ODPinTraining

Hi there my husband is a Maths teacher , we have decided to just do it and apply!!! our children are very little 1 and 4 so we thought best go now ( well within next 2 yrs )

However after reading sooooooooo many posts we are now worried as on 457 visa's we have to pay school fees as they will be classed as foreign students..
Anyone know if this is true??

Thanks in advance

Lindsey

kar-kier

Hi there,

We are on a 457 visa. My eldest goes to the local government run school and all we have had to pay is the 'voluntary' contrabution of $60 a year. If you chose a fee paying school you would obviously need to pay for that, but otherwise it's just the contrabution.

Kareena

ODPinTraining

Thanks Kareena, yes just normal state school would be what we are looking for. Thats a load off our mind I read somewhere someone was paying $5000 a year per child

Linds

coolerkingcooler

Hi ODPinTraining,
is the WA 457 sponsorship for teaching still on hold? I read on here that it was a few weeks a go. There is a media release from the 30th Jan, they had only a handful of teaching vacancies across the state. A previous thread, someone mentioned there was over a 100 though.

Do you qualify for a permanent visa?

Cooler

missapps

HI cooler you replied to me so heres karma for you!! i rang WA yesterday and spoke to the lady in charge of receiving the 457 applications ( i applied myself) and she said to wait til april to hear from them again. Even the managing office are unaware of whats going on yet and they are all on tenterhooks waiting for a response cos they are unindated with requests from all over world!!! So be patient til april then i would email again and check, but she did say that everyone who put in an expression of interest would hear back via email so fingers crossed everyone!!!
Laura

coolerkingcooler

Thanks, seems to be up in the air and when you read the press over there (online) it appears that education is a topic of the moment and they are pumping money into WA - so they may spin the numbers to make it look like the're doing a good job

No different than the UK

Cooler

missapps

Very true, its very different over here though money wise- they want money for bloody everything- any which way possible and you earn so much less, but waking up to the sun every day- nearly, beats it every morning!!!!