Lynsey Nicolson

I cant help with your australian visa question but I do know that visa is on arrival for Bali. There is also a departure tax when leaving. I think its $20, might have gone up since I was there in 2011. We had no idea about it and had to scrape all our change together to pay for it! ( had just left thailand, into bali before oz so had next to no money left on us lol)

Fruit picking jobs - look this one up on Facebook if you need it. Forgot to add it in earlier

sounds like a plan! As soon as you apply for your WHV you automatically get the TFN attached to your visa so all you need to do it phone them and ask for it. No need to apply for it when you're there. Don't think there is anything else. It's an adventure and you don't want to be too prepared for it, that's all part of the fun!

Hi I definitely recommend doing your regional work asap and getting it out the way. I ended up doing 3 jobs to get mine covered. I have to say when I started looking for mine, there was loads and I was very lucky to find all of mine on Gumtree. However in the past few months, friends of mine that are still out there have noticed a huge decrease in people looking for work. Maybe it's the time of year or maybe there are just so many backpackers, jobs dont stay available for long. In WA, seeding for harvest starts in April. It's long hours, dirty work but well paid and majority of them have great pay and provide food and accommodation. I would look at 'the job shop' in perth, they are always advertising roles for regional work. There are another few I have on fb that I can add once I find them. As far doing weekdays and having weekends back in the city, I cant say I've ever met someone who has that luxury. The majority of visa work is regional and full time because they are limited in the time they have to crop, seed, pick, pack etc. There is also shearing and crutching work at this time of year. Again, its long hours, very dirty, well paid but actually great fun! I did it with my boyfriend and I was collecting the wool and pushing up the sheep and it was great! When I started looking I put an advert on Gumtree like many others do and said when I was available and pretty much willing to do anything. Please please please check the postcode of the place you will end up and make sure it qualifies, also, get the ABN of the people you are working for and phone immigration and make sure it is valid for visa work. There are so many people that do work for their visa and get scammed by people for cheap labour and never get their visa approved because it didn't qualify. Remember that for your visa it has to be regional which means a certain distance out from the city, it might not be feasible to drive back and forth every weekend if you get work. I never realised until I moved there just how vast it is and how far it can be from the city. Sometimes it's not worth driving back to the city for the sake of one night after driving a few hundred kms. Good luck in finding work. Some of the work does suck and won't be enjoyable but what you get, another year in oz, is so worth it!

are you able to contact the exam board from when he attended school and will have sat his gcses/standard grades? they can provide copies of exam results which would obviously show years in school. I know in Scotland I can get mine from when I was there and I left 11 years ago. Not sure if there will be a time limit on it though. Fingers crossed