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    Sorry if I’m repeating another thread on here but can’t find anything when I search. We are going to be entering Australia on PR visas next month and I was wondering if anyone could give me some quick advice on travel and life insurance? I have travel insurance through my uk bank account. Does anyone know if this kind of insurance would be valid until we sort Medicare out? What have people done about their uk life insurance when they emigrated? Cancel and get a policy in Oz? Thanks [emoji4]
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    Hi! Has anyone on here used their immigration police check for the purpose of registering with Queensland College of Teaching? It mentions needing vulnerable persons check on the police clearance so I’m not sure if the one we had done for our visas will be accepted. Cheers
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    If you upload colour scans onto the online application you do not need them certified. We didn’t have any of our documents certified for a visa application, only the skills assessment we had to do before we put in our expression of interest. Our visas were granted in December
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    Great to hear your story! I hope ours is as successful. We had our visas granted just before Christmas and hoping to head out in July. We’re jumping straight in, renting out our uk house and taking a sabbatical for a year to suss everything out, if we find jobs I’m hoping it will become a permanent move then we’ll just need to sort out shipping our stuff (keeping hold of our uk house for the time being at least). Good luck everyone! It felt like such a long process when we were in it but still hasn’t sunk in we’ve actually got them now. It took just short of 5 months for us from the day we submitted the visa Application
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    189 Visa Grant today!! The best Christmas present we could have ever asked for [emoji51][emoji51][emoji51] EOI May 2017 Visa Application submitted July 24th 2017 Request for medicals and police clearance September 11th 2017 Visa Grant December 19th 2017
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    Congratulations on your grant! Unfortunately I can’t help with your question, my wife is a Primary school teacher though so interested to hear the responses you get. I was wondering if you would be willing to share your timeline up to your grant? How long did you have to wait? We submitted ours in July and hoping it comes soon! Good luck finding your answers
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    They don’t give you very long for first entry do they? Does it have anything to do with your police checks and medical expiry date?
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    Hi, We haven’t been asked for them, I just know some people added references when uploading all their documents to prove employment years they have claimed for.
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    Do you need to sell and ship everything cutting all ties to the uk? We’re taking a sabbatical from work, renting our house and giving it a year to begin with. It’s been much easier for family to accept as they are hoping we’ll be back in 12 months [emoji16] and that way if it doesn’t work out we haven’t lost anything. We’ll come back to the same jobs, same house and had an amazing adventure. Good luck with it all
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    Thanks. Will look at this
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    Hi, wondering if anyone can help with this. Do you need to be a practising catholic in order to teach at a catholic school in OZ? I’ve taught in catholic schools over here and it’s not been a problem that I am not catholic, however, I read somewhere that schools wouldn’t employ people out there unless they were practising catholics.
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    Really interested to hear if anyone has answers as these would be really helpful to us too! Good luck
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    I wouldn’t worry about him being behind when you come back (if you do). If he’s 3 now and you spend a couple of years in oz you’ll be coming back when he’s 5? So he’ll have hardly missed anything. We start kids far too young in school in the uk, enjoy the extra time you have with him, your adventure in oz will be worth a million school days here [emoji16] Sent from my iPhone using PomsinOz
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    I may be very wrong so I’m sorry if that’s the case and please ignore this post, but if you’ve done a teaching degree, would you really need to do a PGCE afterwards? Surely a PGCE is for people who have a degree and then want to become a teacher so add the teaching qualification on afterwards. If you’ve done a teaching qualification as your degree, why would you need another? Sent from my iPhone using PomsinOz
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    We waited 7 weeks to hear from a co, they then requested medicals and police checks. I’m not sure if that’s the norm though, some people hear a lot sooner Sent from my iPhone using PomsinOz
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    Let us know how you get on with finding work when you have settled there! Sent from my iPhone using PomsinOz
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    Absolutely! Good luck with the move Sent from my iPhone using PomsinOz
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    It took us 7 weeks to hear from a case officer on our 189 Application so don’t worry, just feels like forever! Sent from my iPhone using PomsinOz
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    I think you’ve completely missed the OPs point Sent from my iPhone using PomsinOz
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    I can't really help you there but hopefully someone can! Maybe worth starting a new thread to get more attention. I know you can boost your points with the language test but not sure which section SEN experience would give you more points in unless it's under work experience in Australia? Sent from my iPhone using PomsinOz
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    I think this is a great attitude to have! Nothing is forever anyway so there's no need to close the door on anything. If nothing more it's experiencing life in a different country. Don't let anyone put you off your story, if this is what you want to do then do it, no one can tell you 'I told you so', this is your experience not theirs. We love where we live at the moment but to be quite honest Great Britain has lost a lot of its greatness for us recently and so we're off on an adventure. If we come back in a year or five years and decided actually the UK is amazing after all, then great! We're all winners; we'll carry on living in our family home, go back to the jobs we've been doing for the last however many years and our kids will continue to grow up here plus they will have had one hell of an adventure to tell their friends about [emoji16] Sent from my iPhone using PomsinOz
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    I find it all really confusing to be honest. When I emailed to say I had uploaded the documents I got an automated response and in that it said "don't email the department to say you have uploaded documents" [emoji15]doesn't make sense to me. Anyway, fingers firmly crossed we all hear soon and we have grants and then it won't matter [emoji16] good luck all! Sent from my iPhone using PomsinOz
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    My wife loves having a good clear out so she's in her element at the moment. If it stands still for long enough it's on eBay [emoji16] Sent from my iPhone using PomsinOz
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    Ah great! Thanks for the info, I'll do that later. Good job this forum is here [emoji16] Sent from my iPhone using PomsinOz
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    We had our medicals cleared today and I've uploaded our police clearance certificates so I've clicked the 'information provided' button. Do I need to email the department as well and say that it's all done? I found the letter we had from them when they requested police checks and medicals really confusing as it mentioned contacting them with the information on the email they provide on the letter. Sent from my iPhone using PomsinOz
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