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You will not be eligible to start work on the 1st June unless you have a valid visa. Its unlikely that this will be approved in the next couple of days if your application was not submitted some time ago. If you do start working - you will be doing so illegally which means that any visa application will be denied as you have proven to have a track record of violating the terms of your visa.

She has been out for more than a year so it depends on whether it was a single absense or multiple small ones...either way it will delay her ability to apply. So when in her time in aus was she absent and when did she have pr.?

A letter from the school is not sufficient. It is one of the problems with the requirements to teach in Australia that it does not matter if you have been a FT teacher for 20 years - if your Degree in Education did not include an assessment of in practice supervised teaching for more than 45 days - you are not qualified to teach in Australia. As such teachers who trained in e.g. India are not eligible to teach in Australia as not one of the university degrees in education in that country qualifies. The spouse visa is likely going to be the quickest.

The LLR visa has a 50 year waiting list (not a mistake...in effect no new applications are being processed ). The contributory visa is possible but only when he has been here for two years on a PR visa, and the cost is over 50k. Look into that one as it's the only visa you qualify for (assuming you have less than two children as half must live in Australia )

While they are eligible for 63 days..it is extremely hard to organise this in one hit. Respite care is arrange ahead of time...to cater for a carer to go on holiday etc...so hardly any beds are available for emergencies. Recently I had a parent in hospital who needed respite care and after two weeks of not being able to find a placement in any thing but a secure dementia ward (her issues were physical not mental) was told she was being discharged and it was my responsibility to choose to either look after her myself or take her to the dementia respite. The buck is not passed between medico....the ultimate carer is the relatives according to the government.

It is still very hard to get places in residential care. I have a parent we could only get 30 days respite for which we had to pay $80 a day (it was the only bed available ) and residential care on a FT basis would be much more than the $47 as they take into account their funds...$47 is only if they are only on the pension and have less than 20k in cash (house is exempt up to a point if their spouse is living in it). If you are talking 18 months then a lot of the visa money is gng to be used up.

An apprenticship has two parts. TAFE which he will have to pay up front but should now be eligible for Australia prices, and then government funding which is oaid to your employer to pay the majority of your salary. The latter is what you cannot get on a BVA...so if the employer is willing not to get any funding or tax relief you could still start but not many businesses will be able to do this.

You cant mix and match. Either your wife is the applicant (and since she is still studying she is not eligible until she has finished successfully (not all PhD students do pass) or you are in which you need to meet all the criteria

You seem to be mixing up the requirements for the RRV and citizenship. Given you have already activated the PR visa, if you remain in Australia for 3 years without a single day out of the country..then you qualify for citizenship. If you return to the UK after 2 years and spend more than 12 months there - you have to start all over again with counting time towards citizenship

Chromosome 18 syndrome relates to major intellectual disabilities regardless of what specific disease you are talking about. The chance of your son having a totally independant life is what immigration looks at. If you just indicate "chromosome 18 syndrome" immigration is not going to give you they benefit of the doubt unless you have a lot of medical reports and proof....they will just do a search and come up with all the usual nameless chromosome 18 syndromes and their likely outcomes. Unlike autism where there is a lot of grey and a large range of capabilities....when there is a chromosomal deletion the extent of the disability is mostly know and Immigration is only interested in the most likely outcome. That at is why an immigration agent well versed in medical situations is essential in this case.

Most of the experience of People on this forum is with various forms of autism or Downs. Chromosome 18 disorder (if talking about Edwards or Pitt syndrome) is significantly different in that the child will not be able to live independently or work even in a sheltered workshop. They will cost the government a lot of money in that when older the parents will need to look after them and possible receive a carers pension. They will look at the long term cost picture in these cases.

Currently the only PR visa that you can "pay" for as such is the investment visa - and you need 5 miliion Australian to invest (plus the money you need to migrate and live). Buying a house is not something that will give you any leeway to migrate - since you can buy houses in some rural places for less than the cost of a car...that is not an indicator for anything.

