teresamaria

Hi there, would be really grateful if someone could help us. My husband is a City + Guilds qualified Mechanical Design Engineer of many years experience and I am a qualified Teaching Assistant working at level 3. We would dearly love to emigrate to Australia together with our 3 children, aged 23, 21 and 11 years. The problem is, my husband is 51 and I am 47 years old. Is there anyone out there who could help us ? I should also add that our older children have no professional qualifications, but have always been employed in full time work and are willing to enter any training programme. We have already contacted an emigration agent who has said we are unlikely to be successfull due to our ages. He did suggest that maybe a firm interested in employing my husband might sponsor him and we may have success this way. If there is any engineering firm interested in helping us or if anyone can give us any more tips to help us come and live in your super country, please reply to this post.

stumpysean

Hi, with regard to your older children; any dependants over 18 cannot be in employment, otherwise they're NOT dependants. They'd have to go on a visa off their own backs. A study visa is an option for either you, hubby and kids BUT a very expensive one! Each course is approx $18 - 22k, plus spouse can only work for 20hrs a week. You would also have to pay school fees for youngest.

Good luck

teresamaria

Thanks for replying Stumpysean. As you rightly said a study option is very expensive, too expensive, in fact, given that hubby could then only work 20 hours a week. As for our older children, then I will tell them to look into arranging their own visas. Would still love to join you lovely lot out there. If anyone else could help us please don't hesitate to reply.

Thanks.

gerry

i think you can apply on a general work visa not sure if that is for ages under 45??

only other option that i know off is maybe sponsorship??

i used visalogic to do our visas under skilled trades took 9 months all in cost us £5k though

maybe worth going on there website or ringing them

here is number in london 02076108200 he is called simon

stumpysean

skilled visas are for under 45yrs!

the business visa we are looking at can be applied up to 55yrs. As far as I know there are some exceptions i.e an 'exceptional Talent' visa. But unfortunately i don't think you qualify for that.

Becky