MIGRATION
Good news, indeed, if you want to join the million-plus Brits who now call Australia home.
Relocation: the logistics Migrating to Australia will involve shipping your possessions Down Under, be it a full household or a couple of boxes. It can be a stressful process - think of a move within the UK and raise it a couple of notches - but experienced, professional help will make it a smoother and less angst-ridden experience. John Moynes, Sales & Development
Director for PSS International Removals (
pssremovals.com), a family-run business with 30 years’ global experience and a fully bonded member of the British Association of Removers (BAR) Overseas Group, and a FIDI Accredited International Mover (FAIM), says: “T e export packing and loading of your possessions is probably the most important part of the whole international removal process. It’s essential the removal company you choose protects your fragile household items using the correct export grade of industry approved packing materials. It is also important that they have highly skilled and fully trained export packers. “You can choose either a ‘sole use
container’ or ‘share a container’ service. Sole use means delivery of the container to your house, packing and loading at your residence in your presence, the container sealed and then shipped directly from your new front door in Australia. ‘Share a container’ service means we will pack and measure your consignment at your residence and return this to our warehouse for loading in the next shared container to your Australian destination.”
Shipping times and costs T e estimated time of arrival for full containers is 6-8 weeks and 8-12 weeks for the share a container service. All consignments that arrive in Australia are subject to Australian Customs clearance and quarantine examination. PSS will collect your container under customs bond, and transport it to its bonded warehouse, where goods will await customs clearance and
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Above left: Jane Clarke and her family who moved to Perth from the UK
Above right: Life’s a beach in Perth
quarantine, which usually takes between 7 and 14 days.
Costs of sea freight door to door: 20ſt container £3,500 - £4,200 40ſt container £5,500 – £6,500 Half container £2,500 - £2,800
Excess Baggage by sea for a door to door service: With PSS you can send two tea cartons [cardboard boxes measuring 51 x 40 x 61cm or 4.4 cubic feet] for £120, and then get the third free, with a cost of £30 per carton thereaſt er (within a 30-mile radius of port of entry). T ere are also bike carton, book carton and suitcase carton options - see their website for more information.
Relocation: the fi nance Shiſt ing your life from the UK to Australia means your home, family and fi nances all need to move with you. Finances, in particular, can oſt en be pushed to the back of the mind amidst the excitement of other preparations of moving to the other side of the world. For advice on setting up an Australian
bank account or any other issues related to fi nancially planning before your move, you can contact the UK based National Australia Bank Group (Migrant, Expatriate & International Student Banking) on 0141 958 7533 or email
migrant.banking@
eu.nabgroup.com. One of the fi rst steps you should take is
making sure that when you transfer your money to Australia (or any other country) you get the best possible service and rate. By using a foreign currency broker such
as Moneycorp (
moneycorp.com) to transfer money to Australia you know you’ll get a far better exchange rate than from a bank: around 3-4 per cent more. Moneycorp also has experts on hand to
guide and help you to make sure you aren’t hit by foreign exchange market movements. Customers are allocated a dedicated account manager who will help you with specialist services and market guidance. T is specialist help might involve using
‘forward contracts’ which can lock favourable exchange rates for up to two years. By paying a deposit you can secure the current exchange rate for a money transfer to be made at any time within the next 24 months. Let’s assume you are buying a home in
Australia costing A$200,000. At the exchange rate at the time of writing - where £1 = A$1.83 - if you locked into the current sterling-euro exchange rate, then your home will cost you around £109,000. If sterling weakens further to £1 = A$1.77 purchase will cost about £113,000: a sizeable £4,000 increase which could have been avoided with a forward contract. Jane Clarke (pictured above) explains how
Medical care
Temporary residents are also not normally able to access public services in Australia such as social security, education and medical care. Fortunately however access to medical treatment is specially provided by the Australian Government to all British citizens through what is known as the Australia-UK Reciprocal Healthcare Agreement. This entitles British citizens to the same access to Medicare (Australia’s equivalent of the NHS) as Australians enjoy, with this privilege being extended to Britons irrespective of how long they are in Australia for. Medicare provides free treatment in a public hospital, subsidised pharmaceuticals and medical benefi ts for out of hospital treatment provided by a doctor. For more info, see:
humanservices.gov.au
Moneycorp helped her: “We are a family of four originally from the UK, who moved to Perth nearly two years ago for a better lifestyle. Aſt er Christmas we decided to sell our house in the UK to allow us to buy a property here in Perth. We transferred a large sum of money across from the UK to Australia, I really didn’t know how to go about this, but as soon as I got in touch with Moneycorp I realised it was all pretty straight forward. I liked the fact I could fi x the exchange rate ahead of time, so I knew I had secured a rate I was happy with.”§
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