wongstonn

Hello All

My family have permanent residency for Australia and will be heading to Melbourne next April. Having felt I had the measure of what I needed to do when I landed there...all those things like get a TFN, register with Centerlink, sort out the bank account with the 100 point test blah, blah, blah I have just realised that I've got the foggiest idea how long all this admin will take.

I'm guessing I need some of this sorted out so I can rent out a property.

So does anyone know from experience how it it all takes to get all this sorted if one applies oneself?

Thanks

Neil

mlbonner

Medicare you can apply for after about a week of arriving, just take your passport along. You'll get issued a temp card and then a plastic one will come along in the post within a couple of weeks.
TFN, I think the standard time is '28 days', but mine took about 2 weeks.
Bank account - I set mine up, with passport within the 6 weeks, took 10 mins
Don't know about Centrelink, I'm not registered with them.

Hope this helps.

ABCDiamond

That one depends how long the queue is (sorry )

Mainly of use only to parents, most other benefits have the 24 month waiting period.


Here's the Centrelink web link in case you need it
http://www.centrelink.gov.au/interne...ttle_index.htm