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I'd agree that it is often the case that people who have an in demand skill and are good at their job and liked can usually transition to a permanent visa. The thing is not everyone is good, not everyone is liked and after three years maybe your role is no longer on the on-demand skills-list Always best to go into these things knowing what might happen (or not) and then it's a choice from a position of knowledge rather than a surprise due to an unknown

You can buy a house on a temporary visa, you can buy a house with no visa... However you need permission (google FIRB) and probably more annoyingly you will also pay a 8% buyers levy as a foreign buyer (so a $1m house attracts $80k foreign levy on top of the $40k stamp duty) in most cases the foreign levy will mean renting whilst on the temp visa may well be the cheaper option. (Especially if that extra levy pushes you below a 20% deposit) Also whilst banks may well say initially they will loan to temp visa holders, if you aren't an A rated risk (high deposit, desirable house, stable occupations) you will probably find they find lots of reasons not to do it (or charge punitive extra fees) when you actually try to change the "of course you could borrow up to" statement into an actual mortgage

Or book an expensive one-way fully cancellable ticket to go back home in many months time If you need to claim you can show the return flight and the actual loss, it will be processed before you are "due to return" and then you could cancel the air ticket Not strictly in the spirit of insurance though

Also backpackers insurance would cover it, it doesn't normally require you to have concrete plans to return to your home country

Your issue here is different to calNGary (although their experience gives you some actual example of outcomes) I'm assuming calNGary are a little older than your son. This has a huge influence on the decision. When assessing medical concerns immi looks at how much Australia may have to spend in treating the pre-existing condition. Now in a young person that could be 80 years of treatment and no way of knowing right now if the condition will be serious or not. Where as in calNGary case they probably only have 30-40 years of potential support needed, the extent of the condition is known and some of the treatments had already been done. It's essential you get help here from someone who really understands the departments view of your son's condition, as this can quite easily derail an otherwise perfectly good visa application

Can you prove the company withheld superannuation or was contractually required to be pay it? If you can't then it isn't relevant occupation experience as all Australian work requires super contributions (even nil contributions if you don't earn enough) to be submitted by the employer

Could be anything. In our case, we sent in the medicals (which should have been the last thing) but as the case officer didn't pick them up for 10 days, our daughter in the meantime had her 18th birthday This resulted in us needing to fill out a form to show her dependency on us before they would grant the visa. So you never know what is coming next...

If they have substantial ties then they would probably get the 12 month RRV. If those ties are still substantial in a couple of years time they may also get an RRV then when needed

True but even so, I'd not want to be committed to basically $50k a year to find out I'd made a huge suburb mistake. Keep it cheap year one, decide where to live, then look for the long term solution, you might even find after a year in a smaller place than you are used to that you actually like it

Yes but there are loads of places in Sydney that are cheaper than that, Petersham, Leichhardt and marrickville are all areas you can get a one bed for under $500 p/w Why pay for a two-bed for what will most likely only be a short term thing while you work out the suburb you want. We rented a place for $470 - we are about to buy for around $2m - but why pay someone else for their 2 bed when you can save the cash and use it yourself

Yep all settled in, work every day, AFL most weekends! Looking at houses now, auctions this weekend, may even own a house by tomorrow evening

If you actually want VIC, there is a possibility the 190 would process a little quicker (but no guarantee especially as you need to redo skills assessment) If you want to live anywhere else (or suspect you'd like to keep your options open) then the 189 is everyone's first choice. I'd just apply for the 189 if I was you

Hey mate, how's it going? The form you are trying to remember is a Form 80, asks loads of questions and you need to fill out a separate one for everyone over 16 (and 16 by the grant date - ours was delayed because child had a 16th birthday just after everything submitted so they requested one for them as well).

