Hi from gerry and family!!

scoobygez · #1 (**permalink**) 9th December 2007, 01:44 PM

Hi guys and girls we are about to move to oz well as soon as we sell our house that is!!

our visas took 9 months all in we are comeing over on the skilled visas from the good old uk!!

i am 31 my wife tracy is 27 and our little boy is aged 7

we are heading to ballajura we think and then gonna look for work ie wood machinest and care assistant..

we have just sent an email to ballajura primary school and we are now waiting for a response

anyway i am ranting on!! so would just like to say hi to everyone and cant wait to get to oz

kaz101 · #2 (**permalink**) 9th December 2007, 08:20 PM

Welcome Gerry

I had to look up Ballajura since I didn't know that one (but then Oz id so BIG!). I'm not in Perth or even WA since I'm in South Australia.

Good luck with the house sale - been there done that :-)

Regards,
Karen

scoobygez · #3 (**permalink**) 9th December 2007, 09:40 PM

cheers karen yeah its annoying waitin to sell

but hopefully wont take too long.....

kaz101 · #4 (**permalink**) 9th December 2007, 10:03 PM

Make sure you get the estate agents to tell everyone that you're end of chain - they should be doing that anyway but it doesn't hurt to check.

We had 2 buyers fall through before we sold on the third one! It began to feel as though no-one would ever buy it. The good thing though was we got 20,000 GBP more than the first buyer offered!

Once you have someone make sure that your solicitor keeps things moving. Our final buyer's solicitor was slow and kept asking questions that we'd already answered. In the end we said we exchange before the end of the week or else we find another buyer (and then crossed our fingers), and suddenly all the questions stopped and we exchanged.

You'll get there too!

Regards,
Karen

scoobygez · #5 (**permalink**) 9th December 2007, 11:41 PM

cheers karen yeah we have that on our ad ie no chain delay its our first house as well so we have never sold one yet when we bought it nine years ago it only took about 1 month til we got the keys

lets just hope that once we get an offer which we will more than likely accept and the ball moves very quickly we really want to get out about march/april??

we have 12 months in which to visit for at least a week to get our 5 year permit if i understand it right? and have to be in oz for at least 2 years of the 5 ,for the next 5 year permit...

kaz101 · #6 (**permalink**) 9th December 2007, 11:59 PM

It really depends on your visa type (Visa Options – Professionals and other Skilled Migrants – Workers – Visas & Immigration)

We had to validate ours within a year, and then move within 5 years I think. However once we were here we're here for good since ours was a permanent visa. Once we've been here 2 years then we'll apply for citizenship.

Regards,
Karen

scoobygez · #7 (**permalink**) 10th December 2007, 07:57 PM

yeah that sounds about right i think??!!

we are comeing over on the permanent skilled trade visa also