Immigration Forum / Australia and NZ / November 2007

ABC Broadcaster : abject lazyness :
http://www.abc.net.au/elections/federal/2007/ ... has not been fully updated
with final election figures!

Australia's New Order
Taking a cautious step to the left, voters end more than a decade
of conservative rule to elect a Labor government.
by Elizabeth Keenan

Hey everyone
Me and my boyfriend are just putting together stat decs for our defact
visa application. We have collected a heap of photos and reciepts fro
places we have been together but now we need to write our stat decs.

I am a newbie and am learning as much as I can from the posts here.
I am presently in U.S. and working in legal visa status and want t
immigrate to Australia permanently. I have looked at the site
http://tinyurl.com/yqqynk

Does anyone here know the tax implications on bringing money into Australia
from o/s? For instance, if you married a Thai national who gained
permanent residency in Australia, and then sold a parcel of land in
Thailand for a substantial sum/significant profit and wanted to bring

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Business Proposal
Our company established on 1994 and start the bussiness as the
WholeSeller of Mobile Phones specially in Nokia, Motorola, Samsung an
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Has anyone recently applied for Spouse Migration to
Australia through the embassy in Berlin?
Sent off my application last month, and have been informed
it can take 1-6 months.

first of all  hi all,
I have a couple of question to ask..
I got my skilled independent visa granted this april and i'm currently
in australia,

Hi everyone - I'm a bit confused, TRA website says priority application
take 10 working days and non-priority 20 working days, but we sent m
husband's application for trade recognition off on 13th September an
we haven't even had an acknowledgement.

Hi Friends,
I applied for Australian immigration sometime back with a bogus
experience letter and had a positive assessment due to the same
letter. Still, due to some issues I didn't get enough points and so

now a days TRA is getting very slow in response and even just fo
response by mail.
i dont understand is there is any changes are going on in the system o
what ?

Anybody sent your Australian Visa Application off this month?
Post a reply in here and join other members working on the same tim
line :cheers:
All the best

What should I expect with regards to the permanent visa finally being
issued after the provisional 2 years are over? When, exactly, should I
expect contact? Do I have to be in the country when the point occurs
or can I come back immediately, what if I want to visit the US having

In July 2008, I would be joining the Adelaide University as an
International Student. Also, in June I will have four years experience
in my relevant field which makes me eligible for 'Skilled -
Independent (Migrant) visa (subclass 175)' Is it possible that I can