laurahair

On 22/05/2021 at 13:06, Wadho said:

Hi @laurahair

Thank you for the response and good to hear that you got your PR with no issues. Just another question, did you end up pursuing the online study. I am enrolled with a WA uni but doing my studies online and I am based in Sunshine coast Qld.

I will be eligible to apply for my 887 in August, when I checked with a mara agent, they said online study is not considered a breach, but after reading your post I got curious as to why the college told you its a breach.

I hope this won't be a breach on my side.

I did complete my online studies. Once I moved to the sunshine coast which was considered regional for my 489 visa they accepted my enrollment. 

When I first enrolled I had just moved to the Gold coast so the college could see that I was in breech of my postcode regional area for the 489. 

You should be all good though if you are living in the Sunshine coast that is considered regional. Good luck with your PR 

On 19/05/2021 at 12:14, Wadho said:

Hi Laurahair

Just iqnterested in knowing if you got your PR with no hustles. I am in the same situation now

Hi @Wadho

I got my pr in June last year after applying the previous September. I got a call from them asking to resubmit my police certificate as I uploaded it in the wrong format, I was approved straight away. No other questions asked. Good luck with yours. We ended up staying in the sunshine coast after getting PR  

 

 

6 hours ago, Halohair said:

Hi Sony, 

I know this is an old thread, I have found it extremely helpful in my preparation. My test is in 2days and I've been going over all my old college notes. 

I was wondering if you could help me, do they refer to chemical straightening process or process of performing a relaxer in your questions? This process is slightly different. 

I hope you can assist me. 

Thank you so much!

 

Hey I was asked about chemical straightening! I was asked how I would do the process and then he asked questions about how to check if it was ready. He did give multiple choice answers. This is the section that I failed on. I YouTubed videos of it for my resit and I passed. If you haven't done one I would recommend just youtube. Good luck!! 

Hi all. I hope everyone is well! I'm sure there are alot of people in this situation and just wondering what people are doing or advise out there.

I am on a 489 I applied for my 887 visa in September but am living in the sunshine coast. Since I moved here in December I have not had any luck getting work because I am not a PR and I don't see me getting one anytime soon. My boyfriend has a full time job since Feb.

We are nervous if he looses his job what to do.

If we went home to Ireland we will breach our visa conditions assuming we will be gone for longer than 6 weeks so would that mean we wont be aloud back into the country when things settle?

Also they have added another 6 months wait time onto the 887 visa timeline, bringing it to 24 months from application to approval [emoji24]

Thank you for your replies and advise.
I got in touch with a mara migration lawyer and she said it's ok that moved from the NT after the 2 years. But I still need to be in the specific postcode classed as regional until my 887 comes through. So I have signed a new lease in sunshine coast and am leaving gold coast.
She also said because I haven't worked in the gold coast that I should get away with it.
Fingers crossed the visa will all go to plan from here.

Hi I'm just wondering has anyone been on a 489, did the required 2 years and applied for the 887 and then left the nominated state and still got there 887.

I did my 2 years in the NT applied for the 887 and then moved to Queensland. A migration agent had told me when applying for my 489 that I could do this so this was always my plan.

I have only been here for 2 months and have not worked yet, but I did change my address on the immi application.

Yesterday I applied to study online and I got a call from the college saying I am violating my visa conditions and cannot study outside of the NT.

I have rang the NT migration who refered me to department of immigration. I called them twice today with different questions. One person saying I need to live and work in a specific postcode in Qld and another saying once I submitted my 887 immigration won't ask for any info post my 2 year commitment.

Has anyone done the same and what was your outcome. Tia

Hey any qualified hairdressers in Darwin at the minute looking for a casual hairdressing job. We are very flexible if you only want to stay in darwin for a few months or weeks that's OK. But mainly needing someone for the month of December/January

You can pm me here. Thanks 

Hey Laura, Is it relevantly easy to get a job in Darwin? I'm trying to think of back up plans in case the visa i have applied for falls through ...And i know that NT do state sponsorship....when i jumped online to check out jobs there didn't appear to be much ...

Hey
The salons don’t seem to advertise much on job sites. I have found they look for staff through there Facebook pages, or they have signs up on the window. Everyone is saying Darwin has quietened down a lot recently, house prices have gone down and so has rent. I found it easy to get work but I had to walk into salons and drop my cv in. As for my bf he is a cabinet maker and there is no work in his trade up here but he got a job in warehouse, so it’s all good [emoji4]

Hi guys, so this thread was started in 2015, so is everyone who started the process from the UK back then all happily settled in Oz? We are just at the very beginning but was hoping (everything being successful) that 12 months was a reasonable timeline but I am beginning to doubt that. 

Hi Rae
I haven’t been on this in so long. I have been in Darwin for the past 10 months. Loving every minute and the long process was well worth the wait. Also before I came to Darwin I was dreading having to stay here for 2 years on the 489 but the time is flying here and the sun is always shining. Good luck with the visa process
Laura

Hi brills
I was the same as Vicky with the visa, I was going to apply to qld but while waiting for the vetasses cert hairdressing was taken off the list. I was fed up at that stage and went to New Zealand for a year.
I came back last September and put my eoi in for NT in November. I have been offered a 489 visa just last week. I submitted the application and 2 days later was asked for medicals and the other documents. I have my medical booked for may 2nd, that was the nearest appointment.

With regards to making the videos I set up a camera on a tripod and recorded a full haircut, colour, hilites, perm, mans cut and beard trim. I downloaded a movie editor online and muted them and set them on quick speed so they were about 7mins long. I also did a voice over explaining my technique. I also took photos of upstyles and sent them aswell.


