David Leask
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I also asked myself ‘how would they know?’. This question was quickly followed by ‘would they really believe I have nothing less than 12 months old in a large MoveCube?’. I’ve always thought honesty is the best policy so I declared everything under 12 months old. I doubt you’ll go far wrong by doing the same thing.
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Hi Sadge, We declared a total of $1025 of goods that were less than 12 months old. Some were going away gifts and were clearly unused. We noted them as gifts on the customs declaration form. I don't think our MoveCube was opened and inspected by customs and we didn't incur any import tax. I hope this helps. Good luck. David
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Hi Sadge, It sounds like you are well organised. We were the same, mostly packed before we got the free boxes. We didn’t count everything either. We put ‘bedding’, ‘ladies clothing’ etc on our forms. You will have to list all items (with values) less than 12 months old. Also, they will want details of all wooden items. If you are taking bikes, I would steam clean them (and state this on the form). I don’t think Customs opened our MoveCube. Door to door our goods took 99 days to arrive in Australia. I’m sure you’ll be just fine. Best regards David
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Hello Sadge, We used the Seven Seas Large MoveCube to move our belongings to Australia last year. We would highly recommend them. For us, the service was faultless. Around a week before you are due to move the Seven Seas driver will come to your house and carry out an access inspection to make sure there will be no issues on the day they deliver the MoveCube. The driver will leave the free packaging material. This includes large and medium cardboard boxes, bubble wrap and lots of rolls of sticky tape. I'm afraid I can't remember how many boxes we got. I think it may have been 6 of each (large and medium). I do remember that what they give you is not nearly enough to fill the MoveCube and therefore I suggest you start searching out more cardboard boxes. The driver will also leave you a load of forms to complete (and hand over on the day of the MoveCube pick up). These forms include Customs Declarations. You will also have to list everything that is in every box in your MoveCube. It's quite a task to complete this list (almost as tough as Form 80! LOL) but I think it's worth spending time over. Please let me know if there is anything else I can help with. Good luck David
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Hi Rosiejaq, Form 929 is used when your address changes. I suggest you look at Form 1022. It allows you to tell Immi of any changes to the responses on your original application and in my opinion this would include your daughters address. Just google ‘Form 1022’. Let me know what you think [emoji4] David
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Hi Rosiejaq, We had 14 days to provide our Bank Guarantee for AoS. We had 28 days to pay our second VAC. The indeterminate time period is the one in between the two. For us it was 3 days. I hope this helps. Good luck! David
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Hi, If you google Form 80 you will get a number of hits. Pick the Home Affairs one. Good luck. David
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Hi, Yes, you need to complete a Form 80 for each person included in your application. There are some quite searching questions on the form and it’s worth gathering the information as early as you can. You don’t won’t to be scrambling around looking for information after Immi has contacted you. I believe you need a Police Check for each country you have spent more than 12 months in in the past 10 years. This is worth checking but I think I am right. David
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I’m happy to share our experience with you. We had our Form 80’s ready several months before hearing from Immi. We completed them online using the PDF forms, then printed and scanned them ready for emailing to Immi. You can’t book medicals until you hear from Immi. With the email you’ll receive from Immi you will get a HAP number to use when you arrange the medical appointment. Depending on where you are you might get a quick appointment. Our UK Police Check took around two weeks. The certificate will be posted to you, it won’t be emailed. You scan the certificate and email it to Immi. Our daughter is our sponsor. She completed the AoS application online through her MyGov account. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions. Good luck!
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It will be at least 3.5 years from your lodgement date, if not longer, before you hear anything. This would take you to August, but sadly I think this is rather optimistic. In my humble opinion I think it will be nearer November/December. It will not be a call from your CO, it will be an email requesting Form 80, Police Check(s), Health Check and you will be asked to commence your Assurance of Support application. With regard to your ‘old’ PCC’s from other countries, I couldn’t say for sure whether they will be acceptable. The safe position to take up is to assume they will not be valid. I wouldn’t do anything more with PCC’s until you are requested to do so by Immi. Good luck [emoji4]
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Hi Judy, As others have said, whether you take out private medical insurance or not is down to the individuals. There is no right or wrong. Medicare will cover most things. Finding a bulk billing medical practice is good. The public system will look after you but you may have to wait (in some cases years) for non essential treatments. Medicare won’t cover ambulance transport, dental, optical, physiotherapy, chiropractor and a number of other similar services. Another thing I suggest you look at is Lifetime Health Cover (LHC) loading. This is a government initiative to encourage people to take out private medical insurance. Australian Residents up to the age of 30 don’t have LHC loading applied to their premiums. From the age of 31 if residents haven’t taken out private medical insurance 2% is added to the insurance premium for each year they continue without insurance up to a maximum loading of 70%. New migrants have 12 months from when they register with Medicare to take out private medical insurance or they will be hit with the LHC loading. As I understand it, this means if you wait for a few years before you finally take out insurance you will be hit with a hefty additional premium. I might not have explained it very well but I do encourage you to make yourself aware of it. We took out Basic Hospital Cover with Dental as an extra. Emergency Ambulance is covered too. I hope this helps David
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No problem [emoji4] My daughter is our Sponsor and she completed and submitted the AoS application form through her MyGov account. From memory the form is pretty straightforward. The main thing they ask for is income for the current year and total earnings from the previous year, with evidence to back this information up (wage slips, tax returns etc). If you are the Sponsor you will have to go into your local Centrelink office to have your identity confirmed before you upload the application. We came out early on a 600 visa and this didn’t affect the 143 application. I can’t advise on the 870 visa.
