TRANSFERRING TO AUSTRALIA. although i have been ranting a lot, the whole transferring process can actually be done easily. the main reason to why i have been stressing a lot is finding a house - i recommend those who are going for the first time to not stay outside unless you are willing to fly over way earlier. then again, thank god that my string of bad luck is now gone, so everything is actually now done! for those who have been asking me a lot regarding my transfer, i guess i owe you guys a clear step-by-step description of the process. lo &&& behold, here is Yew Chong's Guide to Transferring to Australia WTF™: e-Certificate of Enrollment (eCOE) assuming that you have already submit your acceptance form, the most important thing to wait for the college/university to send you your eCOE. without this piece of document, you cannot apply for your visa online. the college/university will send you the soft copy within three working days (for Monash). as for my case, mine didn't come at all. i was so desprate until i actually e-mailed Monash Clayton to inform them about it but Kenny told me that uni was closed. so then i e-mailed Monash Sunway's Mr. Chen who actually e-mailed god-knows-who for my eCOE. so yeah, i got my eCOE right after that. then a week or so later, this woman from Clayton gave me a call to ask for my e-mail address because apparently there is something wrong with my e-mail; turned out, they mistaken the dash on my e-mail address as an underscore, so yeah, that explained my missing eCOE. on another note, if you are looking for the fastest delivery company to deliver your documents, you might want to try DHL which can deliver your documents in just 2 - 3 days when others need at least a week. then again, i paid a whopping MYR220 for their service wtf. Visa application unlike transferring to the United States of America, you can actually apply for your visa online. the process is really easy - just a list of questionaires for you to answer. after answering all the questions ie. filling up the form, you'd have to pay AUD540 for three years of Temporary Student Visa. as for my case, i filled up one of the many questions wrongly. that question which asks "Are you holding an Australian visa right now?" or something along the line which i actually do since i just went to Perth three months back. i, however, answered NO because i thought the visa lapsed already since i changed my passport last month. the truth is actually, your visa remains even if you change your passport FML. so yeah, i was so worried that they might reject me for lying wtf but turned out, it doesn't matter *jumps around happily// back to the story, after paying, they will give you a list of clinics for you to choose to go for your medical check-up. select your choice &&& make sure you print out the Referral Letter because you will need it when you go for your medical check-up. Medical Check-up for medical check-up, you need to bring a your passport, the referral letter &&& your spectacles, if you do own one. oh, if you are wondering, no fasting is needed because we are only taking urine-test &&& X-ray. then again, you are to drink lots of water for the urine-test to avoid microscopic hematuria because if you have it, you have to retake your urine-test. &&& feel free to correct me if the presence of blood in urine due to lack of water is not counted as hematuria. by the way, i chose Life Care Diagnostic as the clinic to do my medical check-up. this clinic can actually provide you with the results within an hour - the one hour count starts the moment you enter the clinic. it is highly recommended for those who are doing it last minute. it is located at Wisma Zurich, next to Stamford College which is next to PJ Hilton. Visa grant i am assuming that all the listed clinics will send the medical report straight to the Australian immigration, so yeah, once you are done with your medical check-up, your visa will be grant the day itself. they will inform you via e-mail, so do check your e-mail very often. Looking for a house this is not something easy to do because the Australians are pretty different in a way. before deciding to rent the house to you, the agents need you to inspect the house first &&& they will not take "it's alright" or "i will get my friend to inspect it for me" as an answer. so yeah, if you one of those who decide to look for house using Real Estate, be prepared to face this situation. so what you can actually do is either to fly there earlier to look for houses or fly late, taking the risk of renting expensive dodgy house. that is why it is highly unrecommended for those who are going for the first time to stay outside. in my case however, i actually gave up in begging those agents to rent the house to me. the worse thing is that they hardly even reply my e-mail wtf fucking retarded businessmen. so yeah, i gave up &&& the three of us actually decided to fly as early as 3rd of February just to find a house. we booked our tickets already &&& a day before paying, i headed over to Gumtree, a website where house owners post the advertisements themselves instead of using agents. i found a perfect house &&& instantly e-mailed the house owner. he replied me the next morning &&& heck, i called my family's tour agent (she is the one doing our flight booking) to ask her to collect the air fare few days later. so yeah, in that few days, i managed to convince the house owner to lease the house to us! so yeah, we three are no longer flying on the 3rd now *jumps around naked// so yeah, after getting a house, you need to pay bond equivalent to a month's rent (varies with owners as some might request for more). this bond works as a deposit to make sure that you take care of the house because the owner will use this money to repair whatever damage you do. &&& bear in mind that Australians count monthly rent using the formula of: week rent/7 days * 365 days(1 year)/12 months = monthly rent so although your weekly rent may be AUD150, your monthly rent is definitely more than AUD600. just like in my case, my weekly rent is AUD400 for the whole house (to be divided by three), my monthly rent is AUD1738. also, you are to be aware that there are some houses that come unfurnished. like the house that i am leasing, it is unfurnished, so we have to buy our own mattress, table, cupboard, plates, etc when we are there. there are second-hand furniture available though, so yeah. or you can get new ones which you can as second-hand goods next time. then again, it is obviously better to get a furnished house to save all the trouble and money. Preparing to fly easiest among the rest because all you need to do now is to go shopping &&& hang out as much as possible haha wtf. i think i still need to go one round of shopping to get a few more tops (the long-sleeved woolen top i want from AX is @ 60% zomg), a watch, a messenger &&& maybe another long pants/jeans. after that plus a little more of authentic Malaysian food, i am done! the end of Yew Chong's Guide to Transferring to Australia WTF™. see, actually transferring is something really easy! so do not be afraid to transfer wtf who am i kidding. &&& come to think of it, i finally have my own trademark *tears of joy// |