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Wow 9 months already? That's gone so quick! Have you been down to the south island yet? Be interesting to see what happens next week with the lists, I'm hoping queensland or nsw doesn't come back on ill be gutted!

Not a peep yet with my visa, we need to book out medicals soon but didn't realise how pricey they were!

 

Ye we took a trip down to Queenstown few weeks ago! Loved it down there.

I'm hoping qld comes on the list [emoji23] But I can't be too fussy at this stage!

Hopefully u hear something soon

 

 

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I did the same applied online and sent paperwork through the post, like Laura said it's a lot of paperwork!

 

Laura how are you getting on?

 

Hey vicki

All good here in NZ!! We are waiting until nxt week to see if the occupation list stays the same! If so we will apply to NT. We are in Auckland almost 9 months and know NZ is not for us and oz is the goal!! 2 years in Darwin will fly anyway!! Have you any update on your visa?

 

 

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Oh Ye u will be covered so!! I think I Applied online for the first part, and then to show the evidence I sent it by post. I made a folder with all the evidence! There was a lot of paper work

 

 

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I phoned a immigration office and they said i can apply yay. I was looking through the tra and wanted to no about videos of ur evidence do you have to get someone to sign it off or do u just send it

 

Hi Libby that's great! you just send them in, you don't have to get them signed off. But there is other paperwork where you need to show where your employer (if in a salon) signs to say you are confident in your job. And you need to show your proof of previous employment etc. have you done a chemical straightening before? That was the hardest part for me..

 

 

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Hi all,

 

i appeared for for vetassess interview on 24th November, I had to email VETASSESS for the certificate in January as I was running short of time for 190- age criteria, I got my certificate in the 1 st week of February. Then applied for EOI, it took 3 weeks, roughly end of Feb but I was offered 489 visa sponsorship as I was turninig 41 in the month of March. I filed visa application on 11th March with required documents and fees. There was a query by the department and again submitted relevant documents in end of April. Awaiting my visa grant. Very anxious.

 

Hopefully you will hear something soon. At least you are at the last stage [emoji3]

 

 

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Do I need to do the ielts first before the vetassess

 

You only need the IElTS for extra points. You are best to apply for this early because the dates are limited and if you need to resit it this will take longer.

What state are you hoping to apply for?

Where are you from [emoji3]

 

 

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hi all wondered if u could help I have my nvq level 1 and 2 with 10 years experience in the hair industry can I apply for state sponsorship

 

Hi at the min you could apply for nt or tas. You will need to do a vetassess exam. [emoji3]

 

 

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Oh and I'm from Ireland [emoji12]

Hi sorry I'm rubbish at this lol how come your in NZ NOW ? Very exciting ! No never been to NT before bit nervous and excited lol . My biggest worry is the kids as not sure what the schools are lke there x

 

I was just sick of how long the visa process was and nothing happening so we booked our flights and were in NZ within 10weeks[emoji3]

When we first started the process we were hoping to go to south Australia then hairdressing was taken off the list. So we can only go to NT aswell.

My bf is a cabinet maker and is on the list for most states but he is short a few months experience to qualify and would also mean starting the process all over.

 

Are Ye planning on going as soon as Ye get the visa or finishing the school year in the uk. I'm sure it is a lot harder with kids to get organised. What ages are they.

Hi shells. Congrats on vetassess. haven't gotten as far as eoi yet. I am currently in New Zealand. Only arrived 3 weeks ago. We are planning on submitting our eoi in the new year, We will also be applying for NT although not too keen on going there but it's a step in!! Have you been to NT before

Hi lauren that's great you can apply for that visa. I'm not using an agent so I can't recommend one. I'm sure you are excited to get started.

Is this a pubic post?

Yes laura

Yeah just a shame they will be in Vic and we won't lol.

i will be getting in touch with some after the weekend and hopefully go from there, there is so many websites that say so many different things I think I could go on forever searching for myself it's took us a while to get this far.

yeah I've read through the full post I think I'm going to have to brush up on my knowledge! I've just completed a barbering course though so I've already refreshed some theory, but thanks I'm sure I will be asking about vetassess soon (hopefully anyway)

Oh hopefully you will get to apply fingers crossed for you

Yeah that's our next step at the minute I've got together a start on my paperwork for skills assessment but going to speak to a migration officer with all my questions, there's a few!

Yes I have a husband but no skills he's a HGV driver and can easily find work in any area of oz so that's no issue to us personally but obviously he can't help towards the visa application

yeah I went travelling for 3 months straight after finishing my apprenticeship then been over twice, 4 weeks at a time as my husbands grandma and grandad live in Victoria.

Good luck with the 187

Ah lovely that's nice to be going over to family.

Let me know how it goes with the agent and if u need help with vetassess just ask.

Myself and Vicki have alot of the questions we were asked during the interview written in this thread [emoji4]

Oh so that's going to be a problem, I've sent off for a statement of national insurance contributions as that vouches for employment but over years the majority is only going to be part time work, how many years experience do you have?

Maybe contact a migration specialist and see if they think you can pursue the visa. I did an apprentice from 2005-2007 and then moved to oz came back and went to college in 2011 and have worked since then but post qualification experience is only 3 years. It is only enough to apply for NT. But I have been offered a regional job in WA so I am hoping to get the 187 visa started asap.

 

Do you have a partner that is going and are they on the skills list.

Have u been to oz before