Medical Certificate for retirement visa and related questions

5. Embassy letter & a rough idea re current exchange rate.

I take #5 is if you're doing your retirement funding via pension and not the 800k in the bank?

Why would you need the exchange rate for the latter?

If you declare your income / pension/ annuity in foreign currency per annum or monthly, they have to have a current / valid exchange rate to calculate their own figures to their satisfaction.

I went that route once & they couldn't find the Aus $ rate in the paper, they actually went to my bank to check , took an extra 3 days for the extension.