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Solitude said:
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I feel extraordinary tired. Struggling to keep my eyes open.


I hope the two of you have some good times together.
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Yeah damn. Year is dragging along now. Al least I go on leave on the 8th. Then going to the most unlikely and contravention place for holiday O_o
 
Wyvern said:
I will take that pain if you want this jaw pain, its just under my nose and all because they had to remove exess bone growth :(
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Ahh damn, I know them feels. Went for 2 nose operations this year. First to fix a badly deviated septum. They had to break my know, re align it and remove bone and cartridge and and and . The second was to fix the mess they made from the 1st one
 
ja this year is seriously dragging.... i am also tired but there is honestly just so much to do at the office....and i have a migraine that is starting to form
 
Morning everyone. Just keep it down please, my head hurts. Our year end function was maybe a bit too much fun last night.

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Hello everyone.

So I just sent off a pile of documentation to an immigration agent to send off for skills assessment for potential emigration to Australia. Feeling pretty nervous...
 
matt said:
Hello everyone.

So I just sent off a pile of documentation to an immigration agent to send off for skills assessment for potential emigration to Australia. Feeling pretty nervous...
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How much is that costing these days if I may ask? If you have a proper uni degree you stand a great chance
 
matt said:
Hello everyone.

So I just sent off a pile of documentation to an immigration agent to send off for skills assessment for potential emigration to Australia. Feeling pretty nervous...
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Good luck matt!! Hope you get a positive answer to your applications. At the moment the office dealing with those papers are backed up. Apparently there are over 4000 applicants with only 3 staff members. It's the reason why my VISA for Australia is also taking way longer.
 
DieGrootHammer said:
Good luck matt!! Hope you get a positive answer to your applications. At the moment the office dealing with those papers are backed up. Apparently there are over 4000 applicants with only 3 staff members. It's the reason why my VISA for Australia is also taking way longer.
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Yay so is nie my skuld nie!
 
Wyvern said:
How much is that costing these days if I may ask? If you have a proper uni degree you stand a great chance
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Skills assessment is AUD500, but the entire process of getting a visa end to end is looking like about R120K, but that's including the agent's fees, skills assessments, IELTS test, VISA application fees, medical and police clearance, etc etc etc, and at a lousy exchange rate since everything costs Aus$'s, and it's for an independent permanent residence visa, which is a really good one.

I think it's much easier, cheaper, and quicker to get a work visa if you can get an employer to sponsor you, and then apply for residence when you're there, but then you don't get the benefits of permanent residence like state subsidized health care and schooling, and if you lose your job and can't get another one within a few months, they chuck you out of the country, so the one I'm going for is a lot better if I can get it.

I do have a BCom (Informatics), so I majored in an IT subject, I'm just hoping that they don't insist on a BSc for an IT occupation. I do have about 14 years experience though, so that's something
 
matt said:
Skills assessment is AUD500, but the entire process of getting a visa end to end is looking like about R120K, but that's including the agent's fees, skills assessments, IELTS test, VISA application fees, medical and police clearance, etc etc etc, and at a lousy exchange rate since everything costs Aus$'s, and it's for an independent permanent residence visa, which is a really good one.

I think it's much easier, cheaper, and quicker to get a work visa if you can get an employer to sponsor you, and then apply for residence when you're there, but then you don't get the benefits of permanent residence like state subsidized health care and schooling, and if you lose your job and can't get another one within a few months, they chuck you out of the country, so the one I'm going for is a lot better if I can get it.

I do have a BCom (Informatics), so I majored in an IT subject, I'm just hoping that they don't insist on a BSc for an IT occupation. I do have about 14 years experience though, so that's something
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Sjoh! So worth it though!
 
DieGrootHammer said:
Good luck matt!! Hope you get a positive answer to your applications. At the moment the office dealing with those papers are backed up. Apparently there are over 4000 applicants with only 3 staff members. It's the reason why my VISA for Australia is also taking way longer.
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Thanks man, good luck with your visa too then. There seems to be a lot of people trying to move there, there's a big exodus going on in SA, and Americans might also be trying to run away from Trump now. Hoping they don't start clamping down on the numbers
 
matt said:
Thanks man, good luck with your visa too then. There seems to be a lot of people trying to move there, there's a big exodus going on in SA, and Americans might also be trying to run away from Trump now. Hoping they don't start clamping down on the numbers
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From some groups that I've joined just to get more info, there seems to be some big changes that was made to the immigration process into Australia. Not sure what these changes all entails, but it seems the test are all more difficult as to limit the amount of people let into the country. Luckily I'm only going on a work VISA, so my process is less problematic though
 
matt said:
Skills assessment is AUD500, but the entire process of getting a visa end to end is looking like about R120K, but that's including the agent's fees, skills assessments, IELTS test, VISA application fees, medical and police clearance, etc etc etc, and at a lousy exchange rate since everything costs Aus$'s, and it's for an independent permanent residence visa, which is a really good one.

I think it's much easier, cheaper, and quicker to get a work visa if you can get an employer to sponsor you, and then apply for residence when you're there, but then you don't get the benefits of permanent residence like state subsidized health care and schooling, and if you lose your job and can't get another one within a few months, they chuck you out of the country, so the one I'm going for is a lot better if I can get it.

I do have a BCom (Informatics), so I majored in an IT subject, I'm just hoping that they don't insist on a BSc for an IT occupation. I do have about 14 years experience though, so that's something
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Yea when I applied over 10 years ago I missed out on 1 point. And it was because I have a National Diploma from Cape tech - back then it wasnt recognised by Aus. At that point I was being sponsored by my sister and her husband who immigrated and they are now ausies. It had costed me R30 k and my sister and her husband another $300 ausie dollars.

Ekke belowe ek is onskuldig Hammer!
 
DieGrootHammer said:
From some groups that I've joined just to get more info, there seems to be some big changes that was made to the immigration process into Australia. Not sure what these changes all entails, but it seems the test are all more difficult as to limit the amount of people let into the country. Luckily I'm only going on a work VISA, so my process is less problematic though
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Ya I saw some rumours, looks like they have some changes that they want to propose to cabinet, and there was some report that was leaked that looked like opposition to the proposed changes, so it's not through yet.

The skills assessment I'm doing now is with the Australian Computer Society, not immigration, so hopefully that comes through quickly.

Points wise, I'll be 40 in a few years, so my age is a bit on the iffy side, I think they really want people around 25. After 40, it becomes a real issue, and over 50, there's no chance, so I really need to get things rolling now.
 
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