If you are a pr you have a certain time limit to use Msian license, for VIC is 6 months from the date you entered Aus if your visa was issued overseas. After that you have to change. More info in Victoria HERE for other states google is your friend.

you have 1 + 2 minutes. 1 minute to think and right down what you want to say and 2 minutes to say it. My advise is structure your answers in that 1 minute. If you take it for granted, you are going to fumble your way through the 2 minutes. If not mistaken, the topic given to me was "What was one of your favourite hobbies when you were a child and do you still enjoy it now?" I think I only did 1.5 minutes out of the 2 minutes and I thought I had seriously fumbled but I got a good score in speaking.


This website is quite useful. In fact I used it extensively when preparing for IELTS
LINK

For books my advice is to pick one up from any IELTS center, ask them to recommend one. I got mine from IDP and it really helped me in my preparation.

I think a small investment on books is worth it for such an expensive test.

Additional practices you can get online.

I do heard they'll fail you if you're taking onshore. I don't know wat's the reason (pretending don;t wanna know)
I'm quite skeptic on Tony Abbot to take challenge against Kevin Rudd now. At 1st i tot he gonna have big chance to kick ass against Julia. But now seems the table is turn around now.
I do hope Kevin Rudd would make way more diplomat relation with China in terms of investment and would increase the job opportunities there.

I took my IELTS in Australia. Plenty of my friends did it here. No problem encoutered so far.

Either way for you it is a bit hard. As you're waiting for an EOI to apply.

Your invitation might not come back in time for you to apply for a bridging visa as your TR visa is running out. Weight your options well and save up for the the application fees.

It is just harder I guess. I never took my IELTS in Australia. Did it all in KL. Easy as.

It's past 1 July. Fee increased means lesser offshore applicants. I can see many offshore especially from India and Pakistan are on hold because they have to get extra funds for wife and kids, $1.5k for secondary applicant is not much in Australia but in India can do a lot of things.

Hopefully this can let immi to keep up all of the outstanding EOI invitations and don't have to wait any longer for new EOI application invitation

First sitting in Malaysia (General Paper): L - 7, S - 8, R - 9, W - 6.5
Second sitting in Australia (Academic Paper as requested by assessing authority): L - 9, S - 7, R - 8, W - 7.

Doubt I'll get a full 8 in my next sitting. 5 points short from meeting EOI requirement.

This post has been edited by immabee: Jul 2 2013, 08:53 PM

I agree. This increases the cost for families that want to migrate. Even children are charged for application, a family of 4 (parents + 2 kids) will see a 2x increase in visa fees, if my understanding is correct.

I don't think this would stop immigrants from coming in. A small increase in money won't give any impact though. Unless the requirement lift higher then it's a different story.

You are right

I would say it will impact at least some of them especially those with big families. As supercolossal mentioned, husband + wife + 2 kids will end up $3060+1530+750+750=$6090
I think Malaysian will have to think twice too before they migrate as $6000 is about RM17xxx.

Well, at least this can lower down the applications submission until they get enough of funds

At 1st i was thinking that way too. But when people desperately wanna get PR or leaving the country, RM17k actually is nothing.
Now, some of my friends who's businessmen they have their business migration visa, throwing in millions to Oz, buying houses in cash. No rasa for them, they just want the visa so that their children could study there.
I'm the poorest with a skilled visa only and got very little cash with me with my brain to offer. haha...
Luckily the fees increase lately. If not, i gonna fork out more money....

Application fee is one thing, cost of living is another thing. It will be affordable for those rich people but how about below average? THey have to start over again with finding job in high cost of living country but also need to make sure the family is free from hunger.

I am lucky that currently earning in AUD but it still hurts my wallet lol

YEap, this is the biggest hurdle so far. competing with Ozzie is one thing, living cost is another.

So today, I found a second example that happened this year where people moved for child's education. The first example was someone who sold their place, rented in a good school catchment area while planning for a purchase near the new place. The timing was really bad as Sydney's real estate market is rising rapidly this couple of months (more so for good school areas), and they had to increase the budget of the new purchase month to month.

The second example today was that they bought a place 40 minutes away from the city by train. You can't really drive to city even in weekend as the only road out to the city are always jam, so it will take up to 40-60 minutes to reach city by car. The property was more then 1 million. I can get something with similar building condition (and possibly lesser price too) which is 15-20 minutes to the city, provided it is not in a sort-after school area. The good side though, was that their land was really huge.

hows the working life at perth?

the only been there for a visit but nothing more. is it a good place to work and live? raise a family? i knw there is a large number of msian migrated there...

btw im a civil engineer working at malaysia. thinking of migrating before i get married.

Last year there were 308,613 students enrolled in government secondary schools, compared with 310,558 the year before, a drop of about 1 per cent, the figures show.
The number of students enrolled in private secondary schools in NSW was 196,243 last year, up from 192,613 in 2011, a rise of about 2 per cent.


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/b...l#ixzz2Y3Yaez1L



So that is about 38.8% enrolled to private school .. hopefully that can set the expectation of more people right about education here in Australia.

Why enrol to private school? Is public school not good enough there? Do please advise as i'm bringing my children there soon.

Perth is a nice place to stay, raise family and yes, plenty of malaysian there and i'm heading there as well.
If you're qualified for the skills, please do so as if you think too much, you'll never know the result or what are the options in hand.

I thought I answered that ... there are good and bad public school, in most cases, the good ones are surrounded by houses with really high prices. Do more research and choose carefully. And also, prepare earlier, start registering once they are eligible. If your child is already 4 or 5 years old, be prepared to be at the back of a very long waiting list.

Perth might be different though....

so you already got your PR?

im thinking of going thru the process myself i.e applying thru online and see how it goes. if im short listed good if not im ok. i feel that its a bit expensive to go thru an agent if its the same thing.

i have a fren working at melbourne and he commented the living expenses is very high even in the sub urbs. child day care cost about 200 aussie dollar per day. how would perth be in comparison? would it be sufficient for only one parent to work and support the family financially?