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Hi, Welcome to the forum. There’s no problem in asking questions. The help here is excellent. Let me try and answer some of your questions. The next communication you will get from Immi is a request for further information. This is unlikely to come for at least another 18/24 months, maybe longer. At that point you will be asked to provide a police check, go for a medical, complete Form 80 and commence your AoS application. The police check normally takes a few weeks and costs less than $100. You will need to arrange a medical at an approved location. Depending on how busy the medical facility is you might have to wait a few weeks. The cost will be several hundred dollars. The most time consuming thing is the AoS application. This is currently taking 20 weeks or more so you will want to complete the application forms as soon as you can (after hearing from Immi). Form 80 might take a while to complete but you can get a lot of it done before you hear from Immi. With Police Check, Medical and Form 80 done you will be left waiting for Centrelink to process your AoS application. After 20 weeks or so Centrelink will contact the Sponsor and ask them to pay the bond money into the Commonwealth Bank. For 1 person it is currently $10k. Once you have done this and if the Sponsors income is ok you will get an AoS acceptance letter from Centrelink. All going well you will be within a few weeks of getting the visa. Immi will send you an invoice to pay the second VAC (currently $43,600). Once this is paid the visa will be granted. I hope this helps. I have described the process where there are no complications. If there are any complications the timings mentioned above could be much longer. Good luck!
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I would hazard a guess and say it will be at least 18 months, if not longer, before you hear anything more.
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Did you receive an acknowledgment from Immi?
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Hi Mily, The police check is valid for 12 months. It took less than two weeks to get it. Good luck!
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Hi Mily, Your mum will need a National Police Check from the Australian Federal Police. You can complete the application form online. It will cost around $42. As you are already aware your mum will need enough forms of ID to add up to 100 points. We used passports and Australian driving licenses. Your mum has a passport which is worth 70 points. Her original birth certificate is worth another 70 points - does she still have this document? Let me know if I can be of further help. David
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Thanks Kath. I remember we flew out on the same day last June armed with our 600 visas and hopeful of getting our 143's within the first 12 months. I must admit, many times I had my doubts that it would happen for us, but here we are! We don't need to jump out for 6 months. I'm guessing you have to go offshore soon, yes? I feel for you. All I can say (and I know it's easy for me) is, stick with it ...... you will get there.
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Hi Vicky, Thank you. Our latest date for initial entry is 2 January 2020.
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It is with great pleasure and untold excitement that I advise you our CPV's (143) have been granted. Our process from start to finish took just under 46 months. Our key dates are shown below: CPV application lodgement date 16 July 2015; 1st VAC paid 17 July 2015; Acknowledgement date 17 July 2015; Further information requested 18 December 2018 AOS application date 21 December 2018; AOS Bond ($14,000) paid to Com Bank 16 April 2019; AOS Acceptance Letter 23 April 2019 (there was no interview) Medicals date 31 December 2018; Form 80 date 4 January 2019; Police checks date 15 January 2019; 2nd VAC requested 2 May 2019; 2nd VAC paid 5 May 2019; Visas granted 6 May 2019 My wife and I can now press the 'play' button and begin to enjoy the rest of our lives with our daughters and their families in Australia.
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We are 16 weeks and still waiting for the call [emoji30]
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We received a lovely early Christmas gift today - a request from Immi to provide Form 80, Police Checks, Medical Checks and to commence our AoS application! Our lodgement date was 16 July 2015. Still some way to go but it was fantastic to hear from the PVC.
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Awesome Bev! You are one day ahead of us. Things are looking up [emoji4]
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Hi Linda, I completed the form online and printed it out (it doesn’t allow you to save the pdf file). I scanned it and emailed it to the PVC in Perth. I received an auto reply almost immediately then a few hours later I received a ‘proper’ reply acknowledging receipt and confirming my details had been updated. I did this 11 months ago. Regards David
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Hi Linda, If it was me, I'd use Form 1022. I've used this form successfully in the past to declare that my daughter (sponsor) has Australian Citizenship. Good luck. David
