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Can someone please help my dad got taken into hospital 2 nights ago and he is due to fly back to the UK in two weeks. The hospital have told us he won't be going home any time soon. So I need to extend his visa, I've been told we need to apply for a medical treatment visa but there is a lot of info needed, it's also confusing because it sounds like the visa is for if your coming to Australia for treatment. Not for if your taken ill here and need treatment. Has anyone ever had to deal with this.

Let me know how you go. We had an instant quote back for about$2500 to take back our Ute and 2sq meters of personnel bits. Liked that we could also fill the car. Looks a good price!

Hi fellow poms has anyone used cargo online to ship there car and some personnel effects back to the UK?

Hi guys question I need to go back to the UK received my renewed passport last year. We noticed that it doesn't have a copy of my PR visa in it. Do I take my old passport with me to show I have a visa or is it some how programmed into the passport info?

So it's been interesting the response my post has had. Maybe I worded it wrong, I guess everyone had moved on with there lives without us. That there lives had stayed the same, and yes many of them are happy with that. But we had changed we have a broader out look on our lives and what we wanted for us. Where as many of our family and friends say that would love to live here but have not taking the steps to do so. I'm not saying we would never go back, we love the UK and being Welsh love our homeland. Yes I agree that you can get stuck in a rut wherever you are, it was just a personnel observation for us when we were home! I guess my post was just to share my experience with homesickness and settling here in Oz and that it can be an emotional roller coaster, and that you can get past it and come out the other side and enjoy everything Oz has to offer. While I was going through the homesickness wanting to go home wasn't because I hated Oz or that things were different I loved it here, I just couldn't separate the emotional side of things!!

Hi fellow poms it's been a while. Thought I'd let you know where we're at. Last time I posted on here I was in a bad place desperate to home again. In fact it was the worst bout of homesickness I'd had. After much thought and reflection we came to the decision to stay, one because of finances we just wasn't in the position to just go. We had car loans, card ect. It's been tge best decision we made, we came out of the homesickness and actually feel the most settled we've been since getting here. The homesickness will always be there, but it dose get easier. The only way I can compare it is to losing someone you love it's a grieving process. There's days when you just don't know how to get through the day. Then the next it gets that little bit easier. So for all of you thinking of dropping everything and going home. Think long and hard make sure it's not an emotional decision, make sure it's what's best for you as a family. And that it's not the emotional tie that's pulling you back. I know from our one trip home since arriving here we changed but everyone around us still did the same old things, same jobs same old. We had moved on with our lives in a big way looked at things differently had a new positive outlook of live, and what we wanted from our lives. Good luck to the ones who go home, if your thinking about it make sure your going back for the right reasons. It's not for everyone.

Hi can anyone help need to contact my home insurance company back in the UK but they don't have an international number only an 0845 number. Does anyone know if there's a way of ringing the number from Oz.

What they should stop is paying family allowance to family's who's children don't even live in the uk!

In reply to Greattobebritish we did try and get a loan from the bank but again because we had no credit history the only way we could get the finance was by buying new cars. The banks and credit company only seem to really like to lend to people they know they will make money from!

Hi can I ask how much it cost to ship your cat back!

So what else can life throw at us. I changed my job as the store I was managing was closing due to renovation in the shopping centre, took another managing job in the same centre only to find that store was closing the day I closed my first store. I was reasured that they would get a pop up store in the centre which didn't happen. So I finally get to catch up with my regional manger yesterday to way up my options. All she had to offer me was an assistant manager job over an hour away from where I live or a part time job 2 hours away. So I now have 3 weeks to find a job. So my day off today has been spent applying for jobs and the odd outburst of tears. Begining to think we're doomed, why do some people have all the luck. It's not like were bad people we open doors for old ladies, let cars pass in busy traffic help when we can. So why can't we for once just have something go our way. All I want is to pay our debt's and go home!

So great news they've cut my husband job to a four day week. Just what we needed don't think we'll ever get home. Really don't know how much more I, we can take.

Hi can anyone who's shipped there cats back give me an idea of how much it cost them!

