it was four and a half years ago I made this decision to step into Australia in order to
pursue my masters and I had my own share of ups and downs uh to make money to find a job and then
to finish my masters and all of that but on June 22nd of 2022 that's a fancy number I finally got
my permanent residency granted but less you know how much I spent today in this video let's discuss
about the cost breakdown in detail cost breakdown so that you are all prepared for your PR Journey
without any further Ado let's get started awesome so I reached out to an agent to launch my Roi
because my eoi was already dropped in November 2020. though I launched my eoi in November 2020
until July 2021 nothing happened so I decided I need to take the matters in my hands so let's
backtrack for a bit and let me tell you what are the costs associated even to drop my eoi and
secure those points so in order to drop my eloi I had to get my skills assessment and finish certain
examinations to secure the points firstly let's talk about skills assessment e-skills
assessment costed me 500 and I've got two skills assessment which is thousand dollars plus five
hundred dollars of agent cost so in total that's fifteen hundred dollars for skills assessments
I did give PT to secure 20 points which means I need to get about 79 Plus in all of the modules
that costed me 350 dollars but unfortunately I had to attend this examination twice because the first
time when I went ahead to rmit Center which is in Melbourne CBD to give my test uh when I check
my results I got about 21 or 22 in speaking and I was shocked because I'm pretty sure I am not
supposed to get that less of a score and there was a there was an issue with the audio so I had to go
ahead p350 again and give my second attempt in a different Center I've given my test in Melbourne
Polytechnic for the second time and I've got 79 plus so that's 700 for PT without any coaching
now that pte and skills assessment and it was the time for Naughty Natty is a translation exam and
once you clear that you can secure five points but the application cost for Nadi is 800 and I
could not afford to give this test second time so I went ahead and took coaching that costed me
about 350 dollars so that's in total twelve fifty dollars monarty if I go couple of years before
I had to finish my professional year which is again helps me to go secure Five Points
so that costed me 11 000 but after the discounts and all of that uh it costed
me about eight thousand one hundred or eight thousand two hundred dollars
um I had an opportunity to pay it on monthly basis so I paid about eleven hundred dollars every month
for sure for nine months because they charged me extra because I've chosen this installment plan
rather than paying it up front so I've paid about 8 500 to 8 600 for my professional year so all
of these costs led up to my PR which is you know I've got about 95 points in total which is why I
thought it is fair enough to mention these prices as well and all of these things which I mentioned
which is PT naughty professional year and all of these were done after my student visa period which
is when I was in my subclass 485 period now here's a disclaimer that I would like to give you you you
might be thinking okay is there any you've paid a lot for the agents you've wasted your
money but what I think is we waste ton of money thousands of dollars just on spending you know on
things which are unnecessary but uh something which is extremely necessary which is Visa
um paying agents is feasible and it's fair enough is what I feel so even if agent is costing me
about five thousand dollars I still go ahead I'm parking a bit but uh at the end of the day
I'm okay to pay because uh it's my Visa and that's the most important thing so after applying for my
eoi just like how I mentioned nothing happened till July 2021 until the states release their
new eligibility criteria for subclass 189 and 190 which is technically permanent resident visas once
I felt I fit in the criteria of the state Victoria I had to finish my Roi now Roi means registration
of Interest eoi means expression of Interest so when I had to submit my Roi that's when I
had to go through an agent um now every time you have to submit your Roi it's it's it's the states
um uh State whether you would like to submit your Roi or no they are going to let you know
um so last year they had a rule that we have to apply for an Roi so I had to go to an agent
um to launch my Roi and finish the whole process um if I get invited because by then
I didn't know know that I might get invited right so the cost that they've given me was
5200 and once I bargained they've gone down to five thousand dollars so five thousand dollars
split in two payments 2500 before invitation to a large and Roi and all of that stuff
um 2500 after nutrition just just in case if I get my invitation so I had to pay my agent at
that time 2500 and fortunately department does not charge anything to Lodge your Roi meaning
there is no application cost for submitting your eoi or an Roi trust me 90 of my Roi work was done
by me I will not complain but yeah it was done by me but still I had to pay to an agent uh just
because they know the process much more better and they do verification and all of that so yeah
a month or so I finally got my pre-invite and then we had to go through another application process
to apply for the state and then I had to wait for my final invite that happened in the span of one
one and a half months once I received my final invite this was the time when I had to actually
drop in my Visa well I was really happy because I was dropping my Visa but financially it was
really uh consuming because um the department charges about four thousand two forty dollars
um to drop in the Visa as an application fee and I had to pay the agents two thousand five
hundred dollars so it was about seven thousand X you know um including all the miscellaneous
costs and all of that I had to arrange about seven thousand dollars to drop in my Visa
application so once that was done there were a couple of documents that I needed to apply for
for example AFP which is Australian federal police check and I also had to apply for Indian PCC so
both of these together would appear what about so both of these together would about costed me
um hundred dollars in total and nothing more than that I also had to submit my facial limit which
is passport size photograph and um I also had to place that passport size photograph in Indian PCC
I was applying for that so I had to go to Australian post office and get my pictures
click that costed me about 35 40 dollars because I got a pack of uh four to five pictures so yeah
these are all the miscellaneous cars that you tend to forget but in total uh that's a lot it's
expensive so all of this time if you haven't understood in order to secure your PR having
a full-time job is quite important right not just VR but also to accelerate your Carriage growth so
make sure you're clicking on this video and watching this video if you are looking to
find a full-time job here in Australia if you aren't following me on Instagram make sure to
know that for the month of October I'm having two uploads every week so so please keep waiting bye