Australian E3 visa

Many thanks for your response!

Glad you got your deposit back hope it was worth waiting for!

Mainly as a warning to others coming to Australia...
Be aware that moving to Australia on a temporary Visa can mean many restrictions; I know as me and my family migrated to Australia through this method.

We have 5 kids and one on the way so if there is a restriction we find it affects one of the members of the family. Here as you may know there is 'Centerlink'; if you have kids you are entitled to many benifits even if you have a resonable wage, we couldn't get any help until we had permanant residency (We came with enough money for this to not be a problem but some people come from poor countries and aren't just here for experience and they have no saftey net).

We also found that to get reduced college fees my eldest son wasn't entitled to help until we had had our perminant residency for two years.

Also we only had emergency health cover on our temp. Visa (not a problem at the time but you never know what may happen).

We couldn't sign to get a mobile phone contract because of our Visa. We had perfect credit history in England but that didn't count. We had to just buy new SIM cards for our old phones!

Buying a house is also not so simple on a temp. Visa, things such as the first home owners grant that is avalible to others isn't given on a temp visa.

I think this is all fair if you come to a new country but if you plan to stay any lengh of time on a temp. Visa then you need to be careful; that was my worry on the E3 for the US.