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Nobody is going to have exactly the same conditions as you and you’ve received good advice to talk to one of the agents who specialise in medical conditions - George Lombard, Peter Bollard or Richard Gregan are all names that are mentioned when medical issues arise. You need to talk to one of them and, yes, if you are knocked back because of your health, your wife’s application will also fail.

True!

Just intrigued as to why, if you are in a de facto relationship you weren’t a dependent on her visa? Bit late now, of course, but I venture to suggest that you don’t go spruiking that you are emigrating to Australia in two weeks as you actually don’t have a visa which allows you to do that. I’d send the missus off, delay your own flight and wait until your offshore visa is in your hot clammy little hand.

Why not apply off shore then you won’t have to worry about being turned around at the border for not being a bone fide tourist. So much easier.

Go, just go and do what you want with YOUR life! At 20 she’s old enough to make up her own mind! If she wants to stay in Australia then she needs to just get on with it. She’s free to do whatever she wants, you deserve not to have your freedom to do whatever you want curtailed by her decisions. I’ve got one in auK (he came for a holiday) and one in Aus (he has kids that he wouldn’t leave and couldn’t bring). It’s perfectly doable.

Lovely seasons though and got to be better than Nottingham!

Cant remember, think I called them but had no expectations at all. It was a very long time ago and we just did it, didn't give them a thought to be honest, just upped and took their only grandson away from them. People these days seem to be more sensitive to what other people think about what they do with their lives. You might be right, the MIL might cut you out of the will but if you let someone else's opinions about your life get in your way you will be stymied. Grief does weird things to people and if you expect that what you get will be a grief reaction you might be able to cope with it better. Remember that the MIL will be losing a really important part of her life and, for her, it might well be like a death, if she chooses to treat it like that, well, so be it.

Secondary Science is more in demand than primary so he is more likely to get a job, but, even so, might have to take a hardship posting in the first instance before picking up a plum job. Primary - think about a career change if you dont want to spend a lifetime doing relief or short contracts. NSW is one of the states which still adheres to its points allocation for plum positions and they do give preference to people who have done time out West or other regional areas. Living in Sydney on a couple of teacher salaries might be a bit pinched. Dont be misled by the job adverts, they are usually already "filled" when they advertise. If you do decide to do it, take career breaks from your current positions just to see how it floats your boat, rent out the house and suck it and see.

The piece of string is 1000 km long. It's rather an impossible question to answer. There are kids in families literally all over Australia, some with beaches and some without. You might be surprised at how little the beach really features in your life even if you could afford to live close to one. I would agree, go where you can get a job basically and you wont be overwhelmed by the heat (if you are finding the UK a little on the warm side at the moment then Brisbane probably wouldn't be in in your future). I could tell you that Canberra is great for families - no beach but its only 1.5 hours away which is what you might well expect from other big cities except that Canberra isn't a big city, it's a nice cross over (also a couple of hours from the snow so we get it all!).

Nothing stopping you putting out an ad for private practice as a counsellor, anyone can do that but whether they get any work is another matter. You’ll be competing against registered psychs for work and as they can claim from Medicare they are always going to get preference. If you want to work in that field then registration as a psychologist is optimal. Psychs are ten a penny in Australia so I would imagine that Brisbane is well over supplied with them. But your best bet might be the NGOs offering counselling services who can’t afford psychs.

I thought he thought there were two options to becoming a citizen. I think some clarification is required here. If she’s going to apply to be a citizen she just gets on with it, one test for all, given the residence requirements. If she’s applying for a visa then that’s a whole different ballgame. If he’s applying for a visa then ditto. Confused!

If she raised it once she may do so again but if she doesn’t - and it sounds like she probably won’t - then draw a line and get on with life. Just because some people appear to “love the lifestyle” doesn’t mean that everyone will, unfortunately. She’s said she will never go, I’d take that at face value and not flog a dead horse.

I thought any children had to be born after citizenship in order to get citizenship by descent so as he’s 18 already he’s rather missed that boat. Rebirth probably wouldn’t do it. Unfortunately, not everyone who wants to live in Australia can do so. His best bet would probably be to go home and study/get experience in something that Australia wants (though that’s a bit of a gamble, what they want this year may well not be what they want next year) and then get his own permanent visa.

Just go and do a trip and see what floats your boat, then. There’s nowhere that’s going to be guaranteed as a career number 1, but you could check Seek to see where most vacancies are for your occupations and see if you like the general vicinity.

You might want to check first to see if you can get a visa. Without a visa worrying about where you might live is rather putting the cart before the horse

It is hard for parents to accept that their dream sometimes isn’t their kids’dream. That’s the way it goes. Once a kid gets to 18 they don’t really want to be hanging about mummy and daddy anyway so if it’s your dream to go then do so but allow your kids their dreams too and if that’s in a different country, well, so be it!

Have they finished their education? If they haven’t done their A levels they really need to do that. Then they have a choice about where to go to Uni if that Is their preference. If they want to do apprenticeships then they lose nothing by completing it in UK if that’s what they want - they may already have networks which might make it easier to get an apprenticeship. I certainly wouldn’t be forcing them to move at that age, as long as they validate they’ve got 5 years to make up their minds.

Were you looking at the WHV perchance? You can’t take your kids at all on that one - no dependents for the duration of your stay. Otherwise if you want something short term and temporary it would require sponsorship which would require the employer to demonstrate that there wasn’t an Aussie to do the job. Some states charge you to educate your kids if you’re looking at one of the temporary visas and that can be a financial deal breaker for some.

It’s certainly a problem in the reverse direction- I think because they don’t want to be responsible if it doesn’t work (or cynical me, because they want to charge you the full whack!). I’d be contacting an orthodontist where you’re going to live and ask them.

True but why should they get their degree when they have done bugger all during their course but tagged along on the coat tails of those who can speak English, stay sober and put hours in the library. Never thought I would hear the socialist argument from you Parley ?

Blimey, the processing time was around 8 weeks at the beginning of the year. Hard to imagine why it’s suddenly blown out to 2 years. I can imagine 4-6 months but 2 years???

It was the group work that irritated sons and nephew in their first degree. They all got ticked off that they were doing all the work and getting their own scores marked down when others in the group didn’t step up. Hard to do that when you don’t speak English or you’re stoned much of the time. My U.K. based son didn’t get the same credit for his ANU double degree in his career as did one of his colleagues who went to University of London and that ticked him off too but it hasn’t held him back. Even back 30 odd years ago when I did my Masters in Aus it was much less rigorous than my first degree at UCL but we didn’t have group assignments back then thank goodness.

Agree totally. My sons were considerably underwhelmed with one of Australia's best and a chat, recently, with my nephew who is at Melbourne's best also showed considerable underwhelmment.

You’re right, we’ve had some ugh days here in Cambridge! Today was not nice for walking at all. Generally we have better weather here than most of the rest of the country. Grass no longer green!

https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/safety-and-road-rules/vehicle-safety/child-restraints/children-aged-between-4-to-7-years Theyre keen on the “approved” thing - if you’re in an accident and the seat isn’t approved your insurance is void. Leave Mothercare behind.