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Yes, i mean my superannuation. I'm already in Sweden so it doesn't matter. I thought that could impact somehow positive on future visa applications. Then I can take it out i guess.

Hi there, I have now moved back to Sweden and I'm looking for ways to return to Australia. I have almost worked 2 years before returning back to Sweden and I have the option to take out my REST money. Someone has adviced me to not take those money in order to get the PR easier in Australia again. Is this really the facts. It's quite a lot of money hanging there and I want to be sure. Any ideas?

Thank you for your suggestion. I will do so.

Yes please. Do you have his or her id?

Hi all, Almost 2 years ago I moved to Australia because I was sponsored by a company (457) to do a massive project with more than 400 people involved and I was the project manager for that project. Once the project was done I needed to move back to Europe because the company didn't have any work by that time. By the time I've moved back I've worked 1 year and 10 months in Australia. I really really want to go back, so my question is, what can I do. What is the best way to get a PR? Do I need to do the English test since I was already almost 2 years in the country and working. Is there any migration agencies I could contact? Tips? What would be the way you would take? All tips are welcome.

Hi, I have been project manager in IT, so IT projects (Ecommerce, infrastructure, etc..) and then I moved to Australia to build the new shopping center extension, where I was project manager for the entire project, both construction and retail, but I had a construction manager under me. What do I need to do to get skilled visa? Cheerzz

Hi guys, I moved to Australia 2 years a to be a project manager for a project with more than 400 people involved and quite significant amount of money worth so I know how to manage big budgets as well. Now, my contact is ending in June and I need to move back since the company don't have any more jobs for me as project manager and I really want to stay here in Australia. Today I'm living in Brisbane. I'm on 457 VISA today and I was wondering is there any websites, agencies what ever that can help me to secure a 457 job? I have been project manager for 6 years now and I also have IT background for 8 years so I have some experience. Please help me as I don't want to move back and I have a lot of knowledge in different areas. Cheerz

Hi, Sometimes life is really strange, 2 years ago a girl asked me to come down to aussie but it didn't work out and here I'm today with a job offer to Australia and about to move to Australia with my new girlfriend I found out yesterday that I was selected for a job as project manager for a huge project so me and my girlfriend from Sweden got sponsored Visa to Australia. We are getting apartment payed for 3 months, they are paying for the shipping of our stuff from here, health insurance and a lot of other benefits to move. The job is located in Brisbane. This project needs to be completed within 14 months so the contract is only 14 months but I have the possibility to get my job extended. This is a dream come true for many people I guess, get awesome well paid job, Australia etc.. and for me, but, im nervous. I'm swetting all the time, thinking of my family and relatives, because I'm very attached to my family, what if something happens to me, can I handle the job, because I will be responsible for a project with is veeeeeeeery expensive, my head is spinning faster then the earth It self... For those who have migrated, have you been in same thoughts or for those who need to do same trip as I? Have you been nervous, what were your biggest fears. Please share your stories and thoughts.

Well it certanly is all the 'Give' from my side. Not really i mean i could move to North Pole to be with someone but i also expect the person to do the same thing for me. Thank you very much! The dream has always been to live in Aussie country so who knows maybe i'll end up there one day in my life =)

I have no idea why she contacted me in first place after we have gone separate ways, but I could not just let it without to find the answer why she contacted me so today I've sent a question wondering why she contacted me. Now if I get honest answer that's another question =) We'll here the options i offered: She comes to Sweden and live here: Got first YES then NO We move together to Austria since she has been living in Germany for 10 years: Got then YES then NO We move to any country in Europe together: No She comes to Sweden for 6 months and if she don't like it we move to Australia: NO We move to any other city in Australia then the one she and her parents live in: First YES then NO If i come to the city which she lives at and i dont like it she wouldn't move. : NO All above options I have offered and got NO on each single one of them. So I can't say it really 50% - 50% here. One thing is for sure, I'll miss the friendliness from Australia, the warm country and the beautiful nature

How can i give it a go, when i don't know what she wants or what i want lol? I mean she contacted me to tell me to take care again , that's what confused me? Then, i wouldn't never give up the Swedish citizenship, only if i was forced to. We have so many advantages by having swedish citizenship

Hi folks! Long time no see. Just wanted to share my update =) I decided not to go to Australia. It was one of the hardest decisions which i had to make in life which actually brought me in bad shape. It has past now 3 months since we said good bye and life if moving on Until yesterday, where she messeged me and just want to know how i was, etc, old memories we had etc.. then to tell me again, to take care.. That made me lost again, and I'm back at square one lol Don't know the purpose of that but anyhow. Greatings from cold Sweden

