attypodian
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Hi, I have shipped a car from Melb to the UK back in 2006 and it cost around $2,000 from memory, plus another £200 or so to get it converted from km per hour to miles per hour. It seemed pretty straight forward, and took about 3 months. We had owned it for just over a year though so didn't come up with any of those issues. We didn't want to sell it at the time as we thought we would have lost too much money on it, but from what I can gather (my ex kept the car when we split) the car has spent most of it's time in a garage in storage in London so I don't think it was worth it in the end.
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Furnishes Short term rental around Brissy
attypodian replied to Tom Brody's topic in Renting & Real Estate
My partner and I stayed at Spring Hill Gardens Apartments, fully self-contained and really friendly and helpful couple on reception, who migrated to Oz themselves (about 20 years ago). We stayed for about 3 or 4 weeks but they were very flexible (we had originally asked for nearly 7 or 8 weeks, but they only asked for two days notice to cancel the rest of the reservation). I was working in the city and it was easy to walk there, and there are grocery shops nearby etc. http://www.springhillgardens.net/ The other place we considered was http://www.brisbaneholidayvillage.com.au/ which does short/medium term accommodation. It's a little further away from the city, but actually just 2 mins from where we live now, and looks nice. It's very close to a bus interchange (Garden City) and it's about 20 min on the bus to the city from there. Good luck. -
Hi fosseboy, when did they send you the paperwork for the second stage? I heard it's about 22 months after you first applied for the 309 visa. Do you just have to prove that the relationship continued for the two years, so more bank statements, stat dec etc? So you've been waiting for 5 months now... I wonder how long the second stage takes?
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Got it, got it, got it!!!! Visa granted today. Four and a half months (case officer was DP).
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Congratulations on your visa Gunshow! So sorry to hear about your mother in law. Congrats also on soon-to-be-born Mini-Gunshow. My OH and I are wanting to head to Brisbane... all depends on where we both get work, the process of which can start when he gets his visa!! Hopefully soooooon. Aim to move over around April 2012. We're liking the look of Brighton and will rent first when we get there to check it out. I'll be checking out PIO when we get there to find some British pals for my OH so he doesn't miss home too much.
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Congrats Tracy! And thank-you. Tomorrow is the four month mark and must admit that this week I've been a little edgy!! (only cracked and checked OH's email once though) Not heading out till early-ish next year, but will be nice to have the visa in place all the same, and then OH can start looking for work (scary). We've just finished all the diy on the house, and it will be hitting the market on target for 1st September, I'm sure that'll be a whole other bucket of stress.
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Congrats Tillyloola!! My heart was thumping as I read that, c'mon DP grant my OH a visa too! xo
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Hi Sinead, Congrats again and hope you had a nice time celebrating! Hopefully my OH's visa approval is just around the corner. xo
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Wow DP must have had a busy March! My OH applied at the end of March and we've got DP too. He requested some information a few weeks ago and we've sent that and not heard anything since. I'm thinking along the lines that no news is good news, so am just sitting it out until the magical email appears. Probably not worth bugging him to find out exactly when it'll arrive as we'll probably be here till Feb-May 2012 (well, it would be *sensible* for us work wise to stay here till then, my sanity however may have made off by then).
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Bridge Clinic in Maidenhead are quoting £200 for full medical, HIV blood test and chest x-ray. OH has his med booked for 9th of May. xo
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Hi, we received a receipt. Case officer has to send back one of the pages of the application as we forgot to answer a question, and the receipt was in the envelope. He had also returned two of the passport photos and said to use these for the medical.
