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35%??? That seems really poor, thats smaller than a large movecube and is over double the price!

Thanks Although mine is a ripoff / collation / amalgamation of others on here and other sites. All i've been doing is copy & pasting good ideas over the last few months

My understanding is that if the seat does not have a stamp indicating that it meets the relevant Australian Standard, it is illegal to use it From http://www.babycenter.com.au/a1033422/car-seat-laws-in-australia ISOFIX compatible child restraints are now available for sale in Australia. These are seats that can click directly into your car, and are popular in Europe and America. Only ISOFIX seats that meet Australian standards will be legally allowed here, which means using restraints bought overseas is illegal. http://www.babycenter.com.au/a1033422/car-seat-laws-in-australia#ixzz3gmrc63VL Also check out; https://www.childcarseats.com.au

Some of mine.. Research bank accounts in Australia and open one ready for transferring money. Research currency brokers and sign up to accounts with three so you can get quotes when ready. This Forums is a good place to look for recommendations. Make sure any new passports you apply for are linked to your visa. Organise copies of medical notes from your doctor. Organise copies of dentist notes. Consolidate and cancel any bank accounts that aren’t needed. Start to clear off and cancel any credit cards. (Just remember that whatever card you buy your flights on, make sure you KEEP THAT CARD even if you cancel it! You need to take it to the airport with you. Nobody told us this and we cut ours up as we’d closed the account. When I printed out our online boarding passes the day before our flight it said on there that you needed to take the original purchase card with you. I called Singapore Airlines and they assured me without it we wouldn’t be allowed to board the flight. Thankfully, I found the card statement in our things and we took that as proof. Nobody asked for it at the airport, but it was a terrifying couple of hours thinking we might not be able to fly.) Finish going through the loft to work out what is coming and what is being sold/thrown away/given to charity/passed on to family. Organise the shed and garage into what is coming and what is staying/being given away. Start researching suburbs and rental prices online in more detail... You will only really know where you want to be when you land and start exploring, so don’t panic too much about knowing where you want to live before you arrive. Start researching schools as this could have a bearing on the suburb you choose. Don’t rule out state or private until you’ve arrived and actually looked around them. Keep an eye on the job market. (some companies aren't interested until we were in the country, but if you see something and you have a definite arrival date you might be lucky). Find temporary accommodation for a month when you land. (Try to find somewhere central enough to be able to explore easily. Places further out are much cheaper but unless you want to view houses in that area you’ll spend a lot of time travelling and time is precious when you’re so busy – plus if you have kids, they won’t thank you for it!) Research and book flights. (The earlier you can do this, the cheaper it will be. Find the cheapest place online, check with the airline direct and then call up some agents to see if they will discount it to save you a bit more. If you are travelling with children, make sure you book meals for them on the flight otherwise they’ll be given the same as you Research car seats to buy in Australia. If you have friends or family there, you could ask if they’d pick some up for you and meet you at the airport with them to save you hiring any. (You can’t use your UK car seat in Australia. You also can’t use travel booster seats Plan goodbye parties. (Your friends and family will expect an opportunity to give you a good send off. My advice is to organise this for a month or so before you go – the last three weeks will be emotional and hectic so having it sooner is much easier on everyone). Organise birthday presents for people in the UK for the rest of the year and leave them behind so you don’t need to worry about things when you land. Request a credit reference from your bank. (We saw this on lots of emigration ‘to do’ lists when we were planning our move. Our bank wouldn’t do it as it wasn’t a service they offered, but it’s worth asking yours). Consider whether to transfer pensions and what to do