Hi Incata, Yes all my friends are giving me advice to just leave it and not go for 6 months eighter. This thing about working situation is constant thing which i worry about sometimes. Here is the deal, i have tinnitus, for those who don't know what that is, well short desc, when you get back home from a nightclub and you go to sleep, the sound in your ears, well it's constant in my head for last 6 years. There are some periods which can be tough and her at my work my employer understands that and i can work for home couple of days. How are the employers down in australia? Do they have same kind of understanding? For example if you can't go to work one day because of this? The other thing i've discussed the jobs and everybody is promising that i could get a job easy. and here i'm reading the opposite. What is the deal? Cheerz

I don't think her mind will change when it comes to moving... She told me that like milion of times.. Haha i wonder how the person would react if I gave that answer. probably what are u doing here m8 )

Hey! I have not made up my mind, i've just want to bring up things what is not right with Sweden, but as i told before many things are superb Yesterday i've heard you can only be on sick leave in OZ 8 days per/year-.. We can have unlimited, after 2 weeks you can need to have doc saying you can't work and that's it. That is what i've heard also, that work is hard to get now in OZ. Her friends and she are telling me that it would be easy for me to get a job in OZ since i work as a project manager for big and well known company. If i would go for 6 months there is no option to live in her home. I told her from day one if i would come that i would live alone, to see what OZ is like, to feel like what work is, yeah to feel the country.. But honestly i've must say not a single friend have told me to go, even for 6 months. Just simple because i will get stuck or she will make me stuck there. Anyway, time is ticking away and I need to make decision within couple of days because this is eating me alive and situation is not holdable. But i like this forum alot! There are some really, honest, realistic people here ) Even if i decide not to go i will for sure stay here and chat with you folks =))

Hi, Thanks for your post. Now let me tell you some stuff about Sweden. I'm an immigrant, i'm not born in Sweden. I'm really thankful for the opportunities this country have given me and my family, but let me tell me some of the downsides of Sweden because many people believe things are like roses here, Economy, free healthcare etc.. Now i guess your name is Mr Johansson, Svensson or some Swedish name, well neither is mine and this creates BIG problems in this country even these days. 1. If you don't have Swedish name you need to fight 10 times more to find same job at as Swedish one 2. You are not equal to a Swedish even if you are born here but have different name 3. 90% of swedish are racist but don't tell you straight in the eyes, but behind scenes a lot of them are hating immigrants, muslims, well everybody that is not swedish. 4. Everything people in Sweden do it's normal and rest of the world is stupid because they don't do or think like swedes. So a culture in china, egypt, india, russia, italy, spain their behavior is not normal but swedish is. 5. The food you eat at home as immigrant is strange but meatballs and potato are normal 6. If you want to be on same level as swedish you must sell your soul, try to be swedish and talk **** about every other nation and then you are on the road because there is their way and wrong way. 7. They are the cheapest people in world, don't you expect a swedish to buy you couple of beers, when you go to their home you need to bring the drinks with you and even the food sometimes. 8. They can't have any best friends because everything is about the money. Even when they live with someone the person they live with have separant economy 9. The stores in sweden close at 6PM CET(After that you can see a gull on a street **** because everything is dead outside) 10. You wake with a cloud above your head 300 days a year 11. A person who you have met before will never say hi on the street, but when they drink they are your best friends and then everybody knows you 12. If you borrow 2 euro you better bring those back otherwise you will be reminded for that long time. 13. They don't have a soul, cold like winter here 14. The hospitals are good, but man you can die in an emergency room, i had blood poison one and they sent me home said it was nonthing, i've broke my arm they told me that doc was sleeping, go home and come back in several hours when he wakes up. This are some things which i can bring up and my list could go on... This country is great but for immigrants can be hard, especially if you don't know the language. If you like this welcome to Sweden ) That's i wrote "But i hate alot of things with Sweden also, actually i hate more things then i love them." Now let's continue to the topic we originaly discussed yes there are plenty fish in the sea but it's about finding the right one. Trust me i'm really open to all thoughts and the things people write here just clears my head even more and thank you alot! This means alot to me and your post as well. This is what i'm also talking about, an relationship is about giving and taking.. As i told her i would move to antartica if she didn't like it here but she is not prepared to move anywhere. =(( It's not about my family it's about her not willing to sacrifice anything.=))

