kimboslice

6 hours ago, Marisawright said:

What does your final salary have to do with your pension?

Worded wrong 

not salary the amount you get each week 

Hi

i know your uk pension is frozen the day you leave the uk. If you return after say 2/3 years, how does that affect your final salary, do you have to make the 2/3 years up. We are both 58 years of age. Thanks in advance.

13 hours ago, Flangela100 said:

Hi

I wonder if anyone can help. I'm interested to know how detailed the inventory list was when you sent boxes of stuff to Australia visa Seven Seas, please.

For instance, with a box of clothes, does the list have to state exactly what items are in it or is box of ladies clothes enough?

Thanks for any help Angela

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I just put ladies clothes and that was good enough 

Hi

can somebody from money Corp please get in touch with me please. I cannot seem to log into my account and want to send money from the uk to Australia.

Mark 

Finally made it to Australia.

It’s been a long and emotional journey but worth the wait.

We are on day 8 of our quarantine, very lucky with the hotel, balcony overlooking the Brisbane river. Food not the best but hey ho it’s only for 2 weeks and could do with losing weight.

Grandchildren FaceTimeing everyday, that’s what it’s all about.

Would like to thank everyone on pio for all the advice along the journey, it’s been over 5 years and couldn’t have done it without you all.

Stay in there and your turn will come.

Mark 

33 minutes ago, ADM21 said:

Kimboslice, did you get back on your first flight with Qatar? I've just posted around flight reliability and keen to hear other people's experience with Qatar recently. Thanks! 

Hi

We did not travel in the end, 2 days before the flight my dad was tested positive for covid and unfortunately died a week later. We have a flight with emirates booked for March 5th. 

15 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

Hi

This statement from the Australian Dept of Health gives more details of requirements

Passenger pre-departure testing

Passengers travelling to Australia must be tested for COVID-19 72 hours or less prior to departure, and display evidence of a negative test result. PCR testing is required. Exemptions from this requirement may be available in extenuating circumstances including use of rapid antigen testing in rare cases. Members of a travelling party who have been close contacts (e.g. household contacts) of a traveller who has a positive test result will also not be allowed to travel to Australia until all members of the party are no longer infectious.

It’s the pcr wording that’s confusing, is that a local free test or one you have to pay for. Either one you get a certificate 

13 hours ago, BargeUK said:

It looks like we might just need a rapid test for the time being - I too have been checking Qatar's website regularly and the UK is not in the list for the compulsory PCR test.  I'm not sure how long before the flight this test is needed or where to get one though.  We're flying from Manchester but not till April....

Key moments from the National Cabinet press conference after meeting on UK coronavirus strain - ABC News

Tests before and after flights

From now, anyone from overseas coming back to Australia will have to have a rapid COVID test before they leave and prove they've returned a negative result.

If they test positive they — and any of their close contacts who are also planning on flying home — will be banned from boarding a flight back to Australia.

Is the rapid test just a normal one where you can go to your local test centre for free, or do we need one from a private health care body and pay for it.

2 minutes ago, LindaH27 said:

If you’re flying with Qatar they require a negative covid test from certain countries

Thanks for that.

I have checked there website and dont think we need one from heathrow into doha and from doha into brisbane the way i understand it.

Just wondered if anyone had flew in the last few das just to confirm this.

HI all

We fly to Australia on  143 visa on the 16.1.21. i have cecked and double checked that we do not need a negative corona test to fly to Doha and then onto Brisbane to carry out our 14 days quarantine. Can anyone that has maybe travelled in the last few days just clarify this please.

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9 minutes ago, Quoll said:

No idea, sorry.  It wasnt something we were bothered with packing.  Plenty of cleaning fluids in Australia!

When it states no liquid, what does that mean.

Can you pack cleaning fluids inside the boxes for seven seas. 

5 hours ago, Pertenhall said:

Does this mean your plans have to change yet again?

We are flying with Qatar but not holding my breath now, just waiting for the email to say they are following suit

Singapore Government have just put this online.

"..........passengers with a travel history to the United Kingdom within the past 14 days, with the exception of Singapore citizens and Singapore permanent residents, will not be allowed to enter or transit through Singapore."

1 hour ago, BargeUK said:

Has your 16 Jan flight been cancelled now as well?

Not yet, it was more a question if it did get cancelled. Just wondered if anybody had used the facilitation letter and had a reply. 

Has anybody had to use the facilitation letter, just wondered if they had any feedback, we will probably miss the entry date of 28-1-2121.Got a flight booked for March 2021

2 hours ago, DavidIII said:

Hi,

I just wondered if anyone on PIO has a recent experience or knows of reliability flying with Qatar or Singapore to Adelaide from London as I can’t decide who to book with.  Logically, Singapore would be my usual choice, but we now live in a very different world where the same logic sadly doesn’t exist.

Any comments would be most welcome.

Thanks.

Hi David

We have just booked with qatar, leaving London 16.1.21 (fingers crossed), we have a 19.5 hour connection onto brisbane. I chose qatar as singapore didnt fly directly into brisbane, didnt really want to quarantine twice if rules changed. We have travelled with singapore airlines in the past and found them to be good, normally fly with emirates but couldnt get a flight until 5.3.21 with them. good luck.

2 minutes ago, paulhand said:

Congrats - so granted an offshore 491? What occupation, please?

Hi Paul

My son was granted a 491 visa as a skilled plumber (queensland) back in january, do you have any idea if they will extend the 5 year needed to earn the aquired amount per year as he will only have 3 years estimated to hit the target.

Has anybody flew into doha lately on there way to australia. qatar airways are flying to australia with a connection time of 19 hours, was wondering if we can book a room in the current climate. A long time to wait around the airport.

On 26/10/2020 at 13:03, Lady Jane said:

Hi,
 

Can you not get a refund and change airlines? 
 This is the auto response from Immi re visa dates
 

 

 

 

Thanks for that.

looking at Qatar airlines, they go from Heathrow to Doha and then to Melbourne or Adelaide, then onto Brisbane. Does anyone know if you have to quarantine twice ie in Melbourne then in Brisbane.

Another flight been cancelled by emirates for december 28th. we have re-booked for the earliest possible flight which is march 5th 2021.

Our arrive by date is the 28th january 2021, who do we get in touch with and when to let them know this date is impossibe to keep too.

Thanks in advance.

1 hour ago, Marisawright said:

That's exactly what I said, except that I wasn't sure of fhe correct terminology.  Their Initial Activation Date would have been well before Covid restrictions came into effect, so they could hardly use Covid as an excuse for failing to make initial entry by the due date.

Hi Marisawright.

We are worried about the initial date entry aswell, have the goverment come out and said they are going to extend the dates due to covid.

We are supposed to arrive into australia by january 28th 2020, we have had our flights cancelled twice and they are now saying it probably wont be until feb or march but thats just an estimate.

We can only hope