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This post has been edited by Enchante!: Feb 17 2016, 01:59 AM

hmm been about many years since i logged into LYN. seems they still have my login.

i'll give my two cents on migration

i lived in Malaysia for 20 years before moving to Australia to study about 9 years ago. I am an Australian citizen now.

you'd need some money in the bank while you look for a job in Australia. When i got my PR i moved to Melbourne from Brisbane. It was fairly quick for me to get a job at first as within 1 month of searching i started working in a warehouse packing boxes and unloading containers for about 18 AUD an hour as a casual. Hard work, but pays the bills and the beer. After 2 months on the job my employer "upgraded" me to the office working on administration. From then on i slowly started building up work experience in Australia.

Here's a tip: just get any job while you are on the hunt for your preferred job . Also knowing how to write a good cover letter and putting through job applications as soon as it goes live (8am usually) helps alot in scoring interviews.

Would need some advice from the experts here.

We are 28 years old.
I am an electronics engineer and my wife is an accountant.
We got a baby.

How is the steps of migrating to Australia and how much money do we need to prepare in order to do that?
The first thing is sit for IELTS test?

For the immigration fees.
I heard the application fee is AUS $3.5K and the test is about $500 per person.
Is that true?
Does our baby need to pay for the fee also?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Start reading http://www.immi.gov.au/Pages/Welcome.aspx

If lazy talk to a migration agent.

Hi just wondering.

Let say I have a business in kl and opening a branch in australia.

I have enough financial capability to buy a house in sydney. Will it be easier for me to migrate to Australia via the "business" route?

thanks

it depends. just have a look here
https://www.immi.gov.au/Visas/Pages/890.aspx

The business visa route is to have money to start a business in Aust. If what you mean is buying at house in Sydney to get a PR, it does not work that way. The business route is where you are required to maintain a specific $$ turnover for your aussie business. There are a number of business visa and you need to see which one you qualify for. For instance:
http://www.immi.gov.au/Visas/Pages/890.aspx
http://www.immi.gov.au/Visas/Pages/188.aspx

There are a few more business visas you can look at at the immigration site.

Good luck!

I suggest you have to read thru DIAC website. Always remember, this is a big move and should prepare quite a huge amount of money. However, following are the major steps you may need to look into it.
1) Check eligibility
2) Once ok, submit in you EOI, pay $$
3) get IELTS 7 in 4 modules, pay $$
4）get your cert stamp true copy from notary public, pay $$
5) get birth cert translated, pay $$
6) medical 3 of you
7) police check 2 of you
8) the final 1, bring money during your stay to find jobs, no PR no job

Once u get PR, following steps need to do:-
1) get medicare card registered
2) get tax file number
3) get a bank account
4) get a place to rent
5) get a car

Suggestion:
1) come alone for job hunting
2) once stable, bring family over
3) make sure get OZzie company

majority asian company here is blood suckling company. Even in Oz, there's plenty of ganasai company exist especially Asian company. Chinese bully own chinese. So, be sure about this

anybody wanna hire an accounts kuli in melbourne?

I even received emails from fresh graduate who willing to work for free..........yes it's free.

my dream to migrate to melbourne just went up in flames

would you consider hiring a certified chartered accountant with 9 years of experience in accounting, finance, audit, tax, HR and admin??? can't work for free as i have 3 monkeys to feed at home and my wife......

but willing to consider cheap labour as don't have local experience

sighhhh....things we willing to do for our family.

To be honest, accountant is a surplus in Oz. I suggest you have to take whatever job 1st but has to be profession related. My wife is a chartered accountant as well but we migrate here thru my profession which i am a quantity surveyor.
Why must everyone moving to melbourne? It's far expensive than other city besides Sydney. Perth consider 1 of the expensive but still livable so far coz nearer to MAS. Maybe could try Brisbane, darwin, adelaide...etc.
There's some company taking advantage on you guys by saying no local experience and will cut your pay based on lowest wages. To be frank, i didn't find it difficult to adapt the local experience as long the company willing to give u the chance to take it into challenge. Thank God this is my 2nd company i joined. It's Ozzie company and more humane on staff rights. Of course don't abuse it coz boss put trust on us. My 1st is asian company is ganasai. Really can't work properly inside, worst than MAS company i worked back there.
For your case, might consider applying smaller company 1st but don't expect high pay.

After lodging Visa Application, and then discover wife pregnant just as want to do medical check, will this hamper the application process? can we just proceed?

more or less, yes. not sure if they have changed the rules for prgnancy woman.

All applicants are required to do chest Xray. If your wife is preg, you will have to inform your case officer to hold the application until after she has given birth.

This thread is almost dead........

all migrated except you and me who are can't...

I would recommend to process application on your own as all these agents are bunch of bullsh*t people trying to loot your hard-earned money, specially http://www.australmigrate.com/

Thats my personal experience with http://www.australmigrate.com/ that they will handover your case to such a naive person that you will feel that it would be better off do your self, Mr Frank and John are only helpful unless you have not paid them fees, the moment you paid initial fees, your application will be in dustbin and you need to remind them every other day to take your application out from dustbin and start the process.

One of my close friend engaged "Rayford" and he have similar experience of lousiness with them. So my advice to everyone here is to process yourself, it will take sometime for you to familiarize with requirements in fact it is good for being knowledgeable in term of process and requirement on other hand immigration staff either for Aus/NZ are very helpful and give response without any delay.

Sorry, i already long migrated....