craigyboy

Sorry to disappoint just visiting a fellow poms in ozzer LOL

The 1st of November.

Hi, quick question. My agent lodged my payment for 189 visa application on the 24/12/12. Had a wee look on my EOI page and it is stating that my invitation to apply for the visa from the DIAC invitation round has expired. Please could someone tell me that this is quite normal?

candy girl your timeline indicates your case officer has been allocated. Your key dates are exactly the same as mine. Maybe I will hear tomorrow that mine has been allocated as well and we can get those houses before those two moaners featured on this morning program get a visa :cool:.

Their is a post that is fantastic on here that I know I'll give you a lot of good advice. I think it is called the Iron Chef! Anyone, pleae correct me.

Never said they were not a nice family. My point is to compare is one thing, but comments like this is manky where not necessary. You and I both know what the East End of Glasgow is like. What they were being offered was Beverley Hills, Hollywood in comparison.

Yes, it's back on: Wanted Down Under. Well, what can I say!! I am from Glasgow and so are the couple featured this morning. The couple featured initial comments made about the Oz houses and most worryingly the area's amenities compared to where they come from in Glasgow was just laughable. The usual statements, providing the mandatory maximum cringe factor was to be heard continually: I am totally embarrassed to be a Glaswegian as consequence!!! For example, the usual round of comments "I'm not coming all the way round the world to stay in a dump like this" or" we'll sleep out on deck chairs and not go into the house, if this the only house we can get over here with a pool :elvis:". In my Scottish dialect I have only one thing to say, ' don't forget yer auld arse'!!!! The rental they had was clean and tidy and double the size of the ex council house they hailed from in Scotland!!! Not saying the couple didn't have a lovely home in Scotland, but come on, to be making comments bordering on derogatory about the shows featured homes (which to be honest the shows producers should be showing rented property as well as property suited to the couples budget and demographic). For me was continually bordering on the rude. I have only one thing to say,"Away back to the social deprivation of the East end of Glasgow where :wink: life expectancy of a man living there is 59!!!" For the future anyone from Glasgow please remember the Scottish saying I stated early and your manners and keep your comments under control. Understandably, the houses may not have been their style, but comments like "this is manky (dirty)" was just plain rude. No wonder the Australian call us whinging POMS. The last two houses where a little older, they were certainly not dirty. Maybe Australians have more of the right attitudes to life and spend their money on enjoying life, rather than continually trying to keep up with Jones with the latest look for the house in the UK. Thankfully, Australia won the family over eventually. My point is: people should stop having a mandatory strop at the slightest issue that doesn't suit them i.e. thats it forgot Australia, we are not coming here!! So, for the future please take time and think about what you are saying, particularly when you open your mouth. And please, please stop comparing the first thing that you think is below standard, the minute Australia offers something that somewhere up in your minds delusions appears sub par to what you think you have better in the UK to compare it with.

Anything positive???

Hi Sarah and Family, I am trained in real estate/development/construction project management. Your husband expertise is something a little bit different as it is an area of project management that deals with project controls within oil and gas etc civil construction. Although getting a pr visa is the preferred I feel your husbands skill set is something which could attract sponsorship. For example, the last migration expo I was at they were looking for civil engineer project managers to assist in the larger infrastructure projects ie natural gas processing installations. Try Konnecting a recruitment company specialising in 457 sponsorships or alternatively get yourself along to a migration expo. Good luck with the future.

Your friends a narcist and the Internet/Facebook has provided a stage for a fair share of narcist trolls. Personally I feel Facebook is a dangerous place, but great when not abused. Have you ever noticed those people that continually post every waking minute of their lives, they are living in my opinion in a virtual world of fantasy. Many portray great social lives, checking in here and there. Recent research has shown much of this is to portray pretence to others that they are having this wonderful fulfilling life free of what more ordinary life's experience. Other research has shown that Facebook situations described by the poster demand everyone agree or else is basically primate behaviour similar to that of monkeys when they pick and prune each other. It suggests that the agreeing with your group is reassuring their group the groups hierarchy (hence yer pal the narcist) and the bonds in that group. So when you disagree with your pal you are only establishing your independence, but your friend unfortunately sees this as you challenging her authority lol.

Hi please don't pay another penny to that UK disaster. Start your new life in Oz as UK debt at your level is not going to come back and bite you in the bum. I have great experience helping people in your situation and believe me you are an angel. Make sure you return the tenants deposit at the end of the lease.Let them bankrupt you do not make their job any easier. Pleas get on with your life and PM for more direct advice. OH and watch for the self righteous moral brigade or more commonly known as trolls putting their bit in. The perfect people that nothing has ever happened to!!!!

Hi sorry, The DiaC will accept prior graduation experience if its at a level of skill attributed to the profession. also check the ANZCO work description of your profession: it should indicate if as an alternative to a degree that an amount of work experience prior to graduation and at a sufficient level would be considered for points.

