PW1

Well I guess if they have never been then yeah, I'd leave it blank. If it lets you leave it blank then I'd say that was correct. Mind actually have been here, so that bit was easy. It amazing how often you have to enter the same into multiple times. For my holidays since I was 18, I filled all that out when I applied for PR, so they already have that, but you have to go though the pain of entering it all again. I'm just going to do the last 10 years for that.

Regards,

P.

Awesome, thank you for your replies.

Kind regards,

P.

One more question, in the part where it says...

Give details of all countries that the applicant has lived in or travelled to since turning the age of 18, include:

Since 18? I'm in my mid-40s, how did everyone else deal with this part, please?

Thank you.

Regards, Paul.

Thank you.

Hello,

I have just started my application for citizenship and I am not sure about the bit where you enter your parents citizenship details. The question is...

Has this parent ever held citizenship of any country? Include all current and all previous citizenships held

So my parents are standard British born and raised with British passports, so do I need to fill this part out? The pop up box asks for when and where the citizenship was acquired, how am I supposed to answer that? They wont know as their parents would have done it.

Thank you for any help.

P.

That happened to me too, it was a glitch. Contact them and they'll refund the fee.

I signed up thru this site, and

still ended up paying a fee. ?

Hello,

I have some UK £, but some of the notes are the old ones, does anyone know if you can change them up somewhere here in Sydney? You can go to the Bank Of England anytime to change old notes for new as they never lose their value, just the note goes out of circulation.

Thanks,

PW.

Has anyone tried to transfer money from Santander to Moneycorp? It has been nothing but a nightmare. I'll forgo the hour and a half I spent on the phone to Santander to get my payments to moneycorp, but I have received an email from MoneyCorp telling me I have a negative balance, but the money should have been there by now. Looking at my online transactions is confusing, it looks like the money left my account, came back, then went out again.

Thank you, John. Email sent.

Hi John,

Thank you for getting back so quickly, I did log on to my account, but could not find any live links to take me to live rates. Does this only become available after my documents have been verified?

Regards,

PW

John,

Is the budget expected to weaken the pound?

I am thinking of using MoneyCorp, I've opened an account and uploaded documents. I was wondering why MoneyCorp does not provide the opportunity to put in a figure somewhere so a customer can see what they would get after the transfer, Transferwise has this on their website.

Regards,

PW.

Thank you, I'll check them both out. Presumably you've no reason not to recommend HIFX?

Regards,

Paul.

Hello,

I wondered if anyone on here has actually used Moneycorp to transfer a large(ish) sum of money over? How did you find it, and how did they compare to another transfer service you have used in terms of ease of use, and rate? Thanks, appreciate any and all feedback.

Regards,

PW

Same here, watching this thread.

Hey does anyone know about the Euro 2016 coverage in OZ? I'm not a massive football fan but I do like the international games. I have Fox Sports on a sh*tyy t-box (terrible picture quality), but not seen anything on Euro 2016 coverage.

Regards,

Pw.

Does anyone know if you can send your proxy vote form to your local registration office by email? To HAVE to post it seems a bit old fashioned. Thank you.

Regards,

Paul.

Hello,

I hoping someone can help me out, I've not been here long so not sure where to go, but I'd like to take my wife to dinner tonight for her birthday but not sure where to go. I'm meeting her in the CBD where she works, so somewhere in or around there would be handy. Pretty open minded about the food type, but not Thai as we had it last night.

I did look on the net, but didn't really get a good feel for anything as the reviews were lacking, so hoping someone can recommend something from a good experience they had. Something in the mid-price range would be nice as I have yet to find employment, but not exactly skint either. A relaxed atmosphere would be good, but not essential.

Thanks for any help!

P.

Hello, I guess I'll have to leave things open then, that makes my very uncomfortable. No, I do not have any leads yet, to be honest I didn't think it was worth applying for anything until I was onshore. I did start a 'The IT Field thread' over at jobs and careers, its a sticky at the top. I'm off to Sydney. PM me about your situation, I'll check back in a bit.

Cheers,

Paul.

Hello Everyone,

Firstly, sorry mods, I have posted a similar thread in the moving section but I am in need of rapid responses, so please would it be ok to leave it here for a bit?

Hello,

I am in need of a little advice regarding packing my stuff for shipping on a container.

I have a large boxes of vinyl records in a flight case, should I lock it? I want to lock it to prevent theft, but till customs want to open it? Can I be there when they open it?

Although 2 years old, we have some wedding presents still boxed (we new we were going to be moving to OZ), we are unpacking it all to look used, is this really necessary?

Is it possible to be there when the container gets opened in OZ?

A nice guitar is being transported with me on the plane (in the hold with other peoples suite cases), I intend to wrap the whole thing in bubble wrap, its lockable, I want to lock it but will customs bust it open to take a look inside as it goes through customs at Singapore to change planes and then in OZ? I really want to lock it.

Any advice most welcome.

Regards,

P.

Hello,

I am in need of a little advice regarding packing my stuff for shipping on a container.

I have a large boxes of vinyl records in a flight case, should I lock it? I want to lock it to prevent theft, but till customs want to open it? Can I be there when they open it?

Although 2 years old, we have some wedding presents still boxed (we new we were going to be moving to OZ), we are unpacking it all to look used, is this really necessary?

Is it possible to be there when the container gets opened in OZ?

A nice guitar is being transported with me on the plane (in the hold with other peoples suite cases), I intend to wrap the whole thing in bubble wrap, its lockable, I want to lock it but will customs bust it open to take a look inside as it goes through customs at Singapore to change planes and then in OZ? I really want to lock it.

Any advice?

Regards,

P.

Thank you all so much for the replies, very helpful. Looks like a coin toss between NAB and Commonwealth. I was told it is much easier to set up a bank account online before you go, so I guess I can do that with Commonwealth or NAB. I think CommonWealth might be the winner, as someone said above, they seem to have less charges.

Thanks everyone!

Regards,

P.

Hello Everyone,

I'll be flying over to Sydney in the next couple of weeks and need to open an OZ bank account online. I was just wondering what bank most people went with when they open a new bank account from the UK? Any recommendations? Thank you.

Regards,

P.

Hello,

Subject says it all really, when you moved to OZ, did you take yourself off the electoral role list?

Thanks.

P.

Hello,

I was curious to know if anyone chose whether or not to tell their mortgage lender that they rented out their property when they left? Did that affect your landlords insurance? Did you go to tell them but was put off moving to a buy-to-let (because of cost or whatever) and decided to leave and keep it quiet?

regards,

PW.