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I know, I am excited I have submitted my new certified docs so hopefully that’s it and soon I’ll be registered!

Well on the website it says if you can’t get statements of service you can provide pay slips, tax information etc (everything has to be certified, absolutely everything, transcripts, references, I can’t think of a document that hasn’t been certified, money and time at the solicitor has been intense) . However the payslips and tax information weren’t enough after all so I had to get a statement of service which was very difficult because 2 companies over the last 5 years do not give out references (a weird policy that seems to be adopted more and more in the UK, my husband cannot get a written reference from his workplace either). So I had to fight and go to my boss then HR then HR management and wait a long time for them to agree to give me a very limited statement of service, which I then got certified and can only hope is enough. (And I’m sure HR are still suspicious about it, they really weren’t keen) You see in Australia there are Justices of the Peace ready and available to certify your documents usually weekly at any shopping centre. Here finding a JP is virtually impossible and AHPRA aren’t like the passport people where it can be a teacher or a Nurse it has to be a JP or a Notary Public (there are others on the list but the Notary Public was feasible to me). Me and the (expensive) solicitor are like besties now.

Did you phone the case manager? I downloaded a copy of the one the nmc sent (it's on your nmc login page somewhere) and sent it to the case manager as evidence it had been sent and then she found it.

I would just like to say to anyone who might come across this post. In my experience, having worked in different countries. I think applying for nurse registration is the FIRST thing you should do or at least at the same time as everything else. Definitely do not hold off, it's not always a walk in the park.

Turns out they weren't looking hard enough it was in a different portal. It's weird that they just send formal email saying it's not there and have you panicking before checking said portal. I can hopefully get some certifying done tomorrow and I should be complete. It takes SIGNIFICANTLY longer and is SIGNIFICANTLY harder than it used to be to get registered, maybe immigration agent is not aware of this change in process. I know this having been registered before, they also take absolutely no notice of the fact that I was registered before, hence having to send same documents they already had.

It’s ok I spoke to my case manager on the phone she is lovely and I feel a lot better....phew.

So, getting frustrated. After waiting 6 months to get to this stage and having previously been registered with AHPRA before , they now want me to prove, that the nursing course I did ( which is the same nursing course that got me previously registered) was taught in English (among other things). I am British, don’t speak any other languages, the course was taught in the UK and I don’t know of UK universities teaching nursing courses predominantly in other languages. They can’t find the certificate of good standing the NMC sent them or the international criminal check which were both sent electronically. Hmm

Hmm, but I couldn’t sign it off unless you emailed it and I emailed it back?

I am an NMC registered nurse, a mental health registered nurse, not that it matters the last time I did mine with an adult nurse. I could have the conversation with you but I’m still in the UK it’d have to be by video call or something if that’d do.

I followed this thread put both the cyclones and the bins and the filters (2 dyson hoovers) in the dishwasher, dried outside and came up a treat. Hubby well impressed with my (your) idea! Lol

Hiya, we are flying from Scotland some time soon too. I was kind of thinking that the Amsterdam route wasn’t an option. I can’t remember why, sorry, I got so confused but in the end I decided that the best route would be to go via London no matter what. I started checking international departures and I actually don’t think there are actually any going from Aberdeen, although you can book them I don’t know if they are actually departing. I think I noticed that the only flights departing abz are going to London, Ireland etc, but please check again I’m not sure and still checking for myself. Please let me know what you decide.

I liked the first link to the car accessory thing. That looked good, off the ground away from the bugs, maybe?

My daughter and I really want to go camping in Australia. Problem is I’m not naturally outdoorsy. last time I went camping was in Scotland and we had to leave at about 3 am cos it was so cold. (We went in March, bad planning) can you get what you need for camping without massive expenses? I wouldn’t know where to begin.

We lived in a gated community in the Gold Coast. The pool was always empty. I liked it for a rental, definitely didn’t have the same freedom as a house though but apart from that it was good for short term.

I think early July or before.

Hi ok, well I just completed the portfolio and that took them 5 months from receiving all the documents, maybe 4 months.

AHPRA took 5 months for me to get through the first stage - the international assessment. Now I have fully applied for registration, what stage are you at?

We are flying into Brisbane then after quarantine I think we will have to book another flight to Hervey Bay as you have to quarantine at the port of arrival. I will look for some threads.

It has been stressful and now we are nearly there but now just booking the flight seems to be as big a problem as any. so I gotta have the Covid test 72 hours before the flight, think I will have to travel for Covid test and I think I have to do an online form before I go, not sure of anything else. then what happens if one of us has COVID, do we get a refund? Then I’ve just discovered people who are on booked flights are not getting into Australia because of lack of quarantine accommodation. This bit seems just as daunting as any other of the processes. I had to get passport photos yesterday. My youngest daughter was raging as she doesn’t like photos and it took us about 30 minutes to persuade her. It’s the third time we’ve been. LOL nothing is easy.

I moved back to the UK after 5 years in Australia. The second I got back to the UK I felt disappointed and like I had made a mistake. In Australia I definitely lived in the wrong place. Great house but miles from anywhere, not what I like. im going back to Australia and making a better decision on where to live.