Hi Sammylee, I am also a surveyor. I feel you have under sold yourself with regard to your skills assessment as a property manager. I went through vettassess as a SOL 1 Land Economist. Have a look at the anzsco occupation descriptor. property managers in oz tend to be non degree qualified. You obviously undertook a RICS degree and as a commercial surveyor would have undertaken advanced study in applied valuation, land and property economics etc. I lodged my DIAC application today on a 189 Independant Visa with an EOI score of 65 points. Pm me with any questions.

Hi, its a racket and not mandatory. The DIAC will ultimately decide what points to give you for work experience. Please save your money.

Hi, your agent is havering. Both your prior and post qualification is acceptable for points test. The DIAC has final say, you just have to prove that prior to qualifying you we're working in your field at a relevant level to the job requirement for your job/ profession.

Kyle, there just isn't enough QS professionals in Australia. What are u waiting for get out there!!!!

That's disgraceful conduct, absolutely no need to treat someone like that. Has he gone bust, if not, lodge a small claims action for breach of contract. Better still a case of fraud on the basis of misrepresentation at law I.e he hasn't done what's on the label when you bought his services. Don't mess about here and listen to your gut. Your money is hard earned. You can also report him to the relevant governing body for migration agents. Can you tell us what city he works from?

I've just got my 189 invitiation and I am on 65 points. Absolutely kecking myself, its suddenly real. OZ is a possibility and not just a fantasy lol

DIAC is the final say with regard to points for work experience, therefore please don't waste your money on a points test advisory letter: its a racket.I have been advised by over 3 migration agents that what I have stated is correct. The reason I am adamant is that I was told the wrong advice from my own agent who later retracted his wrongful advice on account of phoning the DIAC to check my challenge to his wrongful assumption on the basis of the advice from the other 3 agents.

totally, agree with this post: vicious cyber bullying. Thanks goodness no one mentioned Jack join the Australian Army as a way in!!!! Keep trying Jack god loves someone who has tried. Just don't try the refugee route.

