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Hi everyone I'm looking to ship a 30kg case from kiama back to Scotland. All clothes. Has anyone got any companies they used. We only shipped this out in sept cost abt £250 but things didn't quite go to plan so need it back thanks Lorraine

Well after being back in uk for 9years we are heading back to oz. has anyone got any shipping companies they have used from Scotland to sydney ...cheers Lorraine

thanks my oh has has some famil:biggrin:gy there so fingers crossed house sells and we'll be there before end of year good luck when u get there:)

cant believe im posting again. i have just returned from a 2 week holiday in sydney with my son in which this activated his visa and allowed me to see if its somewhere were i wanted to bring up my children. after returning home from oz nearly 10years ago . we have decided to put our house back up for sale and are hooping to return to oz ...3rd time lucky fingers crossed:biggrin:!!

Thanks il have a look into chid 802 and cost from there it cost us all in abt £1200 here !

I dont think we would have time again here to go through processfor son's visa. i could really kick myself for not validating for year!

Hi 3 of us have perm res visa 176 which are valid until april 2014 we did go thro proccess last year for youngest but dudnt validate his visa they gave us a few mths extention but we cldnt do it in timescales so thot orginally we wld just stay in uk we have lived in oz before but obv came home and the should we shouldnt we go back as been in back of our heads for last 6 years!!! would our son not be able to go to school then on a diff visa to us ?? thanks

Hi There,long story short myself my hubby and daughter have permanent residency visa,s,however my 6 year old son has not. We went through the process and got him his visa but we just could not get to OZ to validate it , even when we got an extension we did not manage to get it done(totally sick as cost a lot of money and time and effort). What I was wondering is if any one knows if it is possible for us still to go and to get our sons visa whilst living in Australia and any ideas of the timescales. We dont want to go then have to leave because our son is only on a tourist visa or whatever type of visa he would qualify for. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks for your reply its such a hard decision to make as not all of us can make it so would just be me & little 1 to validate & a big expense at that . Why do they make things so hard cheers

HI not with the childs visa they gave a year from 1st application but didnt grant until dec which only gave us 5 months we applied last may 2011 cheers

Can anyone help my 5yr son has been granted his visa dec 2011 & they have given us a 5 month deadline entry date of May 2012 to kick start this however this does not really seem possible at the min. I have emailed them & they have said you should try to stick to the entry date as they cant guarantee an extension if you miss this date. Has anyone been through this situation & if so did you get another date without having to go through it all again & re-apply for his visa ? thanks

thats what hubby is saying look at it like a holi & fingers crossed it will make my mind up 1 way or another its just such a hard decision cheers lorraine

thanks for the reply well its oz or a family holiday to portugal as cant do it all & thats when my hols are from work. i just wish I had a crystal ball but he when you read all the posts there are so many people alike. ps not all the hols are europe some are in good old UK. the flights seem to be going up by the day especially around easter time so I really need to make my mind up . i just dont want to regret my decision & we have done all the pro's & cons good & bad lists you can think off . we spent a years working visa in sydney when we were younger but so much will have changed since then. Ive set myself a deadline to decide by the end feb so clocks ticking:) cheers lorraine

its the easter holidays 6th april- 18th with emirates & thats me taking son out of school for a week they were some crazy prices but that was about the cheapest with the shortest stop over as I dont want to be sitting about airports with a 5year old

HI he is 5 mu daughter at 12 already has visa same as us. I feel as though all I have been thinking about recently is do we or dont we & ive strated looking on this site again which can sometimes be great then you see all the posts about return ing home to the uk. are you hoping to go over thanks lorraine