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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

Hey,

 

I have to ask....did you get asked to submit the form 80?? I have just nearly fell off my chair seeing how much detail it wants & laughed when I read your initial thread about pulling your hair out! I'm the same...preparing it just in case they ask for it at some stage...but no way do I remember all my holidays in the last 10 years!!!

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

Oh, that sounds fair. So, the people with the worst teeth, who just happen to be the poorest, have the most to pay?

 

Tories, eh? I don't want to use the 'S' word in case I upset someone....

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!!

UK is plenty big enough to accept a share of those judged in need of asylum rather than purely economic migrants. As I mention with some repetition a quota system of so many thousand a year would be the way to go until something more durable can be sorted out among all nations being impacted.

 

Nothing to do with bleeding hearts but pure common sense. UK is far from the most impacted. The bigger picture certainly needs to be looked and solutions sought but without the shrillness of the right of politics who too often lead debate on the matter in Britain.

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.

Well that does appear to be the right wing thought process on the matter. Question why would France be expected to take all in when UK will not contribute to a quota? A large number by all accounts do have family of some sort already living in UK. Benefits are hardly great in UK. Look to get worse as well.

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.

What is the same is the desperation of humans in attempting to reach safety.

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

You are way behind the curve on this one, I think you should have started it many months ago. Do not delay any further but take them to the vets as soon as you possibly can. Your dogs need a clear six months before they can travel - to avoid quarantine that is and I am sure you would not subject your dogs to that ordeal.

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?

Thanks Jackie, seeing the timeline is really handy as you say there are not many 188's out there.

 

Can you elaborate on what business docs Immi needed? How much did they look at in terms of your business history versus your business plan/idea for Australia?

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

No not talking about the costs of coffee's again!:laugh:My friend who drinks tea,swears that you always have to use fresh water in the kettle.So if she boiled the kettle 2 hrs ago,she then empties whatever water is left in the kettle and re fills it.Me?I'm not bothered and actually can't taste any difference to using fresh or pre boiled.I take my tea with milk and sugar.Coffee,I like to use ground coffee in a cafetierre/plunger,and change coffee varieties quite often as I like a change.I add milk and sugar first before pouring in the coffee! I enjoy a hot choc too,usually make that with skimmed milk!So how do you make/like your cuppa's?

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.

Hi all,

 

I have just submitted an EOI for a 188 business visa. Reading here it seems not many people apply for this type so I will post updates as they happen.

 

I scored 95 points but would be interested to know what others got?

 

Cheers,

 

Jay

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