[h=5]It was a document that could have changed the course of Scottish history. Nineteen pages long, Written in an elegant, understated academic hand by the leading Scottish economist Gavin McCrone, presented to the Cabinet office in April 1975 and subsequently buried in a Westminster vault for thirty years. It revealed how North Sea oil could have made an independent Scotland as prosperous as Switzerland. [/h]The Freedom of Information Act has yielded many insights and revelations into the working of the British government, but none so vivid as the contents of Professor McCrone's paper, written on request in the dog days of Ted Heath's Tory government and only just unearthed under the FOI rules. Earlier this week, the Chancellor Gordon Brown underlined the vital revenue stream that North Sea oil still is in the context of British politics. In his pre-budget report, Mr Brown extracted an extra £6.5b in tax from North Sea oil and gas producers, to be taken over the next three years. Economists like the Liberal Democrats' Treasury spokesman Vince Cable say that high oil prices have already bailed out the Treasury to the tune of £1 billion this year. Imagine then, what the oil could have done for a Scotland which chose independence in the mid 1970s and claimed ownership of the reserves. Thirty years ago, Professor McCrone answered that very question and his conclusions shocked his political masters. Although BP first discovered the giant Forties oilfield in 1970 - which by 1977 was producing 500,000 barrels of oil a day, equivalent to a quarter of Nigeria's entire daily production - the real rush for "black gold" had only begun around 1973, when the Yom Kippur War caused a crisis in the Middle East and forced prices up to around $16 a barrel. By the time the oil companies realised that North Sea drilling was not only cost-effective but highly lucrative, and the British government realised it was sitting on a gold mine, the Scottish nationalists had already laid claim to the oil. The "It's Scotland's Oil" campaign began in 1972. If only they had seen the professor's research. An independent Scotland's budget surpluses as a result of the oil boom, wrote Professor McCrone, would be so large as to be "embarrassing". Scotland's currency "would become the hardest in Europe, with the exception perhaps of the Norwegian Kronor." From being poorer than their southern neighbours, Scots would quite possibly become richer. Scotland would be in a position to lend heavily to England and "this situation could last for a very long time into the future." In short, the oil would put the British boot, after centuries of resentment, firmly on the foot standing north of the border. Within days of its receipt at Westminster in 1974, Professor McCrone's document was judged as incendiary and classified as secret. It would be sat upon for the next thirty years. The mandarins demanded that Professor McCrone's 19-page analysis be given "only a most restricted circulation in the Scottish Office because of the extreme sensitivity of the subject." The subject was sensitive alright. This is a story of Whitehall betrayal that will satisfy the pre-conceptions of the most extreme Scottish anglophobe. It was the comparison with Norway that particularly worried the Westminster politicians. In the mid 1970s of course, Norway was fully independent and about to take advantage of an oil boom that has generated undreamed-of prosperity to the present day. In Scotland, the situation was somewhat different, and potentially explosive. National pride had been hugely galvanised by the appearance of the Scotland Football Team in the 1974 World Cup, a competition for which the England side had failed to qualify. But economically, the outlook was bleak. Heavy manufacturing, which had been the heart and soul of the Scottish economy for generations, was in deep trouble. Between 1970 and 1974 the number of coal mines in Scotland fell by a third, while steel production plunged by a fifth. Shipbuilding, the mainstay of the Clyde, was in particular trouble. After the Heath government refused to bail out four yards in Upper Clyde in 1971, trade unionists staged a work-in and occupied the yards. Some 70,000 people marched calling for government help and a 48-hour strike by other workers brought out more than 100,000 in support. Meanwhile, in politics, the nationalists were riding high as never before. The 1970 general election saw the SNP poll just 11.4 per cent of the vote and one seat. But in February 1974 they scored 21.9 per cent and won seven seats. Within eight months, by the October election of that year, their support had risen to the all-time high of 30.4 per cent of the vote, and 11 seats. The party was also nipping at the heels of Labour in 34 other Labour-held seats. This was the high tide of Scottish nationalism. Previously unheard of would-be terrorist cells began to emerge: The "Scottish Legion", "Jacobites", "Border Clan", 'Tartan Army" and the "100 Organisation", which took its name from the famous historic Declaration of Arbroath, stating: "So long as 100 of us remain alive we will never submit to English rule." American companies based in Aberdeen became nervous that a Scottish breakaway, socialist in outlook, was threatening their interests. Pressure was exerted on the government to control the situation. Professor McCrone's report, in such volatile circumstances, would almost certainly have provoked a turning point in the history of the United Kingdom. Billy Wolfe, who was leader of the SNP at the time and the man credited with developing the nationalists as a clearly defined left-of-centre political party, is in no doubt of what the McCrone findings could have meant. "If that information had been published before the October 1974 election," said Mr Wolfe, "we would have won Scotland and it would be a much wealthier and happier place. "A whole lot of economic factors would be a lot different, especially in the fishing, steel and shipbuilding industries. It would have been a tremendous boost for Scotland." Tam Dalyell, who served as Labour MP in West Lothian for 43 years, agrees that the document could have led to independence. "In my view it might have done," he said. "It could have tipped the balance it a number of seats including mine. Oil was very much a totemic issue. It was new and it was dramatic. Politics at that time was very different. In 1974 my majority went from around 6,000 in February to around 2,000 after the October general election. "It was most unpleasant. People were saying 'it's our oil'." By the mid 1970s, international convention had already agreed that the North Sea north of the 55th parallel was under Scottish jurisdiction. That meant around 90 per cent of the UK's oil and gas reserves fell within Scottish waters. Such was the fear of the rise of Scottish nationalism that the document remained secret under the governments of Callaghan, Thatcher, Major and even Tony Blair. Its very existence only emerged when Scottish National Party researchers, thought to be acting on a tip off from a former official, placed a carefully-worded request under the freedom of information legislation. Next week the Scottish Executive is due to publish the annual Government Expenditure and Revenue in Scotland analysis, which charts expenditure north of the border. Statistics for 2002- 03 showed expenditure per head of £6,579 in Scotland compared with £5,453 in England. It also showed that Scotland received £9.3 billion more than it took in taxes. It is an old English nationalist refrain that the Scots are both over-subsidised and over-represented in the British Parliament. In response to the first of those charges, for the first time in thirty years the Scots now, in the form of Professor McClone's suppressed report, have hard evidence to suggest that it could have been Scotland, not England, sending money across the border. Yesterday Alex Salmond, the SNP leader, made it clear that the 31-year-old McClone papers were not just a dusty history lesson, but would form a central part of their campaigning for the future. He said: "The impact of this would have been dynamite. It would have had great influence. "I was astonished by how direct the paper was, and appalled at the extent of what has been hidden from the people. McCrone was saying that an independent Scotland would be Europe's Switzerland. The Labour party were saying that it would be like Bangladesh. "This is hugely important. But it was not just important then. It is important now. Gordon Brown's black hole is being filled by black oil." At the time of Professor McCrone's report to the cabinet office, the SNP claimed that North Sea Oil would yield £800 million a year for the government by 1980. Professor McCrone's main criticism of their analysis was that their forecasts were "far too low". He put the sum at about £3 billion. Scottish independence had become a mortal threat to the British exchequer. "The importance of North Sea oil" wrote, the Professor, "is that it raises just this issue in a more acute form than at any time."

OK: Why not try posting: I'm a pure BAM!!! Im sure some of the Scottish people on here would love to translate what a short word like a short sentence can do when BAMMING up a pure BAM like you. Oh its Wembley Stadium, not Wembly LMAO. Amazing what a tradition of great education gets you in Scotland. Please keep posting what you like. The cabaret has not turned up and your doing fine.

You are correct I appreciate your common sense.

I wish you had been old enough to have been to Wembley. I would have loved to have met you with my tartan army pals!!

Get a history book out: you could start with our unique system of law founded in Roman Law.