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23 hours ago, SarahW said:

Yes I think you are right, we need to focus on what is best for her. It would be very stressful for her to go through the move and then go through another move a year or two later. And costly too  I think it’s probably best to leave her here, as sad as that is for the kids she will be ok being looked after. 

Kids won't even think about the cat after about a week... Do what is best for the cat. 

Potentially a different outcome of you knew you were moving forever, but you don't 

Spent last night at the SCG - fantastic atmosphere and the right result.

I feel more attachment to Australia every day I'm here, but sport reminds me that I'm always English

Anyone else find this?

13 hours ago, Sue22 said:

Thank you very much.

It will definitely be a huge adventure for them, I am in awe at the amount of organisation that it takes to make the move.

We had opportunity to move to Canada many years ago, but I couldn't leave family and UK.

Big concerns that she is having to find new homes for animals.  But biggest concern is that her partner has 8 year old daughter with his ex.  Not sure what damage it do to her if they stay long term.  He looks after her on a regular basis.

I can't see how anyone could do that to a child they have regular parental access to. However I accept that I may be in the minority

If I was your daughter's mum (i.e. you) I'd have alarm bells screaming in my head. How is he going to look after and be there for my daughter on the other side of the world when he'd leave his own 8yr old daughter 10k+ miles away without a second thought. I'd be worried he would up and leave once my daughter got boring just like he did when his ex and kid got boring...

Its pretty crap being on the other side of the world with no friends and a partner who has decided to skip out after convincing you to make the trip

4 hours ago, Little Dragon said:

Hi everyone.

I hope that you are having a great Friday. I was wondering if anyone could kindly offer us advice on this matter.

Due to the COVID pandemic, our parents were granted Visitor Visa (subclass 600) with 'No Travel' condition.

• This visa were granted in January 2022, which is recently.
• My mom's visitor visa will expire on 7 December 2022.
• My dad's visitor visa will expire on 20 January 2023.

My sister decided to sponsor our parents. We applied for Contributory Aged Parent Visa (subclass 864) onshore and immediately got Acknowledgement of Valid Application and Bridging Visa A.

Our grandmother in Vietnam got quite sick, so my parents accidentally rushed back to check up on her without noticing the 'No Travel' condition on their Visitor Visas.

My question is: How can they get back to Australia before their Bridging Visa A becomes active, which is on 7 December 2022? Should we apply for another Visitor Visa?

Thank you so much for your assistance and I hope you all have a great weekend ahead.

I'm sure an agent can sort this out for you, but I wouldn't try sorting it yourself. For two reasons

1) it's complex

2) you need to own your mistake, if you phrase the issue to immigration the way you've phrased it here it will be a flat no. No one can accidentally rush to vietnam (or indeed any country from Australia) it requires a conscious decision to get on a plane, it's not like accidentally getting on the wrong bus and ending up in a different town. Equally not knowing isn't an excuse, when you apply and when you are granted a visa you are explicitly told to make yourself aware of all conditions.

Mistakes happen, human relationships need attention, but to try and pass it off like it's an honest mistake rather than a thought out decision will end in pain...

I stuffed up IELTS writing too, and I've got a master's in English and I write reports in my role as a management consultant that get published and sent out to tens if not hundreds of thousands of people.

Ielts definition of good at writing is not the same as the rest of the world's.

If you want a 8 in writing go on their expensive training courses and you will learn how to write the IELTS way and pass

Alternatively switch to the PTE test and probably get full marks straight away

The benefit of living in Newtown is you can go out for a quiet drink with mates in the bar next door at 4pm, leave at 5:15 and still be in your seat in the SCG to watch AUS v NZ before the first ball is bowled at 6pm

South Sydney suburbs, oatley, Canberra or Perth can't offer that sort of lifestyle

Suggest you speak to an agent here. I'm assuming the master's degree came later than the original qualification?

 The problem (as I understand it) is that your masters hasn't been assessed so may not be considered equivalent and also experience counts from the time you achieve the certification so you may find using the master's actually reduces your entitlement to points

Tall to someone who does this for a job so you don't waste time

10 hours ago, Marisawright said:

AFAIK, UK banks all require proof of a UK address.  I wonder if Nationwide is covered by different legislation, since it's a building society not a bank?

No idea, maybe that's the case 

That said it's not exactly rocket science to have a UK address

11 hours ago, rammygirl said:

Tell me one. I couldn’t even open a new account at the same bank with the money they already had. No one could explain why this would be against money laundering regulations but I think it just falls into the too hard bracket!

I understand about Channel Islands etc but what are the specific exceptions?

Well for starters I know nationwide will do it, i'm looking at my shiny new card opened from over here using my Sydney address.

1 hour ago, Marisawright said:

I can see why that would be. Cheaper and easier for the employer.  It's not necessarily in the employee's best interests though, especially if they have family to consider.

True, but nobody is forcing them to work here, it's a choice.

Otherwise we just become a gateway tool to allow people to bypass the immigration headaches and get on shore, they then look around for something they prefer and leave us in the lurch and out of pocket.

They can still do that on a temp visa but there is a little more commitment to the sponsoring company and doing the job you took sponsorship for if you are tied to it.

6 hours ago, rammygirl said:

 Once you are no longer resident in UK you can’t change or open another bank account. 

Not true, but it is very difficult so for many it will appear like that is the case, but there are many specific exceptions to this.

I work for a large global company and our standard policy is that whilst we are happy to sponsor overseas applicants we will only sponsor on the temporary track. We are happy for them to later apply for a PR but this is on their own initiative not our responsibility.

