₦airaland Forum

Jetspeed:
Dear All want to know if Nepean (Kingswood campus) TAFE Western Sidney Institute is in regional area in NSW.

Any location bearing SYDNEY is not regional....

FutureDon:
Go here: https://online.immi.gov.au/account/register
1. Create an ImmiAccount.
2. Complete all the required questions asked.
3. Generate your HAP ID.
4. Have your HAP ID handy and Call Fatayi Williams Clinic (if you are in Gidi) to book an appointment with them.
5. Fatayi Williams will tell you how much it will cost you.
6. You'll do your medicals at Fatayi - they will give you directions on how to complete your radiology checks.

This is based on my experience some months ago, I'm hoping it hasn't changed much.

Still same till now.

kingsbeko:
Hello All
Plzz how do I contact medibank to update my date of cover for my OSHC, I deferred till semester 2(July) nd the embassy requested an updated OSHC,
Plz I need ur answers!!! Biko

Did u get the OSHC from Medibank or from ur school? Which eva way, contact them through the same way u bought the health coverage.

Jetspeed:
I stood to be corrected. I think your assessment body will have to decides that after analysing your transcript.

Oh ok. Thank you

bellong:
No but it gives you an advantage of point.

Please how can one do a trial point run test online to know possible points accords to HND holders..

bellong:
Do you have a BSc?

Do you have work experience in your course?

What did you score in IELTS?

The truth is you can start the PR process if you positive answer to the questions I asked. You need not wait till after studies before applying for the PR you seek. The Spouse visa is a very long route that is tiring and too stressful according to what I have read.

For now, get enough evidences that can proof the relationship between the two of you. You will need them in your application. If you have the resources, let her get her own student visa to join you.

I hv National Diploma and Higher National Diploma in process Engineering. With no relevant experience....hv been involve in business. Hv TOEFL 80 points.

I appreciate your advice...thanks alot

ferdimako:
Ogbeni...I think u have been advised. Improve ur conditions first or she comes in and improve hers too. Don't make us to advise u to ditch ur woman...that is my fear!

Alright! Noted Sir.

bellong:
Whatever you decide to do, never marry a citizen with the sole aim of getting "Papers".

These people are not robots or machines, they are humans with emotions. Don't give false hope of marrying anyone for a selfish end. Don't turn anybody to a tool of achieving your personal ambition and later abandon them.

Except you want to marry the citizen because you want to live with her all your days, Do not follow that selfish and ungodly route.

If i get married to a PR/Citizen for PR, I intend to live wit that person oo.......
I can only come for her if I'm able to get PR via 180, .... Or other point test... But how easy will this be? thats my fair...

I dont think it will go down well if I marry her and afterword we ar not able to get PR...that means we ar coming back to Naija.

Suppose we ar already married before now, it would be a different thingy

cheedyH:
. In my opinion, if u love her then do the marriage rites. File for spouse visa,when she comes over she can be working while you are schooling. There are many ways to get a PR without marrying a citizen. If the course u are going for is at least 2 years minimum duration and in a regional area. More so, it should be on SOL/CSOL list. With that you can file for post graduate visa after studies. Some international students are lucky, after they graduate,they get sponsorship from their would-be employer.

Thank you. My course is two years, its on d SOL/CSOL list, but NOT IN REGIONAL AREA.
My campus is located in Sydney

chidaroy:
Hello. I see that nobody has really made an input. So as my usual blunt self I will tell you exactly how I see it. You have been dating a person for five years without both families' involvement but just in split decision time frame you are considering a court marriage?. I hope you realise that a court marriage is a document that binds ger to you and vice versa till the marriage us dissolved? Questions are:
Whose idea is the whole marriage thingy?
What's top on your priority list (marrying her or getting a PR)?
I'm not sure you love her. Cos if you do, you wouldn't even consider marrying a citizen as a means to the end (I don't mean this in a disrespectful way)
Whose original dream is it to travel to Australia and why does your girlfriend want to come with you?
But most importantly, how old are you? If your parents do not think you should be talking marriage now, then I guess you are still a young man.

Mist young men of today mix ambition with sentiment but truth is.... One has to let go of the other.

To help you make your decision I need you to ask yourself one question..... If you marry and travel with her today and 5 years from now you can't get a PR because of your marriage to her, will you regret it? If your answer is yes, the you know what to do. If no.... That's also your answer right there. Good luck

You must be a councilor sent by God...thank you.

The idea of her coming along is mine, with so much cry from her end of me going away fir that long had to break and suggest the marriage option of her coming along.
Ofcourse geting PR is very paramount to me..just like it is to every1 going to Australia.

Well as for loving her I must say I do...but should i rest on love! I dont know..hav seen married men leaving there families in Nigeria going to U.K and re-marry.....in d quest to get papers..That dos'nt mean they dont love there naija wife...its survival.

The idea of travelling is fully mine and mine alone...I opt for her coming along coz she felt once Am gone am not gonna come for her...her frnds has experience same.

We both ar in our late 20s.

Thanks for your advice

ferdimako:
How many points do you have now? U need to gather up to 60 pts even after finishing ur studies...so calculate what ur points will be after studies, her point contributions and ur English test points. I think you marry her now...do small traditional marriage and do the registry's so that u can file spousal visa. If you guys have been friends...no need to look elsewhere... build on what u have.

Oga Ferdi i read all your inputs here, you hav been wonderful to new newbies like me...God bless u.

How do i check my points after studies. Am going for electrical Engineering, adv diplo. Studied process engineering HND in nigeria. Age late 20s

symbian03:
Honestly bro, this is a decision you've got to make on your own. BTW how long did it take before you were granted your visa?

I know its my decision to make, some little input from one or two could help me alot in that.

BTW, applied march 9, grant march 26.

Plz those already in OZ especially on student visa route to PR should kindly say something

Hello All,

Have been making research about Australia, living and surviving, geting PR after studies, etc and came accross this thread. I must say you guyz ar doing amazing job.

I hav my own delima and wil like those studying and or living in australia to profer some advices. But first;

I wish to shear my own testimony, got my visa grant last week thursday 572 advance diploma, my college is in sydney.....now my queries:

I am suporting myself in this whole quest to acquire australia education with the ultimate goal of geting PR. I hv a girl frnd we hv known each other for the past 5 yrs now..tho no family introduction on both side as at yet. I did not include her in my visa application but now she wishes to travel wit me (on her own she has roughly 1M).
I am thinkin Weda to hv a court marriage wit her so i can apply for her spouse visa... Tho stil intend to keep families out of it cox my family wont advice that right now, they will rather say go first and and worry about her leta.

My major concern is since am targetin to get PR after studies, incase am not able to get PR with post study visa probably due to changes in immigration rule, job availability etc..I might hv an option of getting married to a PR/citizen as an alternativ route (but wit her in the picture this last option is close)

Please my ppl am really confused here....should i go along with her or hav her wait till I hv residency? Wil she be of any disadvantage to me over there regards to my PR inview?

P:S We started datin from school 2010 to date. After school she moved back to her family in nasarawa where she works (waitress in an eatries) while i work live in lagos..

Am really sorry guyz for this long epistle..