enaish

I'd be giving her a call direct. I know its technically breaking the rules, but I wouldnt be able to help myself!! :twitcy:

 

You applied at the same time as us, so shouldn't be far away from a decision.

 

You must have the patience of a saint!

I'm with mrs potatohead. Make the call directly.

Thank the lord the waiting is over we got the email yesterday 2nd august from our co that we got subclass 100.exactly 4 months and 2 week to the day.thanks to everybody for the help over the past few months,thinking of leaving for sydney around november:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

Big congrats to you, the wait is finally over and now your new life can begin:spinny:

Yipppppppppeeeeeee!! Got my visa granted today!!! :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

 

So happy, i gave my CO a call and he said it was ready and would grant it! Yet to tell my other half in OZ he seems to be in a deep sleep and not answering his phone right now!!

 

POI has been great and Good Luck to everyone still waiting :biggrin:

Fantastic news Tink85. It's all worth it and life can get back to some sort of normality.

We got the email yesterday and my partners visa has finally been approved!!!

Grand total of 3 months and 28 days processing time :biggrin:

 

Our CO has been fantastic, and processed it not a moment too soon, as we fly out this Saturday night!!!

 

We are so happy and can't wait to get on that plane!! There has been some pre-move jitters which is to be expected as he is leaving his entire family behind, but baby is due in 8 weeks, so we have much to look forward to.

 

Many thanks to everyone who gave us encouragement and support, and we hope that everyone gets those magical emails/letters soon!

 

PS: Anyone aware of any extra luggage allowance for Qantas/BA??

Many congratulations and here's to hoping it was worth the wait

 

Tina

Many congrats Tina. All the best for the future.

Congrats enaish on getting your visa i bet your so happy and relieved.

Just looked at my emails and nothing,so i have emailed ab to see where our visa is up to.4 months and two weeks tommorrow so lets hope its good news hey.:confused::confused:good luck on your new life in aus:biggrin:

Hi paint potty, did AB get back to you?

:jiggy:woop woop just had my PMV visa approved today!! 4 months and 3 days

 

Just for reference for anybody else...

 

Application submitted 29/03/2011

Case Officer assigned (WP) -1/04/2011

Medicals and police checks done - 27/04/2011

Visa granted - Today at 1.40pm 01/08/2011

Flight Booked for the 4th September. Man-Melbourne with Singapore Air

Wedding booked for the 8th October

 

WP was really nice and I stayed in regular email contact every 2 weeks though I think she did start to get annoyed by the latter stage but at least I was always on her radar!!

 

Best of luck to everyone going through this VERY stressful process!!:arghh:

 

If anyone knows what the next process is like after getting married, would love to hear!!

Many congratulations. I think the next step is heading out there within the time frames stated to validate the visa. Here's to hoping it's everything we want it to be.:jiggy:

Congratulations May have to call now, its been nearly 5 months!!

How have you not called before now? I drove my other half mad persuading him to call. Do it so you at least know where you stand.

Woop woop!!!!!

Our visa has been granted! Subclass 100. 4 months and one week. Thank you all so so much for your support and words of wisdom. If it's been over 4 months then call your CO and get an update!

We fly 2 weeks tomorrow. Last thing to do is for the dollar to weaken by 1 cent so that we can buy our house before Thursday.

Good luck to everyone still waiting xxxxx

:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

I'm hoping so. I've had three full on meltdowns this week, which has lead to me dumping my husband three times and him dumping me twice lol. I'm sure your right though, just pre-move jitters. I'll be fine once I'm actually on the plane.

 

I'm flying with Singapore, got the one way flight for £650 so I jumped on it. I usually fly with them anyway so I'm happy as I get the miles. I was tempted to fly Emirates as they have that A380 on the Manchester route but they couldn't get anywhere near Singapore's price.

 

How are all your preparations going?

Tillyloola, did you ask them about extra luggage allowance? We explained we were migrating to Australia and they gave us an extra 15kg for hubbie who will be travelling on the visa (once issued!) and an extra 5 kg for all travelling with him. They also increased our hand luggage by 2 kg each. Worth calling customer service to ask.

