TurnersInOz

definately take an up to date c.v and copies of your quals better to look prepared and keen than just trying your luck! my husband is a soon to be graduate engineer I'm wondering whether it would be worth a trip for him???

thanks cal. i've already check them out as you mentioned it in a previous post. I thought it was a little pricey...looked nice though. we stayed in Brisbane holiday village on a previous holiday...looks similar. will email them for a quote though. we don't want to be right on the gold coast hoping to be more near upper coomera or pacific pines so we can check out rentals easily.

Hi Were a family of 5 looking for a short term rental, July in the South of Brisbane or gold coast, were hoping to settle Pacific pines area, so ideally would like it to be near to there. Does anyone know of any short term letting companies, private owners, serviced apartments/accommodation or any good short term rental web sites. Also I'm looking for suggestions on what is a reasonable amount of time to rent temporary accommodation for our arrival in Aus? Thanks :biggrin:

Planning on moving to the Gold coast looking at June 30th, but no flights booked yet, I will start to believe its finally going to happen when they are Hopefully your child visa will be with you by then.

Thanks Sanders. We sent them off today....let the wait begin!!!! Would be good to hear when you get yours. When and where are you hoping to move to?

Hi Sanders Thanks for the info Can you please tell me when we need to do the police checks, do we send them off with the application or does the CO request them when they start processing the visa? Are you waiting in the UK until you get your child's visa?

Ha ha lets hope so Just saw your goldcoast bound....us too...we've been looking at Pacific pines as a place to settle, but will be seeking lots of advice from here in the coming months. My husband has been dealing with prices, I think he said about £1400, but could be wrong, lets hope so your price is more desirable, then the meds and police checks on top. I'll let you know when we send them off if you like? The forms were OK once I'd read the guidelines, although I thought they could have done with some detailed guidance notes for each question. They also seem more designed around people applying from within Aus, so was difficult to know what to put for some questions. We did a statutory deceleration to state how we plan to support our child and another regarding joint parental responsibility. There is some posts on here which helped, but please get in touch if you need some help with yours I need to get the police check forms sent off in morning so we can get the visa applied for.....can't wait to get out there it's been almost 6 years in the planning...I better like it

Hi Dan We are in the same position. We validate ours summer 2011 then I fell pregnant. We didn't realise at the time that our baby boy would need a visa to himself and how much it would cost! I've just finished filling in the forms today:) Were planning on moving to Queensland in June. I think the visa takes 6 - 9 month to process. We were told by our previous migration agent that we can move out before the visa gets processed, but we will have to leave Aus for a few days when it gets processed....I'm assuming this is because it will need validating by entry back in to Aus? Have you filled in the forms yet? We heard that the police checks were done at a later date with the health checks, however the police checks are included on the check list of what needs sending off with the applications, so I'm assuming that info was wrong??? Not sure regarding the validation period, but looks like Rupert has answered that one for you