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Originally Posted by debb2302
Have been glued to this forum since weekend and the australian expo keeps cropping up. Are they worth going to and how much info can you get from the expo? Can anybody advise on the process, ie visas, jobs, house hunting. Is there anywhere on the forums a link with the best order in which to tackle things.
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The expos have loads of information at them. There are seminars in how to chose a country to move, what to do, and then there are emigration agents (and you can book free consultations) and there are movers as well. The experts are at the expos whereas on here you have people telling you what they did and a occasionally an agent (but it's summer holidays here at present).
There isn't a best order since it depends on your visa so I guess it puts the visa at number one
Our order was ( and this covered several years!):
Have Australian holiday and loved it
Check Australian website to see if we could get in & with what visa
Go to first expo to get info
Ring 3 emigration agents and chose the one who said we could get in
Had free consultation with agent and signed up with them
Do skilled assessments (ACS for me, TRA for husband) & get approved
Holiday in Australia and tour around a bit
Send in visa application
Have medicals & police checks
Receive visa approval!
Couple of years later
Go to second expo for movers
Trip to Australia to decide where to live & bought house in Australia
Sell house in UK ( & have movers in)
Move to Australia
Find job
Receive stuff from UK
I don't know if my process is a typical one.
There are various visas depending on age, work experience, career / job, and whether you want a temporary or permanent move.
Some people can re-locate with their firm on a sponsored visa with the firm taking care of most things whereas others (like us) applied via a skilled independent visa.
So is your husbands company going to sponsor him?
If so are they going to help with$ the paperwork or do you have to do that.
I looked at houses over the internet first and then investigated places in person on trips over here that were also holidays.
Since we weren't sponsored it was a case of getting jobs once we were here. I have an online business I can run from anywhere (and we're looking for more people to join us) and my husband just started applying for anything. It took him about 6 weeks to find a job but that's because he wasn't registered with the good agencies in town.
I hope that helps....
Karen