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Seems to me like you have a couple of options... Option 1 ::: if you are at a very opportune time in your life, either living at (or at least can return to) your parents house rent free. You are happy living very frugally or are happy to work (or be looking for work) more than doing anything else and you can forego luxuries (like flying to a deserted island or whatever). And you have no intentions to stay in Au beyond your initial WH. If you were to last 2-3 months before coming home then you need to not think of that as a waste and a bad outcome. In which case :::: Buy your flight, insurance, visa. Either have an open return (if you can get one valid long enough in the future) or have 900GBP aside for a flight home. Go with your 5k AUD, do what you'll do and then come home. Option 2 :::: You value having the expeience that's right for you above doing it as soon as posible. You don't want to spend all your time either working casual work of whatever you can find, or scrambling for cleaning work to pay for your space on a sh1tty bunk bed. You would like to stay for the full year, possibly the two years, and you might even conside that you might want to stay (25, single, child-free - you might well do). You want to spend at least 50% of your time travelling / actually experiencing the country. You are the sort of person that worrie a little about money and you value peace of mind of not just getting by. You are happy to save for another year and wait it out. In which case :::: wait, save, come over with 8kGBP. Look for contract roles with your skills from home, apply for jobs ahead of time, plan holidays and trips every couple of months (preferably the first few before arriving). Take your time, savor it and enjoy it. Each of those scenarios are valid for the right person, but choose the one that suits you and you'll be fine. Good luck.
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If you are in Melbourne or are coming to Melbourne and are looking for a Field Engineer role, please PM me, between 2 -3 year's experience please PM me.
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Making new friends in Australia
adaminoz replied to Xerxes's topic in Socialising Hobbies Clubs Sport
I'm in Melbourne too, happy for a meetup, PM if you want to swap details... -
Making new friends in Australia
adaminoz replied to Xerxes's topic in Socialising Hobbies Clubs Sport
So going with the vein of this thread, anyone fancy a coffee? -
Making new friends in Australia
adaminoz replied to Xerxes's topic in Socialising Hobbies Clubs Sport
Yeah - there's definitely some BS on this thread, but also some sense too. I've been here for 3 years, and making friends has been slow, but there's no real big difference between making friends here than making friends in the UK. They're not gonna come to you, and when you come here your're starting from scratch, but if you accept that you'll need to make small efforts daily for months and months, then it'll come good. As has already been said, go about your life in your usual way, do the things you enjoy, and make effort to be social along the way. Once you get some momentum, then it's much easier. -
Btw, I was never asked for Form 80 before my application wss approved.
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Froggles, that's my guess too. The original case officer either didn't know or didn't spot it. After refusal, the original CO asked him to resubmit and send him the TRN directly. The CO then got the case assigned to him and it was approved straight away (within a couple of weeks of submission). Another $3.5k though and the experience of a rejection letter.
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Here's an interesting one for you. Colleague of mine submits an application for 186 Direct Entry around 1 year ago. 6 months later, the nomination was approved and case officer assigned. CO said verbally that all was good and he just needed medical. Medicals were requested and completed. 4 weeks later, letter by registered post with a visa refusal. The reason was that the Skills Assessment was dated and uploaded after the application date, which apparently isn't allowed. That could have been refused straight away, but 6 months + medicals went by before refusal.
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Yeah, I reckon that if your HR dept calls them, it's very simple and clean-cut so they'll just tell you outright whether it'll be refused, then just withdraw and reapply.
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Nope, you'll just have to re-apply. Maybe HR thought 2 years after 457 approval. I think (but am not sure) that it's 2 years after starting the nominated role for the nominated employer.
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Thanks for all the congratulations and good luck to those waiting. I second MaggieMay24's comments, transition is definitely 2 years before you can apply. Can you clarify the date of arrival and the date commencing the role? If it's not 2 full years, it'll get refused, I checked this with them before I applied (I REALLY wanted to apply early!). My advice - get your HR to call immigration and double check dates. If they confirm what we think, then you can either withdraw the nomination. Re-apply after that (you will not get you) nomination fee back most likely - so you might have to cop the $800 or whatever it is). Seeing that you applied early March you'll likely get a decision soon anyway. You definitely don't want to lodge your application now because if the nomination is refused your $1000s in application fees go with it!
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I can now post my timeline: Application & nomination: 14th Feb 2014 (Transition Stream, IT, English) CO Assigned and medicals requested: 30th April 2014 Medicals attended 7th May (after having to reply to get my HAP ID) Visa Grant: 14 May 2014
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Just that I have white coat syndrome, but mine was quite a bit lower than that and the medibank doc said it was fine. I've read in a few places that it can result in referral but never refusal that I've seen. Good luck!
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That sounds familiar star1976! Do you mind if I ask what his BP was?
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Thanks :-) ... but I was wondering how long others had waited (not those that front loaded medicals) - 2 days, 2 weeks, 2 months..?
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Congrats on the visa! All docs apart from medicals loaded together a week before yours. Medicals loaded a week ago after requested by case officer...
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Congratulations to everyone who have had their visas granted. Can anyone give some indication of how long after attending for medicals you had to wait before either a decision, or a request for further information?
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My nomination and application were submitted together with everything except for medical. Submitted nom + app together, Transition Scheme on 14th Feb. Site showed 'in progress' more or less straight away. I'm british, and am the sole applicant. Still waiting.
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The company I work for has really struggled to find decent IT staff with good client-facing skills. My comments below are after unsuccessfully helping my employer look for 2 X wintel/infrastructure people (including looking through CVs, advertising directly and through many agents, lots of phone and face-to-face interviews) It seems that people who are decently skilled (to CCNA, MCITP-level, circa 5 years' experience) but also impressive in front of clients for less than $100k are nowhere to be found. Someone in this thread above said that there was 300 applicants for one job. Whilst that may be the case, 285 of them are flawed in one way or the other. They're either personally flawed (anyone who works in IT knows exactly what I mean by that) or are lacking in the sort of the technical learning agility that would have made them develop into decent L2/3 engineers after their few years in the job. My assessment after more than 6 months of searching is that the network/systems market *is* saturated, it's saturated by poor quality candidates. (by the way, if you are nodding along with the above, and are looking for a systems engineer job, send me a PM :-) )