Yes, but may not apply to anyone who manage to find a job within weeks

All my friends and relatives who migrated to Australia, either unemployed or working in wrong job like waitering.

hi pete. may i know what is your fren and family line of work, where they living etc? cheers

Thank you Guys for the wise advise and encouragement.

I have some difficult tasks ahead of me. First, need to get that ACCA cert, then try to get that PR (though i'm nearing the dreaded age limit) and then finally to get that job!

All looks a bit daunting but i wont know until i try!

This post has been edited by Propernormal: Sep 3 2013, 11:54 AM

Well, against all odds i must say. I suggest you get the ACCA cert. and quickly get it verified by CPA.

I'm a graphic designer. I'm married with 2 kids (3 years old & 5 years old) and would want to apply for PR in Australia. I would want to give my kids a better education and environment hence I consider migrating. I've previously being assess by Rayford Migration Service and I'm employed at that moment. I started my own design company 3 years back and I'm self employed now.

I would want to know whats the procedure of submitting everything without the use of agent. I heard buying properties in Australia is also eligible on PR applications. Could someone enlighten me on this and thanks in advance.

I think you are referring to Significant Investor visa which includes having properties in Australia for PR application. It must have a minimum amount of investment interest recognized by the oz government.

The Significant Investor visa is a new stream of the Business Innovation and Investment (Provisional subclass 188) and the Business Innovation and Investment (Permanent subclass 888) visa.

Visa applicants must:

Be nominated by a state or territory government
make an investment of at least $5 million into complying investments.

You can check immigration website for more details such as http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/business/_p...nt-investor.pdf

http://www.business.nsw.gov.au/live-and-wo...t-investor-visa

This post has been edited by naleh33: Sep 3 2013, 02:35 PM

I understand that you are one of the lucky few who is able to secure a job easily. However, I think we should not be painting such a rosy picture for other people who are planning to migrate. Migration has a lot of aspects to consider especially if someone is migrating the entire family. The costs of applying the visa, relocation, transportation, daily living can balloon to quite a big amount and we are talking about AUD which is about 3 times of RM. These are the few factors that may affect someone's financial status severely when they settle in Oz initially.

Imagine how much stress will a family undergo if the breadwinner is struggling to secure a job. What is the point of migrating to a place where you wish to have a better life but being hit by a harsh otherwise reality. For people who have deeper pockets, they are able to sustain longer while trying to find a job. Trust me, it certainly will take a toll on the person mental and emotional aspect, hoping to have positive news every day.

Hence, my advise to potential migrants is to make sure you have researched your employment market in details as well as the place that you are going to settle down before you take the plunge. Try to calculate the monthly expenses and calculate how long you can survive on the funds that you have before securing a job.

5 million is way off my budget. guess subclass 189 is my last bet.

The visa has three main streams.

- The Business Innovation stream is for people who want to own and manage a new or existing business in Australia.
- The Investor stream is for people who want to make a designated investment of at least AUD1.5million in an Australian state or territory and want to maintain business and investment activity in Australia after the original investment has matured.
- The Significant Investor stream is for people who are willing to invest at least AUD5million into complying investments in Australia and want to maintain business and investment activity in Australia after the original investment has matured.

Q: What is the difference between point #2 and #3? I see a major difference in $ required. How to be eligible for #2?

Tq

I'm not consider myself the lucky 1. It just that if people intend to migrate to another place which they think the place would be better for their children. Why not?
Eventhough they think it's still worth coz sacrificing themselves for the children's better future. It's still worth. If your children getting straight A's in Malaysia and you don't have deep pocket. What do you expect they gonna do? They can't even step into local U. I bet you will be considering alternative if you're on their shoes.
I suggest that if they're eligible and can manage to get here, i encourage them to do so. Yes, the job market here is not that good. If you willing to work out of it, it's still an opportunity for children to have a better future.

I think the visa you're mentioning is more on subclass 888 (investment). This 1 you've to pump in big chunk of money.
Please note that this may be temporary visa only (not sure) which some not entitle for benefit, have to check DIAC website.
Buying property in Australia is easy, as long you've got money.
If you intend to DIY, just check thru DIAC website on skillselect. You've to submit EOI and your IELTS result. Please bear in mind it's getting harder to get visa to Australia now coz they're restricting immigrants coming in and it's an issue almost every year.
Try to check any other visa might suit you

Can check on subclass 190

Thanks for the heads up, I've check under the Australian Capital Territory (ACT)
Occupation List 2013-14. Graphic designer is closed and no longer available. Guess I'm out of luck.

accountants and engineers.

Fren, ACCA is not well recognize in Australia.

Even if you pass due to the age limit, going there to work..let just say you are 35, you be at the same pay grade as those who just graduated, ie 23.

They don't count your work experience in Malaysia because they think it is inferior. Can you take it, working for people half your age?

FYI I am a PR but I am having second thoughts of migrating becauase I not willing to restart all over again.

This post has been edited by Pete the great: Sep 3 2013, 09:40 PM

They only recognise CPA. Even if you're with CPA without local experience also jia lat.
However, there's not always to the dead end. Why not work in property market? Take a 4 week course selling property?
Why not try to do bookeeping freelancer?
Accountant and engineer might facing the hard time now. But can think out of the box to do other jobs which not necessarily a sub-standard job.

Have u check WA, Northern territory? Heard that darwin has the highest job vacancies

Darwin also full of bogans.

That is why la...justnow the guy some more say he is ACCA, some more half way taking.

ASCPA cannot even find job, leave alone ACCA.

I don't know man, I really hate to migrate to do something else. I don't mind simple MYOB bookeeping but even then, its hard to find job in Australia.

Thinking of letting my PR lapse. Wish I can sell my PR.