Immigration Forum / Australia and NZ / December 2003

I am a qualified secondary school science teacher with one years
teaching experience.
Once this contract had come to an end I went to Australia on a WHV. When
I returned I got into the IT industry and in March 2004 I would have

I arrived in Australia some 2 years ago on a provisional spouse visa, which
was made permanent earlier this year. I have been travelling in and out of
Australia regularly on business, with no problem until my last trip.
I was pulled to one side by the Immigration prople who started ...

I am going to do the assessment with ACS but I have my doubt about the
work experience. I have a bachelor of computer science with an
Australian university. And I studied in Australia for 3 years full time.
So I could only fall into Group A, but group A will need at least 4

Hi, I have a 20 ft cargo container which is set to leave
San Francisco in early Jan.  If you are looking to ship
some items from San Fransico/Bay Area to Sydney Australia then
email me and I can give you the details.

I'm enquiring about vaccinations for my daughter and in particular
MMR.
What is the standard vaccination course in terms of age for MMR in
Australia ?

i completed my ACCA (UK)qualification and became a member of institute
in nov 2002.I have got a positive skill assessment from ICAA australia
in October 2003 as "Finance Manager". now i wonder that a 12 months
experience required by DIMIA , will be counted by ASPC from my ACCA

does anyone have any info. as to the current processing times for the
new (July 2003) contributory parent visas, any help much appreciated
folks
thanks

I am currently engaged to my lovely woman in the UK she is 33 and I am
26, We have been together in the UK for the past 13 months and engaged
for the past 5, we are very much in love and do not wish to be apart
for too long. I have moved back to Australia in the last 2 weeks to

Alan,dont know if you seen any of my posts.We applied and was accepted
by TRA,then lodged our application for Skilled Australian Sponsered , at
Adelaide in November 13th 2002,had medicals and police clearences , in
Feb 2003 and sent to Adelaide for March 5th 2003,as they asked.We ...

Can anyone tell me how long does it take to get a Teaching qualification
assessed by NOOSR?
Thanks
Jonny

Hiya
Blim is wondering whether to change career, but is the main applicant
for our skilled migration application. Does anyone know how this would
affect our application - should he just hang on in there or doesn't it

Originally posted by JonnyArman

  I have been granted visa and i have validated visa too.I have applied
  for 136 (Skilled Independant) and the visa granted was Sub Class
  137.I have validated the visa too...Is there any problem would arise
  because of 137.. pls advice.

Can an Australian Permanent resident travel/migrate to New zealand with
out any restrictions.If yes...what do i need to do?
I saw a posting here which says an Aussie PR is also a NZ PR.
Is that true?. Can some one please inform me about this as i need to go

We were granted the permananent residence(PR)visa in Jan 2002 and We
validated our PR visa in Feb 2002, we have not yet moved permanentaly
to australia i.e. we are outside Australia in the Gulf.
We now have a new born baby, born in march 2003. We have now is the