What would it take for me to just up and leave for Australia?

Question

Im about to leave everything be hind me and head for Australia, I live in America, Pennsylvainia to be exact, I would in a warehouse, what I need to know is how much money is it going to take and how hard would it be for me to find a job and a place to live?

Answer 1

before you can up and move to Australia you will need to qualify to immigrate and that isn't easy

you need to be a skilled and experienced worker in an occupation Australia needs

you can not just come and work without the required visa's,

Mel is wrong you could apply for a working holiday visa but you must leave after 12 months........ that is when the visa expires

http://www.immi.gov.au/visitors/working-...

http://www.immi.gov.au/immigration.htm

it can be a long and expensive process and may take a year or so

Answer 2

Extremely hard.

Australia is not immigrant-friendly, it takes a lot of money and time to become a permanent resident.

They have programs in place for third world countries and the European Union, where people can come on a working holiday visa and go straight to work. However, the United States does not have this agreement.

You can come in one of a few different ways. The first is if you have the skills that they are looking for and are in desperate need of. This pretty much narrows it down to doctors and surgeons. So, if you aren't in that profession, then you will not qualify for that.

Permanent Residency is required for most companies to hire you. The ways that you can obtain PR are few. A. Have had family (primarily parents) that has lived here. B. Your spouse is Australian.

Yes, it's difficult to qualify. The cost of the airfare here is about 3000 dollars. The cost of permanent residency, required to work here runs the gambit, but the spousal visa costs $2500, and they recommend that you hire a migration agent as there is a c**p load of requirements and papers and stuff needed, a medical exam, chest x-ray, blood tests, so in the end, the Permanent Residency visa has cost me $8000 dollars, out of pocket. I believe it's more expensive if you apply overseas.

With the current change in government, the visa process is slowed considerably. I applied in August of last year, and we're hoping to hear word on the outcome next week. Yeah, so, lots of time waiting. They say it can take 9 months or more.

Australia, being an island nation, does not have the easy immigration process that the USA has, or the low cost fees of 300 dollars. They are quite picky on who they let in to the country if you are not from a third world country. It would be tons easier if you were from Europe, rather than the USA.

You can get a tourist visa and stay up to 3 months here, well there are several versions, ranking from 3-12 months, I've had both 3 and 12 month visas. However, it does not allow you to work. I think the main reason that they are picky as the government pays for the majority of health care. All Permanent residents and citizens are on medicare. Employers do not like to hire anyone who is not, even for volunteer work.

It's a very costly, long process. If we had known how much it was going to cost in the end, we would have moved to the USA, and had my fiance be naturalized there.

And just to add, we too have a costly gasoline problem...at 6 dollars a gallon.

As for citizenship, it takes 4 years of Permanent Residency before a person qualifies to take the test. More information is in the link below.

I guess they have added a new subclass in the working holiday section to include the US. This is new as the only working holiday visa available before was the first when I originally moved here 2 years ago.