Moving to Australia with MS?

Contact Centrelink Australia.

If when you say that you're thinking of moving to Australia, you mean that you want to emigrate here and stay permanently, then your main problem will be in meeting our health requirements for immigration and I think that may be very difficult for someone with MS. If you can clear that hurdle and are granted Permanent Residency, your wife would be eligible for Medicare benefits and our Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. I don't know if that particular medication is available under the PBS (it probably is), but if it is, though it will be heavily subsidised, there will be some level of co-payment for each prescription. If she is eligible for disability payments from our Centrelink, she would not get them for the first 2 years here as all immigrants have a 2 year waiting period for that type of payment. Only the Belgian social security people will be able to tell you if she will still have access to their medication and disability payments once she moves to Australia. I doubt that she would, but have no idea of how the Belgian system works. You should certainly check with them. I don't think there would be any customs problems about getting prescription medication into the country if it was accompanied by the correct documentation.

Mate your best action would be to very thoroughly check out Aussie health requirements. I sympathise with your wife's condition, sorry to hear it but am very sure you will have a heck of a time getting in with a spouse in her condition. She is not the primary visa holder I presume which means all the points in the world wont help that type of serious condition. Get onto the High Commission or Embassy (Australian ) as soon as you can, and if its a go, get it in writing.