Danny842003

Cheers for the reply I have it all booked now. And in true fashion the day after I got it all booked the reason to do it before i apply is no longer an issue.

Thanks I will go to the Dr. I'm in the navy so it will be free anyway. It's not like they are snowed under like NHS GPs.

Just read this in the booklet. Certified copies Do not supply original documents with your application unless asked to do so. If an original document isrequired at any stage, the department will ask for it. Please note that police checks are the exception. Youmust provide original police checks. You should provide ‘certified copies’ of original documents. ‘Certified copies’ are copies authorised, orstamped as being true copies of originals, by a person or agency recognised by the law of the countryin which you currently reside. All Australian missions have the facility to certify or witness documentsand statutory declarations if necessary (this service may attract a charge). For certification in Australia,see the indicative list of persons on the next page under ‘Who can witness statutory declarations and/orform 888’. Am i correct in thinking that in the UK a Dr is legally recognised to do this kind of thing?

Well I don't know why they haven't closed down both avenues, but my point is just because they haven't closed down one does not mean its wrong for them to close the other.

I know it is much more preferable to do the medical after I have applied for my subclass 300 visa but I may be leaving the country at short notice and it is probably beneficial for me to try and do it when I can and run what seems to be a small risk that it will elapse the 1 year before I enter. Just checked on the nominated hospital in Edinburgh website and it states this obviously I haven't applied so do not have these numbers. Has anyone else done this? What did you do?

This is hardly relevant though. My fiancee's grandmother came over in the 80s and gives nothing to Australia she was already in her 60s and still to this day can't speak any English. She got lucky. On the other hand I know full well that I hopefully move over next year and despite my dad having a state and private pension he is never going to be able to live in Oz with me and the soon to be Mrs. Australia does not have to choose one or the other. It maybe unfair that one group might be allowed in and another better off group may not be, but one does not justify the other. In the grand scheme Oz needs neither. I suspect a lot of other people you speak of have had it easier on humanitarian grounds. My dads rights are not being trampled on in big bad Cumbria.

Im not certain thats 100% true. Didn't the Indian ambassador to USA get in a load of **** recently for employment laws?

Ok thanks, I think everything should be fine then.

What is the score with small wooden items, Im talking photo frames and plaques that i have. All quality items not just something i have hacked from a tree that still has the bark and moss on them. How should they be packed and declared for shipping?

thats pretty much much the definition of a loop hole. Loopholes aren't illegal, just perhaps out of the spirit of what is intended which is why they have changed the rules now.

I don't know if you know the story of the picture, but it was a disalussioned Nigerian man who wanted to ask his former colonial masters for passage back to Nigeria or something along those lines. Sounded properly mental in the press. What the guard was actually playing at getting involved is another matter.

It would seem not @MovingtoTasmania

So because we dont share the same opinion and can see the logic the Ozzie government has applied we are bitter people? Its not a case of people on here saying they want this taken away, nobody has said that. Everyone else has just said they know why it has been done.

Its **** but how can you expect taxpayers to cover the costs of people who have never paid in? Its one of the biggest gripes in the UK that people who have paid nothing in or very little can claim XY and Z. My grandad takes 16 tablets before his breakfast everyday you could probably double that during the day and throw in a few injections as well. Add to this a couple of ambulance trips to the hospital every month. The drain on the NHS must be massive. But he worked until he was 72 and deserves every penny he is now getting. I understand it is **** for you but you must see the logic behind it.

How likely is it that you would loose hand luggage?

I hope at the next general election UKIP tell people to vote Tory. They have promised to give the referendum and I do believe they will give it if they are voted in on their own right. I'm not convinced that leaving the EU is the correct way to go, but I think it is such a pivotal issue now that the cases need to be made for both options and the people allowed to choose themselves. It actually annoys me that Labour and the Lib Debs continue to ignore the fact huge huge sections of the electorate who believe this is the way to go.

$50 in the grand scheme of things is totally insignificant, $25 won't even come close to covering a taxi to the airport.

I'm not sure what visa your entering on, but my girlfriend visited me and had no return airfare on a tourist visa and it wasn't an issue.

I couldn't tell you myself I have not moved yet. But if you are competent and are going to do a job that does not set the house on fire how would anyone ever know? I don't imagine theres plug police lol.

If you are asking that question the answer is probably no. (not meant to be as harsh as it sounds)

Yeah about 4 months. It maybe worth doing any work thats going to show up on a survey yourself. In the end I paid for the work myself and took a small hit but got the asking price.

Well I'm applying for a partner visa, so theres no real reason I shouldn't get a grant and if I don't she will move here and we still wouldn't live in the house so its win win really.

Its not even worth worrying about when your paying that much $4750 or $4800 who cares lol.

I just checked the site again and found two references to the price I quoted. So I'm assuming that figure is correct. I don't want to complain as it costs what it costs but I really hope it isn't more than that as its a substantial amount as is when were saving for a wedding as well.

I put my terraced house in an industrial town in Cumbria (so probably quite similar) up for sale in October i accepted an offer in December but due damp being found on the survey did not complete until mid February. I haven't even applied for my visa yet but I know its all done and dusted, money in the bank and putting a fortune in the emigration fund every pay day.