DisillusionedScot

Cheers Jules. Appreciated. Hear from you soon! ?

Hi guys, just a quick question. I've got a 176 visa (permanent resident) but the visa itself will be due for renewal in a while (not until July 2016 actually). I came in as the spouse of my now ex partner. Can I renew the visa? If so how do I do it? Will I be man-handled onto the first available flight back to the UK? I'd really rather stay if I can. Also, my passport is due for renewal, what happens with the visa itself i.e. will I need to show both the new passport and the old one containing the visa? Many thanks in advance. Alan

Well just as soon as my software testing company requires a PA you'll be the first person I contact Northern ;-)

Too late . Read it....

For the first time in years. I can see light at the end of the tunnel :-) thanks guys.

Happy :-)

Hi Stacey, that's right but they won't let me here for lots of bureaucratic reasons :-) good to hear from you.

Hi, that sounds interesting. My computer skills are reasonable. I've got an MSc in Business I.T. Systems from Strathclyde Uni and I'm an approved marker for the ECDL. European Computer Driving License. But...I've got no maths or calculus or anything like that so I can't program. Got no idea about programming and Im not in any way creative so can't design either :-/ But I'd definitely like to know more. Really really appreciate the offer. Can you tell me more? :-) I can be business smart. Heres my website: http://www.alandbell.com.au there's some photos of me on it :-)

Thanks Tink. I appreciate that :-)

It not a choice. I couldn't even get a job in Woolies.

Thanks Sammy I'm registered with them.

Om nearly 50. None of that has ever worked. None of it. Ive never had a job out of a paper I have daily alerts from seek and all the major job sites. The problem is: I have no skills. Nothing to sell. If I were a plumber or electrician I'd never be out of work. But I'm not so I am. That's just reality. I want to get skills by going to Uni but that route is closed. I'm out of ideas.

Eh? Sorry, I'm lost. What positive action Tink? This iscall stuff I've been doing all my life and norhing has worked out.

I dont know who else to ask.

Why does everyone think I don't think positively? I want to go to Uni but I can't afford to. Want a job but even though I try I can't get one. Oh yes I try every day. I do persevere - partly why I started this thread. I attend my employment consultant every week. I do all the things I'm supposed to. I look, I hope. Nothing ever changes.

So, anyone want to give me a job? Didn't think so.

You see that's the issue. I did step up. I tried to better myself but I can't afford it. I tried with a job last year but had a heart attack and a breakdown. Ive been trying to get a job ever since. I even went to TAFE but that didn't help. Plans are all very well but there has to be something at the end and there just isnt.

I hear you Tink. But almost 50 years of struggle for what, nothing, tells me that it takes not just a PMA, but lots of luck, the right connections and well I don't know what else. But with the greatest of respect being optimistic about having nothing, I just can't see how that will help. Sorry. If someone out there steps up to the plate and gives me the big break I need I'll wholeheartedly accept that being positive worked. But that isn't going to happen though is it :-/

Well fair enough. It isn't a deal breaker is it. I'd find a way to Mandurah. But I need a job first.

Things have changed drastically in the last 12 months. If you are out of the country for more the two and a half years you will not get benefits for six months. I have no relatives left therefore no local connections. That means housing are no longer obliged to provide shelter. I have contacts on social cwork who have been very thorough as they would like to see me safe (mainly because I owe them $$$$ s). I no longer even hold a valid passport!

So for another 15 months I sit here looking for work knowing that it isnt going to happen (history shows me that). I have no idea what to do now :-/

Hi Jessie. Yeah I'm still about 15 months off (Not sure if they count from when the visa was granted or when I landed). Either way I'm a ways off it. Im 48 now so I'd be like 54 by the time I'd be fully qualified. Maybe folk are right and I should just forget it. Hmmm.

Thank you though your post isnt actually helpful. Things have changed drastically in the UK with respect to the benefits system as I said I have been in touch with Glasgow City Social Work and it effectively means living on the streets. Thank you for you contribution.

Nearly 3 years in, no money, no job, lost my partner of 20 years, both my dogs died, heart attack, depression, homeless living in a car, gall stones, dodgy kidney, there are days when I wonder how I'm still here. I have really no idea.

I think unless anyone has any suggestions for actually obtaining assistance to pay for University then we're probably done here. If I can recap: permanent residents get no help whatsoever so id have to pay cash up front. So, my only options would be to: 1 Pay everything up front 2. Go part time but still have to find cash from somewhere 3. Forget the idea Have I missed anything?