Getting Started - May 2012


30th May 2012 - 05:18
A sunny retirement is the reason a large number of British people emigrate, but for younger people better employment opportunities are increasingly what makes them swap the UK for a country with a more buoyant economy and exciting lifestyle. Figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) this month show that around 338,000 Brits emigrated long-term from the UK in the year to September 2011 – a little up on the year before, when 345,000 left these shores for a better life...
17th May 2012 - 12:57
This week we speak to teachers Dave and Natalie who emigrated halfway round the world from the UK nearly ten years ago. In this interview they tell us about their move to Australia, how they found the visa application process and how easy it was to transfer their qualifications to Western Australia... When and why did you choose to move to Perth? We moved here in January 2003 and we chose Perth by accident really. Our initial idea was to fly to Perth first as neither of us had been to...