Rogue Trader

Cheers Pash..!!

You guys should blow our record out of the water... you've got your PCCs and your meds done already..!!

Remember, we lost 15 days to our medical referral in Oz... other than that, our CO said she had everything else in order on the day of our interview..... so if your meds both go through as "Category A" then you're laughing..!! (Ours were both 'Cat B')

GO FOR IT..!!
Rogue.

Jamie Smith

Hi Mark

If you have the right tax rate then you won't need to get a software fix to change the VAT/GST thing, you can just square that away with a note at the beginning of the plan "per centages are correct but computer insists on using VAT to express GST" - VAT/GST still works the same way. Our business plan P&Ls are always prepared net of GST and so far no issues with any assessor about it not being dealt with in the cash flow either. Makes things a helluva lot easier to work with....

Make sure you have addressed the depth of your local knowledge and identified the competition.

wildmark

Well it's start eh? dont know how anyone could live on less!!!

wildmark

Oh! Ok I'll email them to you now.

Mark

Rogue Trader

Hello....... Hello....... Helloo-ooo


Hey... Where is everybody? Oh well Rogue... looks like it's just me and you...!!

This is this first chance I've had in ages to catch up with everyone, thought it would take me well into the early hours and to my surprise there is no news!

Well, they do say no news is good news!

Hope you are all ok, shout my way if you get a mo and let me know where you're at.

Good night, God bless
Mrs R

wildmark

I did notice myself it was very quite, I figured that everybody had there visa and that was it, job done.

Mark

bloofox

Tremendous.....
Start getting rid of the junk, start looking at the Aussie pictures to remind yourself of where you're goin', start feeling warmer already....

We had Abels removal company round today who said a 20ft container wouldn't hold all the junk so it looks like a 40ft box for us.. then we booked our flights, via Langkawi for a week....and even then, at the last moment the credit card was processed five times by Travelbag and it caused another laughable delay while I rang Amex to sort it...you have to laugh...nothin else to do ...

See you in the Sun !!!

Rogue Trader

Good going Bluey...
Remember, first one in buys the drinks..!!

All the best,
Rogue.

wildmark

We were in Langkawi for a week in March, great place.

OldFolk

We're still here - just waiting for:

sponsorship approval - over 3 weeks now

somoone to buy property - changed agent and its gone very quiet

someone to buy business!

Starting to feel very frustrated by whole process.

Grumpy Oldfolk

wildmark

Were in the same boat, house market dead, business sale not too bad, genuine interest from someone but offering £70k short of my min amount, but there away thinking it over.

I think its the big gaps in between anything interesting happening thats the worse!

The Vallies

Gday Guys!!

We are here, no worries....

Our application due to be lodged tom (was supposed to be today.. ho hum) so, so far, so good .....

Our hotel (which includes our 'home') is officially on the market, and due to be launched tomorrow - batten down the hatches for the surge of offers!! (Well, a gal can dream cant she??). When we get a decent, proceedable offer, we will go for it, and if nec., rent a home till our visa comes through - that way can move quick, quick, quick.

We are currently packing up stuff (and putting into storage) so our place doesnt look too cluttered, and the rest of the week is cleaning etc.

I have a q uestion 163'ers, if I may.......

For those that didnt front load medicals/police checks, how long, did yours take? To have/lodge etc? Our agent told us not to get them until he says so, so I wonder how long we should add on to our time frame.

Thanks for any comments!

Have a lovely evening everyone

Nicola

jaselee

Evening all,

Little ol me here still tapping away trying to finish off the sponsorship application. I reckon I'm 95% done now. Done all the numbers and now just finishing off the words. Hopefully done enough.

I am absolutely determined to finish this week to send next week. Get those stop watches on!!!!

Seemed to go quiet over the weekend, I think we hit page 5 at one point. That's an all time low in my short experience of being a 163'er.

Anyway chin up all...those who are soon to go, remember us won't you.
Won't it be cool when we all meet up in 2006!! Party, Party

julesandco

Yeah, we went there for a fortnight on our honeymoon - ten years ago last month. Aaaahhhhh memories.

Jules

Rogue Trader

Hi Nicola.

We front-loaded our PCCs and we sent our meds unrequested.

The PCCs took about 2 weeks to arrive with us, but we'd applied for them early because our local force reserves the right to take up to 40 days to process the request (don't know if that's the same all over the UK).

We did our meds early, because we had the chance of a cancellation when we rang to book them, and I knew I'd be a "Category B" case so we didn't want any delays if further reports / tests were requested. We finally got them sent off to Sydney on Friday 17th June and by the time I had my interview on Wednesday 22nd June, my CO in Perth said they'd been processed and she had been informed of the initial outcome.

Sooo... that's a long-winded way of saying they didn't take very long at all. PBSPC invite front-loading and sending unrequested "at your own risk" but agents often advise their clients to wait for a request because of the initial entry date being 12 months from the earliest date of either the meds or the PCCs.

Good luck with all the offers you'll receive tomorrow (today now..!!)

Rogue.