Bungo

I am a board member and treasurer of a local charity. I deliberately picked one that targeted the old and disabled. . They rely upon me too much for financial matters, what I say goes and I am not comfortable with that. But you can easily download the accounts of a charity and see what they have done..

Just wondering how much 'Genuine Relationship Evidence' you provided with your application (189/190)...we're married!

 

'Genuine relationship evidence

 

If you are married or in a de facto relationship, evidence of a genuine and continuing relationship with your partner to the exclusion of all others. For de facto relationships this should include evidence that you have been in the relationship for at least 12 months at time of application. Evidence can include, but is not limited to, joint bank account statements, billing accounts in joint names, and other evidence of cohabitation.'

 

B

I provided my marriage certificate for my 175 (equivalent to the 189 now). Nothing more, had been married almost three years at the time.

No we aren't citizens yet, that's a work in progress, we do have PR with our 189 visas though so a few yeas down the line who knows!!

I just don't want to look unprofessional on my first day, they've provided me a list that I need to take, visa, driving licence etc, and TFN is first on the list.

Just don't want them thinking I'm not organised but is there really no way other way around it?

If so i'll have to explain prior to the 30th Jan.

 

Thanks Bungo your're a star!

Your employer knows you have just emigrated and won't have a TFN immediately. When I moved over I also started work within four days or so and it was no problem, in fact I did get my TFN in time for the first payroll.

Thee is no way around it, but further there is no need to look for a way around it. It won't matter.

Hi everyone, hope youre all well.

 

Just wondering if anyone could assist, I need my TFN for a job I start on 30th Jan however wont be flying out until a few days before my start date.:wacko:

 

We have friends in Sydney who have offered their postal address however midway though the application online it requests that I need to be available 28 days after applying for an interview?

 

Can anyone offer any help of guidance?

 

Many thanks, as always!!:cute:

I assume you are not a returning citizen? If so, no there is nothing you can do. Using a friends address isn't going to help because you have to be in Australia when you apply for it and the system will know from your passport details that you are not currently in Australia.

Just apply when you arrive, you can still start your job and then provide the TFN to your employer when you get it. The very worst that will happen is that you are taxed a bit more at first but this will right itself and in any case it might be in time for the first payroll run anyway.

Yep I've resided to that fact. I could get sponsored on a 187 as childcare group leader in regional area but obviously a lot depends on that - no guarantee. But for the opportunity to at least spend 3.5 years in Oz I might just take the plunge

What opportunity for 3.5 years?

Hmm sounds promising!

 

For adding my defacto partner, aside from proving the genuine relationship (which we can), I'm wondering what will he need to complete so that we can start preparing.

Does he also need an Australian police check and a police check from our home country?

 

Anything else you can think of that we could begin to get ready?

The secondary applicant will need to do medicals and police checks in due course. But if you have not started the process, these are not things that I would recommend you start with. In fact it is better to do them later. The immigration department advice is not to do not do them until specifically asked.

Anyway I will keep it short as this thread is about teaching not the visa application process, there is a migraion section of the forum that is best place for more generic visa questions.

Hello folks,

 

i'm hoping someone can advise me how i go about getting all our UK plugs changed to Oz plugs so we can use all our electricals here in Oz when our container arrives in a week or so? Am i right in just assuming i'll call around a few local electricians?

 

Also, how do we go about changing our EU driver licences to Oz licences? We're also looking at buying a second hand SUV and wondered if anyone can advise how much deposit is usually expected and do you need to have been working for 3 months to secure finance to pay off the rest?

 

Many thanks ..... the newbies!

 

Petal :smile:

You could call an electrician or change the plugs yourself. We never bothered, we just used adapters.

The EU licence is only relevant in the EU, Australia is not interested in an "EU licence". The process you need to follow to convert your driving licence depends on which actual country your licence is from not whether your country belongs in the EU or not.

We took out a $25k car loan within our first week of being in Australia.

Thanks for getting back. To make it short, does it mean if I didn't stay for two years, my visa 190 and PR status will be voided after five years since its grant day? and no way to extend this "five years" period....

