Permanent Visas

'Permanent' or 'resident' visas allow the holder to remain in Australia indefinitely. Migrant and some humanitarian entrants are granted permanent visas. Holders of permanent visas are 'Australian residents' for the purposes of section 7(2) of the SSAct.

Resident status

While visas are the most common evidence of resident status, you may come across some old style visas. These old visas can be imprints or stick-in labels different in size, shape and colour from the present ones. On these visas, resident status was evidenced with any of the three stamps below. The stamps, which appear on travel documents including passports, indicate that the holder was granted permanent resident status on the date shown on the stamp.

Persons who are granted permanent resident status or citizenship in Australia can obtain from DIAC a 'certificate of evidence of residence status' if they have no other proof of their status. The information in the certificate is current only at the date of issue.

Australian Fiancee Visa for Thai GF Girlfriend

Any Thai Australian relationship where there is future plan of marriage will allow with the correct visa application for a Fiancee visa to permit the Thai girlfriend - fiancée to travel to Australia.

Fiancee Visa for Australia and Thai girlfriend

The Australian fiancee visa is given for a set period of time where at the end of the Thai girlfriend - fiancée will have to return to Thailand. The fiancée visa also does not allow the Thai to work in Australia

Plan Your Business Trip to Thailand

Runckel & Associates Service: Visit Facilitation

• On the Ground Support
• Site Selection, Logistics, Licenses for Building and operating Factories in Thailand
  
• Sourcing Products, Meet the companies
• Assisting Executive MBA Programs and Business Groups

Runckel & Associates has experienced English-speaking associates on the ground in Thailand to prepare and support your visits: Most of these associates have been working with us for 6-8 years during which they have performed a wide variety of projects with us. This gives you and your company experience, knowledge, a trusted partner and an advantage helping you in all aspects of your new endeavor in Asia. Site selection and logistics during the visits: We regularly work with the major industrial parks, national business promotion agencies and local specialists on site selection, licenses and permits. We therefore can arrange meetings and visits that can help simplify your data collection and help ensure that you are receiving the most accurate information and are not missing key facts or failing to consider important information that can make your project more profitable and more predictable in terms of its success. Sourcing products and visiting factories during the visits: We are specialists in assisting companies seeking to produce products or to source products in all parts of Thailand. Our specialists in Thailand can help you find the best company to produce and source your product and visit them. Assisting Universitiy's EMBA programs and business group for trips to Thailand: Our study tour is designed for business schools, EMBA students and business executives with a view to provide understanding of Thailand’s business culture, business organization and management in an Asian context. Our team of international business, diplomatic and cultural specialists has a long and rich background in Thailand. We arrange for lectures, company visits and tours throughout the trip to help executives better understand the challenges and the opportunities that Asia offers.

Uncover Egypt for Longer with Gulf Bank Visa

Have you met Osiris? Nefertiti? and King Tut? Let Hilton tempt you with the exotic. Enjoy the renowned Hilton hospitality, from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean with 15 exotic hotels and resorts. From beach, sun, spa, weekend fun, or family gatherings, Hilton can make it real in a blink of an eye.

Pay for 2 nights, stay 1 extra night = Total 3 nights
Pay for 3 nights, stay 2 extra nights = Total 5 nights
Pay for 4 nights, stay 3 extra nights = Total 7 nights

Plus – this summer use your Gulf Bank Visa card to book your stay at any Hilton Hotel worldwide, and get an additional 10% off. For reservations and details visit: www.hiltonextranights.com/visa

Validity

• Offer is valid until September 30th 2009

Terms & Conditions

• Offer applicable when paying with your Gulf Bank Visa Card
• This promotion is available for all room types and best of the best available rate of the day
• This promotion is not valid in for any other promotional rates or packages
• Government taxes, occupancy charges, gratuities and incidental charges are not included in the rate
• Free night(s) must be used during the actual booked stay or will be forfeited at checkout
• Advance reservations required

Please use this promotional code when booking: PR09FN – Hilton Extra Nights

Get your visa and flight as soon as possible

The recession has a negative effect on many aspect of our lives, but this is the natural way of the economy to bring order to itself after years of frivolous spending by the common consumer. It is always darkest before the dawn, that good old idiom says, but that isn’t necessarily true if you act on time.

