I thought that!!!!! It was the first thing i said to my hubby when he got home. You can tell we've been doing this visa thing too long

Yep, we have just watched it and were saying the same. They should make it clear that it is quite hard to get in with medical conditions.

Same as us!!!! We're hoping to go in October 08, never been before but i've got a cousin who's lived there for 19 years, so it sounds like the place to be.

They didn't seem to show as much of Melbourne as I would have liked, but what we did see was lovely. And just like you all, we said exactly the same about the medical issue, even my dad rang me and asked as he would have thought there would be a problem.

I've had to get the qualification, then had a baby, been working freelance for almost a year - but I think I'm going to need between 3-5 years experience (depending on any changes etc), so I can apply for another 3 years or so - so 3 christmas days here lol, then they'll be being spent in the pool!

I've wanted to move there for about 4 years now - so I suppose I'm around half way throughish.

I just break the wait down in my head to - 4 months and move house, 9 months - another baby - 3 months of chaos - get back into the workload - visit oz - maybe another baby - apply . . . it all sort of works out in my head (although when does anything ever go to plan lol)

i see looks like your going to end up like me with 7 of them and in oz finally
all the best anyway
lesley x

Lol, think of all the board!!!

Hi all
The programme started yesterday its on at 9.00am every weekday morning,
today is in perth then they go to NZ the next australia one is next wednesday and its in Melbourne, Dont know any more than that as my sky pluss wont go any further. hope this helps

Ian

todays lot are bit miserable (perth) and it's just the start

I thought the visa information in (I think) the second episode was a bit off too. It was the one with the young couple and baby. They would be applying on her skills in recruitment but she hadn’t worked in that area for two years as she’d had the baby. I thought you had to have been working in your chosen profession for the previous 3 years in order to apply? Or is it three out of the previous five years or something?

I don’t like the tone of the programme generally (although I am taping them all anyway! Haha!). It’s very much a coffee table programme, thin on information, heavy on silly card twiddling and I think it’s so silly how they act at the start of the show as if the family haven’t been yet and then we find out that they have. Could they not actually tape them before they left and again when they came back??!

But it certainly does imply that if you want to emigrate then all you have to do is apply and off you go. They should at least refer people to the IMMI website for further info.

Thérèse

Its very cheap TV. They even interview the familys going to Oz in NZ House and just change the flag on the table. We're validating and doing a reccy to Melbourne in April and learnt nothing from yesterday's programme.

Still, its daytime TV and I don't supposed its competing with Panorama

Seemed to me the mother was the driving force for the move. Not 100% convinced any of the family apart from her really wanted to go there? Wonder why they opted for Perth?

The water police looked ace

Another couple also said that when they saw themselves moving to Oz they definitely thought of Sydney or Melbourne and didn't really fancy Perth yet that's where they did their reccie. My OH reckons the programme makers are determining where people go!!

I wondered that with the last family who went to perth....