here is a breakdown of what the agent wants from me,is it still expensive,

full processing £1800
skills prep fee £ 600

cetification docs. £175
completion fee £795


Totol £3365 +medicals /oz fee's etc.

total about £4900

is this still a lot?

thanks marcus,be greatfull of your comments

Why UK? We recommend www.ozgo.com.au they are based in Buderim, Sunshine Coast, small husband & wife team, very good service, kept in touch via email & phone and cheaper than ALL OTHER QUOTES!

Keebs

Hi Marcus,

I would highly recommend Ian Harrop Associates www.ianharrop.co.uk

Also Darrell Todd from Thinking Australia www.thinkingaustralia.com

Both are very well respected Migration agents and based in the U.K

All the best with it all

Tony

I think that's a lot - too much actually.
Some agents charge £1800 for the whole professional service (excluding Medical, PC's and Government assessment fees of course). I'd be getting a few more quotes if I were you. Check out what level of service you'd be getting for your Agents fee as well - ie certification of documents, form completion, etc, etc.
Try Ian Harrop and Visa-Go. Both Australian registered agents with good reputations and based in the UK.

we used conceptaustralia(manchester) cost us about £2200 in total

thats who we are using (steve and martin, good guys to have in your corner, very professional). payable in 3 stages (or ours was anyway - TRA).

they wont send your application off until they are absolutely certain that it is 100%.

We have used global visas and I am very happy with their service!

We looked at them all, and found Global Visas the best.

They have been superstars

Danger Will Robinson..........danger .....
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We are using Go Matilda. We have only just started out with the application but are very happy with them so far. They have answered all our queries quickly.

We are currently using Overseas Emigration and they have been excellent a Little pricey but they have done all the donkey work.
We have just found recently out we have passed the TRA stage.

We had our visa through today. Started process in January and got our visa application acknowledged 9th March. We used George Lombard and I think he truly is amazing. Go for it!
Also don't worry that they are in Oz, caused no prob at all. Answers emails really quickly, calls you when needs to. I can't rave about them enough they were absolutely fantastic and helped us out with a medical issue that wasn't even for them to do. He is wicked!!

From one brummy to another........
Have to agree that Ian Harrop are the ones to use.....we approached George Lombard.....waited for a reply......only to be told they were too busy to take our case.......and ours is a simple citizenship by desent one...... PLUS they are based in Oxford.....about 60 miles from B'ham......

We used overseas emmigration as well and just got our visa today. Have to say they have been brilliant and hte delay in our visa grant was due to centrelink!!!

Fiona

Hi
We used Go Matilda Brilliant firm. emailed and phone contact very good and answered all our stupid questions. The cost to us to get our visa Total including medicals £2100. And we have suceeded.