Selah

Hi all.

 

I lodged an application for a renewal of my passport on the 29th Mar and old passport/paperwork was sent by courier and arrived on the 4th April, I have called them a few times and they are absolutely useless, I was supposed to be flying to HK tomorrow morning but my passport doesn't seem to have left the UK let alone arrived in Perth, is anyone else currently waiting a long time or is it just me? the website advises at least 4 weeks from receipt of docs and on Friday it will be 6 weeks,

 

On a seperate note do I need to link my visa to the new passport or is it all electronic now?

 

Cheers

Yes you do need to link your visa to your new passport (and THEN it will be electronic )

would like to know if paper application for citizenship takes much longer to get interview/test date ...

 

hope anyone with recent paper based application could share experience, thanks.

According to the immigration office in Adelaide, yes paper applications take longer. I recently applied on separate applications for my 17 year old and then for myself and other 3 children online. I received email with interview date within a week and the interview/test was approx. 3 weeks later.

Selah

Hi, was planning on bringing my kids bunk beds in the container. Does anyone know if the mattress sizes are different in Australia. Here in UK single mattress is 3ft wide. :-)

Funny you should bring this up. We came 4 years ago (yes 4) and brought the kids bunk beds from Argos (I think...) After 4 years of complaining how uncomfortable they were I finally (when we just moved) realised that the mattresses we purchased here are just a fraction bigger and as such don't fit inside the bed frame. My children have been tilted for 4 years. Yes I AM a good mother....

Liz