Jlew

Thank you 

Hi, long time since I posted on the forum. Family of 4 granted our 190 visas back in December 2014, booked one way flights and then for various reasons we just couldn't make the move. Moved within the UK instead, but now back talking about emigrating.

question I have is that in terms of timing, we'd most likely be close to the end of the time window before we could move (oldest sons exams), and would want to stay at least long enough for citizenship. What happens if we need to leave the country (uk visit for example) after our 190 arrival period expires but prior to gaining citizenship? Apply for some kind of residents return visa? We have been back to activate our visas.

Thanks, Jamie 

We're booked with them for September

Hi Chef,

 

Could use some help and info with my situation.

I have two Porsche 911s One is 1970 911E and the other is 1989 3.2. Both have been owned and used by me on a regular basis for past 10 years.

Both have sentimental value. I have looked on Carsales.com.au and Drive.com.au and the nearest valuation I can find is a 1988 Turbo for $49990. The Turbos are normally much more expensive than the non turbo cars like mine. The valuations on RedBook.co.au shows the value as over $150,000 which is ridiculous. The value here in UK is not much more then £20k or $37,000.

 

What do you advise me to do. Are these guys really sticky on the '89 cut off date as the car was made in I think April 1989.and I could import them both as early classics.

If, as I read I'm only allowed to import one car can I 'sell' my early Porsche 911 to my son who lives in Sydney? He wants it anyway and I would like to keep it in the family.

WE could then ship them over in one 40ft container with the household stuff. I have had a quote for that btw. 2cars and household stuff for £5.5k

Any idea what sort of duties would be payable on both cars?

It's a bl...y minefield.

 

Look forward to your reply.

 

Paul

nice car choice!! We've an 89 3.2 as well which will be coming with us to Melbourne.

Possibly a bit of an unusual question. We're heading to melbourne in September and will be taking our classic car with us. The question is, do I need to put it through all the road worthy elements eye straight away, or can I just import it, but the customs elements and then deal with registration etc at some later date? Intention would be to trailer it from the docks to our new house.

Heading to australia I'm swithering as to whether to do this or not. We don't have a huge amount of furniture to take with us, and will be taking out classic cat with us. Wondering about innovative options to get the lot in one container.

 

jac2011, we fly Etihad too on 27th August, on to Melbourne via Brisbane, just booked the tickets yey! We have 14 hour stopover- do you happen to know about their stopover free hotel room or something, there are some strange options on their site I dont understand! Will need to call them I suppose. DId you ask them for extra luggage allowance too? If we do, I think will have to go to buy suitcases, dont have that many to hold 4 x 40kg!

Maybe anyone also knows, if we bought our tickets 14 December, do we get refund of child tax thingy too, or was it already cut off? It just said taxes and charges, although kids tickets were like 100 quid each cheaper.

 

 

 

The Brisbane then melbourne route is the one we nearly took but managed to find a through Perth option. I don't think they do the 40kg option. That said, 30kg plus I think 10kg hand luggage each is quite a lot. We're going toget a couple of big heavy duty holdall bag things as well as two large suitcases as we'll need to get them in the hire car at the airport when we arrive.

Hi Jlew, I got an update from lastminute saying I would hear soon... We had 3 childrens singles so we are hoping for £250ish back. Which makes our bargain Etihad flights around £2100 for 5 single LHR to BRIS journeys :-). Mega happy!

Fantastic! Reckon we've managed to secure a pretty reasonable deal

Etihad phoned this morning saying that we will be getting £71 back for the duty on our youngest child's ticket so all in we're £1935 for three adult fares and one child singles from Edinburgh to Melbourne in September.

We've been running 'bangernomics' cars as part of gathering some cash for the move. Each one had been no more than £750, run it for a few months, then sold for what we paid, and purchase something with longer MOT. You do of course need to watch what you're buying, but so far, so good. Our car budget when we arrive should be 6k aud which is slightly better, but not massive. I'm expecting to purchase something for that which will be fine until we get work sorted out and then it will become the second car. If you're not too fussy in terms if what you drive, its amazing what you can pick up.

Phone direct to the airlines and see what they can sort out for you.

Book when you get a price you're happy with. Risk of waiting is that you don't get the dates you want, the price goes up, or something else. Once you book, stop looking at prices. We planned to wait until January but got a great deal through etihad (phoned them and got much cheaper than site when they worked through route options) and knew it was about as good as we could get so booked. Flying in September

We'll be about 15k to 20k and that should give us enough for about 5 months worst case before finding work.

On the etihad flight, we touch down in Perth and then fly on to melbourne. Leaves Glasgow at 9am, and gets to Perth around lunchtime local time the following day. Only a couple of hours stopover in Abu Dabi.

Emirates are excellent. We booked a week of two back with etihad though flying out of Edinburgh as the price was very cheap indeed. I found a price through a comparison website, then phoned them as I couldn't get anywhere near the price on their site. They looked at some different flight route options to get the best price and then phoned me back. They were certainly very helpful. We fly in September.

I am happy I checked prices :-) I realised it was a bargain! 5 of us at a rate of £475 a person, from our airport of choice, with a nice break in between (21 hours in Abu Dhabi) and on to Brisbane.

 

Even Garuda wasnt coming up that cheap and my husband was refusing to travel on Garuda lol.

 

The 24 hour wait for my savings to come out my account seemed like months!

Thats excellent!

Jlew, we booked this offer too and just checked today and flights have gone back up. If we had booked today would have cost an extra £650 so I dont think the offer is on any more.

I was nosing at options as I had been doing for months, and when I saw the price, I phoned, worked through some options and booked there and then. May we'll be some good deals a little nearer the time, but took the view that that was pretty much as cheap as we could get, plus the flight times work really well for us. We should get the duty back for our youngest following the autumn statement, so all in for 3 adult singles and one child, we're about £470 ish each. I've opted to not check prices from now on just in case!

Not sure on the extra baggage element, but we've just booked with etihad from edinburgh for September and got a great deal. Worth phoning them and they'll work up some route options for you.

That's great - thank you!!

Congratulations

Thank you!! Taken a long time to get to this stage for us. Main issue was working through the skills assessment, then a delay to work things around a family wedding in September.

time line dates -

submitted EOI - 12 September 2014

invitation to apply and state sponsorship received - 10 October 2014

visa submitted - 12 October 2014

medicals completed - 27 October 2014

police checks received and remaining supporting documents uploaded - 8 November 2014

case officer contacted requesting two extra scanned documents which were uploaded same day - 01 December 2014

visa granted - 05 December 2014

happy days

Visa granted this morning

Was there at one stage a handy to do list for the various stages running up to the love posted on the forum somewhere? I've had a look, and sure I'd seen one at some stage, but can't locate it now.

Heading to Melbourne early next year, just have half a life to sell up first .

yeah, somehow the real task now needs to begin! I've started making a bit of a to do list ready to work through. I think its going to be a long list...

Best option is to and have a nosey about in each if you can during the ttrip and see what you think. We nosed round sydney and melbourne, and are opting for melbourne for a number reasons suitable to us.

That is fast!! Same date as us, so hopefully not too far away. Where you heading for, and when you hoping to fly out? We're hoping for Melbourne in September.