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Hi AMP,
I would suggest :
Murray Payne
Authorised Representative No. 274971
Ph: +61 8 9213 9699
Fax: +61 8 9213 9600
Email: murray@finpath.com.au
Financial Pathfinders Pty Ltd
Level 4, 105 St George's Tce, Perth, WA, 6000
Postal: PO Box Z5081, Perth, WA, 6831, Australia
AFSL No. 247 187Murray guided me through moving funds and my private pension etc to Australia when my wife and I moved to the Central Coast NSW in 2011 from Devon, notwithstanding he is in Perth he has looked after us ever since. Murray worked in the UK with HMRC so is certainly up to speed on what you need to do and the time frames that you need to do them in.
We came over on a CPV143 to the Central Coast in August 2011, a great move, have since become full Australian citizens with a BLUE Australian passport, it is worth the effort.
Regards
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I seem to be behind your curve again Steve, I complete on a property this Friday so moved out £800k on thursday at £1.54 ready for the completion. Never mind, as they say here " We have a colonial style property on acres" something that we are rather pleased about, and they did throw in the tractor to cut the grass!!! I somehow think my retirement is going to be a little more energetic that I planned, still G&T's with family on the verandah watching the sun set, worth it all, so if any of you are passing by!! PS, bring you own Gin!!!:biggrin: K&M
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This is exactly how I did it and it worked perfectly!!! Just double check the exchange rate first though as the rate is getting better this morning!! K&M
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I know it is spring in Australia but this is a true story!!!! http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/airport-security-not-a-happy-little-vegemite/story-e6frfq80-1226140108790 Sir Matt will be pleased!! K&M
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There must be something special in Vegemite, and Sir Matt is right, Kevin Rudd the Australian Foreign Minister has been caught smuggling a jar of the stuff from Mexico City to New York and has had to use his influence with the Mexican Authorities to get through the security at the airport, it was flagged as " A potentially Dangerous Liquid" Never had this problem with Marmite!!! K&M
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Well said, you have my full support!!! The variation on this site is what makes it a pleasure and sometimes a damn good laugh to follow and what makes you log into everyday where ever you are, and how far down the process you are, or how for long you have had your visa!!! Please Lincolnshire Poacher leave things as they are, if you are not happy with the tone of this forum may I strongly suggest you move to the BE one. K&M
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Good luck :biggrin:
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Good move!! I really hope all goes well, and get yourselves out here!!! It has been 16 days since we arrived and I feel as though I have been here for years!!!!!:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin: K&M
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Some thoughts!!! We sat with the same Estate Agents for 9 months with sporadic interest from people who in my opinion should not have been looking at the type of house that we had.!! We changed agents and that worked wonders, different type of people and we had a firm offer in six weeks of the change of agency, with completion six weeks later, It is worth a thought!!! If nothing else you will get a different perspective of your property from a different agent, what do you have to lose???? :idea::idea: K&M
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I have checked out Woolworths and Coles at Erina Fair on the Central Coast but with no luck!!:nah::nah: Tuggerah next I guess!!!!
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Well I hope your luck changes, you have had a few setbacks so now it is time to go full speed ahead!!!! :smile: Good luck for the 15th September, K&M
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Hi Julian, Are you saying that you are supposed to have a qualified electrician to change a plug in Australia?????:biglaugh: And I would also mention: " What a fantastic gorgeous sunny day on the Central Coast":biggrin::biggrin: K&M
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A further update on the journey to retirement and spending time with our only daughter in the Central Coast NSW. Bishop’s Move the removal company came in on the 8th of August, with the 40’container arriving on Thursday 11th, this caused chaos as he had to reverse half a mile as our house is the last one in a cul- de- sac!! A very skilful driver. We then blocked the bottom end of the road for the next six hours, though no complaints from the neighbours, maybe they were pleased to see us go!!!! We chose Bishop’s Move over Pickford’s as they offered us four weeks free storage in Sydney, both estimates were very close at around 1,550 to 1,600 cu ft, reality came in at 1,650. Total cost for the sole use of the 40’ container came in at £6880 from Bishop’s move which includes all packing to export standard and delivery and unpacking in Australia using Kent Movers with the removal of all the packing materials. The only possible additional cost will be the AQIS fee at around $560. A note of interest a 20’ container would have cost £4800 which holds 1100 cu ft and for every additional 100 cu ft of goods we would have to pay £600 which would have gone as Groupage inside another container. So the 40’ route was cheaper!! We completed the house sale on 12th August and flew out that evening on Emirates. My wife and I disagree as to which is better, Singapore or Emirates, I am of the view that the service on Emirates is better but the seats on Singapore are better. The wife reckons the Emirates is better all round!! Phase one is now complete!! We arrived into Sydney on the first flight of the day 6.05 am Sunday morning, to torrents of rain!!!! So we queued up at the immigration desk, not too long as we were the first flight in, handed over the passports, a nice smile and “welcome to Australia” we were not asked by Customs or Quarantine to open our four suitcases and we were out of the airport by 06.30 am. So we are now in a fully furnished out of season holiday let in Terrigal Beach, with a two minute walk to the beach, ten minutes from daughter ,though it has rained with some sun most days since we got here, it is still great to be here.!!! So what have we achieved in the first complete week?? · Bought a car on the Monday a Toyota Rav 4. ( always fancied a 4X4) · Signed up to Medicare, they were very helpful. · Picked up the car on the Tuesday. · Went and saw a house also on Tuesday, one we had seen online in the UK. · Went to the RTA office on Wednesday to get Licenses and register the car, that was expensive!! A tip, they asked for three types of ID for the licenses, they wanted : o Passports o An Australian Credit/Debit card o A local utility bill with a local address, this was a problem, they suggested a quick trip to our ANZ bank who helpful as always printed out a statement with our local address on , problem solved!!!! · Put an offer in on the house we saw on Tuesday on the Thursday, offer accepted, deposit paid, so we waived the 5 day cooling off period and completion takes place in 42 days time, the 30th September, the day our container docks in Sydney. So we are now resting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Enjoy the journey K&M :biggrin::biggrin:
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We changed some on Friday at £1.54, using UKforex for the first time, very efficiient, we have a buy in at £1.64, you can always hope!!!! Today is the first day of three with Bishopsmove, and it is going remarkabley well, going much faster than I expected, will try and give a progress report as we go!!
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Hi Fiz, John Mason's declined to quote as we are far too down in the West Country, so we dealt with the ones that had a presence down here. They have estimated that we have around 1800 cu feet of items and furniture etc to pack, though apparently this is only a guide, I think next week is going to be rather hectic!!:huh: