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That’s really helpful and we’re not locked down the Sydney but she’s hoping that her company she works for now will create a roll to keep her as they have an office in Sydney. She works for a top 100 company and is around director level now so if we are to be in Sydney it will need to pay well though she’s happy to commute an hour or so. I’ll take what I can get but I’m looking to not do the heavy hard work and move to sales and design if not a complete change of career but hard to know what to do when you’ve done the same thing for 20years!

It’s mor about the wife, she’s a chartered accountant and for the sort of wages needed Sydney I’d our best hope. Plus we have our visas now so all set. I’m a landscape gardener so can pretty much go anywhere.

My wife’s an accountant and managed to achieve 75 points which is about as high as you can get. The reason it’s so popular is because of Asians are very good at maths and the also can study in Australia which gives extra points that we just can’t get in the uk so we’re advised to go for a state sponsored visa and the only states offering that or at least we’re offering that was NSW and Northern Territory. Once we submitted we were offered to apply very quick and now we have our permanent visas but the catch is we need to work two years in NSW when we really wanted to live in Brisbane but a small price to pay I feel. The process is around 18mths - 2 years and the paper work you need is extensive, thankfully my wife being an accountant she keeps good records as well as contacts from previous jobs in order to get paper work required. We received our visas two weeks before Xmas and plan to leave in September giving us the time to sell house, plan where to go, research jobs, close my business, wife hand notice in, the list goes on, I’d leave tomorrow but we have to be sensible and it will take a lot of planning.

That one worked much better, I must of been in wrong place. It’s around half price of a container and that’s with them storing for a month as when we get there we will air b&b until we find somewhere to live. Is this what people do or do you just guess it and rent something before you go? Thanks guys I look forward to helping other people once we have completed the move.

From what I’ve read a 20ft container is is going to cost around 4K give or take but I can’t find a rough price for the large move cubes, to get a quote you have to say how many boxes etc and the sizes of them. I don’t leave until September but want to know what we might take or just buy new out there. I doubt we’ll do much furniture maybe little boys bedroom furniture so the rest is pictures, cloths, business files (7 years of accounts) bikes and that’s about it. Not sure we’d fill a 20ft container but maybe we could squeeze all in to a move cube. It’s hard knowing when to think about this stuff as we have around 8 months to go but we need to keep a tally of what things cost let alone thinking about selling house, closing down a business trying to get a new job and somewhere to live. Mind boggling but super excited.

Sorry to jump in on this but we’re planning to go on the 1st September and not sure how long I should leave to start to organise this stuff. Also we might air B&B when we first get there so we can look at where we would want to live so will they hold it until your ready and know where you want it delivered to?

Your completely right and that’s something we have thought about doing already, I’ve been looking through the garage to see what I can sell. I’m guessing plug sockets are different so any electrical items would need plug converters. It’s so daunting I feel I should be doing more but maybe just keep researching shipping costs and where to live etc and as we get closer I’ll be a little more informed. Thanks for your reply.

Hi everyone for the first time I’m posting after receiving our visas and not asking about visas. My wife, son and I have our sponsored permanent visas for NSW. After two years we can finally plan. We hope to leave on the 1st September but where on earth do we start with planning? I have to finish my landscaping business which is not to hard but want to work for as long as I can, we have a house to sell but would be great to not have to move out plus how to rent etc as well as shipping all our stuff. It’s completely mind boggling, exciting and scary all at once and we have no idea with timings so any advise will be amazing. Thank you in advance. Darren.

Yeh it’s like the final thing that can go wrong and the back of your head your thinking they’ll find it you’ve got cancer or something then it’s all over, silly but you can’t help it. Thanks for the link and do you find out results straight away or is it more waiting?

I’m in Bournemouth. Do you know a link where I can find out? Good luck and let us know what it was like.

It’s was with CA ANZ as my wife’s a chartered accountant.

That will work well, the wife’s just started a new job so wants to do a year with them before we go if all goes well.

I guess we’ll get told by our agent as their dealing with all of it for us. Thanks for getting back. Any idea on the length of time from now until the visa comes through or is it a case of how longs a peace of string?

Today we have been told we can apply for our 190 NSW state sponsored visa, we’re not sure what the next steps are and how long it will take. My wife’s the main applicant and myself and my 2 year old will be going as well. Will all of us including my son need a medical? And we live on the south coast, is the only place we can get a medical London? Be great to here if anyone’s recently done this. It’s all going very fast, we sent the skills assessment of and it was approved in one day and now two weeks after sending EOI we’ve been asked to apply, we thought each stage would be weeks and months. Cheers Darren.

Hi I think you only need IETLS or PTE to gain points for the visa so it may be beneficial to focus on just one? My wife practiced a lot prior to the exam. There are free practice tests online which first explain how to answer the question and give tips on how to achieve top marks. This really helped. She’s also timed herself as this is a crucial element of the test. My wife also said that you could purchase a mock exam online which might also be beneficial? Best of luck, I hope you gain the scores you’re looking for.

She left the big company once qualified and didn’t need it when she became a finance manager. We sent the skills assessment of now and they have come back 1 day later with complete full marks!! We were expecting a 4-8 week wait not one day. They accepted all her work experience and didn’t matter she wasn’t a member. This is huge news and a big relief. We can submit our EOI right away and see what the next stage has to throw at us. [emoji846][emoji846]

I guess we have no choice but get assessed and see what the outcome is and keep everything crossed.

ICAW was who she did the exams with.

She’s a ACA chartered and qualified since dec 2012, she didn’t need to join ICAW as she went to work in industry but trained 5 years in practice for a large accountant firm. Our migration agents said it would be best to join ICAW to help, this took a lot of work to do as she had to go back with 5 years of paper work and prof of training etc just to get it but that case through and now we’re ready to send everything for our skills test but they then turned around and said they may not take your work experience because she wasn’t a ICAW member for that time. But we should send it any way. There was no need for her to join at the time and it’s very expensive so why would you bother? I’m hoping this is not true and they accept she has been qualified for several years and all is good but we will just have to see and maybe challenge if it’s not good.

She’s a chartered accountant.

My wifes a chartered accountant and has been for 5 years but we were told before we send of for a skills assessment she needed to join the ICAEW membership, this took a lot of work going back through all her training records as well as references from employers etc but she got the membership and all was good but now we've been told they might not accept her experience as qualified because she didn't have the membership from the beginning! This felt a massive blow as its took many months just to get this far, we want to go for a 190 state sponsored for New South Wales as the 189 needs 80 points which is impossible. We are now terrified our dreams of a new life in OZ might be over before we've even applied. Has anyone been in this position or knows of any one else thats gone through this? Thanks

I’ll pop a message over thank you.

We will get her side assessed and go through an agent as they don’t really want to know unless you’ve done this. Just wondered if I can get accessed but not sure if any where does that for my trade and what can I show apart from accounts and a website? Thanks for the advise invaluable. If I could add 5 points she’d be on 80 and stand a better chance.

On another note I am a landscape gardener and have been for 20 years, it’s on the combined skills list, is this an option at all, I don’t have qualification and i have my own business so many years of experience. Just looking at all avenues.

Sounds near on impossible then? Maybe once the skill assessment is complete an agent might give us a few options. I’d take a two year one right now as long as we could look at pr. I’d rather longer as we plan to sell and really integrate in the Australian way of life. I have a job offer already with good pay around $70000 and once there the wife should be 100,000+ I know we’d be very comfortable on those figures and provide a great new life for a son. I shouldn’t complain we wanted stricter migration in the uk and can’t complain when we find it tuff getting in another country.