Yes this has become more then hollyday romance. Well this is what i'm telling her. I have lived with a girl before for 5 years so i know all the good and bad sides of that. I know how things can look and turn around. Well she doesnt want to compromise on where to live, but for sure she wants to have the family with me. Actually she does, she lives in a fantasy word, because i'm her first "real" boyfriend or serious relationship she had. So good guessed on this one. Well for living there is no compromise, and i for sure know that life is much tougher that this. There will be alot of hard things in life to decide on and compromise. Life is not black and white. I like what you wrote above )

Hehe nice post =) I have already got 6 months off from my work to go and try it out and waiting for visa (work/hollyday). But the question is it worth to go those 6 months... as many said many alarm bells everywhere. 4 weeks is not even enough to find out her shoe size

Hi, Alot of good questions asked here so I'll try to answer them =) Yes and no, She would like to me to find some job until i have found the one i like. Actually nonthing, no family, no friends, no work The only thing she claims is that she is also taking risk since she doesnt know if i would like it there. I guess the answer on this one is the climate, and friendly people and nature¨.. Trust me i really really hate swedish climate She's tells me that she knows that she would be depressed being here and that she would miss her family to much. Yes i'm thinking all the time could i get better life there. I mean i can buy a house here today, i have 6 weeks of vacation every year, i'm going to work and leaving when ever i want. I hardly meet my boss every couple of months We have free healtcare, schools and dentists for kids up to 21 years. How much weeks do you have off when you have a job in australia? Is it expencive with healthcare there? This one is the one im constantly thinking off: "Be very careful trowing away a good life in Sweden for an unknown quality here in everyway."

Yes Australia is awesome place to be. No she is not willing to change, i mean i gave the option to try anywhere in europe first. If we don't like it then let's move to australia. That's true, it's big gamble to hope that she will change. But honestly i don't think she would ever change. Her family is there, her job is there and if we get kids well everything is there. So it really is one way ticket I also agree with u that there must be flexibility and open mindedness in a relationship =)

Thank you very much.. I really appreciate her honesty really. She doesn't have or her family so much contacts when it comes to my profession. Well the thing is it's hard without here, but i also expect a partner to go with me around the world as im ready for her. =)

Well in this case she is the calling the shots. I know, i mean i have lived with a person before and knows what it's all about but she hasn't. She still lives at home, at age 25. So she doesn't know that much about living with someone. In this case yes i'm the one making all sacrifices. She used to live in Germany before, she moved with her family 10 years ago to Australia. What i wanted was us to try in Europe and if it doesn't work i said i would move to Australia as a family. But that's not an option for her eighter. But for those who are there, how is the life? Is it hard to find work, friends, what do miss about europe. What do you regret? Another thing: I have worked my self up to be a project manager. I don't have school for this. Would it be hard to get equivalent job in Australia or do you need to have a paper that you are educated for that? /Cheerz

Hi people, I don't know if it's right place to post on this forum but i hope so. Here is a little story. And I'm sorry already for any typos I'm making since I'm from Sweden and english is not my main language. Last year i've met a girl online and we started to chat and soon we felt huge attraction between each other. We already talked about who would move where and she told me she would move here. I've decided to go and visit her in Australia and i really liked Australia, but when i came there 2 weeks after she told me she couldn't move from Australia since she was too attached to her parents. She told me she would like me to come to Australia and we could live anywhere. So i came back to Sweden and thinking what to do. 3 Months later we met again in Thailand and had great time and then she told me she couldn't move anywhere in australia except to be in the city where her parents lived. So that a short version of every thing. Now the ball is in my hands. I could get off 6 months of work to work there and i have already applied for working visa. I have really good job in Sweden, working as project manager for big company, having good sallary and having alot of friends and quite attached to my family. I've asked her if i didn't like it in Australia would she move with me she said no. I've asked her what if we have kinds and i don't like it would she move she said no. That means it's one way ticket to aussie country. I'm thinking australia as warm country and that's whats in my mind compared to Sweden where where you wake up and you have a cloud above your head. What i like about sweden is that we have a free healthcare and free schools, including university. But i hate alot of things with Sweden also, actually i hate more things then i love them. What would you do? I imagine Australia as i did when i was on hollyday, but i guess all those palms, treas, kengroos, oceans become everyday life which you don't think about as i do now.. Would you leave everything for a person knowing it's one way ticket? She is already talking about kids. Also everybody is telling even if i go for 6 months i will be stuck since she will do everything to make me stay and that i would regret it after couple of years. Those who have moved there, do you miss your family alot? What is your opininion.