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With over 100,000 Australians in the United States, 42,000 in Canada, and about 400 in Mexico, it's not surprising that just under half the Australians on our mailing list are based on the North American continent.
Before you e-mail one of our SCG North America Committee Members listed below, or contact us through our general e-mail address, please read our policy on handling queries below.
SCG Contacts in the United States
Overall coordination for the USA is managed by two SCG volunteers.
East Coast and the Mid West: Robyn Stephenson, in Zeeland, Michigan, can be reached by phone on +1 (616) 748 7993, or mobile +1 (616) 403 2819. Robyn is a former RAN officer and holds a degree in psychology. Originally from Wollongong, she met her American husband online while still living in Australia, and then moved to Michigan to marry him. She's now the proud mum of two little dual-citizen daughters.
West Coast: Suzanne Moles in Fresno, California can be reached by phone on +1 (559) 346-0801. She's lived in the US for several years with her American husband and has a website design business which she runs from home. She has previous experience living as an Australian expat in Ireland for six years.
Australian War Brides and Children: If you are contacting the SCG because you are an Australian war bride or the son or daughter or an Australian war bride, please direct your query in the first instance to our volunteer SCG War Brides Coordinator, Ken Lankard, in Los Angeles. Ken's telephone number is +1 (805) 485 7217, and fax +1 (805) 485 6818.
SCG Contacts in Canada
Our SCG Co-ordinator for Canada is Brett Rueff, who lives in Abbotsford, Vancouver, BC. He can be reached on telephone +1 778 786 2829. We also have volunteers in other parts of Canada, with whom Brett can put you in touch.
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.
