sweetgal81:
My school is Flinders University at Adelaide

bellong:


You will pay school fees. About $4500/year the last I know.

If you are coming on student visa, why not go to state that will be cheaper for you and one you can easily get a job to do.

Forget about South Australia. Of course, if God specifically asked you to choose SA, so be it.

bellong:

You can only do a three month course on visitor's visa

FBS:
Didn't bother with bringing any food item. You can get most of the stuff you need here.




Anyways, preparing for winter.

happy4lucy:
Please how do people who migrate get dollar? We went to bank and we were told that we are not entitled to buy from bank.

happy4lucy:
Please how do people who migrate get dollar? We went to bank and we were told that we are not entitled to buy from bank.

jayooh:

You're entitled to 4k max quarterly. Evidence of flight arrangement will be necessary, though, with a not a so far off departure date

Mcslize:


Can one get Yam, potatoes, plantain there?

happy4lucy:


They said since it is one way ticket we are not entitled to... biko is any other bank expect first bank that issue dollar for travel?

happy4lucy:
Please how do people who migrate get dollar? We went to bank and we were told that we are not entitled to buy from bank.

jayooh:

You're entitled to 4k max quarterly. Evidence of flight arrangement will be necessary, though, with a not a so far off departure date

FBS:

Very well yes. Just got some the other day. Maybe a tad expensive as everything else in Australia, but yes, you can can get them here.

Solitin40:

To me all these food stuffs are not expensive at all Australia is far to Nigeria they will pay tax and also rent and electricity abeg it’s cheap joor by the way the plantain you talking about is it the "Ogede” type of 9ja or the one in Nylon

FBS:

Very well yes. Just got some the other day. Maybe a tad expensive as everything else in Australia, but yes, you can can get them here.

samge:


Pls where can I get all these to buy in Melbourne?

Mikey:
House, is their anyone with tourist visa experience here? I’m currently on TR visa and wish to bring my family over for holidays.. Cheers

bligs:

There is one Fatima at 15 Gilbert street braybrook, you will get anything you looking for in terms of naija food.

bligs:

There is one Fatima at 15 Gilbert street braybrook, you will get anything you looking for in terms of naija food.

samge:


Ok thanks been there several times about no
Yam or plantain

samge:


Ok thanks been there several times about no
Yam or plantain

Rach90:
Hello everyone, I already dropped a comment on other thread and no one seems to answer me. I read the introductory part of the PR process but am getting more confused reading. My profile is
Age: 27 (30 points)
Education: Bsc(ed) Mathematics
IELTS: registered, waiting to write exam
Work Experience: 2yrs in Banking (marketing)

I don't know where to go from here, am confused of which subclass to go for considering my years on experience and my course being different from banking. Please I will appreciate a swift response so I can start the process. Thank you

Nonny100:
Good day all....Pls I want to migrate to Australia through the skilled occupation medium. I have a Bsc in biochemistry and msc in environmental toxicology and pollution management. I have 2 yrs experience as a lab technician...What occupation can I apply to and how do I go about it. Thank u

Yeeshas:
Hello All,

Hope everyone is doing great? So I have been meaning to come here to share my story after I landed in Sydney, Australia, but life has been from one event to the other but tonight, I had to stop myself to do this.

Before I start, I wanna give a shout out to Bellong and say a big thank you for starting this Australian thread because I cannot emphasize the tremendous help we got from the nairaland thread during our application process from start to finish. So let me cut straight to it.

We landed in Sydney Australia by midnight sometime in January and because it was that time of the night, our luggage was only scanned but not thoroughly checked so I guess we got away with all our food items. We were accommodated by a family whom we connected with through a dear friend of ours. We stayed with this family for two weeks after which we then moved to our own apartment.

Getting our apartment was not a walk in the park, we were simply favored. One agent wanted to swindle us of an additional $350 because he perceived we were newbies and desperate to move to our own place, we didn't fall for it because he was asking us to make the payment for the 'paper works'he was going to prepare for us because we didn't meet the 100 points criteria in order to secure an accommodation. Anyway, to cut the long story short, we threatened to report him but eventually moved on to search for other properties, he later called us back and gave us the property without the 'paperwork' fee.