We're not coping with the stress either and are travelling Singapore after you, so have much more time for dumping each other:biggrin:

Got my visa today too!!! Subclass 100!!! So excited!!!! YAAAAY!!!

Waaaaa not fair. We sent ours before you!:cry:

Seriously though, am very pleased for you and hope everything turns out for you.

All the best for your new life.

:smile:

Subclass 100 finally granted today!!!!

 

Booking flights now................will be reunited with my husband in 3 weeks, hopefully!!! :hug:

 

Good luck to everyone waiting patiently. (Harrass your CO, that's what I did).

Many congratulations amanda74. We applied same day as you so hopefully once our CO is back off leave we can get ours too! Hope your life is all you want it to be.

Congrats mrpotatohead - all i can say is snap - i just got granted my visa too and sub class 100 also

 

i can not stop smiling - bottle of champagne in my fridge chilling ready for tonight

Congratulations! Enjoy the bubbly - am beginning to think I should have taken shares in bubbly instead of trying to buy Aussie dollars!

visa granted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeeeeehhhhaaahh

Huge congratulations Mrspotatohead! Am so pleased for you. Guess hitting that refresh button actually works.:biglaugh: Enjoy the bubbles x

Hang in there Enaish. We're getting incredibly impatient too. Our CO is also on leave and we were told he would be back this week but it would seem he isn't. Not much we can do, but the system does seem unfair in terms of approvals. He told us not to book flights until we had our visa, so we have followed that advice, but I feel like we're now missing all the cheap fares!! If I were you I'd call again on the 1st and explain why your chasing. :yes:

Thanks Mrs Potatohead,

We didn't follow the guidance for booking flights, etcetera because we knew April is the best time to sell the house and the earlier you book flights, the cheaper the fares, combine this with the stamp duty hike on the 1st August in Oz, we were keen to get everything moving as money was going to be very tight. With the dollar continuing to strengthen, it's all very well AH saying hold off, but in our case for every cent the dollar gains, we lose a months worth of living costs. When we applied, we were being told that issuing times were 3-4 months so it should have been granted by now. It was only in May they changed it to 5-6 months. Still, so long as everything else works out and we can get a semi decent money rate, it will all be worth it in the end....won't it? :arghh:

Hi enaish

We also have AB as our co and i pressume it must be the same one as yourself.How do you know that AB is on holiday,have you been in contact?

:biggrin:

Hi Paintpotty,

There is only one AB at AH so we've got the same CO. As we fly out in less than three weeks we were getting a little edgy as we were seeing people with similar times to ours be issued so emailed asking for a quick update. Got an out of office reply. Back 1st August and a name to contact in his absence. Called that person who said wouldn't issue visa but no reason why it shouldn't be issued when AB gets back. Only issue is that we know they follow the rules and as such think we might be 2 weeks behind others now as there are people in the queue ahead of us We're really hoping it's by the end of next week so my OH can start looking for work.

At least no reason to check the emails for a while.

Good luck with yours.

guys, just wanted to say thank you all for the good advice. I got the trick to front load my visa of this site (despite the guidance on the forms saying not to) and also a handy checklist that reminded me to get the Form 80 Character assesment done. We are so excited. Also, wanted to give a big shout out to Australia House who compared to the UKBA are absolute legends (a bit much?). My mother in law is super super ill (cancer) (got a letter from the doctor to confirm very poor condition) and AH were able to process out application for us for a 309 Spousal visa from cradle to grave in 6 weeks. I think this is a new record from what I have read. I won't name my case officer out of respect but they were very responsive and got back to all my emails (3 in total, did not want to overburden them) within 24 hours. My wife is giving birth to our first child in August and then we are off to Brizvegas. YEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I am so excited and can't wait to play rugby over there, eat loads of good food, smash up the beers and enjoy the beautiful parks and beaches with my family.