 

sorry i was just start to plan my migration issue and new to all this kind of information. Thanks.

It is you that keeps talking about two years, not me. I have corrected your misunderstanding on "two years" already, see my earlier post.

Your visa won't be technically "voided" after five years, but if you are not in the country you won't be able to pass through immigration control so it becomes worthless in practice. The visa has travel rights for five years and this date is immovable. I would suggest you apply for a visa at such time when you think you might be able to make the move, five years is long enough for most people.

If you want to start a new 189 application go ahead, the previous application is of no relevance to it.

Ok, I hadn't read it that way. I thought the OP provided evidence of the relationship (that they're married) and the CO asked for evidence that the relationship existed 12 months before the marriage which really should be unnecessary. The OP should simply need to prove that they're in a genuine marital relationship since May. But as you've said, COs can ask for whatever they think is necessary.

I was just saying that there is no point questioning what a CO has asked for. The CO is entitled to ask for whatever they think is necessary to satisfy themselves that the relationship / marriage is genuine. Sham marriages do happen after all. It is simply wasted energy to debate whether they should have asked for something or not.

May I ask which regulations are these that may be an option? I haven't found anything. Thanks

I cannot think of any way that it would be possible either, in fact I doubt any amateur on a forum will be able to assist with this one. You probably need to book a professional consultation, this is way beyond the scope of a forum.

Yes, but the request for evidence of 12 months relationship prior to marriage seems odd to me. What if they'd only met 3 months before they got married?

But they didn't. OP is claiming it is a five year relationship and CO has asked for proof of last 12 months. The CO is entitled to ask for whatever they deem is necessary.

My notary charged about £10 per page but fortunately it was only necessary to get a few pages done. Are you absoltelu sure you need 210 pages notarising, that sounds extraordinary to me.

You misunderstand, there is no requirement to live in Australia for two years of the first five years of the visa being granted. So long as the visa has been activated by visiting Australia, you could not spend another day in Australia and move to Australia on the very last day of the five years and that would be perfectly fine.

Hello

According to the ACS skilled assessment process we need to provide employee referee report. ACS said they not need payslips, appointment letter or any other evidence. So when we apply for the visa or submit EOI, do we need to provide same letters or do we need to provide additional information such as payslips, bank statements or service letters?

 

geeth~

When you lodge your application you will get a list of what documents you need to submit. You should certainly be prepared to support any work experience points claim with evidence of payment / taxation.

No right answer to this one, it is purely a personal choice.

There is a sensible voice saying that perhaps it would be good to complete the degree you have already been accepted for. On the other hand, I know somebody from school who has just trained as a midwife at the age of 43. So so what if you defer three years.

Your username speaks volumes. Tenyearstoomany. You want that to be Thirteenyearstoomany? :wink:

Yes all we have is the small one and nothing else- just applying online and it doesn't give an option to ask for a Long form ? birth cert???? not sure I'm going to get the right thing and not just a duplicate of what I already have

I beleive the "standard" is the certificate with parent information.

Also I just read the associated FAQ about what is included on the birth certificate and it states that you would see parent information on the birth certificate.

Thanks guys for your help- submitted normal birth cert when we applied for PR in 2014 and all was good( that's why I'm asking the question as we never needed it before)

I think most would consider the long version of the birth certificate to be the "normal" one. :wink:

It was definitely, without a shadow of a doubt, a requirement to submit the full birth certificate in 2014. Are you 100pc certain that you didn't and don't already have this tucked away somewhere.? If you are certain, well in that case you just got lucky and your case officer simply made a mistake in accepting the short version back then.

Anyway as mentioned, these are very easy to get hold of and you can apply online.

Hi there,

 

I was just looking for some advice, I think I have a complex issue, I have moved to Australia last month, I married an Australian Citizen and am here on a provisional Partner Visa, which should turn into a Partner (Permanent) Visa in June 2017.

 

Although I have moved to Australia I have managed to keep my UK job as I can do my work remotely via the Internet, As it stands I am still getting paid into my UK bank account and I am a PAYE employee with the TAX and National Insurance being deducted automatically by the UK tax authorities, I've only been paid once since being here but when I did I just transferred my wages (after Tax, NI & Pension were deducted in the UK) to my Australian bank account which I set up with the Commonwealth Bank.

