Australian Seminar

We went to a working in Australia seminar this weekend. It was interesting to hear about all the Visa's that you can apply for and we had a chat with some of the employment agencies. Seems if your in any kind of engineering or mining or building industry your very likely to find a sponsour. The IT prospects are there but not as eager as for the above mentioned ones. We would basically need to register my CV and hope for the best.

The other alternative is to go straight for the skilled visa. This can take up to a year to apply for and could cost you about 2000 Australian dollars. There are ways to fast track it by applying to the regional governments after you had your skills assessed by the relevant authorities. If your skill is in high demand they can then opt to fast track your application. If you don't meet the points for skilled migration this is also a way in which you could potentially gain the points needed to push you over. If a regional authority wants you, you only need 100 points as apposed to the 110 points you usually need.

I have to admit the thought of going through all of this again so shortly after doing it for the UK is a bit... well daunting. So we have decided to register our CV's forget about it and see what happens. If we get a good offer we will concider it then. In the meantime we will live as if we aren't going anywhere. 

So lets see what the UK will bring... for now :)