Soapsudsue

We have our case officer!! Yippee! We are finally moving up the chain

babysinead

I have been looking out for you !!! Congrats, hopefully wont be long now.
Have you heard anything on how long a visa might take from this point??

Soapsudsue

No idea, I think its pretty quick once you have submitted your PCC and meds. Booked in fir meds Thursday. We are very lucky as there is an approved hosspital 20 mins away. Will send off PCC apps this week. Checked online and most all other docs are met

I am sooooo excited!

charlie rara

glad someone is moving in right direction

babysinead

ours are 2 weeks tomorrow, we front loaded our meds but they are longer an approved practice so having to do them again, we took a bit of a risk but it didnt pay off.
never mind, hopefully this time next year we will all be in oz

Soapsudsue

Thanks Charlie! Hopefully you will be on the move soon Have you decided on your sponsorship yet?

charlie rara

im researching a bit more and in contact with my oz cousin so shes helping me out so hopefully come to a decision soon

Soapsudsue

Hi all

My case officer has asked for more evidence of self employment for at least 12 months up to application. My husband is a sole trader, so has no VAT return or comany registration, accounts etc. All I have is his tax submission to HMRC for the previous tax years. Does anyone know if that is good enough? The only other thing I can think of is his sub contractor invoices?

Any advice would be really appreciated!

charlie rara

cant ya get some work references ? i did a couple private jobs that the tax man is missing out on and asked them for a dated reference , plus you could always make a phantom loft conversion for aunty mable and put that in aswell , not that im saying you should lie but it helps the situation.
o didnt you fit my kitchen back in november ??

Soapsudsue

Do any of you tradies know if 110 tools work OK in Oz. I have heard tools are expensive to buy? Is it worth paying to ship them out? Hubbie being a chipie has a fair old collection of power tool and, it would cost a fortune to replace!

LadyLauren

FWIW, we've been speaking to an Aussie-based MARA agent today and he has it on good authority that tradies will be needed in QLD for the next couple of years for definite, helping rebuild the damage caused by the floods and cyclone. It will be interesting to see if there are any S/S revisions coming up in the not-too-distant future! We were also told that QLD government are fast-tracking 457 visas for tradies to get out there as early as next month!

johnknight001

sorry to dampen your post but i cant see how there is a demand for tradies in qld, its been very quiet here for the last 6 months, loads of guys are struggling big time, the flood work is mostly for sparkys and guys the do plasterboard ect, a bit of carpentry as well, but ive seen no demand for work since the flood, sorry again but id hate to see you get your hopes up and then get dashed. a lot of the problem has been the backlash form the extended home buyers grant, loads of new builds went up in a short space of time, then the govt dropped it back down and its back to normall. anyway i hope im wrong.
john

LadyLauren

Sorry to hear it's been slow for a lot of you. The info we were given doesn't affect us, so it's no dampener - I just thought it might be useful to share with others. I suppose only time will tell if it makes a difference to some visa applicants heading that way?

paulandcelia

I sure I've read a post from steve'o in the electrician's forum ,if i remember right, 110v tools are not allowed on site. I would still ship them if you had the room as they will still work if you have the transformers as well.
I'm still in the uk so not 100%

paulandcelia

Just to give the tradies some hope.
I'm an electrician, applied dec08 and received my 175 visa grant yesterday 4th feb.