Tom Roffey

With the pound so week at the moment is now a good time to use any spare aud to buy sterling?

Tulip 1 - there was no question of her age or employment. She intends to get a job when she is out there but won’t be joining me for a while  

Rammygirl - the visa is for 4 years. My position will be Corporate General Manager. It is a medium term visa. What would you recommend as next steps to gain permanent residency?

Ok. Just to help anyone in the same position.

My concern was how does my 21year old Daughter join myself and my wife on a tss medium term visa. 

The application for my Tss subclass 482 visa which included all of my family- wife and two children 18,21 was lodged on the 12/2. Today it has been approved!  For every one.

So now its real!

5 hours ago, Marisawright said:

So is she working? If so, then she is not dependent.  Even if her wage is too low to afford to rent a flat of her own, she could still live in a share house with other young people.   That's the attitude Immigration will take.

Because she's not a dependent, there is no way to include her on your visa. 

She has two options to come and live in Australia short-term: 

1.  She gets a Working Holiday Visa (which will let her stay for one year, or two years if she's willing to do some farm work, then she'll have to go home).  

2. She enrols as a student in an Australian university or college.  However, she would have to pay full international fees which would not be cheap - and she's only allowed to work 20 hours a week.  She'll have to go home when her course finishes, unless she chooses a course which is eligible to get her a Graduate Visa, which would let her stay a further two years.

After that, the only way for her to migrate would be if she can qualify for a skilled visa in her own right.  

Oh. No part of that is good!

Ok. Skilled visa it is. 

Thanks for your help VS and Marisawright 

17 minutes ago, VERYSTORMY said:

You can't include her in your visa. But, she could do a working holiday and given you are only going on a short term temp visa, might be a good option. 

Im not sure a working holiday is what she wants to do. She will only be able to get casual work. I am looking to extend my visa and look at PR at some point. 

Hi.

Currently going through the process of a 482 visa. It seems that bringing my Daughter with me is challenging!

Let me explain the situation. 

She currently lives with my wife and myself in the UK. She is full time employed and is 21 years old. She cannot afford to get a home of her own yet and wants to come with us to Australia and gain employment there. 

The immigration agent that my company is using has said she needs to prove she is dependant on me, come on a holiday working visa or a student visa. 

She is dependant on me to provide a roof over her head and food etc. She pays for her own clothing etc herself. I don't want her to come on a holiday visa and she isn't a student. 

Any ideas on the best way to proceed? 

Many thanks

Ok. Had a play around with this and found that currencies direct work well. Although its less hassle with HSBC

Thanks for all the responses

Hi.

Looking for some advice please. 

I am in the process of finalising our move to Sydney. I have HSBC's accounts in both the UK and in Australia and will need to transfer money back to the UK account regularly for mortgage etc. 

Is the best way to just transfer between the two accounts? I won't be charged a fee but will the exchange rates be the best? Or should I use another service?

Have searched and search and have probably confused myself more so any advice would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks LKC

On 09/12/2018 at 04:45, Marisawright said:

If you're being transferred for work, ask your company whether you can get a novated lease.  That's where the company takes over the lease of the vehicle and it can reduce your tax.  Just be conscious of the length of the contract compared to how long you will be in Australia!   

The Shire is more reasonably priced than Manly.  Have you looked into the visas for your two children?  

 

Thats a great idea Lisa. I will ask about a novated lease. 

The children's visas are being sorted as we speak.

Some great advice. Thanks Lisa and GC Matthew. We visited Cronulla on Thursday morning. Really liked that area.

Just wanted to say hello and thank you for all the valuable information put into these forums. 

I am looking to move, with work, to the Sydney area. Just returned from a 2 week trip to view locations etc. There will be 4 of us with our 2 children no longer children really (21 & 18). We were looking at the Shires or Manley!

One question straight away is how do we get cars? Can we enter into a leasing agreement or will we have to pay cash?

Any advice would be great