bex04

Hey

Does anyone have any advice or information on how a UK Police officer can migrate to Australia (Preferably East of Aus)? Our dear friends want to emigrate. One is a Police officer (43 yrs old) in the UK with almost 14 years of experience, and the other (47 yrs old) has almost 20 years of working in OOHC/Residential Care for children. 

As one has passed the 45 years cap, the next best option is the 43-year-old Police officer. I was wondering if anyone has heard of a Police officer having success with applying under the ANZCO Welfare Support group or any other category, given the fact Police do not come under skills in demand.  

Quoll, cheers for the info, some great stuff there. We're coming over as PRs Visa 190.

Myself and partner will be migrating from the UK to ACT hopefully by the end of 2016. We will have, by then, a two year old who we will need to start introducing to kindi/education. I have no idea about how schooling works in Australia and want to be fully prepared for our daughter's future: kindergarten fees, school fees, subsidies, starting age, location catchment etc...

Any advice and information would be greatly appreciated.

Hey

Thanks for the message. Hope it all goes great for you. You'll have to let me know how the inner north is. We're flying out for 3 weeks on 19th May. We'll be visiting Sydney and Melbourne (Parents) but hoping to get through to Canberra around the 30th May for a mooch around the burbs. We'll keep in touch and may catch up for a brew in May?

Hi Bex, just to say my wife, toddler twins and I arrive on May 5. We'll be staying in the inner north for a couple of months while we look for a permanent rental and wait for our stuff to arrive from Edinburgh. I'll be home with the kids full time for the foreseeable future so would be happy to meet up with the kids during the day and explore our new home!

Hi Bex04,

we are in the same boat (and I'm another Bex lol) we are hoping to move to canberra in June assuming we have been granted our 189 visa by then. My sister, brother in law and family live there already. I'm a nurse and my husband is a rugby development officer. We are looking at Bonython and surrounding suburbs. I'll have to keep my eye out for your progress, as you'll probably be there vp before us. (We are also on a budget with the aim of keeping as much as possible to put towards buying a house.) but we will have the benefit of staying with my sister for a couple of months at the start until we get jobs.

Best of luck!

becky

Well Hi Bex

Yeah very similar. My mother, partner and sister live in Sydney and father, wife and two brothers live in Melbourne. Unfortunately we can't bunk with either for too long as our visas are 190 (state sponsored) so we are bound to live and work in ACT. We're flying out for 3 weeks this May to sus out some things then returning to UK with intent of moving permanently as soon as the house sells. Everything is revolving around 'the house'! the amount of funds we'll have, depending on what it sells for and time scale for the move, depending on when it sells.

Good luck to you too. Might be nice to meet up for a bit of moral support.

Bex

Thanks for your replies Quoll. What's a "bingle"? lol

Wow Slean, what a reply, very informative. There's a lot to go on there so thank you very much. We've been looking at available ICT jobs and need to get some info regarding level 1 & 2 clearances. Most jobs require these clearances which, like you say are for citizens only, leaving not a lot of availability!

We will have a car as kindly given by my dad & step mam who live in Melbourne so would like to know if and where traffic would be a burden if we moved 'outer'?

Thank you, will look at those locations

Where will your DH be working? That's probably your first priority then look at renting within easy access to work.. If you don't know where he will be working then aim for somewhere central but you'll find the houses probably not what you're expecting if you're on a budget. Probably avoid Charnwood, Narrabundah, Richardson in the first instance but even they are gradually becoming gentrified and going more up market. Be prepared to spend quite a bit in the process of getting established.

 

Nowhere is going to be that bad, the further out you go the more likely you will need two cars and don't expect the neighbourhoods to be full of stay at home mums - they are few and far between these days. Lots of things available for kids pretty much all over.

Thanks for your reply. DH has no pre planned job. We will try and secure one before we arrive but at the moment all locations are options. We're prepared for costs to settle but hoping to retain as much as possible for long term and property purchase, hence hoping for a non expensive but suitable and comfortable short term home.

Myself and partner are in our mid 30s with a, currently 5 month old baby. We've just received our 190 visa and clueless of where to move to in ACT, despite reading up on the suburbs....there are just too many! My partner is the main applicant and was sponsored as 'ICT Support Engineer'. We will have a vehicle to get around but arriving with minimal funds. We would like somewhere reasonably priced, that is safe and suitable for our age group with a young baby for at least a few months until employment is found. Any advice would be appreciated. Contacts/associates/friends to gain and meet up with also would be nice

Bex