Student Visa - Medicals
Oct 7th 2007, 10:21 pm
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Re: Student Visa - Medicals
(only kidding)I'm sad too house sale seems to have ground to a halt,meds next week can't help worrying and to top it all I've been reading on another post really negative things on the Tafe and course I'm going to do
Sorry to rant but feel a little bit better now I've got that of my chest.
Caroline.
Oct 7th 2007, 10:38 pm
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Re: Student Visa - Medicals
We put in our student application on friday and had our medicals on the saturday (6th), but unfortunatly the doctor has asked us to get a letter from our gp regarding an illness my wife had years back.
More delays.
Finish work in 3 weeks, oh well!
Having a case of the last minute nerves now wondering what the hell we are doing, will i get a job, will i get pr, will our nerves hold out r will the stress finish us of for good.
Best of luck to everyone.
Sean.(bricklaying Feb 08 sunshine coast tafe.)
Oct 7th 2007, 11:05 pm
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Re: Student Visa - Medicals
Hi guys thanks for you replies!!!
I have also been reading very negative comments about TAFE and Riborg who we have went through for my OH's course in July (Tafe SC Bricklaying). All I can say is that she was and still is very helpful to us I cant say a bad word about her she had advised us that we could have went on my other courses but we probably wouldnt get PR at the end but on the brickies course at the moment it is of high demand so you get extra points!!!
All we can do is try our bests I just dont like the idea of spending all that money and have to come home after 2 years I wont allow it :curse: lol
We are also at the Medical stages and we have just chosen our kids school from here
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Lyndsay
I have also been reading very negative comments about TAFE and Riborg who we have went through for my OH's course in July (Tafe SC Bricklaying). All I can say is that she was and still is very helpful to us I cant say a bad word about her she had advised us that we could have went on my other courses but we probably wouldnt get PR at the end but on the brickies course at the moment it is of high demand so you get extra points!!!
All we can do is try our bests I just dont like the idea of spending all that money and have to come home after 2 years I wont allow it :curse: lol
We are also at the Medical stages and we have just chosen our kids school from here
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Lyndsay
Oct 8th 2007, 1:18 am
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Re: Student Visa - Medicals
Hi Lyndsay,
Not dying, just nothing happening!!!
We're still in 2 minds about just going ahead with booking things, totally frustrated at the moment!!
My main concern actually with bookin is if the passports etc are going to be back on time!!
Hope everyone is well
Cheers
Mandy
Not dying, just nothing happening!!!
We're still in 2 minds about just going ahead with booking things, totally frustrated at the moment!!
My main concern actually with bookin is if the passports etc are going to be back on time!!
Hope everyone is well
Cheers
Mandy
Oct 8th 2007, 1:24 am
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Funny how we'r all feelin similar negative vibes at the moment!!! Must be something in the air!!!
If we all want it bad enough then it'l happen for us, n a hear you Lyndsay, no chance of us coming back here either!!
Cheers
Mandy
If we all want it bad enough then it'l happen for us, n a hear you Lyndsay, no chance of us coming back here either!!
Cheers
Mandy
Oct 8th 2007, 1:33 am
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Re: Student Visa - Medicals
Hi everyone,
Quite a few of us in the same boat!!!
First point of search is what course and where as courses are limited for international students and it has to be at least a two year course.
We went through www.studyoptions.com a guy called Stefan. Really good, don't charge any fee (though am sure get a cut through the colledge fees?) and if you give him an idea of coures you are interested in and area you'd like to go to, he'l organise it all.
You can obviously go through any TAFE yourself, just google and contact them youselves.
Once you have your COE ( certificate of enrolement) you can apply for the visa. COE was e-mailed to us.
For visa info www.immi.gov.au/students/
This is the info our agent gave us for gaining PR status through student route.
From 1/9/07 regulations changed to 12 months work experience on completion of the course.
Once course is completed, these are the visa options.
Class UQ Subclass 497- graduate Skilled Visa. 6 month visa to enable us to apply for subclasses 495, 880, 881, 882.