 

My job now want to re negotiate my contract and have offered to pay me into my Australian Bank account, they want me to negotiate my wage with them, My contract will also end with them and they want me to continue working for them as a contractor, this will mean the company I work for will no longer have to pay National Insurance or Pension contributions, I'm assuming they do end up paying me direct into my Australian Bank this then by-passes HMRC altogether and I would have to be registered as self employed here and be responsible for declaring that income coming into my Australian account to the Australian Tax authorities. My question is am I considered a resident on the Visa I have, I checked my VISA status and it says length of my visa is indefinite.

 

I want to know if I'm going to be taxed as a foreign resident or a normal resident, This makes it hard for me to negotiate my wage with my company if I don't know what rate of tax I will have to pay here.

 

What ever figure I negotiate on I will have to take Tax out of here in Aus but there is other things like "super" my UK company will no longer be paying me a pension and I will be a contractor, there for I'm guessing they do not have to pay any super for me and I wouldn't even know how that would work, Do i Negotiate slightly more saying I don't have a pension anymore and I'm going to have to pay into a Super fund out of what ever salary is agreed apon too?

 

I used the simple tax calculator on the ATO website to get a rough Idea how much tax ill be paying but for the first year I would of only been here 6 months of the tax year and for the first 2 months of that my income was being taxed in the UK, so is the tax rate higher? and I still don't know if ill have to pay the higher foreign rate of tax?

 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, I have applied for a TFN number but that will take 28days to arrive and what do I do after it does, plus my company want to negotiate with me in the next couple of days, basically I need to come up with a figure that takes all these things into consideration and put it to them and see if they accept it, they will already be saving money as they will no longer be paying NI or pension contributions, I just don't know what to do yet.

 

Many Many thanks

 

Regards

 

Rickie

Do not confuse visa status with tax status, they are not the same thing. You are tax resident in Australia.

Your company are correct to want to renegotiate the terms of your contract, they are incurring employer NI that they do not need to pay as you are not a UK based employee any longer. Ideally you and they would have looked into his before you moved as you also have incurred NI that you didn't need to pay and probably will not manage to get back.

That at is because all of your employment income is taxable in Australia, from the day you arrived. That you have paid UK tax on it is irrelevant to ATO as they have first dibs on the tax from your employment. You should look to get tax back from HMRC. I would suggest the easiest way to do that would be through adjusting the employment income reported on your tax return to HMRC at the end of the year. When you prepare your Australian tax return you need to included these first two months of income gross and pay Australian tax.

In terms of negotiating, well yes it would be sensible to factor in pension and the loss of any other benefits you had previously. I would also research the job market and provide evidence of salaries for similar jobs. My main advice is not to put any emphasis on the current exchange rate because it does not reflect respective purchasing power, that is £1 in UK will go further than $1.69 in Australia. On average you would need at least $2 for every £ you think your would need to make up for current salary and lost benefits.

I would focus on those types of things and not get too hung up on tax rates. Although Australia has different bands and personal allowances, on the whole, most people end up with a very similar effective rate of tax whether in Australia or UK. Certainly it doesn't differ so much as to be something you need the spend a lot of time on.

ETA: Sorry just realised you are probably negotiating a rate based in £? In which case my comments on $ are irrelevant, although personally, I would prefer to negotiate in $ so that I know exactly what I am getting.

Hi all,

 

This is my first post on here so please bare with me.im also a little worried that I will get ridiculed as it's a weight question, but here it goes!

 

Me and my OH have just had our EOI(expression of interest) accepted for PR in oz and will be invited for our medicals. This is where I'm getting concerned as I have been diagnosed with an under active thyroid and am still undergoing tests to get the right dosage. Not only this but I am classed BMI as obese (potentially due to thyroid problem and loving naughty food!)

 

I don't suffer from anything else relating to obesity such as heart problems or diabetes etc.

 

Does anyone know if this will stop me getting accepted or any advise on what to do or take with me to the medical would be much appreciated?!

