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Hello Peter
With all the trash on Usenet at present, I think you have made a smart move over to here.
This forum has about 2,000 Members at present but the numbers are growing rapidly every day as word gets around. Tim is the site admin and he's a great guy. It will be up to Tim alone to decide whether or not to to tell you to butt out.
Phil Olsen was appointed as the "resident agent" on this site some months ago. He and Tim are both in the Perth area and both are migrants from the UK. On the old forum software, there was a sticky thread introducing Phil plus a link to a free assessment form which, when completed, would go through to Phil.
Tim changed the software two weeks or so ago because the membership was becoming too large for the old forum software to handle. When the new website started up, the two threads about Phil disappeared. I don't know whether the computer end of the assessment form needs to be tweaked to make it work with the new software or something.
Alan Collett is a regular contributor on here too. He has helped a number of people.
I know that you yourself are a very competent agent. I've never seen a post by you that looks inaccurate or flawed to me (not that I'm an expert on any of this stuff, but one gets a feel for which people are really on top of the subject and which ones not quite so much.)
For what it is worth, my personal view is that as word gets around that Poms In Oz is here and that we have some members who are Migration Agents who are willing to help with the sorts of queries that the rest of us all get hung up on periodically, I think it can be turned into a win-win situation for both the Agents and for the forum. The thought of being able to find a few experts who will give people a hand to get started (and help with queries that crop up along the way) can only attract more new members, I reckon.
Perhaps a PM from you to Tim and possibly also to Phil Olsen and Alan Collett might be the best way to deal with your arrival?
Thanks for your help with some of the queries today. One of the things that I personally think is a plus about you is that we now have an agent who knows about IT and suchlike, and who can offer real help to people who work in IT but are not sure whether their own skills match the descriptions set out by DIAC.
Cheers
Gill
Last edited by Gollywobbler; 06-03-2007 at 02:15 PM.
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Yes, welcome to the site.
