Lucie

9 hours ago, Canada2Australia said:

Are you on the right forum? 

Serious question though. Are you really that desperate to move here that would go back to school for years and afterward gain even more years of work experience back home? I mean, I get your sentiment, but it's not as if the UK is some third-world dictatorship who persecutes it's citizens. It has one of the highest qualities of life in the world (as does my home nation) and is also an immigrant magnet. I'll bet you have a great life in the UK, so you would really need to think about this before throwing your lives into complete chaos. Just my two cents.

The uk isn’t a bad place to live but it’s always been missing something. Now I have 2 children I want them to be happy and a better quality of life. I’ve always wanted to move to oz after visiting 10 years ago and I feel like if we don’t at least try we are going to regret it. 

15 hours ago, Marisawright said:

The sad fact is that most people can't migrate to Australia.  If you're not on the skilled lists, you can't migrate', end of story.  

Your only option is for one of you to retrain in one of those occupations.  But be warned:  you need to get the qualifications, AND then you need to get the experience.  So depending on what occupation you pick, you'll be up for several years of study and then working in your new job. 

Meanwhile, the list of occupations gets shorter and shorter every year - so you might find that by the time you've spent all that money on retraining, the occupation isn't even on the list any more and it was all a waste of time.  And it's very hard to pick which occupations are "safe" and which aren't.  For instance, you'd think nursing would be a safe bet but they're talking about taking that off the list. And some trades are off the list already.

On top of all that, even once you have the right occupation and the right experience, you're not out of the woods yet.  When you apply for a visa, it's a competition. You are allocated a point score based on various factors.  More qualifications and experience gets higher points, but then you lose points for age.   Only the people with the highest points get picked - so even if you have retrained and got the experience, there's still no guarantee you'll get in.

To give you an idea how bad that can get:  you're eligible to apply for a visa if you can score 65 points or over, but this year, only applicants with over 90 points are actually getting one.

So the message is, if you really want to migrate, then you'll need to retrain, but choose an occupation that you'll want to work in even if you have to stay in the UK, because there is a good chance that's what will happen.

Thank you for your reply, that’s really useful to know. It’s really disappointing I didn’t realise it was so hard. 

34 minutes ago, KevinC said:

Is your husband is New Zealand citizen or not!!

No British 

Hello 

me and my husband are desperate to move to Austria with our children however we do not have a job that is on the skilled list. Is there any other way that we could move out there eg any other visa’s that we could apply for. We have been looking at training to become a job that is on the list, do you have to be working in that role for a certain amount of time before apply for a visa??