Hi guys, hope your all ok, Lisa, im glad everything went ok with your xrays as far as areas, I think getmedownunder is right, its down to personal choices, eg, we went to this area Marion, not far from brighton, christies beach etc.. clean, quietish, right on the beach, found this lovely new estate, fab houses, went in had a look, great we thought, the estate agent asked a few questions and said straight away, if I were you I would'nt buy here,after talking to him we found out that 50% of the housing would be like our council houses, and it was quite a poor area which brings crime with it, if we hadnt been told that we would never had believed it , so choose carefully, like getmedownunder , were going to rent for a while get a feel for areas, when we were there we fell in love with glenelg, brighton, somerton park, all coastal glenelg being the priciest, brighton not so bad along side somerton park, Mount barker I also liked you also get more house for your money but a little to far from the coast.
anyway speak to you all soon.

Sunworshipper

We had a rep from GB Liners (John Rawlinson's company) down our house on Tuesday. Nice fella, very upfront about things. We've not had the quote yet though. He promised to email it over coming days. I think we're going to try John Moynes at Excess International Movers too. John Moynes is a former police officer and apparently gives good discount to police. GB liners do offer 1 month free storage in UK. He did recommend that it is cheaper to store in UK, downside is ofcourse you can wait 6-12 weeks for it to reach you in Oz. When are you thinking of moving your stuff out to Adelaide?

Did anyone see Fantasy Homes Down Under on Home on Tuesday? They were in Adelaide and visited houses in Oakdale, Mount Barker and Norwood. There were other areas I cant remember now! They also toured Adelaide and The Barrossa Valley. It looked amazing!!

The houses were not that hot, but that might have been down to the buyers only having a budget of £140,000 with a city location. For info, it's been on all week on Sky Channel 246 & 247 at 5pm and 6pm. One last one tomorrow when they visit Melbourne. Sorry I was going to send everyone a reminder but it's been one of those weeks!

I sent my resignation notice today and began the process of a preferential re-join application. I must have hesitated for all of two seconds before hitting the send button on my email to Human Resources Department!!

Hope you are all well........... we'll soon be there!

Scott

Hi scott, we've used gb liners for our removals,I can say their service was great plus really nice guys who moved us out, we moved out of a 4 bedroom detached and have taken most things, the price was the best we had at £3,445. we also added things after the quote which cost us no more, we have also stored in he uk, the insurance his you the most.
Yes I seen the adelaide pprogramyou talked about they were'nt the best houses there are some really fab ones out there.
Hope every things going ok with your visas.

Hi getmedownunder

Andy has ticked yes then ticked diploma level qualifications and then he wrote, employer has provided this information.

Hope this helps! (hope he has done it right!!!) If you want to ask him anything then just ring, if you want our landline number then ask L to text me and i will text you back.

Hope everyone is ok!

Thanks Sunworshipper, L has dumbed the form down for me so I could understand it. Having read it again, it's got to be a no to exceptional circumstances for us really hasn't it?!?

Have you lodged your application?

We are waiting on a few bits for the de facto evidence and our police checks to come back.

Hope your well

S & L

Hi Andy says it's exceptional circumstances for us as we don't have a degree, i'm sure he said that. Also Katie ticked yes and they have sent their's off. We are waiting for the results of our chest xrays from Diac first before we send off our visa application, long story but Andy has had operations on both his lungs in the past so we want to make sure Diac are happy with his xrays first.

Sunworshipper

Your waiting for the results of X-Rays? We were under the impression that the results were held on file until we lodged our visa applications? Do DIAC review them and get back to us beforehand?

We are very close to lodging our application now. We've probably gone over the top with the de facto evidence but we'd rather be cautious.

Just waiting on police checks to come back and to complete some solicitor statutory declaration witness stuff.

Who have you got to certify the copies of birth certificates and passports? It's a bit ambigious on the website as to who is authorised. It depends on what website you read. I've seen entries on other threads on this site saying the same thing. The advice was to err on the side of caution and get it signed by a solicitor or JP. When Louise was applying for her skills assessment earlier this year we got it all done through a solicitor. It would be much easier if we could get a police officer or teacher to do it!

65 shifts to go!!

S

...... oh and we ticked 'yes' too on the exceptional circumstances bit. We just put down 'employer has already submitted this info' or words to that effect..!!

I've sent a copy of my University certificate with the application to be on the safe side.

Thanks for all the advice, speak soon

S + L (Posh and Becks II)

Hi getmedownunder

We were not sure if our xrays got looked at first or not but we were going to ring them at Diac when they arrived just to ask. (meds have landed in Sydney this morning!!!!!!!) If they don't then we will just send our visa off, it's ready to go. Our documents were signed by a solicitor.

We just need to sell the house................

S + L (Posh and Becks II)

I thought the meds got sent to Melbourne????

The doc should know where to send them. We front loaded ours so they went to Sydney office. 47ES goes straight to Melbourne.

Only 4hours and 35mins left of my night shift!

Our's are definitally in Sydney, landed last night!

Sunworshipper

As an update...

GB Liners quoted us £1735 (exc quarantine charges). 1 month FREE storage in UK.

Anglo Pacific quoted £2200.

one more quote planned with Excess-International.

S + L

Hi everyone, horrah just had our visa's granted now it all begins good luck to you all