I've started applying for a visa to go and live in Australia

[beeker]

How long are you guys expecting the application process to take - I mean from application to granting of the permenant visa?

just curious....

[DiscoStu]

I am doing this at the moment.

You do not need to get your degree recognised if you have over 4 years full time experiance. You just need good references covering your skills.

TM

Unfortunately my degree is in Hotel and Catering, hence having to go down the tortuous Recognition of Prior Learning route. If only I'd listened to the parents all those years ago

[themistry]

i'm moving there on a years visa in August at the end of the current gig! Can't wait as I think our summer has already passed us by!

I'm off to Perth - where you headed and are you applying for permenant visa or years working one like me with a view to finding a permenant job?

Beeker, are you going on a Working Holiday Visa?

have you got any info on getting IT roles with one of these, i.e. is it possible?

i may try the same.

Thanks
TM

[DiscoStu]

How long are you guys expecting the application process to take - I mean from application to granting odf the permenant visa?

just curious....

First thing is the skills assessment from the Australian Computer Society, which takes about 3 months.

You can only apply for the visa once you've got the skills assessment, which can take anything up to a year depending on police checks, medicals, stuff getting lost in the post.

So I'm hoping to be there by 2010

[DiscoStu]

One highly skilled migrant out, twenty unemployable, uneducated, non-english speaking AIDS ridden migrants in.

It all balances out in the UK.

moderately skilled blagger

[beeker]

Beeker, are you going on a Working Holiday Visa?

have you got any info on getting IT roles with one of these, i.e. is it possible?

i may try the same.

Thanks
TM

Yep working holiday visa, permits you to work with any 1 employer for up to 6 months max. I have it on good authority that you can extend the 6 months with the one client by going through someones MyCo.

The visa took 24hrs to come through, and now means I am "eligible" for work, so I can apply for jobs through jobserve closer to the time!

HTH

[DimPrawn]

First thing is the skills assessment from the Australian Computer Society, which takes about 3 months.

You can only apply for the visa once you've got the skills assessment, which can take anything up to a year depending on police checks, medicals, stuff getting lost in the post.

So I'm hoping to be there by 2010

To get into Australia/USA/Canada/New Zealand to live you need:

proven top flight education
perfect written and spoken English
top flight skills and years of proven experience
to be medically fit and free from disease
to be free from criminal convictions and to be vetted
to have references from employers and character witnesses.


To get into the UK to live you need:

A bag
Some shoes
A train/plane/boat ticket

[DiscoStu]

To get into Australia/USA/Canada/New Zealand to live you need:

proven top flight education
perfect written and spoken English
top flight skills and years of proven experience
to be medically fit and free from disease
to be free from criminal convictions and to be vetted
to have references from employers and character witnesses.


To get into the UK to live you need:

A bag
Some shoes
A train/plane/boat ticket

I don't think the ticket's an essential. You can just hide in a truck.

[themistry]

Yep working holiday visa, permits you to work with any 1 employer for up to 6 months max. I have it on good authority that you can extend the 6 months with the one client by going through someones MyCo.

The visa took 24hrs to come through, and now means I am "eligible" for work, so I can apply for jobs through jobserve closer to the time!

HTH

Great stuff! Think I will do the same, I only want to go for a year. So, would contracting be ok with a WHV or do I need to go permie?

My mrs is in Marketing (brand manager), any ideas if she could do the same?

TM

[Cyberman]

Warm winters here I come

The weather there can be extreme. I've been there a couple of times and the first time I was in a restaurant with about 15 relatives near Melbourne when there was a sudden massive hailstorm with giant hailstones which caused the roof to collapse and the meal to be abandoned. My lasting memory is of a fishtank in the restaurant that was being filled by natural means!! The pressure of water also demolished the drainage system, broke up the roads and submerged many cars. According to the national news there were millions of dollars of damage to property.


Another time we went again to a restaurant and returned to my relatives farm to see swathes of trees had been uprooted by a hurricane while we were out.

Enjoy the warm winters though !!!!!