Three Legs

Are hoping to be accepted by Australia, spend a couple of years there, obtain citizenship and return home ... just so they have it ?

It's possibly a taboo question ...

amanda76

although this is not what we are intending to do, this is what will happen if we hate it in oz!!! this has always been out contingency plan!!! the reason we are saying that, is because if we hate it we will stay there until we get citizenship for our children, to ensure they are free to go in and out. but we hope at this moment of time that we grow old there.................... ..

amanda

Greigrob

Ditto

Phoenixuk2oz

Are you still hungover

After all the kerfuffle of selling in UK, moving 12,000 miles, setting up home again, getting jobs, coping with a stroppy teenager, shipping all our stuff and bringing a mad spinger spaniel all this way.......d'ya really think we wanna do all that again

Id rather take me bowels out with a stick

Three Legs

I suspect some people are "doing it" 'cos they can.

Phoenixuk2oz

Aye....hope they remember the white cardi that ties up round the back....and the padded front room to match

tracey.d

ABCDiamond

There was a Poll done some time back, (I haven't looked for it just now), but from memory I recall about 20% that migrated here said that they did so with the intention of only staying a few years.

I remember it, as I recalled thinking, at the time, that it was a similar % to the figure that is often quoted for migrants returning home from here.

Pootle

No that was not our intention, just a 'back-up'. It would be daft to go to all this effort and expense to leave without it. I merely meant that IF we went back, I would like to get my citizenship first. This would give us and our children options for the future which my parents now don't have.
Ruth

renth

Somthing to be aware of is they don't just hand it to you after 2 years. For us, the time from applying (on the day after we were eligible) to the ceremony date was 5 months.

NedKelly

I think that if you don't come back you lose it. Not sure of the rules on that.

renth

Not true, once you've got citizenship you've got it forever (unless you renounce it), the only exception is if they find out you falsified your application.

Shellfish

This is probably a silly question, but are you only considered a citizen once you have been to the ceremony? I have heard from some people that you don't have to attend it and from others, that you do.

JackTheLad

Don't think so. Its like your UK passport. Do you think you lose it if you don't go back to the UK for X number of years?

JTL

NedKelly

Well maybe they have changed the rules but my sis-in-law was born here (about 40 years ago) and moved to the UK when she was 9. She had an Australian Passport but never renewed it. Then she got a UK passport as she was born to UK parents. Now she can't get her Australian passport back. Maybe she didn't tick the right boxes on the form.