Robin’s Emigrating

Thanks for the clarifications folks.

Always nice to get a check back, however if I had the money it would be going into a set of investments and earning interest, so would prefer to have it.

Interesting. I had a different experience at my last employer who worked with me to keep me tax amount relative only to my expected salary at year end. I also worked with HMRC to edit tax codes which then flowed back into my tax amounts. There’s also a mechanism to claim back overpaid tax back home prior to year end, although I’ve never exercised it myself.

Has anyone had a strange experience with paying too much income tax here in Australia when they’ve started a new job? In my last employer in the UK, the payroll department smoothed out your tax across the year. So if I had a payment delayed for some reason, it would still be taxed with my total expected renumeration for the year in mind. With my new employer here in Australia, on my first month my start date missed the payroll date by a few days, so I ended up receiving about 1.8 months worth of salary in following month’s pay check. However, it was taxed as if I would receive that amount every month, meaning I paid considerably more tax than if I had been paid each month separately! The response I’ve received so far seems to be that this is how it works in Australia (you’re taxed based on each individual month) and you can sort it out come tax return time. Is that right? We have no immediate financial need for the money, I think it just frustrates me that due to internal payroll timing mechanism you should have to forego quite a considerable lump of money until around a year away.

Dear All - I'm reaching out to see if any of you have experience, or know of tax accountants that have expertise, in the treatment of UK Declarations of Trust by the ATO. By way of background, we own a rental property in the UK that was previously held in a trust such that my wife received 99% of the beneficial interest. Effectively this meant that she declared 99% of the rental income on her UK tax return. Now that we've moved to Australia we're struggling to understand whether the ATO recognizes such trusts. We've spoken with a competent UK/Oz Tax accounting firm who've confirmed they can help, however they're currently awash with work and cannot pick up this item for a while, leaving us in a rather uncertain financial situation as we try to plan our financial affairs and secure a rental property. Any guidance or thoughts would be warmly welcomed. Thank you

Hey @ainzlondon79. We flew with Etihad and were really impressed all the way through. Only a 1 hour 50 minute stopoff in Abu Dhabi, and apart from a pretty complex check-in at London Heathrow (just because of the usual COVID travel complexities) it was very smooth. Yeah for the cough we just wanted to be really up front (and she actually coughed a couple of times in the airport, but barely ever since!). They take no chances, but are now planning to move us to a normal hotel on Sunday if our Day 4 COVID tests come back clear. Fingers crossed!

Just wanted to say a quick thank you to everyone for all of your help with organising visas and such! We’re now in Melbourne and hunkered for quarantine in a health hotel (my daughter had a very slight cough from a previous cold that wouldn’t go away, and they weren’t taking any chances!). All the best for all of you, and feel free to reach out if I can ever be of any help.

Interesting. Thanks for sharing. There was a chap earlier in the thread that applied a little before us and got it in 3-4 months, but they might have got lucky or the backlog may have increased since then. We’re currently on about 4 mo the and crossing our fingers. Anyone heard anything about timing got eVisitors? The website said they usually respond within a day, but we’re currently on day 3. Hopefully will come through in the next few days.

Thanks @martymarty5436425. I've applied for the eVisitor visas now and will then apply for the exemption. Flights booked for May 3rd so fingers crossed either the visas and exemptions, or the citizenships, come through before then!

Also, do we have to apply for both a visa and a travel exemption?

Also, do we have to apply for both a visa and a travel exemption?

Or perhaps just an eVisitor Visa?

Hey folks - has anyone who applied for a 309/100 visa run into issues waiting for their kids citizenships? We're in that boat and getting very close to our flights now so considering applying for a visa for them using their British citizenship instead. Would anyone have any idea which visa we would apply for in this situation? Just an eVisitor visa?

Does anybody know what visa we would apply for if we're still not received our citizenship? Would this be a 600 Family Stream visa?

On a related note, did any of you get a message from the embassy in the lead up to approving your application, asking that you ensure all of the right documentation is uploaded? If so, how long before they approved did you receive it? we received one a few days ago so hoping that means it will get approved shortly