In recent news an article covered the fact that a lot of backpackers from the UK and Germany are rushing down to Australia in 2009. If you are amongst those people willing to spend the next year in Australia, then there isn’t a better time to get your Australian visa and book your flight.

Obtaining a visa might take you between 2 days and two weeks, depending on the approach you chose to obtain one. You can do it by yourself, however if you need it in a hurry it is better to go through an agent, since it will cut most of the hassle and you application will be processed faster.

Currently you can book a ticket from London to Sydney on British Airways’s site for as low as 518GBP. This will be the price you pay if you book now for any date of the period ~01/05 – 15/06/2009. This will soon change, however you have the great opportunity to book a cheap in the next few days. Airlines will not be able to sell low cost tickers for much longer so this summer is you chance to book a low cost flight from and to Australia.

It is a great time for working holiday makers from Australia to travel to the United Kingdom and for UK backpackers to jump over to Australia.

Get the UK visa application right

The amount of evidence that is needed to persuade the British embassy that the visa application is real can be over whelming, get the evidence wrong or provide incorrect evidence to support the visa application and the visa will be refused. Many people are refused as a result of the strength of the evidence provided at the time of the UK visa application.

Visa to the UK Service

We offer an online Visa to the UK application form, after we receive your information, out staff will contact you to inform you if a visa will be issued for your Thai partner to travel to the UK

Have you been refused a UK Visa?

Been refused a visa to the UK for you Thai partner?

If you’re Thai partner has been refused a Visa to the UK. There are two options open to you.
Some UK visa refusals you are able to appeal against and others you have to reapply for the visa.
When your Thai partner is refused a Visa to the UK, the Embassy officer will indicate the reasons that the UK visa has been refused. It is important to understand, whatever reasons given in the refusal letter, if there are no changes made to the UK sponsor and Thai partner’s situations, then the Visa will be refused yet again.

On many occasions UK Visas have been refused even though the Thai and UK Citizen meet all the criteria but because the application was badly collated or incorrect information were handed in to the British embassy at the time of the application.

Reappy or Appeal ?

If you have been refused a Visa to the UK we can help ensure that when we reapply or appeal, the visa is issued. We will inform you of what the UK sponsor and Thai partner must do before making the new visa application

Real Benefits

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Estate Planning & Wealth Transfer

Protecting your family’s future, providing peace of mind

Regardless of their net worth, our clients share an interest in assuring that, during their lives and after their deaths, their wishes will be respected and carried out as thoroughly and efficiently as possible. This includes not only transferring property and assets to family members and loved ones by way of lifetime gifts and transfers occurring after death, but also addressing other important family issues such as the succession of a business, preservation of the family camp, or the appointment of a guardian for a relative with special needs. Our clients represent a broad cross section of Maine’s economy. Our attorneys work closely with clients and their families and advisors to identify and understand their planning objectives and to develop individualized plans that will accomplish these goals.

The Estate Planning & Wealth Transfer Practice at Eaton Peabody has represented individuals, families and closely-held businesses throughout Maine for more than 70 years. Our attorneys and staff provide a high degree of personalized service that focuses on each client’s individual circumstances, goals and objectives. We offer a range of services from simple to sophisticated estate and tax planning, business succession planning, and probate and trust administration, as well as related legal services such as beneficiary representation, probate litigation, and elder law. We also assist clients in achieving their charitable objectives through establishing charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts, charitable foundations and perpetual endowed funds. Our attorneys represent numerous nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations on a wide range of issues. Our well-qualified and experienced staff provides complete estate settlement services which include preparation of probate filings, estate inventories, federal and state estate and income tax returns, settlement of creditors' claims, and fiduciary accountings.

Haslers Accountants "named

Haslers Accountants "named" in $1,000,000,000 Organised Crime - FBI Carroll Trust Case

The Carroll Foundation Charitable Trust one billion dollars “cross-border” international crime case is bringing in high level law enforcement officers from the FBI Washington DC field office and Scotland Yard Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA).

