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Well you you will not get a direct entry permanent visa without a skills assessment. This might be something you should get in the bag, even if this opportunity does not work out, perhaps there will be others and you are really up against the clock. I don't think many employers think long term these days do they? In any case, they can sponsor you for a 457 visa and then another one after that and again, for as long as they need. It is of no particular interest to the employer whether you are permanent or not, many would prefer to keep you tied to them on the temporary visa.

Well finding an employer sponsor is not just a "main issue". It is a complete show stopper for the vast majority of people. Also you have said elsewhere that your occupation is not on the skills lists, so that might be the show stopper VS refers to.

Have you already got a skills assessment? Or if not, do you know how long it would take to obtain one for your occupation? It can be as little as a couple of weeks but on the other hand others take months. You cannot get direct entry without skills assessment - well there are a few exceptions, but they are very specific exceptions. If you do have your skills assessment in hand, well no harm in asking, the worst that can happen is that they say no. I would ask a little later on, once you have the offer hand or at least know you are preferred candidate. If they do say no, the important thing is for you to decide if you would make this move on a temporary visa, with no guarantees that it would ever go permanent.

Rents in Australia are typically quoted per week not per month. So I calculate that you are thinking of something just above $800 per week. This is generally not going to put you in an affluent area, it is quite an average budget for Sydney, some might even say you would struggle to find a nice house for that. I am not familiar with Rhodes and no idea about the length of commute, don't take any notice of driving times on Google though when you look into it, they won't reflect Sydney traffic. If there are trains out there, that would give you a decent idea though. My other recommendation, don't limit it to one suburb. Sydney suburbs all roll into one, you won't know when one ends and the next starts, it is not like separate towns that you get in the UK. I would focus on broader area and a bunch of suburbs not just one.

I am always rather perplexed when people ask this type of question. A good CV is a good CV. Assume somebody in Australia would like to see the same kind of thing as somebody in the UK would and you won't go far wrong.

You have a positive skills assessment outcome? Something must have changed recently in that case as nurses have always had to take IELTS for skills assessment for as long as I can remember. Anyway as I say, no people do not typically claim partner points. Skills assessments are far harder and generally more expensive than IELTS. I didn't see boilermaker on the SOL either, what code is it?

A nurses skills assessment is carried out by ANMAC not APHRA and you will be required to undertake IELTS for that. APHRA are the registration body, you need to be registered with them to work, but it is not part of the visa process. It is very unusual for people to claim partner points, I could count on one hand the numb of times I have seen anyone do that. Skills assessments can be laborious and expensive and doing two,rather than take an IELTS test is an odd decision. In your case though, you have to take IELTS for skills assessment anyway.

Says who? Anyway no, it isn't going to happen.

How many years of work experience does your wife have? And how much post degree? If she has eight years experience then she would get 15 points for work and she could aim to get the 60 points as per my earlier post. To that table you have posted I would make two comments. Firstly it is not necessary to gain employment in regional Australia to get 10 points for state sponsorship, sometime states ask for it but it is not a requirement. Secondly in the box showing 10 points for regional state sponsorship. This is actually a provisional visa not a temporary visa in the usual sense. The regional state sponsored visa can be converted to a permanent one after two years. As to what you should do next, well it depends what path you want to pursue. If she can get 60 points then I would have thought the regional state sponsored skilled migrant visa would be the best course and for this she will need to take IELTS as she needs the points and she also needs a skills assessment -APHRA registration is not required for the visa application. If she cannot get 60 points, well then as already mentioned she would need to find an employer willing to sponsor for a permanent visa before she turns 50. She would need a skills assessment for this visa too and that is probably something you should be looking into now.

It is very difficult to pass the points test after the age of 45 but not impossible. For example maximum points for English (20), a degree (15), max points for work experience (15) and regional state sponsorship (10) provides 60 points in total. Has this option been ruled out for any reason already? She would need to get a wriggle on though, as a skills assessment is required for the visa process, not APHRA registration, that could have been done later in fact. I think it may be possible to do a modified skills assessment once APHRA registration is obtained though, so that might save some time. Other than that, the only way she can secure a permanent visa is to find an employer willing to sponsor. She would need a skills assessment for this too, so if you have any chance at all, then perhaps this is a process you need to start urgently. After she reaches 50, I would be pretty certain that there will be no way of obtaining a permanent visa as nurses do not typically earn enough to qualify through the over 50s route. In this case as Verystormy mentions, you just need to weigh up if you are happy to move over for an adventure for a few years as return will be inevitable.

I cannot think how that would be relevant.

