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Post by bangalorebiker on Aug 10, 2016 9:36:05 GMT 7
hi all, well i turn 65 yrs young shortly and i contacted Centrelink online inquiring about going onto the OAP from DSP a few months back but up till now i have no reply from Centerlink, so any advice on what i do ? take the next step ? or just let sleeping dogs lay ?i am living in Philippines at present. thanks mates.
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Post by ghostbuster on Aug 10, 2016 9:51:43 GMT 7
Hi Bangalore. I got my OAP just over 3 years ago. Was on DSP for several years before change to OAP. Had to fly from Manila to apply for OAP in Darwin Result was i had to stay in Darwin until my birthday (3 weeks) then returned to Manila on OAP.
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Post by bangalorebiker on Aug 10, 2016 10:30:00 GMT 7
Hi Bangalore. I got my OAP just over 3 years ago. Was on DSP for several years before change to OAP. Had to fly from Manila to apply for OAP in Darwin Result was i had to stay in Darwin until my birthday (3 weeks) then returned to Manila on OAP. thanks mate but i am just about beyond flying anymore the legs not working completely RS, the body is ready for the junk heap, bad enough doing the once a year fly out to HK a few yrs back dunno how i will go once my 3 yrs are up and i must leave again, i have no intention of ever going back to ozzi in this lifetime mate so i reckon if i have to return to the unlucky country then i will give it a miss and stay on DSP, cheers.
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Post by Banjo on Aug 11, 2016 7:51:25 GMT 7
How did you contact them? Give International Services a ring if it's bothering you.
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Post by Denis-NFA on Aug 11, 2016 20:54:36 GMT 7
hi all, well i turn 65 yrs young shortly My heartfelt congrats to you Bangalore. Great to see. I'll have a beer for you. Your a couple of years ahead of me. Cheers man. Hopefully we meet up one day.
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Post by nomadic on Aug 12, 2016 0:49:49 GMT 7
Gee Denis, you must be my age also. well done B.B. Denis and Myself are not far behind it would seem. i'll have a beer also because I can match Denis any day. Cheers to all. We need a laugh now and again and today has been one of the most amazingly crazy days of my life but not everything about it for here now. Only that I walked up the longest stair case from a railway station in the world was just one of the things that happened today. And all because of my disabilities. I didn't see the bloody lift. Over 100 steps i estimate but pleased I could actually do it.
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Post by ghostbuster on Aug 12, 2016 7:30:07 GMT 7
Hi all. I have been on OAP for three and a half years now In that time i have been living in Philippines. How long can i stay here without c/l trying to enforce their residency rubbish on me?
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Post by Banjo on Aug 12, 2016 8:09:44 GMT 7
Well I'm 3 years away last month so I'd be interested myself. I'm mainly concerned that they might try to pull a swifty with Medicare.
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Post by Banjo on Aug 12, 2016 8:20:12 GMT 7
I know how you feel nomadic, I blew my visa out of the water last week reading the wrong date and had to make a rush trip to Lao. I think I must have walked several miles at Don Maung, the only way the ####### plane could have landed further way from arrivals would have been to land at Swampy, got to Vientiane and decided that seeing the budget for 2016 was destroyed anyway I'd have a bit better hotel and the room was on the 4th floor with no lift.
Can't take a trick.
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Post by bangalorebiker on Aug 12, 2016 11:33:20 GMT 7
hi all, well i turn 65 yrs young shortly My heartfelt congrats to you Bangalore. Great to see. I'll have a beer for you. Your a couple of years ahead of me. Cheers man. Hopefully we meet up one day. nar mate buggar it i'll just wait and see what develops no use bothering the poor sods at centrelink there too busy drinking homebrew and making peoples lives miserable lol
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Post by bangalorebiker on Aug 12, 2016 11:37:51 GMT 7
hi all, well i turn 65 yrs young shortly My heartfelt congrats to you Bangalore. Great to see. I'll have a beer for you. Your a couple of years ahead of me. Cheers man. Hopefully we meet up one day. thanks boys, yep the big 65 where the hell have all the years gone ? it was not that long ago i was 10 ft tall n bullet proof. well i though i was lol
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Post by Denis-NFA on Aug 12, 2016 13:26:03 GMT 7
Hi all. I have been on OAP for three and a half years now In that time i have been living in Philippines. How long can i stay here without c/l trying to enforce their residency rubbish on me? ghostbusterSorry but I'm not sure I understand properly. What residency rubbish can they impose on you if you already have OAP?
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Post by Denis-NFA on Aug 12, 2016 13:33:10 GMT 7
thanks boys, yep the big 65 where the hell have all the years gone ? it was not that long ago i was 10 ft tall n bullet proof. well i though i was lol well you still look about 10ft tall and bullet proof to me. don't let them tell you different.
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Post by nomadic on Aug 13, 2016 0:49:00 GMT 7
I'll see you in Chiang Rai in 3 months Banjo if all goes to plan. So just ask me about the day of the knife in the back pack ( nothing sinister at all just one of those amazing days) and I will tell you all about that and the stairs plus plus of what went wrong on August 11th 2016.
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Post by ghostbuster on Aug 13, 2016 7:04:47 GMT 7
Well that is what i am asking. Plain and simple, how long can i stay in Philippines.
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