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SCG Scandinavia
Around 1,500 Australians live in the land of ABBA and Volvos. Another 1,000 live in Finland, and about 750 in Norway. We also believe there are about 700 Australians in Denmark. If you're in Scandinavia, please get in touch to say hello. Before you send us a question of any nature, however, please read our general policy on responding to queries set out below.
SCG Contacts in Scandinavia
Sweden
Our SCG Co-ordinator for Sweden is an Australian who's acclimatised to the cold in the nether regions over many years. In 2002 he was very pleased when he became a Swedish citizen without losing his Australian citizenship, following the repeal of Section 17 of the Australian Citizenship Act 1948.
John Griffin
Southern Cross Group
Lindholmsbacken 171
127 49 Skaerholmen
SWEDEN
Telephone: +46 (0)8 740 7045
Mobile: +46 (0)8 7817174
E-mail: griffin@southern-cross-group.org
John is assisted in Sweden by Darren Hughes, an Australian in Värmdö:
Darren Hughes
Värmdö
SWEDEN
E-mail: darren@southern-cross-group.org
Denmark
We also have an SCG Committee Member coordinating our activities in Denmark. Jane is an Australian married to a Dane who has lived in Copenhagen for several years:
Jane Kristensen
Copenhagen
DENMARK
Telephone: + 45 (0) 33 11 25 04
e-mail: jane@southern-cross-group.org
Norway
We currently have no SCG volunteer in Norway. If you'd like to get involved, please contact Anne MacGregor.
Finland
So that we are not accused of being geographically challenged, we know that Finland is not technically part of Scandinavia, but we thought that details about our volunteer in Finland most logicially belonged on this page of our website.
In Finland's capital Helsinki, we have SCG Volunteer Tim Laird, who is also a Registered Australian Migration Agent (No 0638682) and can help you with any queries you might have about migrating to Australia or taking a non-Australian spouse or partner back to Australia to live:
Tim Laird
Helsinki
FINLAND
Telephone: +358 (0)9 455 1184
Fax: +358 (0)9 455 1834
e-mail: tim@southern-cross-group.org
In even colder parts of the same country, Nicole Patison is an Australian geologist who works in the very far north of Finland:
Nicole Patison
Rovaniemi
FINLAND
E-mail: patison@southern-cross-group.org
We receive many queries every day from Australians around the world. The flood of e-mails is now of such a volume that our volunteer committee is stretched to its limits. While we want to hear your thoughts and views, before you send us a message, please read the following. This will allow us to use our limited resources as effectively as possible, so that we can spend less time answering e-mails and more time developing policy submissions and doing other work of importance to the whole Australian expatriate community.
Requests to be put on the SCG E-Bulletin List
If you simply wish to be put on the SCG's free e-mail bulletin list, please sign yourself up directly rather than writing to us. This will ensure that you automatically receive updates on the progress of our various issues as events occur. Our e-mail list is powered by List Builder software and you can unsubscribe yourself at any time. We do not share your personal contact details with any other individual or organisation.
Requests for Advice on Citizenship, Immigration and Other Matters - Please Make a Donation
Quite a few questions people address to us by e-mail are already comprehensively answered on our website. Please use the search facility at the top of this page to search our whole website BEFORE you e-mail us. You should also check relevant government websites for information before you write to us.
We are receiving an increasing number of complicated queries from people wanting specific advice on their personal citizenship or immigration situation. Some of these queries can take one of our volunteers several hours to answer properly. Requests of this nature should really be addressed to a qualified immigration lawyer in the relevant jurisdiction, rather than to the SCG. While we aim to provide support to members of the Australian diaspora within the confines of our limited volunteer resources, we are not a free immigration and citizenship advice bureau. And it is disheartening to spend a great deal of time preparing responses to these queries when often the recipients even forget to thank us.
We do have a number of lawyers on our volunteer SCG Committee, qualified in various jurisdictions. Some of them have expertise in immigration and citizenship matters. If you send us a query which we judge will take more than 15 minutes to answer, we will e-mail you back and ask you to make a donation of a suggested amount to the Southern Cross Group before we provide you with an answer. You can make your donation using the Amazon Honor System. Your donation will help us pay for website hosting and the many other expenses we face in running the SCG. This is a small way that you can say thank you for the support we provide you with.
You can contact us using our general e-mail address or the e-mail address of the SCG Committee Member nearest you.