Hi @Canada2Australia no, I would never denounce my UK citizenship it was very much not serious and a silly thing to say. You’re right.I do know it’s not the perfect paradise by any means and sometimes I have to remind myself of that.I lived there for a long time and sometimes it’s not easy. X

I think you might be right. I’m worried about the mass dog ownership during lockdown. I don’t think it will be a good outcome for every dog, I’ve heard it’s already started - the handing back of some of the pups. Oddly, everyone I’ve heard of who got a dog during lockdown got a puppy, I don’t know anyone who got a rescue. Hopefully there will be more good outcomes than bad and be homes for them if they do need rescued. I’m kind of a boy dog person (probably a bit sexist like that). We had boy dogs growing up and in the wider family I only remember one girl dog. She was lovely, I just remember the boys better. It’s good there are people for each gender, and probably people who are not fussy. I also think you’re right about the bond. Not saying I’m not a people person but friends aren’t my strongest point and animals never judge you, hurt your feelings or say unkind stuff. My husband is the same, I know the dog was absolutely a bond he’d never had before, and he was his first ever dog and his grief is palpable and hard to see. He certainly never expected a bond like that, not having come from a dog family.

Thank you for your acknowledgments and replies. It’s nice to feel that there are dog people out there. I’m so sorry for your loss @Freemantle and @Quoll it is such a sadness and the grief is no less than if it had been anyone else in the family. @Freemantle that must have been even more terrible because you weren’t expecting it and had plans and a future for him and @Quoll my mum used to call our dog her Granddog (or Granddug because she’s from the west of Scotland) and she’s sad too, so I understand. Big love to everyone who’s lost a loved one. @Parley this is our boy.

Hello. I know you don’t know me but I’m not on social media (I know this is social media but it feels a bit more anonymous) and I don’t generally post publicly about my life but I feel I have to write this down. My dog died yesterday, he had to go to sleep. Just on his own with the vet and the nurse. In the UK humans are not currently allowed in the surgery with the animals at all, under any circumstances because of lockdown. He was 13. He was actually an Australian. We adopted him from the rescue centre when he was 11 months old and brought him to the UK with us when we decided to come back. I actually think he liked it better here because it wasn’t too hot for him and he could go for longer walks anytime of day or night and he got to see the snow, an awful lot of it in January there so that was nice for him, he had fun. He was a Labrador so clever but also very silly and funny and handsome with the best face and ears you’ve ever seen. His little eyelashes were so blonde and his eye contact so intense. Of course you could absolutely not get peace to eat, you couldn’t put a slipper on the floor and you couldn’t have nice furry winter boots that weren’t covered with his slobber. If you dropped a scarf or hat on the floor it too was in his mouth and all gooey. He never got old, always a puppy. He had hard times. He saw me through post natal depression, which I hate because I feel he got the brunt of it. He never got hit or anything like that but I felt I couldn’t cope with him and the baby at the same time and used to think a lot about rehoming him. When the baby was a baby he never got walked like he should have, he missed meals, probably got shouted at for being in the wrong place. The PND was a blur but I remember feeling guilty and still do feel guilty for having those thoughts that I should just rehome him. No matter what I thought, no matter what I did, no matter how late he got fed, no matter how low down the pecking order he was he was still always happy to see me and beside me everywhere. After a while I was able to make it work again. My girls and my boy were all best friends and I was their mum and my husband was always there trying to make everything alright, being their dad. That’s how it went for what feels like forever now. Everyone just being a family. The girls were very good, always taught from tots not to poke or tease, pull tails or ears and he was respected like a dog should be. Then he got old. Full of fatty lumps like lots of labradors, tripping up and sometimes falling but generally he was good, had a breathing problem (laryngeal paralysis)but was coping fine, then he got this one fatty lump. We took him to the vet 13 days ago just to check it was a fatty lump because it had grown so fast and was like a golf ball. The vet reassured us it was just another fatty lump but because it was growing so fast it might ulcerate. I thought ok, that’s probably going to take a few months. 10 days later the lump was like a black and purple swollen tennis ball. My poor dog can’t lie down and is pacing around and panting constantly. The vet can’t come out because of COVID and can’t give us an appointment for 2 days. It was a horrible, terrible time. My husband had to physically lift him to lie him down to get him some rest. He occasionally fell asleep which was good. Eventually we got to the vet. We were pretty sure anyway what the vet would say. I just wish he could have had someone he knew with him. I wish he didn’t have to go through the trauma of trying to get into the car and the journey there. But I’m relieved he’s not suffering. I really thought he had months not days. I hope he wasn’t too scared and I really hope he knows how much we loved him even though we couldn’t be there at the very end. I know that many many people have died and are dying alone just now because of COVID and I’m not taking the devastation of that away from anyone. I have watched the news in tears at the sadness of the deaths and the circumstances people are in. This is just my dog’s remembrance story, he was such a beautiful boy

Ok thank you @paulhand that’s good to know I am overthinking a lot. It’s exhausting.