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Interesting point! I'm over 50 and was in a quite senior position. My company has been paying a recruiter, and they advised it is a real struggle right now for anyone of my 'years'.

Because I was made redundant right at the start of Covid - after 9 years and 11 months in the job, and a decade out here. I have since filled in 100 job applications, and got 3 interviews. All no go. However, I applied, almost to test the water, for 3 jobs in the UK, and got 2 interviews. Difference between the AU and UK job market I guess. It's a toss up between an amazing job, at really good pay in the UK, or Australia on benefits. Not much of a choice. Anyway, I have sort of found the answer to my question here: https://lux-traveller.com/2020/flying-australia-to-the-uk.htm Basically there are only two options: the once a week via Malaysia flight, or the once a day via China flight, which allow you to avoid UK quarantine. Anything else, and it's a no go (or rather, 2 weeks going nowhere). But goodness, the prices are astronomical.

After eleven years in Australia, I'm reluctantly about to return to the UK for work. I'm applying for my exit permit - which is stressful enough - but I'm also trying to get a flight back to London. Australia is on the list of 'exempt countries' so I don't have to isolate when I get to the UK. Great! But I've just seen I do have to isolate at my home, if I transit. But without a home, I won't be able to - my new employer will put me up in a hotel while I look for somewhere to rent. But I can't do that as I can't self isolate in a hotel? And my new employer will have a fit too. Anyone else discovered this problem - or is the 'quarantine after a transit stop' rule infact ignored on arrival in the UK. It's only an hour in transit anyway, literally walking between gates!

Yep, tried another one later who told me that without stamps the sorting office would reject them. They said they'd had quite a few...

Has anyone else had problems posting back their EU referendum postal vote? I went into the post office today and was told that the International freepost envelope wasn't valid in Australia?! Apparently I have to pay 50 odd dollars for a courier, or put a snail mail stamp on the envelope, but the woman behind the counter told me that 'it wouldn't get there in time', but if I put it in the box without a stamp, it would just get rejected at the sorting office. Seems odd???

I've only ever been sent a letter, not a visa grant notice. The letter has no visa grant number. I guess this is what they were asking me for today, but of course as I didn't know there was one, this might explain why they were confused, as was I. I guess they should be able to send me one three years after they should have sent it?

To reply to my own tread, in case anyone else has this problem - it's a number that isn't on the letter! You have to phone them! After hours trying to get through to immi on the phone they assured me that the visa grant number would be on the letter, or on a sticker in my passport if I paid for one - but finally after reading the letter aloud to them, convincing them they hadn't told me the number, they set up a VEVO password, which allows me to see the visa number. And it revealed a visa grant number I've never seen in my life. Weird. I can't believe immi wouldn't tell me the number, and the didn't believe I've never been sent it! Anyone else ever had this problem?

Hi, I went through the subclass 309 and then got the full BC100 (Partner) visa back in 2011. This week - for the first time in the five years I've been in Australia! - I was asked to prove my visa status on an application. Now my letter from the immi has: Client ID Application ID File Number But nowhere does it say visa number! I've been pointed in the direction of this VEVO webpage on the immi site, but there is asks for either Visa Grant Number Visa Evidence Number Transaction Ref Number Any ideas how the three numbers I have in my letter translate to the either a visa number, or the information the immi ask before they'll tell you about your visa?

Ah, now I get it! Sorry for all the confusion - I've read so much about it, the obvious answer wasn't, as it were. And now, as I understand it, HE (the child) is 'by descent', so he can't pass on British Citizenship to any children he has if they are born in Australia - in a few decades time that is?

Ah, sorry, I should have clarified. I've only just checked what she actually did... This one - ancestry visa via grandmonther, then live there long enough to get citizenship. Born 1977 - is there a list of what the situation was before this? Aha! Of course the BHC didn't mention this gem...

Thank you for all your replies! I'm really starting to see through the mud here - the lack of sleep from having a child with a fine set of lungs that vibrate the walls really wan't helping. Brilliant! Just what I needed to know. Ah, slightly more complicated then? Form C2 has an 'any other information' section, so I guess I just put it in there - and then hope my passport comes back quick? All the posts (some quite old) I'd seen about this had talked about making sure you register the birth at the BHC, but I guess this is no longer needed - or indeed possible. I have the Aussie birth registation document infront of me, and that of course doesn't go into nationality - just 'year of arrival in Australia'.

Hi, I’ve spent a very long time reading the forum which has been very helpful over the past 4 years. I came here on a 309 visa (tough to get: had to go back for a Secondary Interview at Australia House), and have now got PR. Now I wonder, after an hour hanging on the phone to the BHC, and a couple of days digging through the forums, can anyone can give me any advice? Our first child has been born in Australia – yeah! – just this week. I was just about to register the birth, and get a UK passport for him so we can go back to the UK, when I found, to my shock, that: You can no longer register births to UK parents at the BHC in Canberra. All passport applications now go through Wellington. If you are an unmarried woman who’s had a child abroad and you would like the father’s details recorded on the document, both you and the father will need to swear Statutory Paternity Declarations in front of a UK solicitor/Commissioner for Oaths. You can’t register a birth if the parents were born overseas and are only British by descent. So how can I register him as British and get a British passport, if Australia is specifically excluded from registering a birth? Then, how do we go to Wellington to hand over our passports to get a passport for him? I can’t post them as I travel extensively about twice a month out of Australia anyhow. How can we (we are not married) get to a UK solicitor to swear at them to get the Statutory Paternity Declarations without said passports? And finally – the real surprise for me – being British by descent means you can’t register him as British anyway (partner is an Aussie who got a UK passport by ancestory, and then went through naturalisation to get a British passport: I take it she isn’t a full British citizen? We thought she was, but reading up on it now in a hurry, by birth she isn’t). So how do we get a UK passport for our new son? Sorry – I’m just really confused by this, and the clock is ticking as we’ve decided to go straight back to the UK in March.