I believe that most corporates tend to have the same policy when it comes to sponsorship.

1 minute ago, calNgary said:

If she has a UK open licence then she should be able to just straight swap for an Aussie license.

           Cal x

So long as she has held it for more than three years, otherwise it is P plates in some states

Depends on the state and depends on how long she has had her UK licence.

In NSW anyone under 25 who has had their licence under 3 years gets the equivalent time served licence in NSW so may require P plates and possibly a driver knowledge test (the test is less likely as a UK holder)

27 minutes ago, Marisawright said:

I did say "'with rare exceptions". I didn't say never.

Never been to Port Macquarie then, a pretty common occurrence up there - I suppose the question now becomes when is a city a city as opposed to a town....

On 05/10/2022 at 22:30, frankzzzz said:

Hello guys, I tried so hard but no luck finding answer to my question..

I worked in a big consulting firm and on a 482 visa (under accountant occupation). Can my working experience while I am holding 482 visa be used to apply 190 for another occupation (management consultant)? I have the skills assessment and pretty confident that the nature of my work and my employer shouldnt have no problem for both occupations.

Thank you guys!

As a partner in a management consulting firm (that also does accounting), I can safely say if you think there is any similarity between the work a Big 4 accountant does and that of a Big 4 management consultant, then you probably aren't qualified to do either... The difference is so vast that I'd be surprised if your employer held the same laissez-faire attitude you do...

13 hours ago, Sandy@3 said:

I received an invitation for both 189 and 190

i have 29 months old kid with mild autism who is able to do follow the commands, even when taken to GP we had to mention the diagnosis the doctor was not able to identify and he is offshore now.

he will be soon taking a health check up for visa/PR. 

we do not want to expose the diagnosis to the doctor in health check up and try our luck if the child can pass the health check up.

what will be the better option.

 

If you fail to declare it, get passed as ok and then when in Australia you need support for it and they somehow find out about the previous diagnosis expect the following

1) as a minimum a disallowance of any help from medicare in paying for treatment or help from schools in extra support

2) a very high likelihood of the visa being nullified and you being deported

3) potential jail time for lying on an immigration document

These outcomes and warnings are very clearly made in the visa application conditions, only an absolute fool would lie to immigration 

That said, if you need a mortgage you need to be in work and out of your probationary period to get a bank to listen to you 

Many Aussie corporates insist on the archaic concept of a 6 month probation period, so if you think of the fact the average house takes 42 days to close, it is actually 182 days from day one in your new job until past probation and then add on the 42 days to reach 224 days before you can buy with a mortgage 

Depends what you mean by the UK.

Sydney is much more expensive than Hull or Milgavnie, but cheaper than London.

4 hours ago, theps said:

We are targeting 85 points. all depends on our PTE. 

Being a tiny bit cynical, surely your wife must be pretty sure of her ability to get the highest assessment on PTE.

If she can't that would be a bit of a red flag in someone applying to be a English language teacher surely?

God luck, sure it will be all good, but eastern Australia is going to be a happier hunting ground for English teaching to other language speakers than Perth (which attracts mainly English speakers)

I'd just add some caution to your thinking 

When you are asking for permission for travel on a bridging visa the reason "want to travel while we are still healthy" isn't necessarily a good one to draw immigration attention to, since you are applying for a full visa and one of the things they can deny it on is the likelihood of how care/medical bills that the commonwealth would be responsible for...

Mortgages are certainly going up more, every single financial analyst is saying 3.35% as a minimum and many are suggesting nearer 4%

(The % above are the bank base rates, each bank will add a 2%+ premium to that as otherwise they make no money lending to you)

To put that into context for someone not here in Australia at the moment

Im may when the bank rate was 0.1% a 500k mortgage on average mortgage rates (about 1.5% above bank rate) would have had a monthly repayment of $1720

Today at bank rate of 2.35% the same mortgage repayment is $2350

At 3.35% (which people are saying will be around Feb 2023) it becomes $2650

So a $1000 more a month to service to the same house loan as you had 9 months earlier (assuming not fixed)

So if there are 2 of you working on the average Aussie salary of $89k you would both need a pay rise to $97k each just to keep up with the mortgage increase.

That's nearly a 10% increase in salary just to stand still - the property market is going to suffer!

It's totally anti-climactic.

You get off the plane, shive your passport in the unmanned queue gate, grab your bag and hop in a taxi.

The first Australian we spoke to on arrival was the cab driver, everything else was either electronic or just a "wave through" without the need to stop

4 hours ago, Andrea-Familyof5 said:

Ahh, OK, thank you. Seems bonkers to me when that state is sponsoring me to work there and they have the job vacancies, especially considering all the other hoops you jump through to get to this final stage of waiting, but, hey, what’s a bit more waiting gonna hurt?!? 

Its not that bonkers, the process costs a considerable amount and uses a lot of bureaucratic time. So no point just checking everyone who asks them to. Instead much easier to make it a condition that you must be able to work (i.e. holding a valid work visa)

2 hours ago, Wannabe Aussie said:

I've just been reading a couple of articles in the guardian about the removal of farm work for UK citizens and thr impact it will have on work shortages.

Both articles quoted 2024 as the expected date the new working holiday visa rules will come into force.

2024 is a long way away, it won't be Jan 2024, it might be July 1st 2024 though (start of the AUS financial and immigration year), equally they could delay it to the end of the year or later.

Of course it may never happen, the original plan for the change in UK/AUS movement was agreed between the UK Boris team and ScoMo's coalition. Boris is now gone and ScoMo lost to Labours Albanese - so the plan might get dropped yet!