It depends on how long it takes him to get all the AMC processed. Some doctors it is done in a couple of weeks or months and others it can be more than a year. The hard part is if he has to be re certified. UK doctors don't but doctors from India and non English speaking countries on the main have to find a sponsored intern position....that is what takes the time as they are the lowest priority. 3-4 years ago NSW reduced the number of these positions from over 400 a year to 60.... OTD are still feeling the pinch from that as without co pelting a paediatric rotation they cannot get full registration so you can guess what the hardest rotation to get is. yes they will be paid less as they will be considered an intern even if they have 10-20 years experience (again if not UK/Canada trained). There are also massive restrictions on where they can work....low socioeconomic regions (and they also have to live there) or rural and remote Australia. Not a move for a doctor who dreams of working in Sydney or Melbourne.

Many countries do not allow it full stop. Realistically, 50k per parent is not that much. Most new immigrants will pay that much for a car and get a loan for it. It is really telling when they put their need for a New car ahead of their parent being brought over...it tells you something about the relationship and their priorities.

This is a bit misleading. The change seems to be that VOLUNTEERING like WOOFING will no longer count towards the 2nd WHV but working as fruit pickers etc will - as you are employed. Its misleading as all the media hype in the past couple of days has not been about the volunteering aspect but the fruit picking - which is not affected by this release.

This visa has now been quashed by the PM. It was one of a large list of "suggestions" from a committee to be used for discussion - it was taken up by the media and run with. Not a serious suggestion.

Where did you find this? I have not been able to find any reference to this anywhere. It could be another beatup like the "Pay for PR" that appeared a couple of days ago which was never going to happen but the media took it up for a story. There are many aspects of this visa that includes the tit for tat with the UK - we remove the possibility of 2 years, the UK will reduce our visa to a year. Its not something that is going to happen overnight just because of a 4 Corner story.

Immigration does not care about what subjects you teach but when it comes to actually getting a job, neither English or PE teachers are in demand. Rather science, mathematics teachers who also can teach ethics (the state school version of religious education) are what is in demand.

Whilst there are jobs in NZ there is not sufficient for immigration. The ones I have seen outside unis require NZ citizenship

Bioinformatics is nothing like biomedical engineering sorry. Bioinformatics is not a science in need in Australia anymore and hasn't for the past 6 or so years. We send most of our research to Singapore and NZ. There are only 2 departments really naitoonwide that are speciality departments and they have less than 8 bioinformaticians in each. Not a demand for immigrants. The only way in is to get offered a post doctoral research position but those institutes require an extremely high level of international recognition for these positions. So my suggestion is to go to the next ISMB conference and seek out people from WEHI, HFI or UQ

It's not as simple as "it's dfficult to find an apprenticeship on a 457 visa" it's more like Yu cannot get an apprenticeship on a 457 or any temporary visa. Apprenticeships are government funded programs for citizens, and in some cases PR visa holders (most are restricted to citizens). The employer is paid a salary subsidy to take on an apprentice and they cannot be used for indviduals on temporary visas. Your son will need to delay his apprenticeship plans until he has PR or citizenship status.

She won't need the TFN when she applies for uni only when she starts...so if she is starting in 2016 as long as she has a number by mid February she is fine.

That option is there (sponsoring teachers) for when a teacher comes on a WHV and works as a casual in a school, usually in the rural region, and the school then wishes to sponsor them.

The occupational stream includes e.g. Cricketers coming for training or sports people training with an Australian coach.

On an under 100k salary for a 457 visa you should not expect any relocation package...it's not required for the visa and not expected for a mid level position like yours seems to be. The money they are offering is not meant to pay all your relocation costs but to help. With a 457 visa it's only temporary so you should only be looking at transporting clothes and the like not furniture - you put those in storage. Purchasing new furniture for the minimum required for setting out a flat will only cost you a couple of thousand...cheap some and dining suite less than a thousand, fridge and bed maybe another thousand. What more do you need for a temporary stay. As the package is not required the company is within their rights to say if you leave before two years you pay this back....its a very common clause (mine is paying for a Masters course but I have to remain working for them for a year post degree -it's taking three years to do it- or I have to pay the 35k back.)