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Congratulations Sparklesocks, that was really quick! Good luck packing and all the best for the future :-)
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Yes! Question 82! Similarly double checked everything but it's the one that got away. I guess coz he's not lived anywhere other than England we just assumed that he didn't have to answer. Oh well, we weren't the only ones :-)
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Hi Sam! Hi Everyone! We got our CO today (DP) :jiggy: My OH was asked for police and medical checks and to fill in a question we must have missed, doh! I'm guessing this means they're satisfied with the relationship side of things. Has made my otherwise dreadful day brighter (got a bout of gastro last night). Sam, I've been in the UK just over 4 and a half years. Atty
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Hi Tracy, We're in one of the villages close to Basingstoke and a few houses have sold in our street for what seems like a low price and they were on the market for ages. We need to see some estate agents to see what the best thing to do it either sell or rent it out. I would prefer to sell and buy something smaller to rent out as our current place is quite big with a big garden and I think it would be too much for a renter to bother with. I can understand you not wanting to move to rental accommodation with two little ones. It's a gamle and like you say all about timing. I'm sure you could stall the process somehow :wink: because a friend of mine is buying at the moment and it has seriously taken him about 4 months and he's still not moved in (he's a first time buyer, no chain, and the person is selling a rental) so there must be ways of making the process last longer! Atty
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Hi pinup, I would say if you have all the 888's just submit them. I ended up with three from Oz (one from my mum and two from my best friends). My mum and one best friend have only met my partner twice, and my other best friend only met him once for a few hours at the airport, but they can still paint a picture of our relationship as they saw it plus how I talked about him in emails etc. We had his folks do one here which more represented them seeing us consistently so I think the four stat decs together show our relationship as a whole. I would try and get the letter from your phone companies saying there have been calls and explain in your stat dec why there isn't an itemised account. Some info is better than none and I'm sure they'll come back to you and ask for more if they need it. Good luck with the rest of the form filling.
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Hi All, I must be the rotten egg at the moment as we don't have a CO! I'm the Aussie and I've still had my moments of "are we doing the right thing?". I've even wondered "What if I don't like it?" which is completely irrational as it's my country! I guess I've gotten used to my life here a little and made friends which I'll still have to do all over again in Brissy. At least one of my besties is in Bris so I've got one already. We'll be putting our house on the market about mid May (and when we've finished painting the kitchen, dining and hallway!). Trying to give it a longer chance to sell. We're thinking of buying a place to rent out so we have some UK money coming in and are still on the ladder, buy all depends how much we sell for (if it sells - fingers crossed). Atty xoxo
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That's great news! Seems like they haven't asked for much. (You front loaded your meds didn't you?) We haven't heard anything yet :wacko: Fingers crossed for next week. To be honest, it's been such a big week this week that I don't mind not having a CO yet... along with the visa app, I applied for, and got (in a scarily quick timeframe) a new job (with better pay which will help save the pennies for the move) but it leaves the task of resigning for Monday :eek: I guess I hate disappointing people but the new job is much better and I have to think of what's best for me and my OH - and our impending move down under - but I can't mention the move down under when resigning because me and my OH work for the same company and we don't want them to think he's leaving too :arghh: so, it's been an emotional week! Have a good weekend :-)
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OH just told me that the money has been taken from his account!! He's in a bit of shock as we weren't expecting it so soon. Now just waiting for a CO to make contact...
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Hi Laura K and Adelaide, Ages ago I found and saved these two posts regarding what questions might be asked during a phone interview, hope they help. http://www.pomsinoz.com/forum/migration-issues/58449-summary-spouse-visa-processing-times-offshore-uk-please-add-your-stats-168.html#post807058 http://www.pomsinoz.com/forum/migration-issues/58449-summary-spouse-visa-processing-times-offshore-uk-please-add-your-stats-160.html#post798403 Atty.
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I think our application has arrived at AH! I say I think because I left the tracking number at home :em0300: but remembered the first half and kinda guessed the rest and somehow got lucky, and it says delivered! Fortunately we are together here in the UK but I do know what it's like to be separated because a couple of years ago when I had to renew my visa, I had to do it in Oz and it took two and a half months, so we were separated for most of that.
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Hi All, I've finally joined the waiting game too! 47sp and about 1kg of other stuff sent off today. I'm the Aussie and the visa is for my OH. I'm very much looking forward to heading back to Brisbane. I'm hoping the next 6ish months won't be too bumpy! Have a good weekend!