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.

I know what you mean, I lived in oz on a working holiday visa for 9 months and enjoyed it but never felt settled but I think that’s due to just being on a temp visa. Fast forward now I live in London and we will be applying for a partner visa later this year with my aus partner. You sure you want to come back to the horrible central line commute in summer? I can’t wait to get away from it honestly haha.

Yes I understand, from what I have read though the living together for 12 months is the main minimum requirement? We have loads of holidays together/travel, pics with families, joint account, savings account together, Christmas cards, presents, receipts, cards and much more. I think we may write our wills soon to add to the evidence.

Thanks for all your input. I think we will just wait until August when we have paid rent from our joint account for 12 months as we don’t have many documents with earlier dates on there, don’t want to risk wasting 7k over an few extra months.

Hi everyone, Just looking for an opinion on whether this is ok to use as our start date for living together; I moved in with my partner in April 2018 and the only proof we have of this is her e mailing the agency asking if I can move in with her. The agency replied back saying something along the lines of : “yes I have spoken with the landlord and your partner is allowed to live in the house as a permitted occupier” However I didn’t pay rent until June as I was still locked into a lease at my old place. Then in August we opened a joint bank account and we have paid joint rent/groceries/meals etc from that ever since. They didn’t put me on the lease so I guess the only evidence of me moving into the house is that e mail from the agency? Is that good enough evidence to use as the start date of us living together?

We are in a similar situation as applying onshore off an ETA was our original plan in August, however having heard of the changes it looks like we’ll just have to apply from London offshore. Where did you hear that bridging visas won’t be granted sometime before June 10th? My agent just told me to sit tight and they will let me know if we have to change our plans. Regarding your question I’m not sure.. i think it’s better to meet the 12 month requirement before u part with $7k+ and play by the rules, but that’s up to you.

Thanks for the heads up, might have to have a trip out later on in the year!

Hi guys, Surprised I havnt seen this mentioned on the forum but I had an e mail from my agent saying there are some changes happening to the partner visa application process. Apparently you will need to become an approved applicant before you can lodge an application which might have implications for applying onshore straight off an ETA visa? For example the ETA will expire before you get approved as an applicant meaning you will have to leave. Processing times for becoming approved could take 12 weeks I have read. Has anyone got anymore info/know when the full details are going to be released as me and my partner are planning applying onshore later this year, but this might complicate things. The full details havnt been released yet but you can read it here: https://ahwc.com.au/australian-immigration-news/breaking-news-changes-to-australian-partner-visa-legislation/

Hi all, I am a 25 year old with polycystic kidney disease. Has anyone else on this thread been granted their visa? What happened? Thanks

UPDATE: I managed to get a free call back from a migration agent, and he said I should be ok with my condition and would estimate about a 90% success rate with my case. He was one of the ones mentioned on this forum with knowledge on medical issues and has represented others with my condition successfully. I hope this gives hope to anyone else who was wondering about this as the information on the internet is quite scarce on early stage kidneys diseases (ie Not transplant/dialysis patient).\ This has definitely rested my mind a bit.

Thanks for the reply. I am not too concerned with her eu passport right now but i understand what you are saying, I lived in Australia for 9 months on a WHV so yes I have been before. It's just my medical condition is stressing me out a little bit because I feel I should tell my gf whether I won't be able to go home with her because of it. I guess to put it simply, with my condition I have about a 50% chance I'l be on dialysis/transplant list by the time I'm 60 (I think those are the stats), and 75% chance I will be on it at some point in my life, and knowing this does get me down sometimes so I try and not think about it but obviously it does need declaring. I'm hoping they see that I can contribute to the economy with my skilled job for a good 30+ years before I start deteriorating and this will outweigh my chronic kidney disease and I just want some encouragement of others who passed in a similar position. Today I send an e mail to my nephrologist with the same questions and I will update this thread with his response if he replies. Thank you all.