Hi everyone

I am looking for someone living in Switzerland but with an address in Australia (it's already enough if you live here but you still have property in Australia).

Do you know anyone??

Thanks a lot!!!!

..you don't think you should put down a reason why etc.?

I need this person to sign a document in the law office I am working at because our client is swiss and wants to transfer a property in australia. australia now requires that an Australian resident signs this paper as well. Of course we would also pay this person to come to our office and sign the document.

btw our office is at Bahnhofstrasse in Zürich

..and you don't think the person signing the paper would have to sign it for a reason....like vouch for you? co-sign etc?

(just a suggestion) Why don't you contatc the Australian embassy...plenty of Australians there IMO.

no not at all, it's just so that out client doesnt have to go to australia to sign these papers thats all. the signing one has no liabilities afterwards.

"Australian resident" by definition will make things hard for you.

I think you are pretty much restricted to tourists here in this case. Most Aussies here are on at least "B" permits which rules us out.

Is there an age minimum?
I'm thinking that Uni students are your best bet....... and God knows they need the money.
(beer is definitely not free here)

What is the name of this document ?

Gotcha....still seems strange to me.

Found a likely candidate:

it's just the document where our client says that she wants to transfer her property

There must be a title:

Statutory Declaration, Deed Transfer, Sale and Purchase Agreement etc.

Besides, can you point towards a URL that states this requirement ? Preferably ending with a gov.au

I hear you - we had to find someone who is a Justice of the Peace, or is in one of the professions defined by DFAT, and personally knew our newborn since birth to countersign his passport application. Good luck.

Not for an Aussie Passport but related to Conveyancing Law.

Just sent you a PB

I have to admit....... you're hardly stepping up to the plate with info regarding this and it's starting to sound super suspicious.

What is your company? (re: your client)
As jrspet said, what is the document precisely, and what is the nature of the property transfer?

People just don't 'sign shit' these days.

If I understand this correctly, you work in a law office that is unable to set up the signatures and legal requirements for a client's property transfer without the need for you to join a public internet forum and solicit (paid) volunteers to provide the necessary signatures?

Doesn't your office have experience in dealing with this sort of thing? Forgive my cynicism, but it just sounds a bit, well, strange that you are going about getting the signature in this manner.

I'm sorry i didn't mean to sound suspicious, it is just a verification of a signature and I work in a lawyer's company

This is governed by state law, not federal law, so telling us the jurisdiction might help (e.g. Queensland has a special regulations for these cases - click on "Witnesses for Instruments" in this document). It is unusual for the requirement to be "any Australian resident", and at the same time, some foreign professionals are usually qualified to witness documents.

Strange, as most Australian professionals ( teachers, dentists etc. ) are able to witness a signature apart from the usual JP, Notary Public etc.

So it's a "verification of signature" all of a sudden? That carries an obligation to positively identify the person who signs.

Again, these are the requirements for QLD:

Section 3(2) of the Australian Consular Officers’ Notarial Powers and Evidence Act 1946 (Qld), when read with Schedule 1 of the Land Title Act 1994, has the effect that an ‘Australian Consular Officer’ or an ‘authorised employee’ is an acceptable witness in any country or place outside the Commonwealth of Australia.
Section 3(2A) has the effect that a document witnessed by an Australian Consular Officer or an ‘authorised employee’ is as effectual as if witnessed by a justice of the peace. Australian Consular Officers are persons appointed to hold or act in any of the following offices in a country or place outside Australia:
• ambassador;
• high commissioner;
• minister;
• head of mission;
• commissioner;
• charge d’affaires;
• counsellor or secretary at an embassy, high commissioner’s office, legation or otherpost;
• consul general;
• consul;
• vice-consul;
• trade commissioner; or
• consular agent.

An ‘authorised employee’ means an employee of:
(a) the Commonwealth authorised under s 3(c) of the Consular Fees Act 1955 (Cth); or
(b) the Australian Trade Commission authorised under s 3(d) of the Consular Fees Act
1955 (Cth).
Witnesses are required to:
• take reasonable steps to ensure that the individual executing an instrument is the person entitled to sign the instrument (s 162(a) of the Land Title Act 1994);
• have the individual execute the document in their presence (s 162(b) of the Land Title Act 1994); and
• not be a party to the instrument (s 162(c) of the Land Title Act 1994).