The Carroll Global Corporation operations have been the victim of fraudulent accounting embezzlement and criminal seizure operations by the FBI Scotland Yard Carroll Trust “named” international criminal syndicate including Anthony Clarke former CEO of Carroll Global Corp. Goodman Derrick Haslers Accountants which incorporate Saunter Chappell of Loughton Essex “in concert” with the HM Queen’s Bankers RBS Coutts Bank and HSBC high level banking officals.

FBI Carroll Trust dossiers contain compelling criminal evidence material including fraudulent “dummy” Carroll Trust Corporations forged and falsified share certificates. Dummy RBS Coutts Carroll Bank Accounts “directly linked” to HSBC Carroll Corporations also the subject of fraudulent accounting and “multiple” Carroll Trust criminal seizure operations by HSBC and the named crime syndicate on a world wide basis.

In Westminster London within the heart of the British Governmental apparatus the Carroll Family Trust’s Eaton Square Belgravia and Westminster residences with a value of over $10m have been the subject of break-ins burgularies and ongoing criminal seizure operations by the “named” international crime syndicate now tageted by the cross-border law enforcement agencies charged with this massive global organised crime case.

Mark Field MP for the City of London and Westminster in the heart of the United Kingdom’s Governmental apparatus is “named” as one of the primary witnesses as the Member of Parliament representing Gerald Carroll as a constituency member within the Belgravia and Westminster wards.

There is a complete - LOCKDOWN - of the Carroll Trust one billion dollars ($1.000.000.000) criminal case at the FBI Washington DC field office the HM Attorney General’s Office Baroness Scotland QC “in concert” with the Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson QPM of the Metropolitan Police Scotland Yard within a “cross-border” international crime case.

China, India to implement Antitrust laws

China will enforce Antitrust laws (anti monopoly laws or competition laws) from Friday, August 1st, while India will put the same laws into place by the end of this year. Antitrust laws are expected to delay or thwart high-profile cross-border mergers and acquisitions, in the burgeoning economies, lawyers and business executives warned the Financial Times.

China and India both will implement Antitrust laws based on the European Union model, which will essentially prohibit agreements or practices that restrict free trade and competition between business entities. The law will help control monopoly practices by firms which might use predatory pricing, price gouging, refusal to deal etc. The aim of the law which is to promote fair competition by supervising mergers and acquisitions of large corporations, including some joint ventures, is a cause for concern of many multinationals in the region.

In China, deals involving companies with a combined global turnover of US$1.5bn – and where at least two of the parties each have turnover in China of US$60m – are likely to have to file for approval. China already has ambitious plans to sue Microsoft’s pricing and the dominance of its products on the Chinese market.

India’s thresholds are equally complicated, but draft guidance suggests that they could be set even lower in many cases. India’s beefed-up monopoly laws allow the new Competition Commission of India up to 210 days to assess merger filings – far longer than in the EU or US.

Mexican Officials

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(ALBUQUERQUE)---Attorney General Gary King meets Sunday in Idaho with the Mexican federal Attorney General, 24 Mexican state Attorneys General and fellow members of the Conference of Western Attorneys General (CWAG) to discuss law enforcement issues affecting the U.S. and Mexico.

"This is the opening day of the summer CWAG meeting and it is significant that we begin by continuing our long partnership with Mexico," says Attorney General King. "Individually and as a group, state Attorneys General have been providing technical assistance and training to prosecutors and law enforcement agencies in Mexico as the country transitions to a judicial system much like ours in the United States."

Attorney General King recently met with Mexican and Italian prosecutors in Rome, Italy to discuss organized crime fighting efforts and how they could be applied in U.S. border states like New Mexico. The Attorney General expects to continue those discussions with Mexican officials during the CWAG gathering.

Substance abuse, consumer protection, natural resource issues and Indian gaming are also on the agenda for discussion during the four day meeting. Nearly 500 people, including 16 state Attorneys General are expected to attend.