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..

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

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.

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.

What opportunity for 3.5 years?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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

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.