tom1993

Did u do a 4 year apprenticeship

Those M&S £10 meal deals for 2 with a bottle of wine. I miss the old countryside pubs. If you’re a beer drinker, you might want to have a few European draught beers before you leave aswell, a lot of them aren’t served on tap here.

I’ve recently gotten my full electrical license and it’s a long process. To be honest the future skills assessment is not difficult if you’re a sparky, even if you do muck something up I think you’re allowed to go and correct it. I did mine in Sydney. You will have to study a bit for the theory side if it’s been a while, health and safety, AC/DC theory, safe isolation, fault finding, motor wiring DOL starter both 3 phase and the control circuit. Make sure you have a go at the practice paper future skills provide you. The capstone is a lot more difficult.

Average house price is $1.8m, who can afford that?

If there’s no route to PR, you’re just delaying the inevitable arent you? You’ll have to go home eventually and 5 years is a long time to have lived here. I personally couldn’t just live on back to back temporary visas it would drive me mad! If I was you I’d go home and live in London for a year or two, it’ll kickstart your career. I lived there for 3 years and had a great time.

I literally just got one through for my 100 visa application, it took 5 business days to arrive in the post here in Sydney.

British TV and radio, I can’t stand aussie radio. The other day the hosts were laughing for 10 minutes straight at the thought of riding on a horse naked, I had to switch it off and drive home in silence. I miss not paying $55 a kilo for ginger which I like to use in smoothies and cooking with. I miss my old job and colleagues.

If you do the medical before being requested, do they process the medical straight away or do they wait to process it until after they request it? We applied a few months ago and I have a pre existing condition so I want to find out if I pass the medical or not to put my mind at rest.

Hi mate, sorry to hear about your medical. I also have a pre existing condition so it is causing me a bit of anxiety. I’d like to ask you whether your medicals got “referred”? And if so how much extra time did that take after they were referred? thanks

Firstly I’m an electrician from the uk with NVQ3, I qualified in 2016 after serving a 4 year apprenticeship. Shortly after qualifying I went to Australia on a WHV and worked on labour hire for roughly 9 months as unlicensed electrician. I then returned to the uk and got another job as an electrician which was for a few months. This is where it gets tricky - I decided to go into the lift industry and have been working as a trainee lift engineer for the past 2 years working towards my second NVQ3 in lift installation which I should complete this year. I know that electrician and lift engineer are both in demand skills but can I claim all the points from both careers into one application? Also if I have 2 NVQ3’s can I claim extra points for having a secondary qualification? Thanks

If u find a quick and cheap way, let us all know !

Hello we’re in the same boat! My partner is Australian. I have consulted an agent and researched a lot.. basically the main requirement of de facto is living together for one year and that’s just a starting point! - with few exceptions (a baby etc). We starting dating in August 2017, I asked her out in December 2017 and been together ever since. Opened joint account and moved in together in July 2018. We are wanting to just apply now but we are having to wait until we have paid 12 months of rent out of our joint account together to give us the best chance of being accepted. We have all the usual stuff such as holidays together, savings account, pictures etc. The other alternative is to apply for the prospective marriage visa ?

I don’t think it’s really about just having a skill/certificate that’s needed in oz. You need to be an experienced tradie/professional etc with a solid employment history specialising in one field.

I came down here from Manchester to further my career..which has worked actually. Didn’t mean to meet an Aussie and move in with her ! Wouldn’t plan on staying much longer if I hadn’t met her.