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Relocating Abroad ?
Scott_e1985
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19 June 2007
Hi there people
I was just wondering if anyone out there had either relocated from the UK to US or from UK to Australia to actually live and work there (career based) and not just work for a year or so. (I understand that its not a simple procedure)
If anyone has done or know anybody who has, I was wondering if you could shed a little light on the general steps to take, to get this process started.
Also any information about financial backing from either banks, sponsorship etc would be very useful to know about.
Many thanks for your time
Cheers
Scott 🙂
I was just wondering if anyone out there had either relocated from the UK to US or from UK to Australia to actually live and work there (career based) and not just work for a year or so. (I understand that its not a simple procedure)
If anyone has done or know anybody who has, I was wondering if you could shed a little light on the general steps to take, to get this process started.
Also any information about financial backing from either banks, sponsorship etc would be very useful to know about.
Many thanks for your time
Cheers
Scott 🙂
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AndyTheMan
Messages count : 1Likes count : 0Registration : 19 May 2008Its easy!
Hi Scott, this is my first post on thie forum - saw your post and thought I would reply.....
Long story short, I'm Australian, my girlfriend in English, so we have done the 'move your life overseas' a couple of times.
I sold house, left job and moved to the UK back in 2004 - it was permenant thing - we didn't know if (or when) we would ever move somewhere else.
Late last year we have moved back to Australia.
For us it was a little easier than most - for a start, I had her at the UK end, and her family etc to help me out....and vice-versa. PLus we both have dual nationality, so we have no issues with work visa's etc.
Having siad that (work visa issues aside) its a LOT easier than many people make out - especially the UK to Australia move (and Australia to the UK). Our Governments have lots of joint arrangments, so its easy to organise things like drivers licencs, get car insurance, open bank accounts, etc etc. There is no language barrier (as there would be if you moved to Spain for example) and a lot of things are similar... There are lots of shipping companies who specialise in these moves and its really quite a simple arrangement
I suggest you look at the Britishexpats.com forums - it is a forum with thousands of members - all of them british who have (or will, or want to) move overseas, there is discussion for everything from visa applications to how to deal with parents to the best way to ship your belongings!
For an Australian, moving overseas is easy - I live in a big country - so when I 'moved away from home' at the age of 17 to go to college, I moved 14 hours away......... so moving to the UK was not that much further!
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Scott_e1985
Messages count : 2Likes count : 0Registration : 19 June 2007Hey Andy
Many thanks for your quick reply. I do actually have relatives over in Perth but they moved from the UK many moons ago so am not sure what still applies.
I will check out Britishexpats.com thanks and read up on this topic as it is something that I am wanting to do more and more.
I will read up some more on this topic and re-post on this thread if I think of any more questions.
Many thanks
Scott
(Any other advise or help about US or Australia would be welcome)