Applying for ARTC from UK!
Nov 27th 2007, 6:01 pm
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Applying for ARTC from UK!
Hi all sparks, how many of you applied for your ARTC whilst still living in the UK?
As I understand it, if your a resident of Oz as we now our (got our visa label in the passport) then you can apply for ARTC; provided an Australian address is provide for the ARTC to be sent to?
I have a couple of questions though:
1. I have been reading that some of us have been unlucky enough to have a telephone interview
, will they call a UK mobile (its location obviously being unknown to them, I could be roaming in OZ)? In the same vein do you actually have to be in OZ whilst your ARTC is being processed and awarded
?
I am reluctant to move out to OZ before I know I can get a licence
. Also I think being in OZ for 8 weeks while ARTC are processing my application to be a poor use of time, in as much as I would be reducing my income greatly for those two months and I would be bleeding a lot more money than if I was living in the UK (temporary accommodation being much more expensive than longer term).
2. Now this is a more tricky one, I have most of what I need to apply for my ARTC now i.e. all my TRA stuff
; in my TRA application, I included a statutory declaration describing my current job rather than asking for a reference. Despite having our VISA, I am still reluctant to tell my boss that I will be going to OZ, because I don't see the point in going if I can't get a licence i.e. ARTC don't say yes. I can't however write a stat dec in the same fashion as before "protecting my job by not tell my company I plan on leaving" because as far as TRA are concerned you are meant to be in OZ for ARTC. Nor can I say they won't write one that doesn't look good! And if I tell TRA Im not coming to OZ if I don't get my ARTC they will probably think f**k the arrogant w***er!
What should I do about this bit, that one reference is holding the process up but ARTC is a pain because I don't want to sell up ship out and then find out I can't spark in OZ!
Help
Thanks
Andy
PS the house won't sell anyway!
As I understand it, if your a resident of Oz as we now our (got our visa label in the passport) then you can apply for ARTC; provided an Australian address is provide for the ARTC to be sent to?
I have a couple of questions though:
1. I have been reading that some of us have been unlucky enough to have a telephone interview
, will they call a UK mobile (its location obviously being unknown to them, I could be roaming in OZ)? In the same vein do you actually have to be in OZ whilst your ARTC is being processed and awarded?I am reluctant to move out to OZ before I know I can get a licence
. Also I think being in OZ for 8 weeks while ARTC are processing my application to be a poor use of time, in as much as I would be reducing my income greatly for those two months and I would be bleeding a lot more money than if I was living in the UK (temporary accommodation being much more expensive than longer term).2. Now this is a more tricky one, I have most of what I need to apply for my ARTC now i.e. all my TRA stuff
; in my TRA application, I included a statutory declaration describing my current job rather than asking for a reference. Despite having our VISA, I am still reluctant to tell my boss that I will be going to OZ, because I don't see the point in going if I can't get a licence i.e. ARTC don't say yes. I can't however write a stat dec in the same fashion as before "protecting my job by not tell my company I plan on leaving" because as far as TRA are concerned you are meant to be in OZ for ARTC. Nor can I say they won't write one that doesn't look good! And if I tell TRA Im not coming to OZ if I don't get my ARTC they will probably think f**k the arrogant w***er!What should I do about this bit, that one reference is holding the process up but ARTC is a pain because I don't want to sell up ship out and then find out I can't spark in OZ!
Help
Thanks
Andy
PS the house won't sell anyway!
Nov 27th 2007, 9:19 pm
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Re: Applying for ARTC from UK!
Answered your other thread in the Immigration forum
