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  1. laurenday
    Hi everyone, I am reaching out to any hairdressers who are considering the move to oz and looking for a sponsorship. I myself am English and been in Australia nearly 7 years now and had the opportunity to purchase my salon where I was originally sponsored! If anyone is potentially interested, please get in touch! We are in desperate need of hairdressers here (Victoria) Thanks, Lauren
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    I’m at Raw Edge in Belmont! Where are you at now? We were initially going to wait for the temporary transition stream, but when they changed all the rule for 457 visas we decided it would be best to go DE instead! So we had to find the money to pay for it! And skills assessment, migration fees etc and I have 2 children aswell so 4 if us on the application wasn’t cheap [emoji51] Oh that’s weird, on my immi account it was originally 15months estimated now it’s changed to 9-12month I’m not too bothered about waiting, I’ve still got 2 and a bit years left on my 457 and bridging visa granted No I don’t think I am, I’ll search now for it Thanks [emoji16]
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    Same visa as me.. Sucks to be in the waiting game! I’ve got a long way to go yet! Submitted 28th feb and submitted medicals on Friday
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    Geelong is honestly amazing, got the beach one way, Melbourne the other! We were really lucky we wanted to come to Geelong and I got offered a 457 (so similar to you!) we have just applied for our 186 to stay Permanently! So prep is what I think of as our reception it’s there first year of actual school, Before this they do kinder - which is optional Yes, you pay school fees whether you are a resident or not, private or public My daughters August too!! It’s different to the UK for sure, but we adapted well and my girls honestly love here We went 8 weeks with one car between us, but as soon as my husband started work we didn’t have a choice but to get 2 cars, But Lara is still classed as ‘rural Geelong’ and I think the closer you are to Geelong city the public transport is much better! Yep, it’s nice to have a friendly face When you get here!
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    Hey! I don’t know how much help I will be but I’ll give it a go! Haha.. so we moved to Geelong in August 2016 from UK we are the other side to where you are currently looking though. I work in Belmont and live in Lara (25 mins commute) honestly I feel everything is ‘far away’ compared to the UK. There are many good schools here, I hear good things about the schools in Belmont, but also your oldest child might not even be going to school until the next school year (Jan 2019) when we left UK my daughter was due to start year 2 in England, and came here to prep! (She was 6) and my youngest daughter (currently 3) won’t start prep until Jan 2020, so also nearly 6. If you have any general questions I am More that happy to chat [emoji16] Also, me, my husband and kids LOVE it here, and haven’t looked back
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    Pathway 2 is when you already have the Australian certificate 3, but the immigration department will not accept the application with this alone, they still need the vetassess skills assessment
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    Hahaha, which visa have to applied for?
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    I’m using the same agent I used for my 457, they were amazing. Mine won’t submit without full documents. I agree, my agent advised for my 457 it would be 12 weeks, it was granted 12 weeks and 2 days, my agent followed up with immigration at exactly 12 weeks and 2 days later it was granted I have 100% faith in my migration agent I think they hold hairdressing interviews once a month, I originally had mine scheduled for September, but I ended up in hospital with appendicitis so had to reschedule last minute, I sat it in October. Ahh I can’t remember off the top of my head what the building was called it was in CBD though! Albert street rings a bell? I sat mine on the Monday, received positive outcome online on the Wednesday and certificate arrived Friday
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    VETASSESS
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    Yep, so The ones I can remember: What’s your day to day duties How do you start your day How do you set up for your day Name 3 hazards How would you avoid hazards How would you deal with a client complaint How would you record an accident Honestly it was just general questions; when she said my interview was finished I actually asked her why I wasn’t asked about hairdressing and she said because I have gone via pathway 2 I already have the certificate which counteracts the actual units! Oh wow 18months!!! I’m just about to submit my 186 application (currently on 457) and my migration agent said it takes approximately 10months! Can I just ask, have you applied as a ‘hairdresser’ or ‘manager’
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    I’m in Geelong! (An hour from Melbourne) so that was the closest to me
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    Hi Param, I also went via pathway 2 in October, I’m assuming to already have your cert 3 Australian? I sat my technical interview in Melbourne and I didn’t have to answer any of the questions in this post! If I remember correctly they only really asked me Day to Day management in the salon and health and safety questions, I was only in about 20 mins! I studied all the units of hairdressing again and didn’t need to! Feel free to ask me some questions Lauren
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    Hi! Sorry for delay, been super busy lately, I've just submitted stage 1, I have applied via pathway 2 though as I already have aus version cert 3 in hairdressing So I don't have an interview as yet! Lauren Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Ahh sorry can't really help you close to CBD as I'm not familiar with any of the suburbs! Yeah rent isn't bad where we are, but as I said we aren't in CBD I think it's around 40mins on the train from Lara Yeah it's going great so far! I already had a job as I'm sponsored but my husband found a job in 8 weeks so we were really lucky in that sense My girls (6and2) have settled so well, I'm actually surprised at how well they've settled I see your partner has family here, have you visited before? Yeah it's very scary I'm not gonna lie lol but no regrets as yet [emoji2] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Hi! Are you wanting to stay close to Melbourne? I'm from Middlesbrough Uk originally but myself, hubby and 2 girls have been in oz for 9 months now. We are in Geelong, well just outside (Lara) and find it great! We are 45mins drive from CBD Melbourne, fab for families and affordable. We rent at the minute and pay 430 rent per week, for a 4 bed good sized house (it's new aswell) if you want to chat some more I'm happy too [emoji4] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Hi bellabonkers, congrats on your successful skills assessment I hope you don't mind but could I pick your brains about the technical interview, I'm also onshore at the minute and I seen you did it in Melbourne, which is where I'll be going any tips on what I can expect? Thanks ?
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    Thank you! I hope your approval comes through soon! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    We have family 25 mins from my new job, we are staying with them, which makes everything a hell of a lot easier we haven't took any furniture as most of it was due to be replaced anyway this year, so we made do with it until now, we shipped 8 large boxes of personal items and sentimental things (stuff we wanted) we had it all ready to go the minute we got visa approved, so that got picked up Monday, and luckily we had moved out of our house the week before so it was pretty much empty. To be honest everything just fell into place and we were REALLY lucky! Our house is up for sale we out that on the market around a month ago, one set of keys is staying with my Mam and another is going to the estate agents who are selling it for us. Honestly though, we took a massive risk so I wouldn't want any one to do what we did, some people on this forum have been waiting months for there visa to be approved we were lucky enough to have a sh*t hot migration agent who got us it 3 weeks after nomination approval Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Congratulations ! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Hahaha yes 8th August! We fly Thursday morning! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Thanks!! We fly Thursday morning from Manchester [emoji4] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    8th June all extra information requested was uploaded via immi account Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Nomination and visa lodged 17th may Nomination approved 14th July (request for more information may 31st) Visa grant 8th may (immi account received straight to finalised) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Visa grant this morning!!! Time to fly!!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Lucky you!! Congratulations!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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