There is also form 157p - permission to work - once the course has started it is possible to request permission to work more than 20 hours per week.
Another point, we are only using the student visa as a means to enter legally, our aim once there is to try to get a sponsored visa through work. But it will all just depend on how things go once we're over.
cheers all
Mandy
Quite a few of us in the same boat!!!
First point of search is what course and where as courses are limited for international students and it has to be at least a two year course.
We went through www.studyoptions.com a guy called Stefan. Really good, don't charge any fee (though am sure get a cut through the colledge fees?) and if you give him an idea of coures you are interested in and area you'd like to go to, he'l organise it all.
You can obviously go through any TAFE yourself, just google and contact them youselves.
Once you have your COE ( certificate of enrolement) you can apply for the visa. COE was e-mailed to us.
For visa info www.immi.gov.au/students/
This is the info our agent gave us for gaining PR status through student route.
From 1/9/07 regulations changed to 12 months work experience on completion of the course.
Once course is completed, these are the visa options.
Class UQ Subclass 497- graduate Skilled Visa. 6 month visa to enable us to apply for subclasses 495, 880, 881, 882.
There is also form 157p - permission to work - once the course has started it is possible to request permission to work more than 20 hours per week.
Another point, we are only using the student visa as a means to enter legally, our aim once there is to try to get a sponsored visa through work. But it will all just depend on how things go once we're over.
cheers all
Mandy
Oct 8th 2007, 1:40 am
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Re: Student Visa - Medicals
Can somebody tell me about this negativity you talk of with regard to the TAFE, what sort of thing is it? or where can i read about it.
Sean.
Oct 8th 2007, 1:50 am
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Could someone point me in the direction of anywhere where is says you now have to work for a year? I can't find it anywhere, and have only heared a couple of people on here who have been told it.
I read all the Sep 1st changes when they were anounced and there was nothing about it there and this is still on the government website: http://www.workplace.gov.au/workplac...I-900Hours.htm and on searching I can't see anything to say this has changed.
I have been in contact with 3 agents before 1st Sep, who all told me about the new 18 month visa, but all said this was so you could get the 900 hours in, no mention of a year.
If you have a search on the immigration website you will see that subclasses 495, 880, 881, 882 don't exist anymore.
You can only apply to work for 20 hours a week once the course has started, unless you are doing a degree.
I read all the Sep 1st changes when they were anounced and there was nothing about it there and this is still on the government website: http://www.workplace.gov.au/workplac...I-900Hours.htm and on searching I can't see anything to say this has changed.
I have been in contact with 3 agents before 1st Sep, who all told me about the new 18 month visa, but all said this was so you could get the 900 hours in, no mention of a year.
If you have a search on the immigration website you will see that subclasses 495, 880, 881, 882 don't exist anymore.
You can only apply to work for 20 hours a week once the course has started, unless you are doing a degree.
Oct 8th 2007, 1:52 am
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Re: Student Visa - Medicals
And me please, what's the negativity about. People are going to be spending a hell of a lot of money going down the student visa route, so if there's something that's not looking too great about the TAFE then please let me know. Thanks.
Oct 8th 2007, 1:59 am
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Oct 8th 2007, 2:26 am
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Hay guys,
Think we all need to calm down a bit here!!!!
If you read through this thread, there's a hell of a lot of info regarding everything and a lot of confusion cleared, I think!!
The whole year work experience is to do with gaining extra points and also needed if you will be over 30 years after the course.
When choosing a course to do through any education provider, it has to be 2 years in order to qualify for proceeding visa's to gain PR and also the eventual qualification should be on the the MODL list.
This is the broad take on it all. I think a lot of the courses have been shortened to under the two years. Once holidays are considered I think a 2 year course works out at 1year 9 months. Hairdressing in particular, has changed, I don't know any details though!!
Cheers
Mandy
Think we all need to calm down a bit here!!!!
If you read through this thread, there's a hell of a lot of info regarding everything and a lot of confusion cleared, I think!!
