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Stuck in Ireland

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    #32
    universe777
    Registered Users Posts: 469 ✭✭universe777


    filthymcnasty wrote: »
    mate i would get cracking on the skills visa ASAP, if u have qualifications get about getting them assessed, then apply for the visa. if u don't have sufficent points you can also get the state (eg NSW) to sponsor you.

    while this is gonna take u 6-9 months, it is your best and most realistic option of staying in Oz long term.

    Try 18+ months...

    OP you could always shred your passport on the plane over and only say "No English, asylum asylum asylum!" when you get there..


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    #33
    Zambia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    Daithio wrote: »
    No brainer surely?

    I know someone who did just this and for reasons I will keep to myself it was a disaster. Its by far a no brainer.


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    #34
    Stuck2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9 ✭Stuck2010


    filthymcnasty wrote: »
    mate i would get cracking on the skills visa ASAP, if u have qualifications get about getting them assessed, then apply for the visa. if u don't have sufficent points you can also get the state (eg NSW) to sponsor you.

    while this is gonna take u 6-9 months, it is your best and most realistic option of staying in Oz long term.

    getting your gf knocked up, applying for de facto visas, pleading asylum for religious persecution etc etc will be scutinised intensely by DIAC as they have the some of the most rigourous immigration control and if they think u are trying to pull the wool over there eyes you will be blacklisted and may not be able to apply for other visa options in the future.

    best of luck

    feedback i'm getting is that this will not get me into australia before 2012, which just isn't an option. also, it costs thousands of euro i don't have.

    i don't want to pull the wool over anyone's eyes, i know i could chance my arm with the 2nd WHV but if i get a 3 year ban it'll pretty much guarantee the end of the relationship.


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    #35
    Daithio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,679 ✭✭✭Daithio


    Zambia232 wrote: »
    I know someone who did just this and for reasons I will keep to myself it was a disaster. Its by far a no brainer.

    Obviously it's not going to work out every time, but if it's the only way the OP can make it work then I think he has to go with it. It's a risk worth taking IMO.


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    #36
    mandrake04
    Registered Users Posts: 4,435 ✭✭✭mandrake04


    Stuck2010 wrote: »
    thanks for that universe.

    bizarrely, it doesn't matter if we've never even met, if we are engaged i could get the 9 month fiancee visa and live/work there for 9 months so long as we got married before the end of that 9 months.


    It true

    Thats how the Indians do it .... 1 of them gets in on a skilled visa then the perspective marriage visa is used for the arranged marriage... once the wife is in they sponsor family members on both sides... then the whole village has basically moved to Canberra.


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    #37
    universe777
    Registered Users Posts: 469 ✭✭universe777


    Daithio wrote: »
    Obviously it's not going to work out every time, but if it's the only way the OP can make it work then I think he has to go with it. It's a risk worth taking IMO.

    That's a risk I'd take if I had to.


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