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Kayleigh

Australia does not turn people down for a visa because they are overweight. Your medical may get referred, this just means a medically qualified person will look at it as opposed to it getting a rubber stamp immediately. Many medicals are referred, so don't worry about it. I also often suggest people with medical issues consult an agent, but to be honest this is barely an issue.

Surely you needed to supply full birth certificates for your visa.

Yep. Long birth certificates were definitely a requirement for the visa application when we applied in 2009. I had the long certificate mine (born 1970) but we had to apply for OHs. Takes about a week to come through, if that.

It also seems like she's got up to three years to do it, because it looks like you can apply right the way up to being 30, without even leaving. This gives me a bit of leeway to spend a bit of time in Oz and suss it all out first.

 

So in an ideal world, if I'm following correctly, we'd spend a year (or up to two) in the UK, then head back to Oz registering the relationship as a defacto before we left. I'd then be able to get the bridging visa whilst thats being processed and be able to work immediately?

 

IF this is correct, this has so many advantages, and is a much tidier way than me fudging my way through Australia on a tourist visa...I now just need to convince her to do it! Gulp!

Erm perhaps I am missing something, but you don't actually mention making the offshore partner visa application above, so aren't you therefore still looking to fudge your way through on a tourist visa with this plan?

It is not possible to "register a relationship" in Australia when you are both in the UK. As has been mentioned your chosen state is the one that does not recognise registered relationships anyway. And finally even if you did register a relationship, it isn't a visa. So you would still be looking to fudge (your word) your way into Australia on a tourist visa?

If she is willing to apply for that UK visa and live in the UK for a couple of years, then the way to do things properly would be to move to UK, apply for the Australian partner visa offshore after a year of living together in the UK and then move to Auatralia year or so later when it is granted.

update

im being made redundant on 23 December so been looking for a new sponsor. Plan to lodge Partner visa in next couple of weeks and hopefully find a new sponsor very soon. Im thinking is it worth waiting till after christmas to lodge seeing as the xmas break will prob slow things down anyway? will it look iffy if I lodge after im made redundant? my relationship is 100% genuine and we have all the paperwork ready to lodge! Stressful times....

If you qualify for the partner visa now, I can think of no good reason why you would delay applying. I would not be worrying remotely about whether it looks iffy or not. In fact I cannot think of any reason why it would look iffy for someone with an Australian partner to apply for a partner visa.

Hello - I felt I had to reply to this one as you are stressing out , I normally just read and them but move on.

 

I was in same situation in 2014 at around this time also having the same worries as you, I was in my 90 day period and struggling to find a job and sponsor. I was ringing immigration everyday trying to get an answer on the situation. Anyway I applied for my partner visa in the 90 day period eventually getting through to immigration with a bit of knowledge they put my worries to bed because I had applied for the partner visa and my 457 was current I still had 1 year left on it, the Government let you remain on the 457 visa.

 

You still need to find a sponsor to work but it takes away the 90 day count down. I still have the email immigration sent to me just incase anything pops up even though my visa was granted October 2015. Hope this puts your mind at rest a little.

I would advise caution as this is not the way things usually go. As explained earlier, it should be expected that when the job ends the 457 cancellation period will start to tick down and when it does the BVE comes into play. Note that the 90 days is now 60 days too.

If you're married, there should be no need to provide evidence of living together for 12 months when you've only been married for 7. A lot of couples don't live together before they're married.

The CO is entitled to ask married couples for evidence of the relationship as much as a defacto couple, if they deem it necessary.

Yep I've resided to that fact. I could get sponsored on a 187 as childcare group leader in regional area but obviously a lot depends on that - no guarantee. But for the opportunity to at least spend 3.5 years in Oz I might just take the plunge

I think you are deluding yourself. Childcare. It is like animal care. People are fighting over each other to get into these areas. They are hugely popular and hugely competitive. You do not have a cat in hells chance. No employer needs to sponsor for a permanent visa to get somebody into a childcare role as there are Australians tripping over each other for these roles. Wake up. You are 200 years too late to walk into a childcare role.