about any shares you hold. (It’s worth taking some professional advice on this and, if possible, looking at this six months ahead rather than leaving it to the last minute like we did). Collate recent bank statements, bills and statements to take in your luggage so you’ve got reference numbers for bills in case you need to contact them from Australia. Get your post redirected to a family member. Take out emigration insurance for when you land. (We took out two months to give us some breathing space so we didn’t have to worry when we landed. Make sure it is emigration insurance or ‘one way’ insurance, as regular travel insurance won’t cover you). Get a copy of your no claims bonus for your car insurance. (We didn’t need this for setting up our new policy, but it can’t hurt to bring it with you). Not a happy one, but think about your wills. What will happen to your kids if something happens to you when you’re abroad? You’ll need to set something up when you land but you want to have something in writing to cover you in the meantime. You’ll also need to discuss things with family so everybody knows your wishes. Speak to your life insurance company to make sure you can keep your policy when living abroad. If not, you’ll need to set something up in Australia. (Ours was fine to keep running so long as it was paid from a UK bank account). Book a dentist appointment as you don’t know when you’ll have time to go again for a while and it is likely to cost you a lot more over there if you need work doing. If you take any regular medication, collect repeat prescriptions to keep you going for a while after the move. Here’s the things we did in the last few weeks and days… Cancel the following bills: Gas, electric, council tax, water, cable tv and broadband, phone, mobile phones (unless you want to keep them running until you land so people have a contact for you), bank accounts (you might need to keep one open for any bills), tax credits, child benefit, tv license, Inland Revenue , home insurance, car insurance and roadside assistance (when you’ve sold your car), film subscriptions, any club memberships. Sell your car. Print out a copy of the Medicare application form to take with you as you won’t have a printer when you land- or rock over to TheGoodGuys or similar the day you arrive! Take photocopies of your passports, birth certificates, marriage certificate and any important documentation. Take copies with you and leave a copy with a family member too. If you need to, finish off your UK tax return for the previous financial year and remember you will also need to submit one for the current financial year when it is due, so keep all paperwork together. Inform the school of your leaving date. Book a hire car for the airport big enough to take all your suitcases!! Print out your visa confirmation. (Although it is held electronically now, it’s amazing how many people ask to ‘see’ the visa’. You will need to show this as proof often so it’s worth taking a couple of copies.) Sort out a forwarding address for pensions, shares, child trust funds etc. Inform your UK bank and any credit cards that you’re moving abroad so they know to pass any payments you make through your cards abroad. (Although you will have an Australian bank account, it may take you a few days to pick up your bank cards and you might need money in an emergency.) Transfer some money to your Australian bank account. If you’ve been watching the rates for the past few months you’ll know if it’s worth taking all or just part of your money with you now. You can also set up alerts to sweep your money over when the rate hits a certain point. Update your CVs ready for the local job market and print off a few copies to take with you. Plan what important documents you need to take in your hand luggage i.e. which items you can’t afford to lose if your case went missing. Back up any photos and documents on portable hard drives (we took two) and keep them in a different place to your laptops. Get your mobiles unlocked so you can use them with a local sim. Get some Australian dollars to keep you going until you collect your bank cards. Write a list of phone numbers and addresses for your accommodation and taxi company ready for when you land. Ditto leave a copy of contact numbers for where you’re staying with family back home. Pack lots of fun things for your kids to do on the plane - POSSIBLY THE MOST IMPORTANT ITEM ON THE LIST!!! Do your best to plan in time to do some fun things with your family and friends and take lots of photos as these will form precious memories.

