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Hello Does anyone know, when completing a tax return, where you account for your Uk earnings if you arrived part way through the tax year? Is it classed as a foreign income of sorts? Are we double taxed on it? Can anyone advise? Thank you

Hi all, Asking for my friend. Her 82 year old dad is really unwell with lung cancer in Jersey where we are from. She is now an Oz citizen. She’s going to apply for the exemption because she has to try. What are peoples knowledge and experience of applying to leave temporarily under compassionate grounds?

I thought I’d update anyone who’s interested… we left quarantine on May 21st, rented an Airbnb, husband and I both got jobs within 2 weeks having spent our time in quarantine applying for jobs, In fact I’ve just started another job with more money than the first. After 2 months we applied for a mortgage using a broker and on September 17th we walked into our new house! it hasn’t been easy as I’ve applied for lots of jobs and got lots of interviews but all worth the slog. My 3 children have been in school since the end of May so settling in nicely.

Hey guys, I thought I’d end this thread with an update: the quarantine bill arrived 4 months to the day of leaving the hotel. Total, $5075 for a family of 5. We’ve paid it all with no debates about the food. It’s old news now LOL

The car is bought. I have my old QLD driving license CRM from when we were here before which is all we needed. I’ve just paid for the insurance

Okay, I want to respond, firstly, I may seem angry but I’m not angry, just frustrated. I said the hotel were kind to the twins and they were, there is more food that we can eat and on day 2 that was okay but after 10 days of carrots and broccoli with random meat, it’s no longer fun. I don’t blame the hotel, they’re doing what they can. If we received one ready meal a day plus alternative lunch, that would be better. My children don’t love veg, who’s kids do? So everyday it’s a struggle to get them to eat properly. 2 of my kids are carrying a little excess weight and I’m trying not to encourage them eat too many treats which is just being a good parent. we have a kettle and a toaster because we’re in a self catering unit, not a hotel with a kitchen, as mentioned earlier this is an alternative to a hotel and something they do for my families i understand. if we are only charged for 1 room then that will be a real bonus as far as cost goes, keeping it around 5k and not 7k. As it stands today we have 30 ready meals in the fridge we haven’t eaten. We are dropping them to a church mission in the morning so they won’t go to waste. We could take them with us but we know we’ll never eat them again. From tomorrow we will laugh about this as a family when we see the ufoodz adverts but as food is the highlight of our day it’s been a chore and something I thought id share with the forum when we first got here. On a positive note, although it has been a bit pants, the hotel has done the best it can. We’ve used the time wisely, I’ve got a job interview Monday and husband has 3 interviews next week. We’ve re enrolled in everything we need to, bought a car which is being delivered to the hotel in the morning when we leave, we’ve applied for a rental and have booked viewings for others to see next week, it’s been productive. Apologies if I was sensitive

I’m bowing out, most of you are an aggressive bunch who have been on here for way too many years and you struggle to see the point others make. It’s difficult to say everything you need to say in a post and you can miss out elements but then need to defend yourself because of it. I moved to Australia to get away from the anxiety I felt living on a small Island where people constantly criticize and judge. Scotland would have done me but we could apply to Oz. People on here have said things like, count yourself lucky you can have the new life. It’s not luck, we paid the money, husband did the qualification tests, we completed the forms and there are many, and we got the visa. That wasn’t luck, it was hard work and expensive. We have the right to live here. Take care all and cheer up!

Because he’s ’ had enough of the ready meals, as have we !! maybe I wasn’t clear: 5 days out of 7 we will get brea for breakfast and a ready meal for lunch and a ready meal for dinner. 1 day out of 7 we get toast/bagel/stodge for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch and a ready meal for dinner and 1 other day we get cereal for breakfast, sausage roll/pie for lunch and a ready meal for dinner. So the majority of the time it’s a ready meal kind of day and it’s too much.Bearing in mind they’re calorie controlled and mainly vegetables, as much as I want my kids to eat well; they’re not fans of veg. We’ve all had enough of it. Does that help you understand why he’s filling out on bread? I can see it really bothers you also, I don’t want them filling out on packaged treats like brownies, it’s not really good for them!

It is very much like that isn’t it? I appreciate you chipping in on my behalf. My 13 year old son is now living on toast and cereal.. I know we could buy food in but it really does work out expensive on top of the already high charge that will be made to us. Nobody asked for Covid and the circumstances it has brought with it ie. £10k flights when they would have been £3k plus a landing fee of €5-7k (quarantine) as well as the almost quadruple costs of shipping blamed on Covid.

It is very much like that isn’t it? I appreciate you chipping in on my behalf. My 13 year old son is now living on toast and cereal.. I know we could buy food in but it really does work out expensive on top of the already high charge that will be made to us. Nobody asked for Covid and the circumstances it has brought with it ie. £10k flights when they would have been £3k plus a landing fee of €5-7k (quarantine) as well as the almost quadruple costs of shipping blamed on Covid.

I very much appreciate you having looked into this. It does make me feel a little better that the cost will be more around 5k than 7k.

