JAJ

Whether Medicare will accept you as a UK resident is not clear. If not, the NZ reciprocal agreement may still help you but is not quite as generous as the UK agreement:
http://www.medicareaustralia.gov.au/...ireland-nz.jsp

Note that you may be liable to the Medicare levy (plus surcharge if applicable) if you are covered by the reciprocal agreement. You only get exemption (from the levy) if you can get a certificate from Medicare saying that. Factor this into your tax/financial planning.

Did you have to get health insurance as a condition of obtaining your 457 visa?

Also, and quite important, have you got indefinite returning resident visas to get you back into New Zealand if things don't work out in Australia?

carzinoz

Note that you may be liable to the Medicare levy (plus surcharge if applicable) if you are covered by the reciprocal agreement. You only get exemption (from the levy) if you can get a certificate from Medicare saying that. Factor this into your tax/financial planning.

Under what circumstances would you get an exemption from the levy? I've never heard of that

JAJ

Read what the ATO says:
http://www.ato.gov.au/individuals/co...854.htm&page=6

and from Medicare:
http://www.medicareaustralia.gov.au/...ses_011005.pdf

Lily77cat

http://www.medicareaustralia.gov.au/...rants/visitors

from the uk
Your entitlements
As a resident of one of these countries you are entitled to the following for any ill-health or injury requiring treatment while in Australia:

free treatment as a public in-patient or outpatient in a public hospital
subsidised medicines under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
Medicare benefits for out-of-hospital medical treatment provided by doctors through private surgeries and community health centres.


from nz
Your entitlements
As a resident of the Republic of Ireland or New Zealand you are entitled to free treatment as a public in-patient or outpatient at a public hospital and access to subsidised medicines under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme during your visit to Australia. This covers any ill health or injury needing medical treatment while in Australia. To access these benefits you should show your passport at hospitals or pharmacies. You are not entitled to Medicare benefits for non-hospital medical care and you will not be issued with a Medicare card.



red is only bit different so cant access subsidised gp service

should bare in mind that if they look at your passports they will see that you ave residency stamps in them from nz and the dates on them !!

and yes check you have indefinite status on your residency otherwise you wont be able to coem back to nz. to get it you must have had residency for 2 years and have met the conditions on the permit e.g. be in your stated job still and not been out fo the country for more that 150 days i think and of course you have to pay a fee again :-)

fish.01

"red is only bit different so cant access subsidised gp service"

or private specialists or pathology etc

laetitia1974

good evening

could you be more specific on proof of residence as we are both french and we lived 5 years in uk. what kind of proof of residence do they need?

thanks a lot

laeti

elice_in_oz

My circumstances were similar when we arrived (albeit 10 years ago). I used my consular registration card from the French Consulate in London, my passport which had just been renewed in London, the fact that I owned property in the UK and that I lived in that property (utilities bills) and written work references. All this proved that I was resident in the UK when we applied for medicare. I had to point out to the person behind the counter that residency, not citizenship was what mattered and they agreed after some discussion. Some medicare staff are more knowledgeable than others so you might find it easier or harder depending on who you get.