Hi guys, just want to share our big move experience. Me and my wife moved here in Sydney last May 26 under visa 189. Day after we arrived inayos na namin ang Bank Acct(NAB), Medicare and TFN. TFN online lang siya and dumating ang letter after 4 days. We went to medicare office and nag-fill up lang kami ng forms sa computer nila, then ok na, siguro it take us an hour sa medicare. They gave us our number printed in a temporary ID na nasa bond paper lang. Our medicare ID naman arrived 4 days after. For NAB naman, we went to the branch that we selected when we opened our account, but when we got there hindi rin namin agad na-activate ang account namin kasi kulang ng PH id ang wife ko.. We showed our passports and driver's license, kaso maiden name ang nasa license nya, so we went to medicare muna, got our temporary medicare id then went back to NAB. This time sa ibang branch ng NAB na kami pumunta, ok lang daw na sa ibang branch pumunta to activate the account, kahit hindi sa branch na nilagay during the acct application. ATM cards arrived after 3 working days.
So for ok naman kami dito, still searching for a job online sa linkedin and seek. I'm a software engineer and parang mahirap ata makahanap ng work ngayon kasi end of financial year nila, so busy ang mga companies mag-close ng books. So baka mas ok mag big move around July. Though I already went to some interviews na profiling pa lang. Hopefully makahanap rin agad ng work.
Good luck and God bless sa mga future big movers! ๐