DianaK

What amazes me is how nobody mentions anything about all the indians, pakistani, chinese, africans, etc who live in UK illegally, without documents, getting paid in cash, tax free of course. Or those of them that get government money and free healthcare for their large families and aged parents, who even do not bother to learn basic english? British secular schools run by islamic fanatics and sharia rules went unnoticed for years but the east europeans are the big problem with immigration that UK faces???

Just found an older post from PomQueen: You could use one of the following companies: Aussie Mailman : Home SOS Mail Solutions – Australian Mail Forwarding - Mail Redirection for Travellers - Business Online PO Box - receive your mail anywhere in the world : All your mail solutions You will struggle getting a PO Box until you arrive.

For the companies that do not exist anymore, you can prepare a Statutory Declaration, stating that you are unable to provide evidence due to the fact that these companies ceased to exist. At least you can try. For the rest, you can approach your previous manager, or his replacement and ask them to provide a Letter of employment on the letter head of the company with all the information about your position, duties, salary, work hours per week, etc. It might not be official document for Russia but it is such for the CO. If a supervisor/ manager signs such letter with their name and contact number, it should be fine.

I understand your frustration, as I am originally from Eastern Europe and I know how things work in this part of the world. Now, has the CO accepted any evidence/payslips of your employment? Do you need all years of employment to get 60 points? Have your application been rejected or it is still in the review process? I am sure you have already explained that but I have missed it and this is why I am asking.

Don't you have copies of the tax returns?

Viking, In Russia, do you file your taxes every year? If so, you can provide CO with those documents. as they should be conisdered official evidence in regards to your employment and income. If you have not done so, you might want to give it a try.

We submitted for 190 NSW on 11.11.2013 and EOI for 189 on 27.11.2013. Got invited for 189 on 29.11.2013. Lodged for 189 visa on 24.12.2013 with pre-loaded medicals and PCC. Visa granted 30.01.2014.

How do you get a visa label in your passport?

I do not want to scare you but my husband received an e-mail saying "PLEASED to inform you that assessment has been completed" and it was negative when we received it. In our case, they missed to notice 3 courses and they made a correction very quickly after that but this is the standard e-mail they send regardless of the assessment outcome.

Wrussell, Out of curiosity, are you saying that if he claimed 10 points for skilled employment and when invited, he lodges a visa with 10 points for IELTS as a substitute of the 10 points for skilled employment that he claimed on the EOI, it will be accepted, although he will have 0 points for something that he claimed as 10? This is most interesting, if true.

I had to get 8.0 on IELTS for the 10 points too. Check the exact date when you completed/sat the exam of the last required course. Depending on the assessor, CPA might calculate your experience from that date or they can just take the date you got your designation, which is 2012 (I guess it is easier for them). Because you have already fulfilled the requirement for an accounting university degree, you can challenge them to count your experience from the date of the last course. It gave me an year, which in my case was important.

If CPA told you 2 years, then you will have to decline the EOI, request skilled employment assessment and when you get the result you can submit another EOI. Even if you have enough points without the 8 years, you have already claimed 8 and you cannot support them. Hopefully you will sort it out soon and you will be invited again. Do you have 60 points with 2 years of experience?

You may be better leave it as is. I had declared 3 major surgeries and I specifically asked the doctor should I provide more documentation. He said that although serious, none of those surgeries is related to a condition that is considered chronic or of a concern for the australian immigration process. We got the visa with no questions asked. If such surgeries did not matter, I would not think that minor day treatment will matter.

Experience after you got your accounting degrees at university will be recognized only if you have covered the 9 ot of 12 courses as part of that degree. If even 1 course was not covered, you have to look for when you took that course during your subsequent studies. The accounting assessor might recognize it as of the date you completed the last course or as of the date you obtained the degree/designation which this course was part of. I had 8 years of experience but claimed only 3 for the same reason. You can include your other experience for the CO to review and be more confident that you are a good candidate but I would not claim it as skilled. For accountants, if you claim exactly what you have on the skills assessment( the skilled experience letter) you will be fine as the CO will most probably consider it without objection. It is up to you but in your position I would not claim it (as I did not on my application).

I have also supplied my daughter's tax return since she was 18. This is a great document to show that there is no income or any other form of government help. In our case we got a direct grant, without CO. I thought it will be more difficult because of the dependent older than 18 but we were pleasantly surprised. Can he still get a letter that he was full time the last 3 years? I remember that another member mentioned before that her daughter graduated couple of months before they applied and her other daughter was a part time student but they got the grant. Hope you get an "understanding" case officer.

Thank you all for the replies! It will be a different experience but at least it is there if we feel we miss the snow and having the boards with us will make things easier. Meanwhile, we will try to get the best of what is left of our last winter here.

Right now, we complain about the snow and the cold, but I am sure we will miss it a bit when we move to OZ.

Too cold for anything...:eek: We have the cold but the snow has been really bad for boarding/skiing since the beginning of the season.

At the moment we have decrease in average temperatures in Canada (-23)...brrr...and negative impact on the snow cover. Go figure! :confused:

We are prepared that boarding in Australia or New Zealnad will be very different from our experience in Canada and Europe and may be more expensive. Especially from Perth - the remotness of the place is a major drawback for us to choose it as a place to move to. We lived in Calgary for 10 years and it was exactly the same - we had to pay a lot to go on a holiday or to travel anywhere compared to the rest of Canada.

Thanks, guys! I was hoping to get such responses as I did not really want to part with the boards... :smile: It is decided - we will take it with us.

Sydney at this point, unless a very attractive job contract comes up.

We have been wondering for quite some time is it worth it to bring our snowboard equipment with us, when moving to Australia. It is good quality and the bindings and boots are switch type, which makes them rare, as the ones that we have are not made anymore. What are your thoughts?

Not offended And I am not generalizing, just shared an observation. I have actually noticed it when I was there as well. And my english is far from prefect

I have been watching "Border Security" lately and it is surprising how many students are crossing the border. What I find even more surprising is their level of english, considering the fact that most of them are into business and accounting degrees. Even if they have the money, how do they manage to get IELTS 6 or 6.5, which is a requirement for most of the degrees?