The whole year work experience is to do with gaining extra points and also needed if you will be over 30 years after the course.
When choosing a course to do through any education provider, it has to be 2 years in order to qualify for proceeding visa's to gain PR and also the eventual qualification should be on the the MODL list.
This is the broad take on it all. I think a lot of the courses have been shortened to under the two years. Once holidays are considered I think a 2 year course works out at 1year 9 months. Hairdressing in particular, has changed, I don't know any details though!!
Cheers
Mandy
Oct 8th 2007, 2:27 am
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Re: Student Visa - Medicals
Just read the post mentioned, does seem to mostly relate to hairdressing but now raises more concerns and doubts for me certainly.
Could all this talk of pr at the end of courses just all be hot air?
Who can say, all i know is that my course is 2 years and at the end i should be able to apply for pr.( that is the bricklaying course at the tafe in Nambour)
Any thoughts?
Sean.
Oct 8th 2007, 2:50 am
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Re: Student Visa - Medicals
Hay guys,
Think we all need to calm down a bit here!!!!
If you read through this thread, there's a hell of a lot of info regarding everything and a lot of confusion cleared, I think!!
The whole year work experience is to do with gaining extra points and also needed if you will be over 30 years after the course.
When choosing a course to do through any education provider, it has to be 2 years in order to qualify for proceeding visa's to gain PR and also the eventual qualification should be on the the MODL list.
This is the broad take on it all. I think a lot of the courses have been shortened to under the two years. Once holidays are considered I think a 2 year course works out at 1year 9 months. Hairdressing in particular, has changed, I don't know any details though!!
Cheers
Mandy
Think we all need to calm down a bit here!!!!
If you read through this thread, there's a hell of a lot of info regarding everything and a lot of confusion cleared, I think!!
The whole year work experience is to do with gaining extra points and also needed if you will be over 30 years after the course.
When choosing a course to do through any education provider, it has to be 2 years in order to qualify for proceeding visa's to gain PR and also the eventual qualification should be on the the MODL list.
This is the broad take on it all. I think a lot of the courses have been shortened to under the two years. Once holidays are considered I think a 2 year course works out at 1year 9 months. Hairdressing in particular, has changed, I don't know any details though!!
Cheers
Mandy
Oct 8th 2007, 3:05 am
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Re: Student Visa - Medicals
Hi All,
Just read the post mentioned, does seem to mostly relate to hairdressing but now raises more concerns and doubts for me certainly.
Could all this talk of pr at the end of courses just all be hot air?
Who can say, all i know is that my course is 2 years and at the end i should be able to apply for pr.( that is the bricklaying course at the tafe in Nambour)
Any thoughts?
Sean.
Just read the post mentioned, does seem to mostly relate to hairdressing but now raises more concerns and doubts for me certainly.
Could all this talk of pr at the end of courses just all be hot air?
Who can say, all i know is that my course is 2 years and at the end i should be able to apply for pr.( that is the bricklaying course at the tafe in Nambour)
Any thoughts?
Sean.
Not sure Sean we dealt with Riborg when she was at the Edinburgh Expo and she said that Bricklayers on the Sunshine Coast are sought after thats why they have put Bricklaying on the list of Courses as they dont do it anywhere else in Oz as we have checked it out. So since it is on the demand list (just now anyway) you get extra points!!
Oct 8th 2007, 3:06 am
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Re: Student Visa - Medicals
At the coventry expo yesterday me & my sister talked to a lady at the go down under stand who was giving information about hairdressing courses and the training schools they use add on an extra 6 months in salon management to increase the course to the full 2 years, because she said they only last about 18 months without this, maybe this is when the hols etc are taken off.
Just double check the course, I remember reading somewhere on BE saying that courses couldn't be specified for international students, that they had to be the same as offered to Australian citizen's.
I really have no idea about specific courses studyoptions can give that info though.
At the end of the day, a student visa is a risk to gain PR as things change, we are at the disposition of the Australian Government!!!
But it's a last resort to most of us, and a risk hubby n me are willing to take!!!
Cheers
Mandy
