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All information is easily accessible online - the department of agriculture deal with permits and quarantine. Google dog import permit and quarantine. The costs are very clear on their website. You can do all of this yourself - as long as you have the rabies vaccine and blood test all sorted. I ve recently applied for permit and booked quarantine space. Turnaround time for both was very quick.

If the child is under 16 then they dont need to present in person at Australian High Commission in London( certainly the case for a new application) You can book appointment online but currently there is around 3 month wait for appointments...

Forgot to add to above - I am assuming you are talking UK to Australia ?  Current import permit cost is $480, quarantine costs will be about $1800. But this will all be irrelevant if there is not a route/airline that will carry your dog. I assume all transport companies have access to the same routes/airlines.

You can apply for the import permit and book quarantine space yourself - and pay for them - doesnt matter where you are in the world, you will be charged in local currency. Im in the UK and recently applied and paid for import permit - I have a currency card (mastercard) - load it with Aussie dollars and do online payment and avoid rubbish conversion rates and fee you will get using a uk bank account. Equally any pet transport company can do these things for you but you will obviously have to pay them extra for the service.

Not that it's any of your business but there are several REASONS for wanting to delay our entry to Australia, which are irrespective of the purpose of the post.

Anyone submitted a request for letter recently ? Did you get any acknowledgement of request and how long did it take to process ? My wife has a 100 visa, need to delay entry date, submitted request last week but heard nothing. Cant enquire to home office online, called them but gave up waiting on hold for a long time( will get my Mum in Australia to try tomorrow) Nothing shows up on immi account.

Many thanks

My wife has a 100 visa, submitted request for travel facilitation letter last week - should we expect an acknowledgement of request ? Nothing shows up on her immi account .Anyone requested one recently, did it take long to process ? Many thanks

Difficult to predict the timings but once visa is granted you only have 12 months to enter Australia - so you want to aim for the visa being processed less than a year before the time you would like to arrive in Australia. - A problem we are having given that my wifes application was processed much quicker than expected, and now having to wait until 3 months before the due date until we can apply for an extension.

I cant see the confusion here - either you are married to the sponsor, have the same parents( ie brother or sister) or have been adopted by the sponsor. And obviously you could be none of these...

Will be moving to Adelaide in September  this year and will need to enrol my 2 sons in secondary school for 4th term. Aside from the issues of the different timelines of school years and structure of the curriculum, my main issue will be trying to enrol them into a school but not knowing exactly where will be living - depending on how long it takes to find a suitable rental property. Obviously there are catchment areas and we have 3 schools where we would want to send our boys( and also in an area we would want to live), will there be issues with not having a permanent address or only just moving to an address in terms of the school accepting the boys. I will be speaking to each of the schools in a few months to see what their likely capacity will be, but we will be limited as to where we will be able to find somewhere to rent. Thanks

What do you mean by waiting times? Check with a pet transport company - they should be able to advise you on flight availability if thats what you mean. The main thing is to get the rabies vaccine stuff started, and finding a local vet who is registered to do all of the paperwork and checks - again, a pet transport company would be able to help with this. 

If the UK property is rented( after moving to Australia) for a period ( min. 6 months) before being sold are you liable for full CGT when it is sold ? I did hear that there is an interim period or some sort of calculation to reduce your CGT based on the number of years you lived in the property before moving overseas. Lived in property since 2007 and current estimates suggest we wouldnt be liable for CGT if we sold today, especially if liability split with my wife. Thanks 

39 minutes ago, Amber Snowball said:

I’ll second this. They were very good.

I am thinking of using them for UK to Australia this year.  What was the time frame from them collecting until receiving it again in Australia ? Will have to do the  send it early ( and do without certain things in the UK) and then do without certain things in Australia while we wait for it to arrive. Did you have much extra charge to pay to clear customs, get delivered etc ? Thanks

52 minutes ago, Greystones said:

Hi, I have a Partner 100 visa approved and my initial entry date is April 12th 2022. I applied for the travel faciliation letter yesterday (the earliest I could do it) and this morning I had my approval letter through giving me until 13th January 2023 for initial entry and activating my visa. It came through as an email with a pdf attachment  - I didn't get any confirmation email saying that they had received my application. Hope that helps, I had been looking on the forum for a while for people experiences but they seem varied on how long it takes to process

Yes very helpful - I am likely to apply for one soon for my wife - and getting a speedy turnaround is very helpful given you have to wait until 3 months before, the final entry date, given obvious logistics of giving 3 months notice for work, sorting house, rental, shipping , pets, booking flights  etc and organising a new life for your family on the other side of the world ! 

