Immigration Forum / Australia and NZ / August 2007

kangaroo16;172294 Wrote:

Hey Kangaroo 16, I'm an ex-Pom and although my family and I have onl
been here since November last year I'm very happy and content living i
our new home which is Western Australia. :)

As for your question Mylene, there will be no issues at all. As far a
your Meds are concerned, if your blood test doesn't highlight an
nasties then you're all good.

Good luck and don't worry :cheers:

Regards

Mar

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Mar

IMHO, intending migrants from anywhere tend to worry too much
about minor things, while possibly neglecting more important
items.

Australian immigration department is pretty tolerant unless, of
course, someone tries to lie to them.

For instance, if an application asks if the applicant has ever
been arrested, my advice is not to try to conceal it,
especially if emigrating from the US, as all such information
would be available to consular officials.

Most people have made mistakes in their lives, and if they
are _REALLY_ honest they will admit them.

IMHO, to try to conceal any information the department asks for
could lead to current applications, or even future applications,
to be automatically rejected.

My advice is for migrant visa applicants to be brutally honest!

Suppose, for example that applicant "X" has a conviction for
"drunken driving" or whatever their state calls it.

If "X" tells the truth, it probably wont be considered serious
enough for denial of a migrant visa.

Australia is a very tolerant country, after all, and a large
percentage of the current population are migrants or descendants
of same.

As a migrant to Australia, I would personally support the
views of the department.

As someone once said "Honesty is the best policy".

Personally, I would accept almost anyone as an acquaintance or
friend as long as they are honest.  

However, if I catch them lying to me, this would probably spell
the end of the relationship.

Why?  ...Because if I catch them in one lie, there might
be other lies that I haven't discovered yet.

If they are willing to lie on one subject, then, IMHO, they would
be willing to lie on others.

If I was working in the Australian Department of Immigration,
and could positively establish that some applicant was lying on
their application, I probably would try to permanently ban them.

Simply on the grounds that if they are going to lie to the
department on such an important matter, they aren't a
"desirable applicant".

I should add that I don't work for this department, but I
would have to approve of their actions.

A note of warning to anyone coming into Australia as an
"emigrant" or even as a "tourist".   Australia has some
very strict requirements on allowable weapons, and weapons or
other goods which might be perfectly acceptable in the U.S.
simply aren't acceptable here.  

As mentioned in an earlier post, Australian authorities frown on
any sort of "concealable weapon", and tourists, let alone
migrants, have been refused entry to Australia on this basis.

On another subject, if anyone is wondering why I don't want
to give a "contactable" address is that on the subjects of
"emigration" or "immigration" I simply don't need a lot of
personal e-mail.  

Most subjects that I have anything to say on in this particular
group should be useful to any intending emigrant, which is why I
post.

IMHO, Australia is a wonderful country.  If it wasn't, I wouldn't
have spent most of my life here, rather than returning to the
U.S.A.

One of the things I find a bit odd about this particular group is
that we don't seem to hear much from those who have
successfully migrated from other countries to Australia.

Perhaps they don't want to reveal their experiences?  Perhaps
they feel "guilty" about their success in emigrating here from
elsewhere?

Will potential American migrants be welcomed here?  My answer
would be "yes".

Should they be?  Again "yes".

Around a century ago someone said "Go west, young man, go west!"

For those in the western states in the U.S.A. who have this
drive, where do they go?  Hawaii, N.Z, or Australia?

Any comments from the group?  

kangaroo 16

["Identity" is  randomly chosen, I don't like "spam" from any
source. Actual "sales mail", electronic or otherwise,  or worse
yet, actual "door to door" salesmen or saleswomen!

Personally, I consider such approaches an insult to my
intelligence.  If I want to buy a product, I know where to find
it, and I don't need or want a "hard sell" approach.

Hints  on dealing with door to door salesmen.

-- Demand total identification.  Not only some identification
from their employer, but personal I.D. such as drivers license,
birth certificate, etc.  

If they cannot or will not produce same, tell them to "piss off"
in no uncertain terms.

--Religious approaches?   If you know the basis of your belief,
sometimes it is interesting to argue with them.  Otherwise, tell
them to leave immediately, even if have to use "obscene" terms
in doing so.  

--Hint on dealing with unwanted postal  mail:    If you don't
know who it is from, or if it isn't personally addressed to you,
then immediately dispose of it without opening.

--Or if it includes a "reply paid" envelope, tape it around a
house brick and deposit in a local mailbox. :-)

-- In Australia, we have a "do not call" register for phone
calls.  Unfortunately, it is not perfect as it allows for calls
from politicians and charities.

-- There are "strategies" and "techniques" in dealing with most
unwanted calls, but they are fairly obvious, so I won't detail
them here.

Compared to the USA, residents in Australia tend to value their
privacy, in my experience anyway.

Does this sound attractive to potential migrants?  If so, I would
suggest that you get here while it is still available!

In addition, nice climate, low population density, and so on.

...But I really don't need to mention these, do I?  If readers on
this group want to migrate, they will have their own reasons, no?

I'm open to sensible questions, of course!  ...Feel free to post
them on this group.

As always,