Hitmanfc1000

Technically the UK licence is no longer valid as it has to be linked to your permanent UK address.

Thanks for the reply. Would that still apply as I passed my test in the UK?! I thought that the green P plates were only required if I took my driving test in Australia?

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Hi we have just completed this today, we have only been in AU a month, staying in Mandurah WA.
We presented:
UK passport 
AU bank cards.
Tax file numbers.
letter from bank.
Visa proof, VEVO.
UK driving licence.
tenancy agreement.
 
hope this helps.
 
 

Thank you, this is really useful as we arrived only 3 weeks ago.

Do you get to keep your UK driving licence when you receive your WA licence? I have only been driving for just over 1 year, so wasn't sure.

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Thanks for all of the replies.  That's great DukeNinja

We left from Heathrow airport on Monday morning.  We left plenty of extra time.  We were asked to show our visa by the lady who checked in our baggage (5 suitcases between the 4 of us.  We paid for an extra suitcase allowance prior to our flight, but were then charged an extra £108 due to all of our cases being over the allowed 23KG.  They were between 26 and 29KG each).  We presented our visa grant letters but as expected my wife and sons passports were not linked to our visa.  The manager was called who took our passports away for a few minutes, apparently made a phone call, then returned them to the original lady who was dealing with our luggage.  She advised that everything should now be OK, which it was.  We are really not sure what she did.  The rest of our journey was stress free, and we entered Australia successfully. 

Thanks to all of you who offered advice.  I will hopefully post an update of our experience here on a new post in a few months time

I used a migration agent, the Visa Bureau, to obtain our visa, so I haven't logged into an immi account as far as I am aware.  I have just checked through my records, and can actually see that I did advise of my son (now 9 years old) and wife's first  passport changes back in 2014 to email address: adelaide.gsm.team8@immi.gov.au.  I was advised to do this by the Visa Bureau.  I emailed across certified copies of both of their new passport ID pages.  I did receive a reply ' These details have now been added to the relevant Departmental record. There is no need to have the visa evidenced in the new passport or to have your grant letter re-issued. If your visa has been granted and evidenced and you have subsequently obtained a new passport, your original visa remains valid up to its original validity date.  You can carry both your new and your expired passports when traveling to or from Australia and present both for entry clearance. '

After checking our visas online, I can see that our visa is still linked to the original passports, no mention of the new passports.  Should I do exactly the same again then? get certified copies of the passports, fill out Form 929, then email across and hope that our records are updated? Then just carry all passports with us anyway.   I know I have left it to the last minute, with everything else that we have been organizing it just totally slipped my mind. 

Thanks for the reply.  Where do I sign up for an 'immi' account? I don't think that I have ever logged into this.  Yes definitely, I would be interested to see if it all worked OK.  Good luck!

Hi everyone,

I would be grateful if anyone would be so kind to offer me some advice? My wife, 2 boys, and myself have a PR visa for Australia.  We had all of our belongings loaded onto the lorry to be shipped to Australia last Saturday.  We will be traveling to Australia on the 4th September.  I thought I would check online last night that our visa entitlement was all OK, and all of our visas were listed.  However, both my boys (ages 9 and 5) have both been issued new passports since the visa grant.  My wife has changed her passport twice since the visa grant.  Once due to an expired passport, then once again to change her name to her married name.  According to the online website, their visas are linked to their original passports at the time of the visa grant.  My passport is still the original passport that my visa is linked to.  My question is, are we going to be OK to travel to Australia on the 4th September? I will be carrying all of the old passports (with the corners cut off).  I will also be carrying our marriage certificate as my wife obviously has a completely different surname.

Will we be OK? am I worrying over nothing? I guess that I am just after some reassurance

Thanks

Thanks for the response, and advice Alan.  I appreciate it.

 

Thanks again

Frank

Thanks John.  I will set an account up, and will definitely contact you in the coming weeks.

 

Thanks again

Frank

Thank you for the advice, I will speak with a financial adviser.  I thought I had already signed up for a moneycorp account, but it appears I haven't.  I will sign up for a free account. 

Thanks again

Hi everyone

I wonder if anyone can provide us with any advice? We are still currently living in the UK, awaiting the sale of our UK house to complete.  As soon as we have the funds from this (hopefully 8 weeks) we will be moving to Perth, WA.  We also have another property in the UK (father-in laws house), which we recently inherited.  This house is currently being renovated, which should be completed in approximately 10 weeks.  We will then be listing this house for sale, hoping it will sell fairly quickly.  We are going to have to pay inheritance tax in the UK for my father-in laws estate.

My question is, will we be subject to any taxes on this property in Australia after we sell the property in the UK? Most of our money from the sale of our UK home, and the money from the sale of my father-in laws house will be left in a UK bank account until we have decided that we definitely want to stay in Australia, and when (if) the exchange rate improves.

I would be grateful for any advice.

Thanks