Their website is not very user friendly but somewhere within it there is a section where you can put in your details to determine if you are eligible to register based on overseas qualifications. Not progressed beyond that point to see what happens next, but will at least tell you if your training will automatically grant you registration.

45 years is the usual cut off for work visa. Look on the Australian Immigration website - it has all the details about all possible visas - a much better source of info than this forum or the person who told you you were too old !

Assuming you are applying for partner/defacto  visa- cost approx  £4500 for application plus approx £300 for medical/police checks.  Approval time were very quick compared to normal - not of what they are like currently but my wifes visa was granted last August, only waited approx 3 months for decision - but it was a straightforward case - we have been married 10+ years, have 2 children.If visa is granted you will have 1 year to activate it - ie enter the country. The main thing with your application - given that you are not married will be to provide evidence that you are and have been in a genuine relationship.

On 29/12/2021 at 19:48, BigJoe said:

I see they’ve changed the initial travel date from 3 months to are you travelling within 12 months now.

It was 3 months when I checked today

For a partner/spouse vias Its not a "first entry date", its the date by which you have to arrive to activate the visa. So then unless you enter the country by this date, or apply for a TFL ( which you can only do 3 months before the date - so you would need to be doing it next month) your visa would lapse. Im not sure how your daughter connects to the visa I assume you wouldnt get a TFL to extend to 2024 though ! If she is the daughter of an Australian citizen then much simpler to apply for citizenship by descent, can then get Australian visa and then there is no time constraints and no restrictions/extra costs if further study is to be undertaken.

Better off selling it - used cars in Australia are expensive, fuel very expensive in the UK - 30% increase in the last year - now around £1.50 litre and landcruiser has poor fuel economy. Narrow roads, no parking and annual tax will be based on emissions.

Do they have a flight booked ? The only flights that qantas are offering in December are direct flight to Darwin, then internal to Perth.

These answers seem conflicting - ie the first 2 say only liable from when you arrive, whereas the last one says you could be liable for up to 8 months( ie if you arrived before end of March and therefore liable back to the previous July) Which is it ? 

5 hours ago, Alan Collett said:

Income from 1 July in the tax year of your arrival in Australia to the date before you became a tax resident of Australia and subject to Aus tax on your worldwide income should be included in the target foreign income section of your first Australian tax return.

Best regards.

On 26/09/2021 at 01:14, Mcguinnessp1968 said:

As someone who has recently gone through this process can I just say that there is no way on earth I could have got to the stage where my application was sufficiently detailed without an agent

I would strongly advise you use one given the cost of this visa

Having gone through this process recently I would advise that paying out for an agent - on top of the already exorbitant application fee is not necessary. The paperwork is tedious and very repetative but not difficult. It took a coupl eof months - but a lot of the time is spent waiting for police checks, having medical appt,waiting for friends return stat. decs etc. We dont have much in joint names - ie utitilites or bank accounts but as long as you can submit bills/statements that have the same address and can go back several years. You can include screen shots from social media, we even included wedding anniversary cards. We just threw everything that looked applicable at the application. They are more interested in catching out people who are not in a genuine relationship. My big tip is to buy a scanner - makes it so much easier to get the documents you need online. From applying to having visa granted was about 4 months.

On 11/09/2021 at 21:36, Nicko said:

I think it all depends on your circumstances. My wife's was issued at the same time as well. I think it may be more partner visa as in people not married and been together a couple of years or less(though please correct me if I am wrong), Then if you have been married, own a home together have children etc ...

My wife recently granted 309 but we were told initially that would get 100 automatically - something to do with being married for a long time and having kids - would it be granted once she enters the country and activates the visa ? Or would we have expected to be granted it straight away/ Thanks