Caramia11

Thank you, this is really helpful information. I will contact Westly and attempt to move quickly on this.

Hello, I’m hoping some of you with your own experiences might be able to help me. This forum is a real fountain of knowledge! Backstory - (sorry bit boring but think it may give some context). My partner (now husband) and I lived in Australia for 3.5 years returning to the UK in late 2014. We originally entered on a working holiday visa and then my partner was sponsored and we had the 457 (I know this visa doesn’t exist anymore). We moved back to the UK for numerous reasons but now would really like to emigrate back to oz permanently. I qualified as a Social Worker in 2017 with a Masters, but worked in Australia in the charity sector in fostering and adoption unqualified. My husband worked in data security but I don’t believe his occupation is currently on any skilled list. We also now have 2 daughters, 5 months and 4 years old. I have around 75 points which I know is too low to be able to gain a 189 visa so wanted some advice around what visa would be the best and most realistic to apply for. I think we were naive in thinking because we’d lived in the country before, being able to return would be easier but from what I’m reading this isn’t the case. I know social workers are currently on the priority list but does this mean it’s just a case of the application being processed faster and/or the threshold of requirements being lower as well? We would love to move to WA but initial research indicates this is a very difficult state to gain visas for, is this correct? I’m quite early on in my research and feeling quite bamboozled by all of the different visa options and where to start (really regretting giving up our original visa now but everything happens for a reason and it is what is ). Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks Cara.