Wee kimmy Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 My husband and I want to move our family to Oz, but without spending a fortune in doing so. My husband is a fitter welder and im a hairdresser, we have 4 kids aged between 16 and 8months. We tried moving before but were scammed can anyone help and direct us in the right direction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vickyplum Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 You need to check if your jobs on on the SOL or Consolidated SOL: http://www.immi.gov.au/Work/Pages/skilled-occupations-lists/csol.aspx http://www.immi.gov.au/Work/Pages/skilled-occupations-lists/skilled-occupations-lists.aspx and may be worth consulting a migration agent (many of who are on this forum regularly) to see what the next steps are. I am moving on a partner visa so am not at all clued up with the employer sponsors/specialised skills way of doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VERYSTORMY Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 There is no "cheap way" of doing this. The starting point are the occupation lists. If one of your occupations is on the SOL list then you can look at a 189 visa. If they are only on the csol then you need to look at 190 or 489 visas. Read up on the skills assessment criteria to ensure the main applicant can pass it. Look ok at the points test to ensure you have sufficient points. Check the the other criteria such as age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marisawright Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 My husband and I want to move our family to Oz, but without spending a fortune in doing so. My husband is a fitter welder and im a hairdresser, we have 4 kids aged between 16 and 8months. We tried moving before but were scammed can anyone help and direct us in the right direction? As others have said, there is no cheap way. The cost of using an agent is a drop in the ocean compared to what it will cost you to move! You've got to pay your air fares and ship your belongings. Once in Australia you'll need to spend a few weeks in a holiday flat while you find a home. You'll have to buy a car - new cars here cost upwards of $30,000. Then you'll need money for a rental bond, and money to survive for several weeks (or even months) while you look for jobs. All up it can easily cost you $50,000 or more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quoll Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 VeryStormy has put it in a nutshell - just because you want to move, doesn't mean you will be able to move unfortunately. It's going to cost you a lot of money even if you do it on the smell if an oily rag and living in a foreign country in poverty is no fun at all. Reckon that it's going to cost you £50k (that includes being out of work and covering a period of unemployment, cheap car, fares, transport, setting up, visas etc) at least, money that you'll never see again. If you're going to be spending that much, it's worth going to a MARA registered agent for advice. Good Luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echidna66 Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 How in Gods name do you get scammed in choosing an agent or the visa application process..?...Have you ever hear of doing research. When I applied for residency, it was no visa. no fee and I wouldnt have it any other way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 How in Gods name do you get scammed in choosing an agent or the visa application process..?...Have you ever hear of doing research. When I applied for residency, it was no visa. no fee and I wouldnt have it any other way. That's rather harsh, there are many ways in which people get scammed in this process, sadly there are too many people who will exploit the dreams of others. Recruitment agencies that promise to find you a job with a visa for a fee, migration agencies that take your money but don't have the skills to properly manage your application and downright fraud (as the case recently where they even went as far as to forge a visa grant letter, leaving the family with their house sold, jobs quit and flights to Australia booked...and no visa) At least offer some constructive advise based on your experience, if your agent was good why not recommend them? I'd say to the OP if it seems to good to be true it probably is and only ever use a MARA registered agent. I would also advise against a 457 visa even though it may seem cheaper, easier and quicker you have to remember it is a work visa ONLY, not a residency visa and whilst your family can live there whilst the sponsered person is in that job, if the job ends (for any reason whatsoever) so does the visa. I agree with others saying you will end up £50k worse off after the move...for us it was nearer £70k but with hindsight we wasted a lot of money, 5 week reccie, premium economy flights, 2 months in a holiday rental and I ended up with 8 months out of work. Most people can manage it using equity in their house but it means you are starting again in Australia - we've been there and back and at almost 50 just got a mortgage again, I do envy my friends who are already mortgage free but then they haven't lived the life I have so no regrets really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeelD Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 We got scammed by a company called 'Global Visa'. A family member applied for their visa and they moved out recommending the company to us. We started our application with them and had to make payments whilst we colated all our documents. Got everything done..and they wouldn't respond to most of their clients. Then found out the reason for this was because they closed the company down and opened using a different name. When I called them...they said they can take us back on their file but had to pay half of what we had already paid as we were old clients. Really annoyed me and read into everything and done the application ourselves. We are now waiting for the grant of our visa's. A very straight forward process. Wee Kimmy...if you need advise on doing the application yourself let me know. It's not a difficult process and you will save the initial agency costs if this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrussell Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 How in Gods name do you get scammed in choosing an agent or the visa application process..?.. The following appears on all my service agreements and on my website: [h=3]WARNING[/h]The OMARA is an essentially useless office that is part of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection and I have told them so repeatedly. With the stroke of a pen the minister can terminate them all as easily as s/he can terminate a perfectly valid visa application. The OMARA can do nothing about unregistered agents overseas or parliamentarians or DIBP officers who give often incorrect, migration advice in Australia, or education agents who give catastrophically incorrect migration advice under the table. About all the OMARA can do, having received a complaint, is haul a registered migration agent over the coals - after the event. They cannot order repayment of money lost. They can do nothing when the minister (The Terminator) changes the rules in the middle of the game or one of his delegates or ‘designated authorities’ bungles your case. By the way, the ‘average fee’ misinformation published by the OMARA is just that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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