mrogers

Hi Guys, Coming to Oz in around 6 months time and selling up here. I have been looking at van / pickup prices in OZ and they are really expensive compare to here. Thinking of just transporting my own vehicle other rather than sell it and buy more or less the same when I get there and pay through the roof. Is this a good idea? Or is there other costs involved once I arrive in Oz? I will be saving around £10K on a like for like vehicle. Any thoughts would be appreciated, Kind regards, Mark Rogers

Hi everyone, we applied for our visa back in 2009 and finally we have a case officer. Having our medicals on Monday, so it actually happening. Now it is, its bloody scary. Lol. I have my own business here in the UK and will be giving this up for the move. Once we have our visa we will be doing a reccie to look at areas and get our Visa stamped. But I am now concerned about employment when in Oz, and how difficult it will be to get. I know I cannot start up on my own, so working for someone else is a must, and wont be a problem. What could I expect to earn, and will me not having experience in metal roofs be a problem?

Hi Phil, I applied on a skilled migrant visa 175

Hi there, I did it myself. As when you look into an Agent, all the work is providing them with all the information. Well if you can do that, you may as well send it yourself and save the fees. It is not hard, it is just time consuming. When you go on to immigration site and actually start the application process it tells you what you need to submit. I think it costs me at the time $2525, which for me was a lot less than it is now as the exchange rate is terrible now. But think of the saving as I think agents fees are around £1500. Good luck, Mark

Hi there, as Bugbrock says, NVQ is no good, I was a time served roofer with no qualifications. So I took the course and got qualified to NVQ2 but found out it meant nothing. I then went down the AQF3 route using a companing called Master Builders of Australia based in Queensland. They came out and assessed me work. Once I had this it was possible to apply under the 175 skilled migrant visa. As of now I am still in the system, waiting. Applied in Sept 2009. Diac are currently upto May 2008 cat 5 applications. Cat 5 is where I am stuck, so hopefully I will have another 6 months or so wait and a case officer will be assigned to me. Good luck, get the AQF3 in roofing and you should be fine.

Thanks at least with this info I know where DIAC are upto. I know CAT 5 is the bottom of priority, so when they said end of 2012 they must of under estimated the timeframe. Only 16 more months of applications to get though, hopefully they will get through these quicker. I dont want to change my application as everything has been submitted, I have waiting so long another year isnt going to make much difference. thank, Mark

Hi everyone, not been on here for a couple of years. We lodged our skilled migration 175 visa back in Sept 2009, I read that we would have a decision by the end of 2012. At the time it seamed like a life time away but now it has been and gone. For the last few months I have been logging on checking my application but nothing has changed since the day I lodged it. No case officer has been assigned to me so nothing has happened. The message is as always, 'Application being processed further'. Does anyone have any inside knowledge or some informed idea of how much longer we realistically have to wait? Thanks for your time, Mark and Family.