Alastair Rhodes

The rhodes family are hopefully decending upon brisbane in about 18 months time. Can anyone recommend a migrant agent to use for the visas?
My wife is a nurse,so there should'nt be many problems. We have looked at countless adverts and websites and they all promise the earth.
Can people please give thier experiences, good and bad, to help us make this first step,in securing our future.

thanks

Alastair

steve-n-jo

Alistair

We have used Go Matilda and Alan Collett, Glenn Newton and John Slyvester (based in the UK) have been excellent.

If you go back into archive threads theres been lots of debate on this and also George Lombard is another with a good reputation.

I'd steer clear of Global Visas, most people think there crap but Rach (nosuckluck) hasn't had a problem with them so far.

Jo

CROSSY

I would agree with steve n jo, Go matilda have been great so far and i can't see that changing. George Lombard also gets good posts
Good luck

zuluz

We have just been granted our visa's and used George Lombard who we found extremely good.

Rob

whisky

Go Matilda and Allan Collette.

Whisky

nosuchluck

Hi Alastair,
we are using Global Visas, they promise a 'no visa, no fee' and although they are doing there job we have had to keep chasing them, but hey hopefully it'll be worth it! in hindsight, we would've used Go Matilda!
best of luck
rach

markcrute

Go matilda get the thumbs up from us
weve certainly had no problems

mark

sunny_samantha

we are using go matilda and have found both alan collet (based in australia) and john sylvester (based in uk) to be very helpful. would happily suggest them

chris hogan

Hello Rhodes clan,
I used Australian migration consultants in London,couldn't ask for more.Darren Good-Giles,every time I had the daftest of questions I rang him.Always there and cheery must of thought "what the hell now"as I did have some real howlers.
His address:[email protected] this is of some use.

HUP

The first step I'd take is to ask whether or not you need a migration agent? Your wife being a nurse means you are on the top requirements list. Unless you have special circumstances then save yourself the money. Theres a lot of paperwork but its all fairly straightforward. The TRA is the hardest (well actually the waiting is the hardest). Good luck with it. If you want to see more on this use the search facilities and look in the archives

weefi

I'd have to agree with HUP here,do you really need an agent? I'm a nurse and from my first piece of paperwork going in,my PR was in my passport within 2 months!! There's a fair bit of form filling but nothing too taxing and just think of the money saved which you could spend on a relaxing weekend on the beach sipping champagne!!!! You'll also get pretty good advice from folk on this site who've been through the whole process themselves.
Good luck
Fi

sunny_samantha

whilst i would be the first to agree that you can get a lot of super and really helpful advice here on the site...i would also say that my personal reasons for choosing an agent are that as the australian government can be really precise about the application...is it worth applying without an agent??? for us we hope it to be money worth spent. still it is up to you and your decision depending on your situation. good luck whatever you decide

Stoney

Hi Alastair,
We used Concept Australia (Manchester) Steve and Martin there were very helpful and they are a lot cheaper than most, although I would agree with HUP that nurses are at the top of the list, save the money and do it yourself you will find that you have to do all the hard work yourself anyway and there are plenty of nurses on this forum who will point you in the right direction i'm sure.

hevs

Yes they are precise about what they want but if you read the forms carefully there really isn't a problem. The TRA was definitley the hardest part for us but if you approach it logically its not to hard