Hello,
My husband Simon and Myself (Anna) and 5 yr old son are moving to Perth Feb 2005!
Wondering if anybody else is going out too? We bought a property in Kallaroo last month, and hope to send our son to Whitfords Catholic Primary in Craigie. Does anybody know about the schools reputation?
Currently live in west london but both originally Kiwis, so fortunately we don't have the horrendous immigration hassles with dual nationality!
Would appreciate any advice. How does one go about giving birth out there?

hi Anna

My auntie lives close by th Whitfords, i can ask her for you when i talk to her next (prop the weekend).

Cant believe you are going there, you lucky thing, i was there a couple of years ago and i loved it, thats where i wanna live, my auntie lives in Woodvale, whcih is close to Whitfords......

When did you buy your property?


laura
xxx

Hello there,

I can,t help you directly but if you ask the same question on www.aussiemove.com you should get a good response,i,m sure some of the users on there live in that area and use that school.


good luck dave

Hi Dave..

What a great website, thanks for that..


Deb..

hey annamae,

cant help you with any of your questions - but i'm moving to kallaroo in december...whereabouts are you?

tanja

Perth in Feb - us too !!!!
Have to have newbies meet.

We are ( we think) heading for Joondalup area.
Would like to be close to beach but can't afford Iluka and don't like Butler

Maybe Currambine ??

Not sure , going to rent first whilst we sort out jobs. Have a 10yr old boy though and need to get him settled. Apparently currambine school has a waiting list.

Keep in touch guys


Sue

No probs Deb glad you like it.

dave

Hi Sue

We (Dave - me, Helen - the wife, and Nathan - stepson) are moving to Perth in Jan (15th). We bought a house in Currambine in April and we really liked the area - smack bang between Iluka and Joondalup - best of both worlds - close to shops at Joondalup, train station at Currambine and beach less than 2Ks away at Burns beach

We are up for a meet up when we get out there.

Dave

Hi Anna,
We (me, Kate, hubby Ed, kids Finlay and Erin) are hopefully arriving in March 2005. No firm plans as to where we are going to live. Ed's company is going to put us up for the first while so we can find our feet. We will be renting first and looking for kindergarten for Fin. It seems most people tend towards the north of Perth, but I'm also looking at the Hills. Rellies are in Karrinyup.

We've spent tonight drawing a huge chart to pin on the wall of what's got to be done and by when (sad, huh!

see you on here again no doubt!

As you say, with New Zealand passports you can live in Australia. However you *cannot* access full permanent residence or citizenship rights unless you obtain Australian permanent residence status and later apply for Australian citizenship.

See http://www.nz-oz.gov.au for information.

So if you see your home in Australia, then you do need to go through the immigration hoops if at all possible. The good news is that as NZ citizens you can apply for permanent residence onshore after arriving - either through general skilled (points tested) or employer nomination, but you still need to meet the normal requirements.

Are you British citizens yourselves? If no, you should consider naturalisation before leaving the UK.

Regarding your son, if he's UK born he will be British as long as you were granted indefinite leave to remain (ILR) before he was born. Or if one of you is a British citizen, of course.

If you got ILR *after* he was born then he's not automatically British but can be registered as a British citizen provided application is made before he is 18 (although it will get complicated if you don't do this before losing your UK ILR, which you will after leaving the UK). If this applies, you should sort it out for him as soon as possible even if you decide not to apply for British citizenship yourselves.

Jeremy

Hi Tanja,

We've bought on Marmoin side of Bridgewater drive. Complete in 3 weeks!

Thanks Jeremy, we're aware of this, we have British and NZ dual Nationality!

Hi Kate,
How old are the kids?
Your very lucky hubby's company will get you started. We have all the employment worries to go through when we get there. Simon has to stay in the UK until March ,so Matthew and I will be flying solo!
We can all hook up, when you arrive!

Anna

Thanks Laura, That's very good of you!

Hi Sue,

We we're suprised at property prices to0. Fortunately we got a cheap crap property in a good area that we'll rebuild on once we're established.
We loved Joondalup, but wanted to be as close to beach as money would permit!

Look forward to meeting up!
Anna