Of course, we'll review in 79 and a bit days and see what state we get it back in!

I think you're right!!! For anyone else booking a movecube, i took other peoples advice on here of marking out and stacking everything into the space so we could work out what space we had and used the month in between booking and D-day to add and adjust. It also helped being a little conservative on the measurements. On the day, it just meant starting at one end and replicating the pile in the cube. And despite the concerns about having 3 hours to pack, in reality it took me 2 hours on my own (with a neighbour to help me leverage the fridge freezer in) including 3 tea stops... and in fact we were given an 8am til 3pm window...whether this helped being a friday or not, i dont know.

Do you actually get a new physical licence on the day, or does it need to be printed and sent out to a mailing address?

nope - thats all in. £890 for a large one. Paid 200 deposit, awaiting final invoice of £690 once all the docs have been reviewed.

Hi Jen I ordered mine about a month ago in order to secure the day we wanted. I got the impression, that if you are flexible you can get one in a matter of days. It all depends on demand. It arrived 8am friday morning, and collected about 2:30. Cost was £890 from Rugby UK, to Melbourne door to door. Plus $308 local fees payable on arrival. Hope that helps.

Our movecube shipped out on Friday - so far all seems good, and you would be surprised what you can fit in!

Large Movecube all done in 2 hours, including tea breaks. So well packed, now running around to see if anything else can be shoved in the gaps.. :arghh:

Thanks - the thule aussie site seems to have the same model, so i'll assume its all good! Do you need a lightbar like you do in the uk?

I have a Thule Xpress 970, that clamps onto the tow ball - does anyone know if this will fit an aussie towbar?

311411 is on the supplementary sponsorship list for South Australia - http://www.migration.sa.gov.au/skilled-migrants/state-nominated-occupation-lists but you would need to get 80 points to be eligible.

Dont sweat it. I obtained 190 SS from victoria. Dont think i even had to mention anything about resources... It wasn't in the SS application, nor the visa application. the only reference it only gets mentioned was in the success notification:

£890 for the large one, plus AUD$308 on arrival - thats Rugby to Melbourne (seaford). I think the medium was about £500 if memory serves.

Our movecube box stacking exercise is continuing, with the actual cube arriving a week on Friday. We are leaving beds / sofas bedroom furniture etc, currently have a fridge freezer sitting in the middle of the pile, with a kitchen table & 4 chairs. We also have a 2 seater ikea sofa taken apart, that will go in if there is any room left. Other than that, its clothes/ books / kids toys / photos / tools / tv(s) / computer(s) & bits.

Odd question, or not, but how high is the cube in the trailer off the floor. Have a large one coming in 2 weeks and am concerned how we are going to manhandle our american fridge freezer into it. If its a bit of a lift we might struggle!

Why do you think the state sponsored route would take a long time. The state sponsorship approval for me took 8 working days from submission.

Well, hopefully they are good as their word. Their solicitors have already been instructed to complete on that date. We'll see, fortunately we dont need to wait for the sale to go.

Well we fly out on 25th August. We put the house on the market last monday, it sold on the tuesday! the buyers are happy to work to our timescales and looking to complete the day we fly.

For the ACS RPL pathway, assuming you have some sort of a recognised Bachelor degree or higher (not sure given your comments above), you'll need 6 years work experience closely related to the occupation code you're applying for - note ACS has quite detailed descriptions of the duties and responsibilities of the ICT occupation codes - you can download these from the ACS site. If you do not have a tertiary qualification, you'll need an additional 2 years of ICT work experience, but these 2 years do not have to be closely related to your nominated occupation code. You challenge is finding an ICT code where 6 of your years of experience will qualify as closely related, - you need to be able to demonstrate the skills/criteria in the list (you dont necessarily need to prove your job title was PM, but that the criteria was met - I suggest you study the ACS occupation descriptions very carefully and compare them to your work experience to try and find a code that will cover as much of your work experience as possible. Also - I dont think that 135112 is on the sol at the moment, so you would only be able to get a State Sponsored 190 visa if you went down this route (i think the lists are getting revised tomorrow) and at the moment, only Victoria & South Australia are sponsoring, so you would need to get one of them to sponsor you as well. not a problem if you are planning to live in one of those states..

Definitely on the networking. I use linkedin alot and have had good chats with people on there that i've connected with. you could even target Pom recruiters who might be more sympathetic to your situation.

As Bungo says, you will need to be assessed. It all depends what 'role' you want to be assessed for - I am also a senior PM, and got assessed by ACS under 135112 (ICT Project Manager) code. You need to be able to prove that you are doing and have experience in the role you want assessing for. This needs to be clear in the references and CV because ACS will need to look at your application and be able to clearly assess that you are an ICT Project Manager (or whatever role you pitch yourself at. You need to provide as much information in your references as possible to prove to ACS that this is your occupation,

Ta, scanner sorted.... have 'melted' 2x shredders so far, not allowed anymore!