No I would not agree because it won't play out like that. If you or your employer inform immigration that your employment has ended, they will immediately see that the visa expires in two days anyway and would just let it happen. They are certainly not going to give you what would effectively be a 60 day extension. With the Christmas holidays coming up, no sponsor in sight and a visa expiring in January, you really do need some urgent professional assistance to see if there are any other options to consider, but you really have left this very late and perhaps you are not appreciating the gravity of the situation. Have you even started to look into moving back to the UK, because right now that looks to be a very real possibility. As an afterthought, your current employer is happy to see you go in January? Have they already give you redundancy notice?

I remember a few years ago we had a spell of +40c days and I was sure it didn't fall below 30c at night once or twice during the week.

No they are not in the UK.

Well there are some unpleasant people about. But I don't think it is correct to claim they have a particular mental illness, unless you know they have been diagnosed as such. I had never heard of this one, but I read about it as I wondered if it was like Borederline Personality Dosorder (it's not). People wth this condition are likely to indulge in criminal behaviour and have sociopathic tendencies.

I think you may have been selective with your extract from the instructions. Immigration state to obtain police checks and medicals on request. Applying for them now when you are not even going to lodge the partner visa application until March, will almost certainly mean you will be redoing them anyway as they will have expired. If you have some more to do that you have not yet started then save yourself time, money and effort and don't send off for them. To your original questio, they take two weeks give or take and it is unlikely that your witness / signatory will be contacted at all.

If it expires it expires, you must lodge another visa application or leave by the expiry date. You do not get expiry plus 60 or 90 days. The 60 or 90 days you may have read about refers to notice of cancellation. There is no notice to expiry, this is clear from the outset.

There is no such thing as the Queensland CSOL. THe SOL and CSOL are both federal government lists not state lists. If you want to know what occupations Queensland are sponsoring you need to look at the Quuensland sponsorship lists. When I am looking something up for a poster, I typically just google "Queensland state sponsorship list" or similar.

Ok. I asked about the state on the off chance you were in South Australia and might be able to secure a sponsorship. In this case though, you are very unlikely to be successful. You are going to need an employers support, unless your wife can obtain a skilled migrant or permanent employer sponsored visa.

Loads of people get a permanent visa without involving an employer. Australia has the skilled migrant program for this. Have you ever looked into a 189, 190 or 489 visa? My concern is your occupation might not be eligible, do you know what occupation code has been used for the 457? What state do you live in?

I agree. Flights to Europe are not cheap across the board, but there are good deals to be had if you book at the right time, during a sale, far enough in advance etc. I thought much the same as for domestic Australia flights, we picked up some good deals from time to time there too.

After spending so much money on a parent visa, I think it would be foolish in the extreme for them to pin their hopes on getting a RRV. There is no way of knowing whether they would get it or not so why take the risk. They should push on with their moving plans, at the very least one of them should come over, but really no reason they cannot both do so. It is perfectly possible to complete a house sale from overseas. I have personally both sold and bought a property in the UK whilst I was living overseas.

I see from another thread that you currently earn £16 an hour, the purchasing power of this is well above the purchasing power of $28 and it is very misguided to use the current low exchange rate to make a comparison. You will definitely be worse off than you are now and this is a below average income. I find the questions about whether it is "on a par with living expenses" amd "average weekly bills" to be unanswerable as people will adapt their spending to suit their budget, there is not a standard weekly spend. To some of your questions, Australia had Medicare, a bit like the NHS but you might pay for some things. Yes we did something like an MOT for the car every year in NSW. On that, I am puzzled as to where you are moving to though and you may be too. NSW is one state and Victoria is another. There is no such thing as "NSW Victoria", do you have any idea where you are going to be based? I would suggest you find out and research the area carefully, if this is remote Australia it could be a huge culture shock and nothing like the Australia you have been dreaming of. Overall I am inclined to say that you should go for it and I say that for one reason only, because you have said it is something you always wanted to do and have dreamed of. So here is your chance. I would tone down your expectations over lifestyle though, the country does not make the lifestyle it is you that makes the lifestyle. My lifestyle was identical to the lifestyle I had in UK because, by choice, I went over there and lived a similar kind of life. Actually now I am back in the UK I have been living a different lifestyle because I made the choice to change it.

People from English speaking nations are not required to take IE,TS. The vast majority do because it is so easy way to score points, bitbf the points can be met without it then no need for it.

I have not spoken to you "a number of times" in fact I don't recall you at all. But I would have thought if we had interacted a "number of times" you might actually know that I am a "she" not a "he". If you are happy to tell people that they can take a diploma course in Australia in childcare and have this lead to a permanent visa the knock yourself out. You can present your view that this is a great idea. My thoughts is that this is not a great idea. But this is a forum, I do not offer professional advice. iIf you have a problem with my posts then please feel free to report them.