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I don't doubt you, but 90% are processed within a day, if they applied on 4th June this is now outside of normal processing time. Hopefully it will be granted soon.

I've applied for about 20 of them over the last 15 years and they've never taken longer than 24 hours to come back.

I think getting us back in under the current rules will be a very hard sell, it will take major compromise on both sides. We have lost the concessions (rebate) that we were lucky to have, and I believe all new members must accept full currency union and a lot of people in the UK have some weird attachment to sterling!!

I think the cumulative effects of the last 16 years, The GFC, Austerity, Brexit, Covid and now the Cost of Living crisis is really showing, as a nation we need a few years without a crisis to get back on our feet.

We rented out a property in South Australia recently, 27 people at the inspection but the reality is only about 5 of them were decent prospective tenants, when the real estate agent dug into references and employment etc The issue you may have is that you wont be seen as a good prospective long term tenant. So if your plan is to rent for a few months before you buy make sure you keep that to yourself, we turned one couple down as they stated that on their application form that it was perfect as they were looking to buy in the area, which to a landlord just says, I will have to go through this all again in a few months when you move on!!!

You won’t be able to access the UK channels without a VPN, the streamer checks your location based on your IP address which will have an Australian range and will block you based on that. The only thing the fire stick with a UK account really allows is access is to the UK apps on the store, IPlayer etc probably won’t be available on the Oz version of the store. You could combine the stick with a UK Amazon account with a subscription to to something like NordVPN to watch the Uk channels, I might know people who do that to watch Australian channels from the UK

We spoke to a removal company yesterday and they were very clear that you can't ship Lithium batteries, so something to consider if you have any tools that use those.

I miss your idealised view of the UK and I still live here!!

I find it's the opposite! whenever we go to visit my wife's family everybody goes out of their way to make time to see us, and we do the same when they come to visit us.

The link includes his phone number and email address, there was also a link to his website earlier in the thread https://www.suncoastmigration.com/contact-us

I think you are going to need paid help from here. Here are Paul's contact details from the Australian registered migration agent website https://portal.mara.gov.au/search-the-register-of-migration-agents/register-of-migration-agent-details/?ContactID=bd96c3a0-98d6-e711-9417-000d3ad152db

She should be able to join a school in Year 11 and do the last 2 years. I feel it’s a pretty bad time to move a child from an educational point of view though. An international school might be a better option.

Or you have kids!

When I looked for South Australia, proof of address (Bank statement\Rental contract etc) is one of the mandatory required documents.

Sorry to hijack the thread a bit, but as you are in the business! Do you know what the market is like at the moment? Angular\.Net Developer landing in Adelaide towards the end of the year. Spent the last 20 years contracting in the UK, but I appreciate it's more permie based in Oz.