Poca&Dan

Hi,

Reading your post brought a tear to my eye! I am feeling the same (though I do not have children so my heart really does go out to you!), and sometimes hearing 'you haven't been here long, it gets easier' is a bit like rubbing salt in the wound! Then you feel you can;t talk to anyone about it as everyone says that!

My homesickness has just come on this last week and at first I thought I had ruined my life, OH has a fantastic job and we have settled really quickly and smoothly, but like you my heart just doesn't sit right here!

I have had a long discussion with OH about what I am feeling, and he has agreed that if I cannot settle we will go home, but he really wants to stay for the next 2-3 years. I know people say you have to give it a few years to really say you have tried, but when you are in this situation that feels like a prison sentence! Nothing can prepare youf for the feeling of being trapped by a country!

Like an earlier poster said, children are adaptable, as long as they are in a loving environment they will be fine, you just need to sit down a talk to OH, see if you are on the same page and go from there, and ultimately, like myself, one of you will have to make the sacrifice! It is ultimately down to who is going to be able to cope better with their own misery?! Unfortunately for my OH in our relationship, he will cope better than me!

If you want to chat with someone who is feeling s**tty as well, give my a pm!

Poca x

Can anyone tell me the answer? I am registered with NBV and it runs out in Dec...before I even get out to the country! Will it be a simple case of paying a fee and updating any info like over here with the NMC, or will I have to go through the whole registration process again?!

Thanks

hi, advice please, mother in law rgn qualified 1975, hoping to go 457 visa to brisbane, looks though she has to do ielts now earliest end august, we have contact with some agencies , but need to get things moving now, so any ideas on what she should be doing first, forms ,registrations, meds ?. i realy dont know where to start. just sorted our visa seems likely we are hoping to be brissy bound november/december time, and would like to have mil come at the same time,

Hiya, if she definately wants to go to Brisbane then she should apply for registration with Queensland, I notice your post is a couple of months old, so if she hasn't already done this then she may need to book an IELTS test, the rule have just changed! You didn't need to take the test before July 09 I think it was?! Anyway, she will also need to have a police clearance... not the same as CRB but an official one used for migrants I think the address is www.acro.co.uk but I could be wrong, if you google it you will find the website!

Once she has a job offer her employer will nominate her and a job start date for a 457 and then she can apply for the visa. She will need to be registered with Queensland first though, hense why it is a good idea to get registered now as you can be waiting for a couple of months. It is advisable to get her medicals done after she has applied for the Visa, this is just so that it gets sent to the same file, rather than having to seperate files, which can prolong the process.

Also I have been told by my case manager that depending on the her nominated start date from her employer, her visa will not be granted until 28days before this date.

Hope this helps