Depends on what occupation, which pathway you plan to take, there's state sponsored 190, as well as independent 189, as well as various business visas. There were also employer sponsored visa pathways but I think they amended it early March. Its not so easy anymore through employer sponsorship

For 189 and 190, different occupations means you'll need to have different points in order to be invited in a decent time frame. For 190, it varies with states too depends on your points and number of applicants.

I have no idea how business visas work since I done mine on skilled migration.

Mind you life isn't always better after emigrating from Malaysia unless you're an elite in your respective field. Somehow most of the Malaysian I came across here are really capable and credible. You'll be able to feed your family by working full time as a cashier anyway

I somehow regretted Australia and wish I went to canada

This post has been edited by Subang Nuclear Reactor: Apr 6 2018, 10:16 AM

Oh yeah there's still another pathway, through marriages.

90% of the Taiwanese girls I came across got in through marrying locals.

The process burns a lot of money, but once you're through it, you pretty much solved your necessities problems

Minimum wage of 18.29 means you will be able to afford a cheap car and cheap house even working at McDonalds.

This post has been edited by Subang Nuclear Reactor: Apr 6 2018, 10:27 AM

gold coast outer suburbs, find those vietnamese suburbs, easily could find 300k+ houses, sub 400k generally.

I'm eyeing on coomera and oxenford area, 400 to 500k but that is a really nice suburb with lots of amenities nearby, national parks nearby too.

First, get your ACS accreditation i think, for software engineers.

then, probably you will need flat 8 in IELTS in order to reach 75 or even 80 points for 189.

or you can find other lobangs

If you lodge all the applications and do all the things yourself, probably a couple thousands AUD, but if you're too lazy to do all these then just get an agent to do them for you.

you might need to prepare 30k AUD or so for you to spend after you arrive in Australia, if you dont plan to work part time while finding jobs related to your major.

I've heard stories about people being jobless even after a year.

some just fly here to fulfill the first entry requirement and then fly back to their original country while applying for jobs, to minimize spending

This post has been edited by Subang Nuclear Reactor: Apr 6 2018, 12:35 PM

depends

usually if you have very high points, for software engineer, i believe that's 80 points
around 6 months to a year (provided you have everything prepared, certificates, english language test results, police clearance records, proof of income and a lot more)

mediocre points 1 year plus to 2 years, probably 70 to 75 for software engineer

if you only have 60, you can forget about it unless you could get sponsorship either from state or employer

This post has been edited by Subang Nuclear Reactor: Apr 6 2018, 01:00 PM

nah no thx
i hate the traffic, and i think with 500k you can only get a tiny as hek unit
I've already got one small lil tiny bitch unit near Melb CBD, i wanna get away from city and closer to nature now.

weather and disaster and politics... aside from SA and Tas, WA, NT, QLD generally is hot as fuck.....

and then you got so many cyclones around NT and QLD

I felt like I love cold weather, and rather have blizzard than tropical cyclones. even though Tas and SA is cold but.... those 2 are small lil state with not much industrial activity going on. Even Holden has GGed.

from political point of view, Canada has got some Chinese or pro-Chinese dudes in parliament, that's a huge plus point. And it's very close to US, even though i dont really like US government, but the people generally is fun, and the landscape is amazing

as long as you're pretty, just open your leg, no conversations involved hence no need to have comprehensible english

and this is why im in the gym now at 2.30am, only 24hours gym and mcdonald is operating. i can forsee i will be bored of this place in 5 years. assume i will go on a road trip and finish exploring one state/ territory a year.

Cars aren't exactly cheap, compared to US, and not much cheaper compared to Malaysia, we do also have luxury car taxes here, expensive rego and insurance, fuel etc etc.

yeah, it's a bigger country than Malaysia, even though a huge part of it is flat and dry land, there's still some really nice tropical forests in QLD and some nice landscape in Tas and Vic

After some time spent here i realised it's not what i thought it would be

im trying to rake in as much money as possible now to go for various trips oversea

actually looking at visiting africa and climb kilimanjaro

This post has been edited by Subang Nuclear Reactor: Apr 9 2018, 01:43 AM

for someone looking at migrating, it only makes sense to convert everything to RM term right now, before he start earning AUD.

I've seen people got their visa granted, flew in and blew their savings before they found a job. Except eating out, everything seems a lot cheaper in dollar terms but they forgot they're spending their reserve that's sitting in RM.

dollar to dollar terms though, I bought a 2 bed 2 bath in Melb CBD (la trobe street) for less than AUD600k, i doubt you can get a 2 bed 2 bath in KL CBD for RM600k

Another major consideration is also your salary package, my mom isnt willing to move because she could earn more in Malaysia as an auditor rather than Australia, if you compare dollar to dollar, it's significantly more... There are plenty of RM20k/month auditor in Malaysia, but a handful are getting AUD20k/month in australia

So yeah, a lot more things you need to consider before you move. Whether you wanna compare prices after conversion, or compare straight in dollars term, depends on your situation.

Tyre prices though, dont forget to include tyre disposal fee, son of a bitch when i realised i need to pay around 100 dollars more for that shit

This post has been edited by Subang Nuclear Reactor: Apr 9 2018, 01:53 PM

Work experience outside of AU you will need to submit an application for them to assess. Usually will be discounted, eg you claimed 10 years but they will only approve it as 5 years

by community language, do you mean NAATI ? You need to take NAATI exam and pass it in order to claim that 5 points. Used to be easy, not anymore now.

how many points you need depends on your occupation too but if you're interested just submit an EOI.

yeap. there is a chance you might not get the 5 points. Might get discounted depends on your role and tasks for that 3.5 years.

Eg if you have an engineering degree but your role and tasks resemble that of operator, they will discount the work experience you're claiming.

not really sure about ACS and programmers and softwares, but that's an example for engineers.