We currently live in Liverpool, a 2 bedroom apartment for $350 per week and I must say it isn't bad at all. The apartment comes with a communal pool and a basketball court. We have never used it though. It is also close to everything, train station, the mall, medical centre and all.

Our first two weeks after arriving here was very rough, one because of the jetlag and then the paperwork, job-hunt, house-hunt, add to the fact that we were putting up with a family we were meeting for the first time. It wasn't exactly the best of experience but we are grateful. Things began to ease out after we moved to our own apartment.

Regarding job search, the truth is that my husband and I were open-minded and were not very selective at first because we had gathered info here on nairaland about starting off and all. My husband got a Warehouse job a day after we moved to our apartment and he was asked to start immediately, four days later, he got another job offer at Fujitsu as a Stock Plan Administrator which is basically data entry and administering the company's stock plans, although this job is better for him, however, it is not in line with his career. He has a background in Network Security and so has currently enrolled in a scholarship program in Cyber Security. The Australian govt. is currently investing in the Cyber Security industry because of shortage in the skill availability.

We immediately enrolled our Son in daycare so I could attend interviews. We were paying $465 per week until his immunization was updated and we now pay $143 per week for 5 days because of childcare rebate. We also got the outstanding back after his childcare rebate was activated. We attend Hillsong church and I must say it's a beautiful place to worship. We didn't get a car yet because we are very close to the train station and our son's daycare is only a street away plus we are saving up to buy a very good car too.

I left my job story for the last because I am extremely grateful to God for this and I also wanted to use it to encourage folks coming down here. After about 2 weeks of job search, I got a Customer Service job at a Telecoms company called BSA where I was a Remediation officer. I earned $26 per hour and it was a contract job. After 3 weeks or so of working there, my shift got changed to 11 am - 7 pm shift and so I had to stop work because my Son's daycare closes by 6 pm and you pay $1 per minute for every minute after 6 pm.

I applied for more jobs and granted a couple of interviews and as God would have it, on one of those days, I made an application for a job with 'Private Advertiser" written on it. (I am normally reluctant to apply for such vacancies) but I went ahead anyway and then I was asked to answer a couple of questions and write a cover letter. (these were things I didn't like doing but I did it anyway). A day later, I got a call from a guy saying he was from Samsung Australia and if I could come in for an interview and I'm like "Absolutely"! To cut the story short, after 2 stages of the interview (one individual and another group interview) with very intimidating guys especially because I don't have the Australian 'phoneee'accent, I was a bit intimidated by these other candidates. Anyway, I got the job and it is a permanent job with amazing pay and benefits including a 4-week annual paid leave, 10 days paid carer's leave, 50 percent staff discount off Samsung products and several other benefits. Why did I take the pain to spell out some of the benefits? Because when we came into Australia, some people told us it was hard to get a permanent job as a newbie and even a professional job for that matter and bla bla but this is really not the case. If you believe it, then you can have it.

I currently work as a VOC Case Manager at the Samsung head office in Australia. The role simply means dispute management, processing of refunds, repairs, exchange and what not, pretty much making a disgruntled customer happy again.

Its been a little over three months since we came here and we can't be more grateful to God for how He has settled us quickly and in ways we didn't even imagine. Generally its easy to save here as long as you don't live above your means.

I'll stop here and I wish you all the very best.

PS: I also resumed Uni for my Master's degree at the University of Sydney but I have now put that on hold for some time because I work full time and it was too much for me so I suspended it for now.

Please ma'am will like to chat with you ma. I need the process of how we you go about it. Ma.

FBS:

Well I think they are expensive just like everything else. Forget all that paying tax and megedefegede talk. Expensive is expensive but then "affordable". By that I mean you can buy it if you want to.

And I'm talking about real ogede. As a matter of fact had yam, plantain and stew with epo pupa for dinner last night.