police in oz??

[Guest tilly]

my boyfriend wants to become a police officer in australia, he is only 19 and has only done a public services course and would like me to go with him. How do we go about moving over there?? Any whether we qualify??

Hayley :policeman:

[calNgary]

Hiya entry to australia is based on a points system ,there are lots of online checks you can do to see if you qualify.There are so many different types of visa's,, in you shoes i would ring and have a chat with an agent for their advice on what you are able to apply for.We used a company called Visa Bureau who were very good ,there is also Go matilda who are another reputatble company.Its hard work and very stressful applying for a visa but well worth it when you get here,,good uck with everything

Cal x

[Guest scholes.mark]

May clear things up

 

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Mark

[Guest tilly]

yer thanks fot that x

[Guest Gollywobbler]

Hi Hayley

 

Welcome to Poms in Oz.

 

Thanks for your PM just now. I'm glad you've seen Karen's thread and have had a chance to read Mark Scholes' advice. I take it that your boyfriend is not an Ozzie?

 

I take it too that both of you are within the 18-30 age bracket?

 

Realistically, the only viable option for you and The Man is to forget the idea of a permanent move to Australia for the moment because neither of you has any specialist skills to offer the Australian workforce.

 

However, you do both have youth on your side. The only visas you would be accepted for would be Working Holiday Maker visas but if you play your cards right with those, you can get up to two years each in Australia via the WHM visa route. This route does occasionally lead to Permanent Residency in Australia - it did for my sister in the end, though it is a long winded and uncertain route to PR but like you, Elaine (sister) was very young when she set out on this path.

 

Elaine was one of the lucky ones - the idea does not work for everyone. Alan Collett (whose name crops up on here a lot) is a very experienced and highly respected Migration Agent. His experience is that the WHM visa rarely leads to PR in Oz in the end.

 

But so what? Do it for the sheer adventure. Do it as an end in itself, not as a means to an end, I firmly suggest. If you have to come back after 2 years, who cares? If by then you are firmly convinced that Australia is for you - and you will have seen enough of it by then to be sure, one way or the other - you will still be young enough to train up for and get some qualifications in a skilled trade that Australia is short of, plus the necessary years of on-the-job experience under your belts, and you could still have PR in Oz by the time you are in your early 30s.

 

Honestly, honey, at your ages the world is your oyster and it is out there for the taking. Go Grab It. Go and spend a couple of years at the University of Adventure (Australia) Inc., I suggest. Don't go there and do everything you could do in the UK only in a better climate. Go there and do everything that you can't do in the UK, I suggest.

 

Details of the Working Holiday Maker visa are here:

 

Visa Options - Working Holiday Makers - Visas & Immigration

 

Best wishes

 

Gill

[Sids Dad]

Hi there, I can only describe what you may miss by not following Gills advice of taking the option of a possible two years in Oz.

My wife and I emigrated to Oz in the early seventy’s at the tender ages of 21 and 22 costing the princely sum then of £10 (ask your Mum). I did have a trade and my wife was a GPO trained telephonist.

Every weekend we would open the Map of Victoria and stab a pin to see where we will go for either the day or even two (slept in the car a few times). Among our sortie’s we saw fantastic sights, driving hundreds of miles was not a problem with everything on your doorstep.

People who have never “done” Australia are missing a lot and most confuse the Outback with the bush! If you ask most to explain what their perception of the Bush is they often fall into the trap of saying “Scrub land and desert”, nope, that’s the Outback! The bush is lush forests, Noogie Forest is only 90 miles from downtown Melbourne and you can hardly squeeze between the trees! There are a number of people who are lost in it every year.

Jump up to Sydney and you have the beautiful Blue Mountains which is a one hour drive from the heart of Sydney! A huge range that is carpeted in gums, a range that is only just giving up it’s secrets. Only a few years ago a small group of abseilers discovered a gorge which has not changed since prehistoric times and they found trees that are unique with the trunks covered in strange acorn like bumps. The site is still a secret and the seedlings are being grown in the Sydney Botanical nursery’s and there are great hopes for all sorts of medical benefits that they may hold.

The whole place is alive with fantastic wildlife.

Jump again up to Cairns, where the main street is jumping every night with a huge array of backpackers from all over the world. We did the Barrier reef there a few years ago and it was $70 each, that was leaving the harbour on a giant Cat, snorkelling gear, and lo and behold the guy asked me if I wanted to have an introductory dive for free!! You bet mate, I can honestly say it was one of the best things I have done in my life, I even paid for a second dive for the enormous price of $29!!

We explored the rainforests and met an old Aboriginal Ranger called Milton who had been in the rainforest all his life. This was another defining moment as we walked in a small cicle and Milton talked about the plant life at our feet, how the strangling fig climbed the host tree and demolished it and became like a “Box Girder” which plants were edible, what bit of red stone in the water was used as “tribal make-up”

We struck out alone and nearly walked into a Cassowary with it’s chicks ( I have it all on video).

Can you imagine going to a place called ninety mile beach and it’s as its named, ninety miles as straight as a die! Nobody on it as far as we could see in either direction.

Australia has thousands of fantastic restaurants and there is hardly a culture that’s not represented, Greek, Italian, Yugoslav, Maltese, Polish, etc etc.

You both have youth on your side as Gill said and if it was me I would be off like a shot, chain blocks wouldn’t hold me! I would rather have the soles of my feet beaten with a stick for a week than miss out.

No doubt all the old adages come into mind;

Life’s too short to drink cheap wine etc,

My favourite was spotted in a car park in Byron Bay (Google it) it was on the back of a Hippie Camper van (no not in the seventies five years ago!!) you will see why when you Google Byron bay!

Anyway, it read; “Don’t take life too seriously………nobody gets out alive”!!

God I could ramble on for hours, I have only given you a snippet of Australia, I haven’t even touched on the friendly natives, the Australians are proud of their country and they will go out of their way to help you and they are very generous, as long as you don’t bull**** them they easily become your “Mate” and you will be whisked away to their place for the Barbie and beer”

Whatever you decide, I wish you both well and good luck, and please let us all know what you decide.

Alan.

[calNgary]

Alan ,,i just wanted to say what a fantastic post ,thankyou for sharing that ,it would be great to read more of your adventures,why dont you write something for us ??

Cal x

[Sids Dad]

Alan ,,i just wanted to say what a fantastic post ,thankyou for sharing that ,it would be great to read more of your adventures,why dont you write something for us ??

Cal x

Hi Cal, well I never saw myself as any good at penning story's but if I get time (I'm at work in Algeria!!) I will scribe a bit more, may end up as a derge of nonsense though so be warned!!