Having just been offered a post with the ADF I am right at the beginning of the process. I beleive the next steps to be:
receive firm job offer
sort out family medicals
apply for visas
Is this right and roughly how long does it take? Can my family medicals be done before the firm job offer has arrived?
Thanks
Al
That's about the right order. I personally would not do the medicals until the formal job offer has been received. They may need to get your trades assessed in Oz before a job offer is issued. Our trade assessment took about 6 weeks before the job offer was issued. Someone who was on the selection board with us in May has still not had a formal job offer. Mind you, I think this an exception.
It is probably worthwhile sending your medicals and Police checks when you send in the visa application form as these types of visa (labour agreement) are processed quite quickly.
Hope this helps a bit, feel free to ask anything else as there are quite a few of us at different stages of transfer. :D
i was told my trades have already been assessed in Oz and I have been told what job I will be offered and where I will be posted after that (obviously all subject to medicals etc). I have been told the medicals are valid for only 12 months, is this true? How much are the medicals?
Been a while since I last posted as things went quiet for a while but have now picked up. Interesting reading this post as there seems to be quite a few of us in the same boat with reguard to transfering to the ADF.
The one question that I can't seem to find at the moment is for all of you that have received your formal offer is "at what rank and location" have you been offered and what rank were you in the UK. I ask this as I am currently a WO2 and have been offerd a CPL posting in Darwin, yes good old sunny Darwin. I should be elated and don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth, Darwin I can handle - just, but the stumbling block is as a CPL, can I take that drop.
Interesting if I could get some feed back from those that have had there formal offers and what you would do or have done if you were in my situation.
I don't want to come across as another "winging Pom"
Also have you come acros any other good websites with information about the transfer process.
I have also been offered a job subject to visas etc so although no tips as yet maybe we can swap notes along the way. Was your offer as a result of a trip to London this week?
Cheers Andy
Hi, Like many of you out threre we have recently returned from a trip to London and have been given an offer with the RAAF. This is a first for forums of any sort for us so please forgive the ramblings but if anyone else has any advice (especially for schooling, housing etc) we would love to hear about it. We are expecting to go in the Autumn 2007 and have been told we will be heading to Sale, Victoria. If you know anything about the area or if infact you are heading there yourself, we would love to hear the details. Anyone else in the same boat who would like to compare notes over the next few months, drop a line. Thanks.
Been a while since I last posted as things went quiet for a while but have now picked up. Interesting reading this post as there seems to be quite a few of us in the same boat with reguard to transfering to the ADF.
The one question that I can't seem to find at the moment is for all of you that have received your formal offer is "at what rank and location" have you been offered and what rank were you in the UK. I ask this as I am currently a WO2 and have been offerd a CPL posting in Darwin, yes good old sunny Darwin. I should be elated and don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth, Darwin I can handle - just, but the stumbling block is as a CPL, can I take that drop.
Interesting if I could get some feed back from those that have had there formal offers and what you would do or have done if you were in my situation.
I don't want to come across as another "winging Pom"
Also have you come acros any other good websites with information about the transfer process.
Regards
Dave
My other half is a WO2 and has been offered a posting as a Sergeant at an Army camp in Victoria. At the end of the day it's a good way for you to get Australian citizenship and I'm sure there will be the chance of promotion etc.
Good luck with the transfer and if you need to know anything else, just ask!
We have just sent all our visa paperwork off, got the medicals done in advance to save time, as husband is out of the army in Jan, just had our eviction notice from DHE 20 Jan so things are getting to a timeline deadline now. We have been posted to Canberra.
Friends of ours fly on Mon to Sydney.
Can't wait
Hi Marie and Paul
Wondered if you had to get out of the quarter by your exit date? We may have a few weeks before we go to Oz but I weren't sure if DHE made you get out at exit point of if you get a period of time to pay civie rent until you are ready to leave? Also can you tell me what the medicals consist of and do you know the cost? Thanks, Sarah
.....I ask this as I am currently a WO2 and have been offerd a CPL posting in Darwin, yes good old sunny Darwin. I should be elated and don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth, Darwin I can handle - just, but the stumbling block is as a CPL, can I take that drop.
Dave
From WO2 to CPL, that's a big drop in any language.
Do you really think you could go back to being a CPL, SGT maybe but not to CPL.
In my opinion it's too far to drop and I'm not talking about $$$.
That is my biggest worry, but then I way up the pro’s and think of the whole package on offer that tends to make me sway to the acceptance of the offer. If I can’t handle it then I have the option (after3/4 years) of changing my job and I would have my citizenship. Like you say it’s not the money, its being treated as if you have a brain when you are a SGT, well it is in the UK and that is a major worry.
Am making a phone call to SCMA tonight to see if that is the final offer, just hope the person I need to speak to is in. I don’t want to get out there for someone to say ‘you have been wrongly assessed, why did you not sort it out before you came over when we could have done something about it - oh well you’re here now so get on with it’.
Have not come across anybody in the same situation and unsure if there is any other routes/options that I can take, apart from the obvious. It would be a dream to get to OZ but at what cost!
I want to make sure that I have given myself the best chance I can before making that decision.
