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I dealt with Errol at Dogtainers & can highly recommend, kept in touch throughout & pooch here with no probs. Good luck x

Jambolina, we were asked to submit this along with other documents, the day after our agent sent everything over our visa was granted, so do you reckon they actually read any of it????

Register with a currency transfer company and then compare what they will give you against the current trading rate. Some will give you fee free transfers but then the rate they will give you is lower, if you have a lot of money to transfer then I find its better to pay a small fee to get a better rate. I use currencyfair, $4 per transfer but the rate they give you is very close to trading rate. Good luck xx

No please do go on, the poorest with their tax credits & magical medical exemption cards, pay more than me???

I leave for Oz next week and am currently doing the goodbye rounds in Scotland as we speak so forgive me if this is more than confusing (too many alcohol induced lunches/dinners). The English cannot vote for the SNP so could have voted Labour, UKIP won how many seats at the election??? I am neither elitist, selfish or greedy and certainly not an Etonian tosser, don't even think they would give a working class Dundonian like me any time whatsoever, have a father who could outdo Stalin on his communist views, BUT along with my husband, having worked bloody hard to start up and then run successfully 2 companies ( where all employees are paid more than double the minimum/living wage) I could not and would not vote for Labour who are hell bent on believing that all private companies that do well, are the scourge of the country. My husband whilst building up his companies, supplemented his non income by going cabbing every evening, and when he was at home I was going to college/night school to learn how to do his accounts, this went on for 4 years. Are we now happy to hand over 50% or more of our profits to fund the country, when we sacrificed so so much, not on your nelly. Yes there are large companies that are able to avoid paying large tax bills, but this has happened under both governments because they realise the implications of scrapping the tax loopholes. And still the left wing go on about the bankers, I have watched several adverts in the last 24 hours that would reduce my utility bills alone, BT and Sky spring to mind straight away. Why do we think its ok to pay "celebrities" huge amounts of money to advertise a service that we need or want when we cannot/should not pay bonuses to people that have generated business/money for this country? My dad still insists that Thatcher is today responsible for the lack of social housing in the whole of the country, but cannot seem to grasp that the Left Wing held power for 10 years in which this could have been over turned!!

Why do you always have to assume that someone is right wing because they do not agree with a mass influx of refugees/asylum seekers/immigrants? Can someone not just be level headed enough to realise that our country has enough financial demands as it is, and by continually adding to this, cannot be sustained long term.

So lets assume that all the immigrants wishing to get to Britain are skilled people and do not want to claim benefits and are fleeing from war torn countries/persecution, and therefore will be entitled to claim asylum. How many can we take before there are not enough jobs, not enough houses, not enough school places, doctors, hospital beds and so on and so on.

I do apologise, if they know someone then of course we should just let them wander right on in! Its all very well having a bleeding heart but that is not going to feed, house, clothe, educate etc etc, these immigrants. And to answer your question, I do not expect that France should have to take them all in, I did say France/Europe as I do not know which other safe countries they have passed through in order to be standing in Calais tearing down the fences. If these immigrants weren't so intent on getting to the UK then Europe, as a whole, would be doing a lot more to stop it. You can't focus solely on the 1200 or so immigrants that are trying to get into the UK right now but see the bigger picture, there are millions that will come if we don't stop it. And aside from the financial impact on the Uk, our little island just isn't big enough.

These immigrants have already reached safety but they don't get enough benefits in France/Europe.

I think those that apply for a visa due to having "essential skills that Australia needs & wants" & then don't go, should feel guilty, but for those of us that move heaven & earth & spend many a great penny, should feel no guilt for going & then coming back for whatever reason that is. We have been given a 4yr temp business visa & we intend to see this out, but if we fail or we just decide that Oz isn't the land of honey then I will come home a little poorer but with no shame or guilt whatsoever!

Keith and Linda, last year it was with Qatar (our reccie) and this time now Etihad - which takes us 1 way on 13th Aug :jiggy:

mid life crisis

One thing that you have to consider is that you may not fly out on the plane that was stipulated at time of booking. Twice now we have booked seats on an A380 and both times plane was downgraded. I'm assuming this is because of not enough passengers!!

I would recommend Alan Collett at GM Tax (also owns Go Matilda, the emigration co) Alan is a british accountant who lives in Oz and can help you with your business tax for both countries.

I do try, but have no knowledge of visas (except the one we got) and I'm not in Australia yet!! Will try harder lol

Dogs still need to go in to quarantine although it is only 10 days now.

anyone??

Have sold our house and received a quote of £900 from a local solicitor that we have used before. Hubby has found some co's online that will do the whole thing for roughly half the cost, but I am a tad nervous. Has anyone else used a firm they found on the internet & how do I go about researching if they're kosher?? TIA, Jackie

Good luck :wink:

Have you made your first payment into your new account yet?

Re the business docs, it seemed like we sent them everything & anything. We have 2 businesses and although we met the criteria for the visa appl with just 1, they wanted everything on both companies. 3 years accounts and then management accounts at a date set by Immi, all our initial docs from companies house & HMRC upon registration, 3yrs of vat returns and a letter of confirmation from HMRC re year end accounting dates, 3 yrs worth of evidence that hubby has day to day involvement in the companies and this is only the stuff that I can remember. As well as business docs, we had to get all our personal assets valued at 3 separate dates and we had to complete Form 80 for both of us. We submitted the last lot of docs on the 12/3 and had our visa granted on Friday 13th. Was any of the requested info looked at, I wonder??? Our business plan was about 200 words and wouldn't even get us a bank loan here so I don't think that was even taken into consideration! Be prepared for the worst & if you don't get asked for half of the above then you'll be pleasantly surprised, Good luck

Don't drink tea, can't stand the stuff!! But I do the fresh water in the kettle for every coffee I have, and not only that but I have to have the cold tap running for a good few secs before I will fill the kettle.

Got the great news yesterday morning, went straight from work to TGI's and worked our way through the cocktail menu. Very sore heads this morning lol.

JayRocket here is our timeline fyi - 15/7/14 - Applied S/S 22/9 - Granted 10/9 - EOI Lodged with 85 points 15/9 - Granted 14/10 - Visa Lodged 17/10 - Request from Immi for more docs & meds & PCC 13/11 - All of above submitted 16/2/15 - Request from Immi for more docs 12/3 - Above submitted Will you be any quicker because of your extra 10 points??? Good luck & let us know how you get on. We 188 visa bunch are very few and far between lol

Many many congrats