wendylewis

Firstly, when were you issued your Visa? You mention 2009 you applied and activated last year? The conditions of our PR were to activate within a year and move within 5 years of it being issued or we lost it. Check the date and conditions of your visa. My children came from an Academy in the UK and are enrolled in the local High School. They've settled and are doing brilliantly. We have no fees, other than the minimal contributory amounts which is about $300 per year for both. Depends on when you come and the age of your children as to what year they will be placed into. High School only goes to Year 12 not Year 13. My son skipped a year but my daughter has remained in the same school year as they didn't want to put her up as needed her to get into the swing of it before going into Year 11 for the start of HSC. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Congratulations. We opened accounts online in the UK with the Commonwealth Bank and our cards were waiting at the local branch when we arrived. We used Transferwise to send all our money as we looked into Banks, Money Corp etc and compared their rates and fees and Transferwise was the best. This was last year tho. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It cost us jusf over £700 my son was 9 so just needed a medical so his was only £75 - my daughter was 12 so had a medical and chest x-ray so hers was more expensive then my husband and I had to have xray and blood tests.

Just to let you know all our medicals were fine according to the Hospital but one ended up referred - don't know why but it was and it took the MOC four months (due to backlogs) to clear it. Then we got the grant

Yay - Great News Carol x

Word of Warning. The Visa will be back dated to the earliest date of either your police check or medical. Our Police Checks are dated 1st Feb and Medicals 6th Feb. One of our Medicals was referred and we got our Grant today and we only have until 1st Feb to activate it

Email your CO. After we were assigned CO and asked for Medicals and Police Checks ours were still at required until this morning when visa was granted. Email and check they've been received. Good Luck

We finally got our Grant today after over 4 months of waiting ! So relieved.

Anyone over 18 in the family

Yes 189 and U.K.

Sorry cant help - we didn't front load we waited until CO requested them

Heard nothing yet. We are going to give it this week and ring Sunday night to ask, yet again, what's going on - flipping 4 months today !!!

We had our Medicals 5th Feb after case officer requested them and police check. All 4 of us were given Grade A Medicals but unfortunately one has been spot checked (referred) and we have still not got our grant 4 months on!

You will be referred which takes months for clearance but you'll be cleared eventually.

Our Medicals were referred on 6th Feb and we are still waiting