I wouldn’t bother having my children vaccinated unless its required for travel or such like but not because I fear the vaccine will harm them. My 12 year old daughter passed Covid on to me at Christmas after she caught it from a teacher. She was asymptotic and didn’t feel a thing, as was her friend. I have 2 other children, my youngest shared a bed with me for 3 nights prior to me testing positive and yet he was still negative. My husband and other son also did not catch it from us and we spent much time together before we knew it was in the house. I worked for the government and spoke directly with the medical officer of health who said children really were not affected by Covid unless they had underlying health issues.

There is absolute truth in the statement that the more you test the more cases you will find.

I agree with the above. If you’re going at some point then just go for it! We decided in Feb and were here by May, house sold and packed up, my husband’s business was dissolved, 2 cars sold and 12 suitcases packed

In London and Doha it appeared that large amounts of cargo were being put on the plane and one fellow passenger suggested it might be one of the reasons they’ve kept going, because they were doubling up their useage. As I said previously, there was under 100 on London flight and 165 on flight from Doha so maybe they’re committed to travel to due to their cargo?

My kids would kill for a Maccas how’s your throwing arm? We’re on the 16th floor! We can order in and have done twice but at €100 a pop we can’t afford any more. Right now, the food is all we’ve got to focus on, the 2 deliveries a day is our highlight, will it be beef, mash and broccoli or clean (dry) chicken and broccoli

Yes, that’s them! They’re okay but hit and miss options and some days we have one for lunch AND one for dinner which is too much. The kids are not fans as you can imagine, they’re calorie controlled with broccoli at the core of each meal. I’ve lost weight in the past 10 days so every cloud

The food in not sourced, the meals are the ready meals they advertise on the TV, 7 for $55 (so imagine for bulk there will be a bigger discount) bread, fruit and chocolate, Aldi covers it off.

You presume correctly. You don’t move a family of 5 easily across the world without checking everything. What’s not clear is how many rooms we’re being charged for as this info relates to hotel stays, not self contained unit stays. For instance, we don’t get laundry done for us, we have a washer in the unit (that really doesn’t launder well). The price relates to hotels preparing food. We’re heating the ready meals they advertise on the tv and toasting half a loaf of bread every day whilst eating an apple

Quite a lot’s in a word I think, it means different things. I never said the food is S%#^, just that it’s inexpensive.

As someone else said earlier, they shouldn’t break it down the way that they do if they’re including other costs within there. It should be a set amount per family or per person because if you’re telling me that I’m paying 65 per adult and 35 per child for food per day, I’ll take your word for it and then question it accordingly.

I’ve never questioned the quality of the food in any of my posts. What I’ve said is they put a value on it of €235 per day for 2 adults and 3 children and there’s no way the food that is received at our door is worth that money. We’re in a self contained unit so we receive ready meals to heat, bread to toast, sausage rolls or pies to heat, baked beans or spaghetti, one day yogurts, another pancakes, another waffles. Now we’re in our 2nd week I see that they rotate the menu weekly. I understand it’s difficult to feed us in these circumstances but I am just struggling with the charge they’re going to make to us. Also, you’re not allowed to question the food or swap the food. We did ask for less treats when we were receiving 3 sweet treats per day per person and they agreed to swap for fruit. Yes, I did mention to Queensland Heath when they made one of their many calls to us about the sweet treats. I could shop for a week on the money for 2 days food. We can order in if we like but when you’re paying this kind of money we can’t afford to pay on top. I’m not sure what food is served in a hotel where they have kitchens etc I can only tell you what we’re getting here. i thought posting and sharing this kind of stuff was the point of forums

I’ve never questioned the quality of the food in any of my posts. What I’ve said is they put a value on it of €235 per day for 2 adults and 3 children and there’s no way the food that is received at our door is worth that money. We’re in a self contained unit so we receive ready meals to heat, bread to toast, sausage rolls or pies to heat, baked beans or spaghetti, one day yogurts, another pancakes, another waffles. Now we’re in our 2nd week I see that they rotate the menu weekly. I understand it’s difficult to feed us in these circumstances but I am just struggling with the charge they’re going to make to us. Also, you’re not allowed to question the food or swap the food. We did ask for less treats when we were receiving 3 sweet treats per day per person and they agreed to swap for fruit. Yes, I did mention to Queensland Heath when they made one of their many calls to us about the sweet treats. I could shop for a week on the money for 2 days food. We can order in if we like but when you’re paying this kind of money we can’t afford to pay on top. I’m not sure what food is served in a hotel where they have kitchens etc I can only tell you what we’re getting here. i thought posting and sharing this kind of stuff was the point of forums

I won’t not pay, but I’ll certainly be asking for a reduction or such like. Hopefully they’d like new migrants to succeed and not start off on the back foot. ‘Shy bairns get no sweets’ as my Dad would say.

The news in the Uk will tell that you around 20,000 people flew via Turkey from India to avoid detection. The Channel Islands and the IOM are part of the common travel area hence free movement.