You've made the right decision, I envy you and your family. We're financially tied here. We did try and move back over a year ago but could not secure a loan to pay out our cars. Thought then that maybe we were making the wrong choice and decided to give it another go. But here we a year now and no happier. Making plans to go home 2015 still have car loans to pay back. If we had the money we would be on that plane heading home. Australia has been fun but its not home. Good luck and keep us up to date with how you fair back home.

Thanks everyone for the advise given. We've changed our credit card to a low interest rate for 15 months this should save us $1000's in interest. Keeping up with the extra payments. Broke lease on house moving into a smaller unit should save $100 a week. That's extra money is going on extra car payments. Had a clear out put some stuff on eBay made a little money, which is in a pot for when my father inlaw visits in June something for us to look forward to. Been a whole week without breaking down got some happy pills from the herbal some seam to be helping. Settling into a new job which I don't think helped with the depression felt a bit out of my depth. Looking forward to 2015 small steps it will soon be here! Thanks again for listening

No we have never run away from a debt and not about to. When we purchased the cars we were happy and needed the cars for work. Bought new as again we could not get a loan from bank but the car finance company happy to give us finance. People change and situation change. We can more than afford the repayments that's why we pay extra each month. Yes we've done this to ourself maybe this a lesson future migrants can learn from. Going home last year made us realise what kind of life we actually wanted. Family is what is important to us!

Thanks for all the reply's we are paying extra each month on our car loans, hubby thinks that by this time next year with the extra payments we will be able to hand them back. As the amount paid back should be what the cars will be worth at resale. It's just hard some days to see past the debts to the light at the end of the tunnel. I know what we're doing is the right thing for us both as we want to go back debt free and with some saving's to see us right for the first few months. We still have our home as we rent it out. So glad we couldn't sell it, at least we wont have to try and get back onto the property ladder. Fingers crossed the time will fly by. Just feels like life is passing us by and we're missing out on so much back HOME. We've had some great time's here, but this will never be home. Family and friends make us the people we are, and every day were here we lose another piece of us.

Been here in Brisbane 4 years every day is getting harder to be here, I find most days driving home from work I break down and cry. I feel so desperate and can't see any way out. We have two cars loans and a credit card. Found it so hard to get any kind of credit when we first arrived, we used all our saving keeping us here till we both got jobs. So we turned to the banks no help with a small loan to get us started but would give us a credit card. Used that limit quickly so they were happy to up it but again not happy to give us a small loan so now we owe a fair amount on the card. Got our self two new cars, which we just cant hand back. Were working hard paying extra off the cars and cards moving into a smaller house to pay less rent , this will save us an extra $400 a month, giving ourselfs till Aug 2015. But I'm finding everyday harder and harder, my hubby feels the same. We would love to drop everything and just go but were not that kind of people. But if the banks wont help with a loan we have no choice but to stay and work at paying the debts off. How many other people are trapped and feel like there is no way ou?

Welsh and proud can't wait to get back home! Never thought I would say that we had no intention of going back to Wales. We just didn't realise how much Wales had a hold of us! We love it here but it will never be home. Home is Wales full of family and friends, and a lot of Wales we've yet to explore!!

My dad was in the Reme for twenty years I left wales aged 2 return at the age of 18 left again at the age of 37. I understand all the sargents mess stuff my dad was a Sargent. You know the saying you can take the girl out of Wales but you can't take Wales out if the girl!

Happy St David's day to all my fellow welsh friends on Pomin Oz wishing I was home enjoying the Welsh pride today!

We made the decision to move back just before Xmas last year handed in our notice's started putting things in place. Then hit a wall when we couldnt get a loan to pay off our cars loans. Wanted to pay from the Uk hubby had a job to go back to. Now were stuck here for another five years/ three if we can pay them off sooner. Best advice I give any one wanting to head out here is buy second hand don't buy new, if after 2 years you know Oz isn't for you you haven't made it difficult for yourselfs to get back. Oz is a great place but not where we want to be. It took us five years to get out here and is gonna take us longer to get back. I find every day harder and harder to get through, just want to be back in Wales cold wet but surrounded by my loving family and friends.

My sanity!

Should be a great match!

Hi myself and hubby are going we will be hanging out at the Irish bar on Queen street from 3.30 ish with a group of fellow welsh folk. We to are from Newport, just returned from a trip home two weeks ago!