Does anyone know how the second instalment has to be paid? Can it be done on a credit card?
Just trying to face up to the huge amount of money that I HOPE I'll soon be asked to pay. Sorry if this has already been asked.
Thanks
Nico
Hi Nico. I seem to think that paying on a credit card would have been OK as long as the credit-limit is large enough. We decided it was easier just to send the money for the Bond and the 2nd Instalment to my sister in Perth, so that she could deposit the Bond and despatch a Bank draft to the POPC for the 2nd Instalment. She did both on the same day in the end and Mum's visa was granted a week later.ChersGill
Location: Finally moved to our new home at Bonbeach.(VIC 3196)
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2nd payment for cpvisa
Hi there
Hopefully we'll be in the same boat as you very soon.I asked HIFX and Commonwealth Bank and both said they can pay it for you,however as it is less than £30,000 the Commonwealth Bank will charge (£30 I think) whereas HIFX do it for free.
Hope this helps,at least it's another option to consider
Thanks, Mike and Connie, that's another option I was thinking of. It took my bond money a whole week to get there so I'm trying to do as much as possible in advance. Any further news on yours? And the flat sale?
Location: Finally moved to our new home at Bonbeach.(VIC 3196)
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reply to nico
Hi Nico,
No further news on the visa but we have sold the flat,less than 2 weeks from first advert to receiving and accepting formal offer.Have agreed a provisional exchange of 21 June so hopefully we will have heard about the visa by then.
If we don't get the visa we would still have sold the flat anyway as we have decided that "flat living" isn't for us,it seemed a good idea at the time we bought because we were spending about 6 months of the year in France but since we sold up there and living here full time we realised it's not ideal.
POPC have received everything by 10 days ago so hopefully we should be hearing soon.
I'll keep the site updated as soon as we hear
Regards
Mike and Connie
Well done on the flat sale, that's so quick! I sold my house before starting all this, as the previous time I sold a house it took over a year. The Scottish system beats the English one hands down, I gather.
I also used to live in France, over twenty years ago, and all my kids were born there. London has never really seemed like home, and I think Melbourne is much more my kind of place.
Hope you soon get the go-ahead from POPC, sounds as if you're very close.
Nico
Location: Finally moved to our new home at Bonbeach.(VIC 3196)
Posts: 106
CP visa....for Caz
Hi Caz
We applied through an agent in Edinburgh(OE),it was sent off in March06,acknowledged mid April06,allocated a CO mid Feb07,had our meds and police checks at end March07 and all sent by early April07,so now it's just a matter of waiting.
Hope this gives you some idea of the waiting involved,it seems the skilled visas are actioned a lot quicker than the CPvisas. Understandable I guess.
Is it for yourselves or parents?
Mike and Connie
We are going on a CP visa ourselves and applied on 9th Feb 07 POPC had the paperwork on 15th Feb 07 and acknowledged to us by letter on 13th March so we have a long way to go yet.
We are using Go Matilda as our agents and we will just wait and wait till we get our case officer before applying for meds and police checks and will not put the house on the market till we have the visa in our hands, unlike a lot of people who put their application in then sell the house, I do not want to be in a position where if it all goes wrong I would not be in a position to buy back the type of house I am in.
Good luck to you both, whereabouts are you heading to. We will be heading to Brisbane then looking at areas north of Brissie up to Noosa so a lot of looking to do when we get there.
We have already had two holidays in Australia in 2000 and 2005/6 and have a Daughter and Son in Law in Brissie and I have the rest of my rellies in Melbourne and Brissie as well. More rellies out there than here in fact.
Will be leaving our Son and his Fiance here though, a sad thought.
