jonas valent

thanks! I've been looking and just not getting anything back so now at least i have access to the proper channels to find work locally

thanks, i think now i have centrelink breathing down their necks people will actually give me a second thought before they go ahead and hire their neices cousins brother in law!!

I'm just re-writing this with links to let people know that the subclass 100 Partner Visa grants an exemption to the 104 week waiting period to make claims to certain payments from Centrelink. below are the links to the humanservices pages that list these exemptions and also a list of items i brought in my own (successful) application for Newstart: http://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/enablers/newly-arrived-residents-waiting-period List of documents I brought in order to make a claim: Passport. Birth Certificate. Marriage Certificate. Drivers Licence. Bank Statement. Medicare Card. Bank (Debit) Card. VEVO printout from the immi.gov.au website. Visa Grant PDF from immigration officer. I just hope that this post can help others in a way that i couldn't be helped due to lack of understanding / clarification of the information and entitlements at Humanservices.gov.au and through general lack of experience of previous members of the site. (not everyone moving to a new country, myself included, actually want to be in a position where it's necessary to claim welfare).

Well after dropping in again at Centrelink this afternoon while out house hunting OH and i are looking for rentals, i learned that YES I am entitled to Newstart with my Subclass 100 Visa (got paid today) YES it is exempt from the 104 week waiting period and best of all YES I can get help from the local job agency that wouldn't touch me with a 10ft barge pole the week before last because i wasn't claiming from Centrelink!

well this time tomorrow i'll have the straight of it once and for all

I'm sorry to hear that, and i hope it all turns out for the best, you'll have to let me know, though at least this way you know you can get newstart with me too, we can all go to the job center together and dance around like we're in the full monty

of course thanks. I've actually a Bachelors degree in pharmaceutical science from Ireland, so quality control and regulatory affairs is my kind of thing, or anything in a GMP/GLP environment not that i'll say no if i find anything going! good idea about the vineyards though i'll have a scout around for farmhand work.

So far so good, i'll be getting a call in the next day or two and the person i seen in centrelink read their own rules as per having a 100 subclass visa as being exempt from the 104 week waiting period, according to her i'll "be getting a call and getting seen to by ETC" (the local job agency) so one more update to go when i see the outcome of this phone call! I'm living in Wauchope NSW at the moment, pretty much the middle of nowhere but we're going to be moving to port macquarie soon we hope :smile:

So i just got off the phone to centrelink and according to the lady there i just need to bring in the portion of my visa stating the subclass 100 section so i'll be printing out a copy of that today from VEVO and that should be everything as according to their files there is no reason for me not to be entitled to newstart. i'll update you all later on today as to how it goes.

All i can hope is that the section below is accurate: Visas exempt from the Newly Arrived Resident’s Waiting Period If you have one of the following visa subclasses, you don’t have to serve the Newly Arrived Resident’s Waiting Period for the listed payments and concession cards: Commonwealth Seniors Health Card and Low Income Health Care Card and all payments except Special Benefit subclass 100 - spouse/partner subclass 110 - interdependency subclass 801 - spouse/partner subclass 814 - interdependency subclass 832 - close ties subclass 833 *- certain unlawful non-citizens also as i look at the bottom of that page it was updated a week ago so it's hardly out of date..

well i am applying for jobs in brisbane as when it comes down to it, my wife and i are going to be in our own place soon regardless of all this back and forth with centrelink, and her mum is for the most part going to be ok. just the help i need is to find something until then locally, as it's the same back in ireland, it's not what you know it's who you know for all the small jobs out here but if you have centrelink shoe-horning you into every scheme/training course/ part time job available you're bound to get in somewhere.

that's just what i'll do, also what the very helpful individual on the immigration helpine suggested to do yesterday, seein as according to them, they have no input into cases through centrelink, aside from being told a straight up lie last time i claimed for newstart they were to lazy to read their own website it seems.

as i have in the above post it's an exemption to the 104 week waiting period.... I don't think you'd have to wait 2 years to get an exemption to waiting 2 years? i'll have to contact them tomorrow i guess, i spent the day in bed dealing with my great aunt passing away.... thanks for the input guys.

has anyone else got some input into this as they seem to be shooting themselves in the foot by listing my visa category (100) as being exempt from the waiting period yet denying me Newstart on grounds of not meeting the residency requirement.

I'm calling immigration with the query directly but any more info from everyone here would be great too, i'm 29th in queue haha. and it certainly seems that way doesn't it Marlou?

See that's what I thought too until i seen this: [h=2]Visas exempt from the Newly Arrived Resident’s Waiting Period[/h]If you have one of the following visa subclasses, you don’t have to serve the Newly Arrived Resident’s Waiting Period for the listed payments and concession cards: [h=3]Commonwealth Seniors Health Card and Low Income Health Care Card and all payments except Special Benefit[/h] subclass 100 - spouse/partner subclass 110 - interdependency subclass 801 - spouse/partner subclass 814 - interdependency subclass 832 - close ties subclass 833 *- certain unlawful non-citizens this is from http://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/enablers/newly-arrived-residents-waiting-period so I'm under the impression from the above when they say "all payments except special benefit" that it covers Newstart as well?

I've been on the site here on and off for a few years, way back then i was looking to move over my dog, then it was timelines and such, then that fateful day i got my visa granted, (309/100) skipped right to the permanent residency too on account of the length of my relationship with my wife, 8 years married and known each other for 10 all up. When i arrived in Australia 7 months ago i had my savings and such, most of which ended up going within 3 months due to supporting my mother in law and the frequent travelling my wife and i had to do in and out of the nearest town to get set up with Centrelink and medicare and the like, (stupid me didn't have a licence at the time so every trip was $50 on the bus. long story short I'm in rural NSW with limited funds and very little in the way of work opportunities, not in dire circumstances (my wife is getting carers payment etc for her mum) but not really the best start for a new life. I'd applied to Centrelink for Newstart back in April, this was denied supposedly on grounds that immigration said i was not entitled to it, i was told this by Centrelink, over the phone of course in the middle of the day while i was in the street without a shred of paperwork to hand. Now my wife's found out from someone from Carers over the phone that it was on grounds of me not having residency...... I'm pissed more so because i could really do with the help finding work, not the money, though by now that'd not go amiss either Any-who, rant over and now to the question; Does anyone know who i can contact in immigration from the Australian side and also have any of the rest of you been in this situation with Centrelink? any help will be most appreciated bob.

wish me luck i'm looking for something around about $1,500 when i get there

damn right, only reason i'm not bringing my labrador is he'd really not do well in the heat, and i can leave him with my parents, least i know he'll be well taken care of and fatter than a baby hippopotamus before this time next year

This is torture, i just found out the local IGA does online shopping but they're out of the beef jerky i like, haha hope they restock soon!

Less than 3 weeks til I'm setting foot down under!

I think you have pretty much everything covered, i don't think i'd had the half of the things you do there and just like you's i didn't get a joint account with my OH until a few months before my application so don't sweat it.

I'll be moving up this way this month and just wondering if there are still any fellow blow-ins that are nearby that'd be up for a cup of coffee or a pint or some such malarkey i know there were quite a few couples in port a few years back by looking at the threads but anyone recent?

what he said

Myself and my Missus, Bob and Amy, i'm 28 she's 26. i'm Irish and she's Australian, we've spent the last almost 8 years in Ireland while i finished college and got work experience and now we'll be moving to Wauchope in NSW, eventually we'd love to settle in Brissy before we start with Littluns Forgot to put we're moving in 20 days!