Immigration Forum / Australia and NZ / March 2006

We have a bit of a prediciment.
We had our independant skilled migration visa acknowledged on the 20th
September 2005.
We had our meds requested in the beggining of January this year, we

My passport expires in June 2007 and Im about to send off my Vic STNI
application - the Irish embassy wont issue me a new one until 3 months
prior to it expiring and the application form says my passport must have
2 years left to run.

My visa application was received at DIMA on 14 March.  As yet I have had
no acknowledgement or cc charged.
I am wondering whether or not I should contact them to see if there is a
problem as I know that people who have sent applications after mine have

Hiya,
Just got all our police checks back today! ( needed 3 of them as I'd
moved around a bit )
Our Vetassess and ANMC Skills assessments are being sent off next week.

Can anyone recommend a good migration agent that has good knowledge or
specialises in Aged Parent Contributory Migration to Australia from England.
Also the approximate cost that I could expect in relation to this Aged
Parent Contributory Migration.

I sent in my application of 136 skilled independent visa on 29th Ma
using Fedex, according to track record, it was delivered at 10:41am o
31st Mar, I also got the name of the person who signed delivery.
My question is how ASPC define the effective “Date of Application”

Hey Folks! I would like to start a "poll" of sorts to see why people
want to migrate to Australia. Personally, I want to go because of the
beautiful rainforest/tropics in Cairns (I know, I know...Cyclone Larry
just hit there) and because of the 4 weeks of vacation everyone gets

My BF is a chippie. For the TRA we’re not sure whether he should apply
as a Carpenter/Joiner ASCO 4411-11 or as a Carpenter ASCO 4411-13 as
both are now on the MODL.
He qualified as a carpenter/joiner but since his apprenticeship the bulk

as title ................
thankyou

Will i need to obtain police checks from different parts of the UK or
does one check cover all of UK, i currently live in London but have also
lived in Berkshire,

More details are here:
http://www.gomatilda.com/news/article.cfm?articleid=379
Best regards.

Background:
A self employed consultant at my place of work (aged 58) who has over 30
years successful experience of running a business wants to migrate to
Australia on a 4 year temp business visa.  He knows I (aged 38) am

Probably a very silly question, but just had passport photo's done to go
off with main application. Do we need each individual photo certified by
the solicitor, and does anyone know the wording.
Thanks

Got my meds done today, hopefully everythings OK. We're
frontloading them.
I asked the doctor to send them to Adelaide as most people on BE seemed
to be doing that. However, got an email today off my agent who is

My wife is going to apply for a Spouse Visa soon and we may need 2
statements from our friends to prove our relationship. I really have no
idea about this and am just wondering if there's anyone could kindly
send me a sample statement to me (zak622@hotmail.com) for my reference.