It will be hard no doubt, my travel history for 10 years ran to over 4 pages of excel, due to the amount of travel I had to do with work, basically one or two different EU countries each week and plenty of trips to middle East and US as well. They aren't looking for an exact recounting of your whereabouts minute by minute, they are looking to see a pattern of travel and large (2+ weeks) out of home country. So do your best, try to get it correct, and maybe (this is what I did) and a disclaimer to the bottom that there are probably some small trips also undertaken in Europe that I had no record of taking now due to the time since going but that all material travel was stated (remember if you used your passport to enter that country, AUS can check it (should they want) as you've given them permission to check your passport history (it's implied in the act of applying for immigration)

I know of lots of people in my company who have done exactly the thing you are suggesting. Whilst it shows a distinct lack of trustworthiness and moral conscious, there currently is little that can be done about it. There is frequently talk of it being an issue when you come to apply for citizenship, but the evidence I see is that it isn't the case yet. Maybe it will change, who knows, it's a chance you will have to take. I have a lot of sympathy with people who get out here with every intention of living in the state that sponsored them but after 6 months still can't find work and so have to move, I don't really have a lot of good to say about people that use the generosity of a state to move to AUS with absolutely no intention of working/living in that state. Its selfish, it takes away a worker from a state that thinks it needs that immigrant and it takes away a chance for migration from a person that would love to work in that state. However - it's perfectly legal, so it's a permissible option

No, the Liz truss honeymoon period (feels yucky to write that) will cause a jump in the pound

It isn't cheap. Agent will be around 2.5k GBP Visas around 5k gbp Assessments/Tests/Meds around 2.5k GBP Right now 4 one way flights won't get you much change out of 4k GBP An Airbnb type rental on arrival is probably around £500 a week and food/exploration about the same per week Cars expensive, we bought one new and it was $35k plus another $1.5k insurance Then when you do find a property to rent you won't get much below $600 per week that will fit 4 people so you will need $3,600 to move in (deposit and 2 weeks in advance) There are many other costs (everyone wants some cash from you for something) but these are some of the more common ones I also did PTE so much easier than IELTS and more availability of testing locations and dates

Why are auctions so popular in Australia, and why are real estate agents so bl**dy useless at giving sensible guide prices? I mean they've only got one job, look at some bricks and say what it's worth, how can they be so bad at it?

That's true in Australia, not true in UK. There is a whole "secondary insurer" market. Google marmalade insurance. Its designed to allow kids to build up insurance on car without affecting mum and dad no claims bonus, but also useful for borrowing a mates car for a few days and not risking their no claims

When I travel to Melbourne for work my office is just 10 doors down from yours, small world!

We were 44 when we applied, the invite to apply for state sponsorship came through within 24 hours of lodging EOI and we turned it around and got the sponsorship invitation from NSW within about 4 weeks. By May we were in the application process from the 190 and we had it approved and granted by December (all before hitting 45)

Maybe so, but those jobs are much more technical and skilled than dental nurse. So you still need to be realistic

If your plan is just to get to Australia and you don't care where then this is a good plan. However don't apply for any state, still pick one, as applying for more the one basically signals to that state you aren't serious on committing to them so they will pass over your application and offer sponsorship to someone who has applied only to them

Overnight the exchange rate rose by 2c to the pound so had you changed £500k yesterday you would have gotten $850k, do it today and you would get $862k My prediction (and who knows what might happen between now and then to throw this off) is that by the start of October we will be back at 1.8 to the pound (or 900k for £500k) This is because money markets hate unknowns and right now the UK has a power vacuum. Once Liz is installed as PM it will settle down (it will be Liz, Rishi has no chance with the Tory wrinkles), unless she immediately calls an election. Money markets hate unknowns, they don't care who is in charge just that they know who is in charge. At the moment you can't make investment decisions in the UK because you don't know if we are going to have more of the same (Rishi) or move to a low tax world (Liz)

Just to let you know that document is 2 years out of date and whilst it may still have relevant information in it no one should rely on it being correct. A quick call to an agent (and it would have been much easier to find one of them using google than this document) would have gotten you the information you needed almost immediately and maybe even without cost (depending on whether they do an initial free chat) PLEASE EVERYONE ELSE - DO NOT RELY ON THE DOCUMENT ABOVE IT MAY HAVE INCORRECT INFORMATION IN IT THAT COULD MAKE YOUR APPLICATION INVALID