Jen1977ni

Anyone from Sunny Northern Ireland who is considering migrating to Australia, come say hi!

camacazi

Hi

we got our visa on 14th january, heading to sunshine coast 22nd march

there is quite a few northern irelanders on here, there is a thread but not many have been on it lately.

where abouts you from/going?

Jen1977ni

From near Banbridge, and hopefully Melbourne, you?

camacazi

annalong - sunshine coast. my sister in law lives in banbridge

Jen1977ni

Cool....so you've had your visa issued? I think I'm gonna need to do that IELTS english test thing to gain a few extra points, even though I'm a teacher!!!! lol

camacazi

what school you at? i'm a classroom assistant in newcastle

Jen1977ni

One in ards....
What visa did you apply for to get in?

camacazi

skilled 175, oh is a joiner so he was main app. still can't believe we have it and we're going 7 weeks today

Jen1977ni

Lucky sods! You sold your house over here yet or you just gonna rent over there?

brandyslad

Hi there,

We are in Tyrone, hoping to head to Adelaide in May/June time. We have completed our skills assessment and sponsorship and the visa application is in.

Just the two of us going. Can't wait, my job finishes in a few months and OH has been put on notice for end of Feb so job hunting and oh god it is the scraping of the barrel out there job wise at the moment so we are looking forward to it. We won'tbe leaving secure jobs so it is a chance we are willing to take. Wanted to do it for a while and not is the right time for us personally.

Jen1977ni

Cool, I'm only at the skills assessment bit, waiting on my results....debating taking on an agent, did you?

brandyslad

No we didn't use an agent, to be honest we couldn't have afforded it. I checked with a few and it was nearly 2 grand on top of visas charges so that made me all the more determined to read up and sort it out myself, the 1st two bits have gone through ok so fingers crossed the visa will be ok. Our police checks are away and meds are booked for the 13th Feb.

Jen1977ni

Cool...what skills are you applying to get in with?

brandyslad

Going as a Community Worker, my OH is a welder but we decided to go on my visa as it wasn't an issue for me to get references whereas we did not want to tell his work too far in advance that we were going, they would have been funny.

How many of you are going? I am looking forward to a change of lifestyle and people.

Jen1977ni

Well, on my application, just me, but my partner is doing a lateral transfer into the Aussie Army so....it's a totally separate process to mine....