Maggie2012

Hi,

I may be lucky enough to be offered work and a visa on the gold coast. I have visited the area only once in my early 20's, so am looking for advice on the best areas to live. It will be myself (30) and my fiancé (25). We have no children and are into the gym and beach life, nice meals out and cinema. We are moving over from west london and would be renting for the meantime.

Have done some research and looks like broadbeach may be an option? Southport seems to have lots of propertys for rent though. Any thoughts or advice would be much appreciated.

 

Thank you

Hi, just wondering if you made it to the GC and if so, where did you end up moving to. Also do you like it there?

It is part of the process to prove that you have initial funds to sustain yourselves for 6 months at least. People who ask for release this early are the one who only use ACT nomination to get the 190 visa. We have been in ACT for 15 months now and I would say that is a "giving it a try" not 2 months....just two cents worth of opinion....

So you've really only had 2 and a bit months of trying to find a job in ACT and most of that over the Christmas holiday shut down. You could ask for a release and see what they say - you lose nothing by it, they wont cancel your visa but in the scheme of ACT job filling, that's not a long time to be looking. Maybe give it 6 months and tell them how many hundreds of positions youve applied for, which agencies you have approached to find you a position etc etc. As others have said, they wont do anything to you other than wag the proverbial finger at you.

it is part of the process though. It is expected that it might be tough and you have to prove that you have enough funds to give it a go. The point was, if you have lied on your application of your intentions it is not just a moral obligation any more but a visa issue that could become more than just a moral issue. People tend to forget that visas can be cancelled should the sponsoring party withdraw sponsorship or report a false intention. A speed limit will not prevent you from driving a vehicle, but should you break it so it may lead to fines or loss of license.

As far as I understand JOJOGOINGOZ did not give it a go while asked for a release (at least ACT Gov seems to thinks so). To obtain a class 190 it is a pre-requisite to prove genuine intention to settle in a territory.

So there is a difference I think....

To be frank, there is a difference between those who just want a WAY INTO Australia and those who commit and think about giving it a go in a state. We are the latter ones, but personally I know people, who got their visas through ACT but went straight to Victoria or NSW.

We have asked for release alternatively, but we are still in ACT after 14 month. We are still trying to make it work but it is very hard. Doing casual jobs here an there slows our resource consumption but will not make it stop. With no outlook for a full time job, we have no other options but to try our luck elsewhere- eventually. Holiday season coming up made us to wait a bit.

Regardless, that is a bit of piss off when people ask for a decision to be released without giving it a go. But, Quoll, it is the ACT government's fault that they fall short of attracting manufacturing (or private companies) to come to the territory. Canberra has the potential to become the Silicon Valley of Australia, but all the government cares about is getting another retail store open (IKEA).

Hard to sustain and grow an economy if the money is artificially injected into an area.

Nothing wrong with Canberra as a town, but as you have pointed it out it is very hard to find jobs with a PR when most places require Australian Citizenship. And yes, there are jobs in the private sector but very few with exponentially higher applicants and because of that, plus the ACT government incentives to push laid off governmental employees into employment, you have very little chance in getting a job

It is not easy to network either, especially when you are forced to take some part time casual job that stretches into late hours and weekends. Let's face it is tough to meet people that way. Everything happens between 6 and 8 PM......

at the end you need to do what you need to do. It is a skilled visa and you did not get schooling/training to become a shelf stocker in life in Coles. And nothing against that, but if you can do more why shouldn't you be allowed to do that???

and agree, we don't want to take away a citizen's job. The is not the intention of any of us.....

Sorry to hear that ACT hasn't worked out for you and hope it hasn't soured your impressions of ACT too much! The ACT list of needed occupations, IMHO, has been a joke for years! Anyone local looking at that list would have a "WTF?" moment! It has long borne little resemblance to the current list of occupations in demand even without the current restructuring goings on. I do think it is very unfair to new migrants because so many positions they may be qualified for experientially are out of their range because of citizenship - not that I disagree with providing for citizens first, just bringing in new people where no jobs exist. Good luck elsewhere!

Great, you have got the same answer we did! Exactly the same wording, so it must be a pre-made reply letter!

Good luck in NT! We are working on looking somewhere else as well.....

I responded to the 6 month questionaire last week and told the ACT government i had moved to Darwin for work and received an email today from my resettlement officer which included the following text:

 

Please be advised that you have been granted a Skilled Nominated (Permanent)(class SN) Skilled – Nominated (subclass 190) visa. This visa was granted with NIL visa conditions, as per your visa grant letter.

 

Your 2 year obligation to live and work in Canberra is purely a moral obligation to the ACT Government and not a requirement of your visa. Moving to NT will have no affect on your visa, your residence status or any future application to become an Australian citizen.

 

Whilst we don’t like anyone to leave Canberra, we do understand that if you are unable to find suitable employment in the ACT then you have to make the decision whether to seek work in another part of Australia. Your record has now been closed which means that you will not receive any further requests to complete the remaining 6 monthly settlement surveys.

 

So that I think is, as they say, that!

 

 

 

If so, how did you go about it?

It is at a point now that we are seriously debating moving out of ACT because of ZERO jobs in the ACT. Correction, there would be jobs but those require security clearance we do not have.

So after 10 months in working casual jobs here and there with no prospect of a job in our professions we have no choice but to look elsewhere but would like to to it without any theoretical repercussion on our prospect of becoming a citizen in 3 years.

Please, do not say "there is no condition to your visa", we know that yet we are hear a case where someone moved out of their state under a permanent state sponsored visa and got their citizenship. If you are one of those people we'd like to hear from you.

Thank you for the reply! :-)

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