@jennykadry

Fremantle Hospital - ICU

Hi Marcar,

t4top here. We are arriving in Perth 1st of January. My wife start work in January. We are renting a furnished house in Secret Harbour for a month till we sort out permanent rental. I will pm you later as my e-mail address has changed.
Nice article JennyKandry. There is racism everywhere even in England and USA. It is due to ignorance but as Australians get to see more and more black people they will get used to them and gradually their attitude will change. What they need is education. The first white people that settled in Australia were British criminals (POMS). Just like America everybody in Australia is an immigrant and people should remember that.

Jennykandry, what field do you work in? Do you by any chance work in the Health industry? My wife is a Nurse and would like to meet fellow Nigerians in Perth when we get there in January. I myself studied Economics and then Mathematics so I work in the education industry in the UK.
Hope to hear from you soon.

Cheers!

@justhustle
You can apply for SS through any one of the states. You just go to their website and check that your occupation is on their skills list.
If it is then you lodge the application on-line. We went through SA and the application is free. It cost you nothing to apply. Yes, you have to have your qualifications assessed but that only take about two to three weeks depending on your profession. You will find the name and contact details of the body that Will assess your qualifications form the state web site.
Once you have done that then it is just a straight forward on-line application done and you wait for their decision. It takes about 6 - 8 weeks for them to process your application after which you are given a month to lodge your 176 visa application with the DIAC. This also you do on-line but you have to pay about £1500 at this point. The only other cost you will incur after this is your medical and police clearance cost which will depend on how many people are in your family.

You can pm me directly if you like and I will then be able to answer any questions more quickly. My e-mail address is: o.asaye@tiscali.co.uk

I will advice you to do it asap if you really want to because the Australian immigration rules are changing in July and it has been said that the new rules will make it difficult for a lot of people to qualify or get enough points to apply for immigration without a job offer.

@iyeayo

Hi iyeayo,

I sent you an e-mail sometimes ago but you never replied back.
Is it o.k if if send you another one now? I just want to ask you some questions and seek your advice regarding Adelaide since you live there.

Thank you.

@justhustle

The whole process took us about 6 months. We submitted our SS application on-line in September, got SS in October and then submitted our PR visa application on line in November. We got our visa last week which was the first week in March. The visa sub class is 176 and it has the same status as the 175 but it is quicker because it puts you in CAT 2 instead of CAT 4 for processing supposing you qualify for it.
I did all the processing myself and it was very straight forward. I don't think you need and agent to do it for you if you know what you are doing and just read through the information.
Good luck!!!

Hi Marca,

Which part of Australia are you in?
We just got our PR visa and are looking to come over towards the end of the year but we can't make up our mind as to the best place to settle.
How are you finding Australia and what is life like in general?

You can e-mail me directly using my e-mail address which is on my previous post on page 5. I will really appreciate that.
Thanks. :

Thanks stmarc32 for the quick reply.
I have spent the last couple of hours on that forum reading through people's comments and experiences. It is scary!
I have always known this and I have been in contact with different black people living in Australia asking for their advice and opinions of life in Australia.
I have had mixed responses but for me the key questions are would we be able to get good jobs and not be discriminated at and would my kids not be picked on at school just because of the colour of the skins. If I can be positive about those key issues then I will be fine. Even in the UK, there was a lot of discrimination up until recently and things have only just got better in the last ten years or so. There was a time not long ago in the UK when University graduates of African origins could not get decent jobs but resort to doing unskilled jobs just to survive. Things have moved on now and that rarely ever happen again so I think things will eventually improve in Australia as well as time goes by and people are better informed. A lot of it has to do with ignorance and naivety and politicians trying to exploit these ignorance for their own political agenda.

I really appreciate your insights and would like to ask you some questions regarding life in Brisbane so if you don't mind you can contact me on my e-mail address: o.asaye@tiscali.co.UK

Thanks.

Hi stmarc32,
Can you elaborate a bit. Which part of Australia do you live and which areas have you been in Australia?
We are Nigerians with British citizens and we live and work in London but we are planning on relocating to Australia next year.
I love the look of Brisbane and Cairns but with the recent flooding there we are not sure. At the moment we are looking to go to either Adelaide or Melbourne but we will make that decision when we visit in December to activate our PR visa.
What would be your advice to us having lived in that country and which area or cities would you advice us to settle in. Coincidentally, my wife is also a register nurse and she works in ICU.
It would be nice to hear from you and your insight and experience of Australia.
We would also like to hear from anybody who live down there or is in the same process as us who would like to give us any advice.

Thanks.