Squiggle

Hi, how are you doing in the process? Interested as husband has 65 points in ICT waiting for invitation to apply but until I saw your post we were not feeling very hopeful....

Not yet suspect we will do that today!

Hi thanks for replying and sorry my heads all over the place today! We were going for 190 & 489 Victoria but when paperwork came through it states you need a written job offer to apply for the 489 to Victoria. So only option is 190 as spoken to a lot of agencies that all say call when you have a Visa... I dont think we have enough points for sa.

Hi, After some advice/perspective if that's ok... After debating for ages whether to apply for a 489 weve found out you need a job offer....why the ma didnt tell us this upfront I dont know it may have saved us lots of anguish and cash! But were here now weve got the English test done and the acs skills assessment. The job were applying under is 263111 and currently we have 60 points without state nomination/sponsorship. I know it's a tough question but do people in this field find offers of employment prior to Visa? Many thanks for reading any insight gratefully received... Squiggle xx

He got full pte points on his first try he surprised himself!

Hi thanks for that, that's really helpful.. I think were erring towards Melbourne at the moment purely because were more hopeful of getting a 190 plus it seems to fit us as a family. My partner has 65 points for a 190 with top mark's in his pte exam but were stuffed gaining any extra points as hes over 40..

Sorry I'm not great with my words and yes I meant Melbourne. I totally understand it is not going to be like the UK and I'm good with that I loved the way the suburbs were in Perth as nowhere felt hemmed in like it is here the closer you get to London. Wish we had the time and money to investigate both places.

Hi thanks for replying, I dont want to be silly rural dont fancy that at all and totally understand no where is quite like Perth and that's probably our end goal if I'm honest (unless we find somewhere we love). I've accepted weve got to choose either Sydney or Victoria it's just making the right decision for the next 5 years...our housing budget is probably 800 to 850 ish but husband needs to be able to get to work and I need the kids to be safe with a good school. Were selling up in the UK and going all in just wish we'd done it 2 years ago when husband was under 40! Would have been so much easier....

Thanks for the reply will get him to have a look. Definitely dont want to live in Sydney but happy to commute...just dont know the areas it's very hard not being able to visit and explore first! But were on a time crunch due to his age...

Hi Hoping someone can help as I'm at a loss. We visited Perth in February and absolutely fell in love with the way of life. Since weve been home my husband has been on a mission to get his English test done and his skills assessment which we got back yesterday. Having spoken to our agent they have advised we apply for either nsw or Victoria on 190 or 489. But we just dont know which is the better option the job my husband does comes under 263111 code so we need to choose where hed have more work options. I'm not bothered about big city were rural now but I need to think of husbands career and the kids schooling they're 7 and 10. Any thoughts very appreciated xx