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    any advice would be greatly appreciated!
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    I live in newcastle! Which hotel were you in? I was at a golden wedding anniversary party on Saturday night at a working men's club and a G&T was around £2.20 which is very cheap!!!
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    Me and my OH have 2 years left on a 175 PR visa but are currently facing a dilemma in the fact that my OH has started to doubt if we can afford to live in Australia. He is a maintenance Fitter and currently earns 30k but if we follow the 2.2 conversion rule it means he would need to earn roughly 66k AUD but all of the jobs we are seeing advertised in and around the Brisbane area aren't for that much. I currently work for the local council on a part time basis but would be prepared to go full time if need be. Any advice from any fitters or just any general advice with regards to the cost of living would be greatly appreciated. :wink:
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    Yes, if you check the date on the back of the card part in box no 11 it will have the full expiry date on, this should be the same as your paper part. It's only the photocard that expires as they like you to update your photo every 10 years. Unless you have a medical condition that restricts you. My husband is diabetic so he only gets a licence for 3 years at a time.
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    Hello, I have just been reading through old posts for some advice and stumbled across yours. My husband is a maintenance fitter and we are looking to move to the Brisbane area but he is struggling to find work whilst we are here in the UK, did you have the same problem? I noticed you said your husband secured work within a month, would you mind if I asked where and if he knows of any places that are recruiting at the moment? My OH currently is working in a hygiene factory making toilet rolls but has a lot of experience in the print and packaging industries fixing machines and doing routine maintenance, etc. It would make my life so much easier if he could secure a job before we came out. We only have 2 years left on our PR 175 visa. :wubclub:
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    Again though, do you mean we would need to be earning the equivalent of 90k English for similar lifestyle or 90k once it's been converted into dollars?
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    I know this seems complicated but I can't get my head around it! When you say as long as your salary is 2.2$ to the £ do you mean once it's converted? ie 30k in £'s is converted into 49k$ If you use the the current rate or do mean that you would have to be earning 2.2 x your salary ie 2.2 x 30k so you would need to earn £66k and then convert it into $?? I have confused myself now!! The reason I ask is that we have 2 years left on a PR visa and are thinking the exact same things with regards to the cost of living but we are thinking of Queensland areas possibly near Brisbane. My hubby earns 30k here and me 10k working part time but he thinks we will struggle in Oz due to the high cost of living. We came over 2 years ago now for a reccie and did find things were expensive but we had earned our money as £'s and spending it as $ made it seem a lot more expensive. Even things people have mentioned already, such as bread and milk I thought were extortionate. I feel we will manage but do we want to just manage after moving to the other side of the world and giving up your relatively safe job and selling your home (renting isn't an option for us) and all of your possessions?? So many questions, my head is rattling!!!:wacko:
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    I would be interested in this information also
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    Congrats Bharat, great news! I think you may have to tell your agent that you have uploaded the documents so he can tell the CO, I sent my evidence to my agent first and he uploaded it for me. I hope this helps Tracy
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    Hello Nice to see everything is going well for you! We are going to activate our visa in Aug so will just miss your arrival date of 20th Sept. I have just been looking on PIA and we have been looking for a rental in the same places! Keep in touch and good luck!!
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    Hello Have you used an agent because if you have I would contact them and ask what is happening. If not you should send an electronic update request to your CO to ask what is happening, that is a long time to wait for a 175 visa grant as they are issuing visas from April/May applicants of this year at the moment.
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    Not from us!
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    There was someone on part one of this thread called Dinkydoo who had their visa refused due to lack of work experience.
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    If you look at some previous pages of this thread 'Dinkydoo' was refused a visa for not meeting the work experience criteria. Also just to let you know that we have a part 2 of this thread now as the person who ran it had other things going on and it can't be transferred so we had to start a new one!
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    Yes you can do them before if you want too but your visa entry date will be 12 months from the earliest date of either your medical or police check. Also they are only valid for 12 months. Or you can just wait for the CO to contact you and then get them. Depends on how quickly you plan on visiting Oz to activate the visa I suppose, everybody is different!! Good luck
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    There's a few people on the old thread -part 1 that this happened too especially if you don't have any obvious medical issues that is. My husband is diabetic so his got referred or tht but then he was cleared in a few days. Have a look back at part 1 as I think they just refer some to keep the quotas up!:biggrin:
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    Happy new year everyone!! Congrats to all those that had their visas granted recently and I'm sure it won't be long for everyone else!!:cute:
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    That's good news, what a brilliant Xmas present! Have a good one, all the best!
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    Hello I have been having trouble posting over the last few days so had to switch to an app to make it work! Great idea for the new thread Bpremji, hope everyone migrates over!! Traxfm
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    how did the phone interview go Anlopa? Good i hope!
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    thats brilliant news tania, been having a bit of trouble with my laptop so took me a while to reply! I am over the moon for you, wish you all the best for the future and thanks for taking over this thread and keeping us all in check!!:xmas12:
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