Sue and Rob

Has anyone had to apply for the above in order to travel outside of Oz. We have permanent residency which was granted 5 years ago and which we paid big $for as it is a contributory parent visa, but apparently the travel part of it has expired and if we needed to go back to the uk we need to apply for the RRV - more money.

We paid £1k for the insurance, provided them with a detailed inventory of everything that was packed in the container plus car and 2 m/bikes cover was for £100K, I checked the policy wording and appeared all ok to me barring the usual as stated above.

No. Our container was shipped on 3 Jan due in oz 19 Feb we have had to go through an agent at this end to handle everything, apparently its a pretty daunting task to try and do it yourself especially as we have a car and 2 motorbikes in the container. So no doubt will end up paying mega bucks for the priviledge!!

We are just in the final stages of completing our own packed and loaded container. Taking a classic car and 2 classic motorbikes which we have the vehicle import approvals from oz.plus all our household goods and hubbys garage tool boxes etc. We are intending to get it shipped and handle the customs side of things in oz ourselves and get a local firm to pick the container up after clearance. Has anyone done this and if so how much hassle is it. I'm at the very stressed stage at the moment!