Jonleahy

Hi My family and I are looking to move to Adelaide from Northern Ireland if all goes well before Christmas. As for removal companies I have tried a couple of which only one McGimpseys have returned a quote. I spoke to someone from their firm and I was suitably impressed. He said that a some of the nationwide agents, sub contract the work to them but add a mark up to the customer for the privilege. How true this is I can't comment. I have spoke to another "local" carrier but they don't seem to want the business as they have not responded with a written quote.

Hi Folks I was happily working my way through my Spouse application online and more or less filled in my application as the main applicant. There are a few dates to double check and a bit more detail on our relationship and so on. I will get my police check in motion soon. We moved on to filling in my wife as the sponsor for on line and after I put in her details of her passport got this; "The related application details provided cannot be verified, check the details and amend if necessary. The applicant will not be able to continue and should review the eligibility information on our website. My wife "the sponsor" created her own ImmiAccount and it is on this that we started filling in her details Does her form have to be done on My account for the system to see it? Thanks Jonathan:arghh:

Thanks for the advice and tips everyone. I certainly will take on board the advice about the cats (one of the cat's is our wee girls pet) at the moment we have a cat / dog flap that the two cats and one of the dogs use at night. The dogs are just so much part of the family but to get them over it looks very expensive.

Thanks, we are hoping that the two kids will be over with my wife before the last school term this year.

Thanks for that I suppose I'm used to being able to pick up relatively cheap school uniforms or parts there of from the like of Dunes or Primark. Good point about the pantry and cutlery and things, ideally minimising the time from arrival of us and our container is what we can do

Hi just saw your post from last year, My wife and two kids hopefully will soon on the move to Adelaide from UK. (she is Australian) what was the primary school you mentioned?

Hi Folks I have watched the posts on this site at different times but it looks like this time me and my family really will be making the move to Oz My wife is an Australian citizen, and so are both our kids (10 & 8). So why am I writing? I'm going to take voluntary redundancy from my work to fund the move, I'm 49. I know it's a bit personal but roughly how much has it all cost people to move to Adelaide? I can see the obvious things, spouse visa, container for household items, flights, and I'm roughly aware of some of the up front cash we will need for a bond for a rented house, school fees, and ambulance cover. I suppose I'm asking about in peoples experience costs that they didn't foresee. We have two dogs and two cats that we would like to take as well. We are planning to go to Adelaide close to my wife's family and we should be able to have somewhere to stay initially. Can anyone recommend an area in Adelaide with good schools and house rental that isn't crazy money? Thanks Jonathan

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Thanks for that, I have been working for a number of years now as a production manager but previously I worked in equipment engineering and that is the role I would be interested in when we move to Australia that is why I included the query about my Higher national certificates

Hi Folks just a quick query I have a number of qualifications, a Masters Degree 2 HNCs NEBOSH cert as well as GCE’s etc, will I have to apply for equivalents either before I go to Australia or will they be understood and accepted when appling for jobs. I would think the masters is ok but just wondering, particularly about the HNCs one is Mechanical and the other is in Electrical and Electronics. Thanks Jonathan