conandviv Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 Emigrating from north west UK to Adelaide, can anyone recommend a registered migration agent or would anyone recommend going through the process independently? Thanks for any advice! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lebourvellec Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 Go matilda, and visa bureau both have good reputations and are registered migration agents. if your case is straight forward, not medical or character issues many people have taken on their own applications successfully. But beware if you do make any mistakes in your application and its refused or you need to withdraw, you will lose the application fee, with the high application costs now, it's always worth getting an initial assessment even if you decide to do it alone. Also so depends how organised you are and have the time to do it alone. We did ours alone after initial assessment, we felt that there was things an agent couldn't do, ie the complicated engineering skills assessment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maisiedaisy Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 Emigrating from north west UK to Adelaide, can anyone recommend a registered migration agent or would anyone recommend going through the process independently? Thanks for any advice! :-) Go Matilda is our choice too - really nice people and they know their stuff Kind regards maisie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conandviv Posted January 20, 2015 Author Share Posted January 20, 2015 Go matilda, and visa bureau both have good reputations and are registered migration agents. if your case is straight forward, not medical or character issues many people have taken on their own applications successfully. But beware if you do make any mistakes in your application and its refused or you need to withdraw, you will lose the application fee, with the high application costs now, it's always worth getting an initial assessment even if you decide to do it alone. Also so depends how organised you are and have the time to do it alone. We did ours alone after initial assessment, we felt that there was things an agent couldn't do, ie the complicated engineering skills assessment. Great, thanks again for the fab advice. I'll give Go Matilda a call and see if I can get the ball rolling! Do you have any idea about how much they charge for their services? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conandviv Posted January 20, 2015 Author Share Posted January 20, 2015 Go Matilda is our choice too - really nice people and they know their stuff Kind regards maisie Great, thanks, it's reassuring to have the same company recommended by more than one person. I'll give Go Matilda a call and see if I can get the ball rolling! Do you have any idea about how much they charge for their services? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lebourvellec Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 Prices often reflect how much work they need to do for your application, rough guess maybe about £2-2.5k, but you will have the visa application cost, skills assessments medicals police checks on top of this. Your prob looking at about £8-10k for visa with an agent, including everything, visa application cost to DIBP for family of 4 would be around $7300AUD, medicals about £8-1000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conandviv Posted January 20, 2015 Author Share Posted January 20, 2015 Prices often reflect how much work they need to do for your application, rough guess maybe about £2-2.5k, but you will have the visa application cost, skills assessments medicals police checks on top of this. Your prob looking at about £8-10k for visa with an agent, including everything, visa application cost to DIBP for family of 4 would be around $7300AUD, medicals about £8-1000. Thanks again, it's really useful to have some 'ball-park' figures in mind, it's a costly exercise but hopefully well worth it in the long run! ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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