you will pay the current price without any increase. Then between 28th June and 1st July the DIAC site will be offline and after that the new prices will be applied.

So the State Sponsorship will give you also the 5 points that you need.... Just be sure you can reach the 7 in each band before lodging.

If your skill is on the CSOL you can only apply for the 190 with the sponsorship of the state(s) that require your skill.

Can't you apply for Citizenship in six months?

What's the problem? Custom has taxes for motorbikes or cars (or parts of them) but not for bicicles, so you can send it as a normal package...