Lynsey Nicolson

hi you are right that you can only work for 6 months for the one employer in a year but you can have as many jobs as you wish over the duration of your whv

I don't understand where people get these prices from emirates. I just got my visa today and iv looked at my flight for August 18th with that code and it's only £740. I havnt done anything other than use the search facility on the home page. Havnt chosen a special migrant fare.

I never has access to the online system. My agent lodges all their clients on the system under their own account so it was just an email I got this morning! Your agent will hopefully have someone else checking these things so you're not left in limbo!

Visa approved today!!! After months of work it has all been approved in two days!! There is no way anybody is going to wipe this smile from my face today!! good luck to everyone still waiting!! Not long now

if I was to start on one my opinions would just keep spilling out and I might get into trouble. Is alleged mental illness what I would call lazy? My gran, mother and father have all worked for the benefits system over the years. My gran must have worked for over 40 years in it. My mother now works for the police force. In both of my mothers professions she has seen generation after generation following in family footsteps in collecting benefits. Families that my gran would have dealt with years ago!! The reality of it is that it's easier to have a life on be benefits than to make one for yourself. I'm sickened by the amount of young girls who get pregnant for the benefits!! The above families even encouraged it! I came home fro australia at the end of February this year and started looking for work. I was told that as I had been out of the country for more than two years I wouldn't be entitled to claim Jobseeker's Allowance until after 3 months and then have to take a residents test. I never signed on once after that 3 months was up. I applied for every job going. Took trial shifts. Part time work. But not once did I apply for dole. Why? Because after my first time travelling I came home and signed on and the attitude and disgust I recieved from the job centre and benefits officer made sure I never went back! She treated me like one of the ones who think they should be entitled to it for nothing. I have never felt so humiliated in my life. I can see why she had an attitude because of the ones she obviously sees on a day to day basis that claim disability when there is F all wrong with them. Or the ones who claim job seekers and have help getting interviews set up and never turn up!

Personally I would fully support an initiative like this in Scotland. Jobseeker Benefits is not a wage or a lifestyle choice. It is an aid to help you transition from on job to the next. This seperates the people who actually want to work from the people who choose not to work and see it as something they should be entitled too. I'm sure an employer would look more favourably on a person that has been involved in a back to work scheme for x amount of hours a week than someone who is sitting on their backside doing nothing. Even volunteer/charity work goes in your favour and always looks good on a cv. Do that as well as looking to your 40 jobs a month. The benedit system is bled dry in the uk from people who are not entitled to it and others suffer from it. There has been a reform on it years ago and another is under way and hopefully in years to come benefits are given to people that properly need it. In Scotland at the moment a Jobseeker has to prove that they have applied for so many jobs every 2 weeks and I think that's right. It's not money for nothing.

Iv had to take out insurance for my 457 and I took the 457 bupa insurance. Worked out at just under $100 and that was the full cover. My agent told me that travel insurance wouldn't cover me. I did check with immi and constulted this board and was advised that travel insurance would cover. The reason I chose the bupa was to cover all aspects that my case officer would be looking for. I didn't want to have something like that have be turned down because of a case officers decision. Once I arrive I'll be signing up for Medicare but keeping the private insurance. I've had to use insurance for emergency medical surgery and I wouldn't want to be caught out and not have medicare cover it! I havnt read anything about a refund being given if my visa isn't granted and iv paid 3 months of it so far!

I'm heading Perth. Well about 4 hours out in a rural town, lake king

best weather scotland has seen all year! Glorious all week. I enjoyed the mens swimming final. The reaction on Ross Murdochs face was brilliant. Michael Jamieson was a bit of a sore loser though.

My employers sponsorship was approved today. Next step the nomination and then my visa made my weekend that little bit of news!

Mine went in all at the same time so once the nomination is approved the 457 should be done within a day or so. Itll be 4 weeks tomorrow. Here's hoping we have something to celebrate at the weekend!

Did your company nomination happen first and then you applied for the 457? Still no email today.

I imagine it will affect your tax return as you will be on the same tax file number. Can't you just wait until you come back and then file at the end of next year?

I left on February and went through an agent and they put my tax return in on an early release form and I signed a form declaring that I would not be back in the country before the end of the tax year so that I wasn't able to do another tax return before the end of the year. I don't know any form numbers if you are doing it yourself but yes you can submit one before you leave. Oh and mine was returned in 28 days

not yet. I'm on working day 17 tomorrow. Shouldn't be too long now. Don't worry, as soon as I hear I'll be posting and you will to