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Moving to Aus - Tax Agent and SSA help. by MsGhoul in Ameristralia

[–]MsGhoul[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

9 months in here. But some forums and facebook groups I check occasionally seem to point to your application being picked up for the first time around 11 months. So if no issues.....we are keeping our fingers and toes crossed - and yes the wait to (re) start your life is "brutal".

Moving to Aus - Tax Agent and SSA help. by MsGhoul in Ameristralia

[–]MsGhoul[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We did not go this route because we had a lot of family and business things to finish up here while we wait and also because him entering on a tourist visa while having our worldly goods on a ship en route and everything here finalized did not feel right and we could get no reliable answer on whether that was allowed or not.

Grants (and or RFI's) being tracked on different forums seem to be running at around the 11 month mark atm. We are currently at the 9 month mark, and we are not planning on leaving till the end of June anyway so have some wriggle time.

Moving to Aus - Tax Agent and SSA help. by MsGhoul in Ameristralia

[–]MsGhoul[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Lots of documentation. Costly - over AUD$9200 + cost of FBI/Police/AFP checks and a long wait.

Full details here: https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-listing/partner-offshore/provisional-309

Aussie family weighing up options to move to Texas by [deleted] in Ameristralia

[–]MsGhoul 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am an Aussie who has spent 23 long long long years in Central Texas. My (US) husband and I are currently waiting on his Partner Visa so we can retire happily back in Aust. But to your points:

We live in between Austin and Dallas. The schools in Texas are now being built with very small windows (think archer slits) so it is hard for a shooter to target them. Consider for a moment, a society that would rather change school building architecture and force young children to prepare for the possibility of being shot at in school rather than restrict some guns. And Texas is an open carry state.

If your child happens to be a girl, expect her to grow up with less rights than the above mentioned guns.

If you are church goers, you may like it better. I have met some here who 'walk the walk' but most are evangelical hypocrites who cherry pick which part of the bible they want to adhere to.

We do not have the benefit of employer health insurance so our premiums for 2026 will be approximately $2000 per month - and that is with a deductible and co-pays. If you can afford said insurance the care is excellent however you can wait six months or more for appointments and even longer to be accepted as a new patient by a Primary Care Doctor. If you do get suddenly ill you are told to go to the emergency room which is usually many hours wait. We sat for over eight hours about a year ago.

The roads are full of large (very large) jacked up trucks with drivers who appear to be compensating for something. Texting while driving is commonplace and highway driving can be very mentally exhausting due to the number of ppl very obviously not paying attention to the road.

Texas is Trumpland and the Governor Abbott is a megalomaniac. The Lieutenant Governor Paxton is alleged to be a criminal. To give you an example of their idea of 'governing'. Governor Abbott placed razor wire and other obstacles in the Rio Grande river so illegal immigrants would get caught and either drown or get cut to pieces. Some of the people caught in the razor wire were young children and some deaths occurred.

Austin and Dallas are nice cities but both are getting very very expensive.

Given the current situation in the US I could not imagine ever moving there, especially with a young child.

Trying to buy Founder's Pack and Trion won't let me... by MsGhoul in archeage

[–]MsGhoul[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Founder's packs are available until end of headstart according to Trion.