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junan70
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 Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 9:20 pm Post subject: Leaving a teaching contract early |
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Hiya
I'm waiting (a looooooong time) to get a visa to move to Australia. I've been told that it 'could' be 6-8 months.
As a former EFL teacher with CELTA and PGCE, I figured I'd get out of the hole that is the UK and go to Asia to teach. I've travelled through SE Asia a fair bit, but not Indonesia and I'm really keen to work there.
However, what are the implications of leaving a contract early i.e after 5 months or so? It's not something I've ever done, nor usually would do. BUT if and when I get that Aus visa I'm going to head over.
I'd appreciate people's thoughts on this.
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tanyakenapa
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Location: Batavia
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Aussie Visa... they telll you 3 - 6 months for a migrant visa, but we got ours (for my husband) in 3 weeks and another person I knew who submitted their application just before us, took 3 weeks also. The Australian Immigration are rolling them out at the moment... !!
Btw .. I was just reading in your other post on a different thread... once you are granted the visa you usually have more than just a couple of months to "enter the country" our visa was issued in April, but we have until March 2010 to enter Australia.
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laughing_magpie06
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| tanya, you are lucky Kevin Rudd is in the Lodge as the doors are rolling open. But the stench of Howard remains as your husband will have to wait 2 years for any government assistance no matter what your circumstances. Hope he gets work and settles in pretty quickly. |
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junan70
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| Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:18 am Post subject: |
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| tanyakenapa wrote: |
Aussie Visa... they telll you 3 - 6 months for a migrant visa, but we got ours (for my husband) in 3 weeks and another person I knew who submitted their application just before us, took 3 weeks also. The Australian Immigration are rolling them out at the moment... !!
Btw .. I was just reading in your other post on a different thread... once you are granted the visa you usually have more than just a couple of months to "entry the country" our visa was issued in April, but we have until March 2010 to enter Australia. |
3 weeks!! Bless ya, that's funny! Already taken me 5 months since application luvvie and the cost is at �3000 (so far!). Let's take it that you're not up on your visas, being as there are 100+ the Aus govt has to trawl through before finding the appropriate one for you to apply for.
Technically I will have '12 months' to start the visa, but again there's small print that you won't be aware of, largely that the state I am applying to live in will be a temporary stop.....it's a complicated visa issue and I won't bore anyone with it, it's tedious enough for me. Suffice it to say that if that visa gets offered I will have to go with perhaps a couple of months notice.  |
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