Visa Services

Global Reach, Local Expertise

Expat International provides a range of Visa and migration consulting services that will meet your company's business needs. Our comprehensive services are tailored to ensure cost control, and immigration compliance at every stage of the global relocation process, and include:

• Assessment of each case, and reporting on options
• Expertise to assist with corporate staffing strategies and HR requirements
• Collaborate with client HR to develop appropriate immigration sections within their expatriate policy
• Corporate HR guidance and training
• Assistance with business Compliance Monitoring
• Regular newsletters and immigration updates
• Your ongoing resource for global immigration advice

Interactive Destination Guide - Expat Explorer^TM

In addition to Expat International's comprehensive Visa services, we have developed an interactive Destination Guide Expat Explorer^TM. Expat Explorer^TM is proving an invaluable resource for transferees and their families prior to and after relocation in such areas as:

• General Information on your Destination City
• Money and Finance: banking, cost of living, lending rates and foreign exchange
• Pets and your rental property, boarding kennels, registration and vaccinations
• Travel and Transport: information on tollways, drivers licence, motor vehicle insurance and taxis
• Services and Utilities: local councils, electricity, gas and telecommunications
• Settling In and Referrals: facts about relocating, support services and connecting with your new community
• Property: temporary accommodation, housing styles and information on purchasing or renting a home
• Health and Medical: Public and Private health scheme, doctors and specialists, emergency care and maternity
• Children: effects of relocating, childcare, immunization and entertainment
• Education: School calendar, special needs children and an overview of Preschool, Primary, Secondary and Tertiary
• Lifestyle: Sport, dining, shopping, places of worship and security

Expat Virtual Home Search^TM

This web-based program is a comprehensive low-cost, interactive support tool to assist with independent Homesearch. It is ideally suited for transferees with limited employer-support when undertaking company relocation.

The transferee is guided on a virtual relocation journey that has been tailored, through their own input and answers to questions, with quality and up-to-date information to suit their specific needs. This guide to relocation customises information as provided by the transferee, to arrive at a host of answers including a range of suburbs most likely to comprise their lifestyle, housing, education, community and budget requirements.

The transferee is enabled to independently research the destination city, make informed decisions on important issues before leaving home, and to settle quickly and smoothly into the new city.
Virtual Homesearch^TM, which also includes the Expat Explorer^TM component, is available online for 6 months to facilitate ongoing location information and settling-in.

Expat Virtual Homesearch PLUS^TM

To enhance the benefits of the Expat Virtual Homesearch^TM, Expat combines this with one day of accompanied Homesearch and Settling-In with an Expat Relocation Consultant. Providing Expat's web-based information program "Expat Virtual Homesearch" to the transferee for independent research prior to departure and maintain contact to align Expat's scheduled viewings with transferee's preferences.