mikearkwright

Thanks Metoo feels like we're getting close!!

Case officer assigned today, medicals booked for 5/10/13!!

Congratulations what great news! The countdown to going begins!!

Lol good luck with that :biggrin:you'd think the 3 children would be enough proof of your relationship wouldn't you?! I think this is the scariest part actually, we've come this far and spent so much money, what if we fall at the final hurdle? Scary!!

Good luck I'm sure it'll be fine I've seen on here about people having to send in photos of themselves as a couple! Do you have to do all that? We've been married 4 years and have a 4 year old so things are pretty straight forward for us on that front. Cat

Well tbh we are using an agent, so they are doing all the forms for us, all we had to do was the test for state sponsorship which was fine and sign a few forms. All the stages since the skills assessment have gone incredibly quickly, especially after waiting 16 weeks for the skills assessment. Dont worry about the questions if we can help we will!! Cat

We found the skills assessment was by far the longest stage so far! So far the rest has been quick and easy, but now we're at the hardest part, getting the actual visa!

Hiya, we did this recently and it was quite an easy process the test is fine and you can find all the answers online, the links they provide you with are useful and you can look at them as you do the test. There's no time limit and you can save it and go back to it later if you want. The 3 jobs can be any in your field, just type in your job into an Australian job website. One thing to be aware of (may have changed now) but every time we entered our d.o.b's when we got to the summary page they had changed by one day. In the end we phoned and checked this and they said "don't worry we are aware of the problem". Like Kbounds says to edit your signature, make sure you're signed in, click settings, then down the left hand side you will see the option edit signature, just click that type what you want and press save, hey presto it will be there. Hope that helps, and good luck!

After we did the state nomination we received an email to say we were successful and we had to print something out and sign it, that was returned last Tuesday 30/7 and we've just had another email from our migration agent to say we've been invited to apply. So it's not taking too long! Mike

Hi, we flew with Singapore airlines at Xmas time with a 3 1/2 year old. There's no need to buy kids head phones, they have special kids ones plus they're different; they have 2 connectors not one so normal headphones are no good. Definitely book children's meals; they come with a little lunch box full of snacks and juice to save for later. Also, bring plenty of your own snacks as my son ( normally a brilliant eater) refused to eat any of the plane food and on the first keg, our agent had forgotten to book a children's meal so he had to have an adults meal which were very rich and included ice cream with alcohol in. Singapore airlines were very apologetic and sorted it for the next leg right away, but there was nothing they could do at 3000fft in the air! The entertainment was good, there was Disney Jr on on repeat and some good kids films like Cars 2, Madagascar (whatever number they're in now) and Ice Age (ditto), so your kids can be sure to find something familiar. We were really lucky, Oli slept for almost all of the flights, he was asleep as we went down the runway at one point! But if your child does cry please don't spend hours 'shhhhhing' them at the top of your voice, it's way more annoying than a crying child! And after hours of shhhhing definitely don't start shhhhhing actual songs lol. Oh and my best advice. Don't buy Trunkis, especially on your own with 2 children as they WILL want to ride on them all of the time, then they don't get the exercise benefit of walking a d the damn things just don't corner! They're ok when it's quiet but when there's other people around its difficult not to bash their legs.

Don't be daft, yeah we are in the process of visa application at the moment hoping to be sorted by end of this year early next off to WA

Hi Debby, No it wasn't me, sorry. We are from Morecambe, Lancashire Mike

Hi Debby, Welcome along, sorry cant help regards the car garage or hotel. Thought I would say hi anyway. Good luck with everything!! Mike

Get it done!! What is it they say, "regret the things you've done, not the things you haven't"

Have a look on realestate.com.au will be able to put the area you want to look at size of house and see whats available. Hope that helps Mike