ChimneyJ

Hi Everyone. I had the 309 and 100 visa’s granted yesterday, just over 4 months since applying. A bit of background: I’m British, living in the UK with dual citizen Australian-British husband/sponsor for the last 8 years (married for 7 years). No children. My visa timeline is below - Agent Used: No Visa sub class: 309/100 Applied online: 30 July 2016 (sponsor’s form and evidence uploaded within a week) Case officer assigned: 27 September 2016 (additional document, police check and medical requested) Police check and additional document submitted: 25 October 2016 Medical submitted: 2 November 2016 (undertaken on 27 October) Visa granted (both the 309 and 100): 5 December 2016 Other than medical and police check the only extra document we were asked to supply was my husband/sponsor’s proof of acquiring British citizenship (he naturalised in 2012). In mid-November I realised that I should have had a button on my immiaccount which wasn’t there, to notify them that I had uploaded the requested police check / medical / requested document. So when I realised, I just sent my case officer an email and he left a voicemail the next day to confirm they had everything they needed and we were just waiting for a visa grant date. It also took me longer than I had hoped to do both the police check and medical. I found it difficult to find an endorser for my UK ACRO police check (I didn’t realise I needed one until I went to request the check) and my “local” panel doctor only take appointments for Thursdays and they were already booked up for a couple of weeks. None of this seemed to delay the visa grant though, it’s come through much quicker than I was expecting! We haven’t made any fixed plans for moving and it is looking like we might just go to Australia for a holiday in early 2017 to validate the visa and then move over there sometime later.