Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Agents - to use or not to use

SO heres the deal with agents.
Some prefer them some do not.
In our case, we knew absolutely nothing of the process and were far too busy with our careers to bother going through every nook and cranny of the migration process on DIAC's website www.immi.gov.au
All i knew was that i wanted to migrate and permanently live in Australia using my qualifications.
So i did a google search - got a list of websites. Was i sure they were the real thing?
No- how could i be? o
The only way to be sure is to check the MARA website- do a check on the said agent. If his/her name and number is in- by all means go ahead.
But a word of caution - try communicating with your agent - physically on phone or skype.
As you proceed you will find that it is essential that you both are on the same page and both of you understand each other perfectly.
We chose a global migration agent - so far no major complaints - i did have a few but the company or rather my Customer Service Agent did a fine job of sorting it all for me.

But for those of you who would rather do it all yourself and save a lot of money in the process, please do so.

We paid our agent 1200KD for their services.

The cost implication totally is as follows:

Agent Fees: 1200KD
AACA Skills Assesment : 300KD (1000AUD)
IELTS :69KD
Visa Application :1000KD (2960AUD)

This is about it. There will be other fees later during the medical checks PCC etc.
But since i have not yet done them I will leave it for later.


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