dani5

What a coincidence! what area of nursing are you in? Getting on really well, love being in Australia and the jobs going really well too. Do you think you'll stay at the Gold Coast? X

Hi Steph, thanks for your message. How are you finding Surfers? What brought you to Oz? loving Brisbane, I'm working as a nurse in the city at the mo full time which is going well. Do you work down at the Gold Coast too?

Hey, my partner (26) and I (25) moved to Brisbane on permanent visas end of last year. Hoping to meet some new people in and around Brisbane area. Let me know if you'd like to arrange a catch up. Dani

Myself & partner (24 & 25) arriving in Brisbane on the 1st October! x

Our stuff is shipped in 3 weeks and i was just wondering if in hindsight anyone would have taken other things with them? We are mainly shipping boxes, not much furniture. Any advice appreciated

It took 4 months from lodging our application to being granted our 189 visa. have you had your medicals and police checks? We hadn't done those when we lodged our application so that put ours back a bit too! Once the CO is allocated, it seems to be a pretty quick process although i have heard its taking a little longer now.. its a shame to hold back when you have a potential buyer..

Thanks for the post.. really interesting for people like us who are making the move to QLD in September!

So excited.. our visa has been granted today!! such a strange feeling to think after all the worries, paperwork and constant online checking, the moment we have been waiting for has arrived.. so now to book the flights!! Just want to thank everyone on PIO who have helped us through this difficult, stressful process.. you're all fantastic! and i'm sure there will be many more posts to come Dani x

hi everyone.. we lodged our 189 on 23.10.12, CO requested medicals and police checks on 15.11.12.. had our medicals on the 3.01.13 and the hospital struggled to upload our documents but that was all cleared last week so now just waiting for the visa!! hopefully it wont be too long.. its amazing how impatient i have been the last week considering we started this whole process over 18 months ago.. hope all is going well for everyone else!

I had exactly the same question last week.. i thought they may have been somewhere else to check them but appears not. we still havent had any updates either. when did you have your medicals?

can anyone tell me if there is a different website to check your medicals status? I was under the impression that our document status on evisa would just change from requested to received but we had them done nearly 3 weeks ago and nothing is on there so not sure I'm checking in the right place?! I've spoken to the hospital and they have been uploaded? I would appreciate any comments .. thank you!

i have now received a examination referral letter on evisa saying that i require a 503 - chest x-ray film examination anyone else had this?

Thank you KazG, that is good to know.. hopefully mine is the same! unfortunately i now can't speak to anyone until Monday!

Not sure if anyone can help me. We had our medicals on the 3rd January and apparently the Doctor who completed them was having issues with the website so they were only downloaded today. I have just logged onto evisa and under the 'organise your health examination' there is a letter saying 'Examination referral letter' for 503 - chest x-ray film examination.. anyone else had this and can shed any light as im worried now thank you, Dani

Forgive me if there is already a thread going for this but thought it would be useful to keep track of everyone who has lodged their 189 visa.. i know there are plenty of 190 visa threads.. we have just lodged our visa and would love to see where everyone else is with theirs :biggrin:

it seems DIAC need to clarify this.. it is so confusing! I have a positive skills assessment and have claimed the 20 points for IELTS and my partner has a positive skills assessment and an english passport, i just hope that will be enough.. thank you for your help :smile:

Thank you - you have made my day!! - .... seriously fed up with our agent!!

Wondering if anyone can clarify for me:My partner has a positive skills assessment for solid plastering from TRA.. our agent had previously told us that he was not required to do an IELTS for us to claim the extra 5 points on our 189 visa - however, they are now telling us that he does (great when we only have until the 30th november to submit our application!)we were told that as he has a british passport, completed all his primary and secondary education in english and his 2 years trade certificate and apprenticeship was taught in english he does not need to sit an IELTS..just checked the DIAC website and it says we need to evidence that he has competent english.. but i can't find any further info.. any help much appreciated!! thank you..

received our invite today 65 points.. lodged EOI on 3rd July.. have to lodge visa application by 30th November!

Good luck Cass, bet its surreal that the day is finally here.. hope the flight goes ok xx

Hi Naseofoz, Sorry to hear your outcome was unsuccessful too. we got out letter 14days after it was finalised so im sure you'll get it very soon! Last Monday was a holiday in Oz so maybe that has affected the post.?! What is your occupation? Dani

hey guys, we are hoping to make the move to Brisbane in Summer 2013 too. so excited reading all of your comments. its just the two of us, we were hoping to get our visa application in prior to July1st but it hasn't worked out that way so we will now be going through skillselect (fingers crossed for an invite!) would be really nice to all keep in contact with each other as we're going through the stress of the visas

Wow, you guys are active!! sounds like you'll fit perfectly into Australian life.. good luck finding a place to live.. interesting to read this thread as we are hoping to move to Brisbane too.

you don't pay anything for EOI, its only when you are invited to make an application and you lodge it with DIAC that you have to pay

waaaahhhooooooooo!! for people like us it makes such a big difference and you now have enough points for a 176 (or 190!!) thats fantastic news!! i know how you feel, i just rang my partner up at work to share the good news haha!