 

Time line - Applied 21 June 2011 Subclass 309/100 (front loaded)

Granted 26 July 2011

 

I think the process was relatively straight forward as I'm a glorified paper pusher (lawyer) so relatively used to smashing loads of forms together. One thing that was annoying was having to get documents certified when a further request for info came in. Gave me the idea that perhaps loads of people on here are having a similar problem so I thought I could perhaps make some cash to help with the move and my impending fatherhood by offering a certification of documents service for a nominal fee (I am solicitor qualified in England and Wales so meet the requirements of the applications.) I have sent an email to the administrator of pomsinoz to ask if I may give out my details to you guys (as strictly speaking I guess I am offering a service) so if I get the green light I will drop my details here and you can get in touch with me. I will be in Canary Wharf until the middle of October and was thinking you could pop by in my lunch hour and I could zip through everything you have for a small fixed fee and also I'd offer a free return service for that annoying further documents request that seems to oftern come through (having read other time lines on this post they seem to be common).

 

Stay positive and good luck all. Possibly see you down the wharf.

 

Gunshow (plus mrs gunshow plus little lady soon to be born mini-gunshow)

 

Ps. sorry if any spelling mistakes above. I know I'm a lawyer but touch typed this as have a lot of work to do (going back now) and very little time to spell check a forum post.:wideeyed:

Congrats and good luck Gunshow. Great idea re the certification and wish I'd knowon earlier as hubby is in Canary Wharf and you could have made it easier for us. A little green re how quick you got yours through, although do understand the circumstances. My step mother has a brain tumour and my father not in the best of health either but were told it wouldn't have any bearing.

Where in Brisvegas are you heading?

Visa granted today!

Not expecting this quick, thought it would be another 2 weeks at the earliest (subclass 100. CO was WP)

Now I need to sell the house!

Thanks to everyone who answered my questions when I first applied and good luck to you all in getting your Visa's soon (especially Enaish, SamC, Attypodian, Jomac all on a similar time frame)

Tracy

Thanks Tracy and many congratulations to you and yours. Hope life Down Under is all you want it to be. Think our visa may be delayed as CO on holiday. Am urging other half to call and see who is dealing with it while he's away.

None the less, congrats and good luck x

YYYYYiiiiippppeeeeee..... Visa granted yesterday...!!! Lodged with

LG on the 11th March....

 

Flights booked for 19th August...Sunshine Coast here we come!!!

Many congratulations Nickster! Hope everything works out for you just as you hope it too. We're moving to bayside of Brisbane so won't be too far away and hope to arrive 18th August.

All the best

I think your right enaish,not many visas been granted this week has there.

I was hoping to hear something this week but no such luck.Your braver than me booking your flights as i dont want to tempt fate by booking anything.Only thing i have done is rented my house out.We also have ab as our co and was assigned him 28th march had my medical done 7th april.Lets hope we hear something next week,were you heading to in aus?we are going sydney:biggrin:

When we booked the flights the visas were being issued within three months. Now it's completely different. If we haven't heard by end of July we're going to give them a call in the hope that we'll be first on the list in August. We're buying a house in the Bayside suburbs of Brisbane. Keeping everything crossed.

Hi Nickster and everybody, sorry I haven't been on in the past few days. LG officially approved my visa yesterday!

 

I applied on 03/03/11 and was approved on 19/07/11

 

Best of luck to everybody who is still waiting. It's all very worth it in the end :biggrin:

 

 

Hi Laura,

Any news on your visa??

Congratulations and good luck with your new life x

Hmmm we must be getting to the end of the month as the approvals are slowing down and the issuing time going from 4 months to closer to 5. Not helped by the start of the holiday season either...

It seems our CO is on holidays.

How dare he have a life outside australia house. :biggrin:

I think I'd be phoning Oz house and seeing who is dealing with it while they're away as others who applied after you have had them granted or are being granted! Good luck

Hi all

 

Just to let you all know my partner's visa has been granted whoo hooooooooooooooo:jiggy:

Applied March 14th

CO allocated March 17th

Med etc requested a week later

VISA granted 15th July!!!

 

CO was AB - Pretty much 4 months yay to AB!

 

Good luck to everyone still waiting!!!

Whoop de whoop and huge congratulations too!

We've also got AB and are about 10 days behind your time frame. Very exciting times. Good luck with all you do.

Elizabeth

What wonderful news Tillyloola!!!

So pleased for you. Good luck with everything for the future.

X