BendigoBoy
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Not if your quality of life is higher.
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Really? A visa, I would completely agree. But an electronic travel authorisation isn't a visa. Not challenging. Just surprised. Probably their way of trying to get more stupid fees from other good souls who want to renounce British citizenship, I guess.
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Wee one didn't go to citizenship ceremony with you? If born after you got PR and was here in Oz, then they'll be a citizen anyways. Correcting myself: sorry, you said yourself they were born here. You just need a certificate of citizenship. Can't quote directly, but I figured they'd be free given they're already a citizen. Worst case scenario, my read is $265. As always, I will happily stand corrected. Just super excited that it's one more soul that won't need a Blighty Blighted Passport once they get their citizenship confirmed
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Sorry, dude. Don't mean to sound like a dick. Context, please. Youngest under 16, aye?
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Absolutely agree, wholeheartedly. Especially for the tech sector. I'm in a bit of a niche place, but I always caution engineers against staying in a role for longer than 18 months to 2 years while they're developing their skills. For one, they'll end up going stale in a hell of a lot of workplaces, and - quite mercenary, maybe, but nevertheless true - they'll only really take home what they're truly worth by jumping ship the majority of the time. Being bound to an employer for a two year period, particularly with all the unknown unknowns that come with that (poor management, dick colleagues, dislike of locale), would be extremely offputting for me. It was a 189 or nothing, in my case.
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I didn't blame them. I simply gave a view of probabilities in my estimation and where I would lay a bet.
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Absolutely concur. That change was made through ATO systems. So either your friend wasn't taking adequate care of their credentials, or the ATO systems need to be tightened up. Sad as it is, and as much as it pains me to say, I'd put money on the fault being at the "victim's" end for not setting up adequate security and data protection safeguards for their own benefit, rather than on the ATO.
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Depends. I'm literally playing pedant on the semantics: if the account is with the bank in question as well, then they are using it.
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Could probably say the same about any of the Big 4
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Has anyone flown from Australia to the UK with there Dog 6 months of the year?
BendigoBoy replied to Peety's topic in Pets
I'd suggest speaking to your vet. It's not just a case of doing the trip a couple of times a year; it's for how much longer your dog could reasonably do that trip. Once a cocker spaniel hits 12/13, they're getting into the golden age: I'm no vet, but I'd be querying how much more stressful dogs in later years would find the trip. -
If that's what the calculator says, that's what it will be. You must have held PR for 12 months before you are eligible for citizenship.
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You might want to take a look at Revolut.
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https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-processing-times/global-visa-processing-times
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Bear in mind that that 651 application is still in flight unless and until cancelled / processed. So if your wife is on your 482, and that 651 comes in *after* the 482 is issued, she's going to lose it.
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Any app/service you see suggesting it can expedite a visa request is a scam, mate. Edited to add: is your wife on your 482? In which case you better hope the 651 is issued *before* the 482 is; otherwise the 482 would be replaced by the 651 for her as far as I understand. Although, as always, I yield immediately to the wisdom of an RMA.
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Indeed. Mr Potato Head excels at pointless arguments, though. It has been fun watching Ley backtrack and try to make out she never said they would absolutely unwind the changes, regardless of what they might be, before they were announced.
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Nope. Quite pleased to see some common sense prevail. With the way things are for many people at the moment, a bit more tax relief for the majority of workers is no bad thing. A volte face for the common good is infinitely better than staying a course that just rubs salt in the wound of those struggling the most when something could be done to alleviate a little of their strain.
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Thought they had ditched the regional work requirements for UK working holiday makers now!?
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Don't do IELTS, mate; that'd be my advice. Do PTE. As someone who did IELTS, TOEFL and PTE, PTE was far more rounded and true to life than the others. IELTS is just a cash cow for its operators. It isn't unknown for those with Masters degrees in English language/lit to walk away with a 7 in writing despite hitting 9s on all other aspects. It's one for "learn by rote" rather than "actually use in real life" learners.
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Of course, you could find you just can't bring yourself to leave after you land with a 189. Four and a bit years for citizenship, and then you can always flit as and when you want to.
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Or getting it to do anything technical. Tried having it write some super basic tests for some code that I was throwing together, to see how it would perform. Let's just say, my job's not in any danger of disappearing any time soon...
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Take a peek at appliancesonline.com.au and thegoodguys.com.au for some ideas. You can get a decent fridge freezer for $800 or so and a good washer dryer for under a grand. Which is actually a bit less than I paid for similar grade white goods back in 2016 when we arrived.
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Of course, a counter argument could be made that - given men on average live shorter lives - women should have a retirement age beyond their male counterparts.
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Not suggesting they can. Simply astounded that apparently *nobody* would put any of them in the top five, going by what some believe.
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Heaven only knows, but if Uluru, the Great Barrier Reef, or the Great Ocean Road aren't making the list for most tourists, it says waaaaaay more about the tourists than it does about Australia.
