Moving to an overseas country can be a trying time for you and your family, especially when leaving your family, friends and familiar surroundings. The last thing you want to think about are the shipping requirements when sending your unaccompanied…
Moving to an overseas country can be a trying time for you and your family, especially when leaving your family, friends and familiar surroundings. The last thing you want to think about are the shipping requirements when sending your unaccompanied…
One of the most common questions I get asked relates to shipping household goods to Australia – what should you bring and what should you ditch? Everyone seems to have their own opinions on this, and let’s face it, it’s…
How to choose where to live in Australia can feel like the first big decision you make after actually deciding to move to Australia. Given Australia is such a big country, doing a ‘look see decide’ trip (often called an…
Because of the huge demand from potential migrants to know exactly how much life in Australia will cost them, I’m continuing with this series of posts on the cost of living around Australia. This post focuses on the cost of…
You might dream of moving to Australia and living a life filled with sunshine, beach days, and barbeques, but what will it really be like? Let’s take a look at what you can really expect when you’re living in Australia.
The Trades Recognition Service (TRS) is a domestic skills assessment service offered by Trades Recognition Australia (TRA) for tradesmen actively engaged in various engineering trades. For many years prior to October 2013 thousands of tradesmen migrated to Australia and underwent…
When it comes to migrating to Australia, if you do the research, you’ll know exactly what you need to budget for. Usually it’s the big ticket items – visas, medicals, English tests, skills assessments, agent fees, flights, and shipping are…
If you’re just starting to investigate the process of moving to Australia, you’re probably just as overwhelmed as I was at the number of hoops you need to jump through in order to get here. From medical tests, English exams,…
If you’re anything like I was when we migrated to Australia, you’ll have about a million lists of things to do either written down, on your phone or just constantly going around in your head. What to do before the…
I’m hearing so many stories lately of families who have used migration agents that have turned out to be not as reputable as they were led to believe, or who have completely messed up a visa application. I wanted to…