west49th

My CO is MT....still drumming fingers...

Hi Playghirl, our CO was MT as well. She doesn't usually say anything other than the application is progressing and doesn't normally give any other details.

We applied very early September last year and ours was granted just before Christmas, so it was just under 4 months all up.

Good luck!

Thanks west!! Are you there yet? If not when and where are you going?

Unfortunately not - we've got a house to sell and until that's done we won't be able to book any flights. Fingers crossed it will be off our hands soon so we can finally get going!

Best of luck to everyone still waiting for their visas :smile:

We dropped all our stuff into Australia House in person back in November. We had a case officer approx one week later and an email to say 5-6 month wait, and to send our medicals and police checks. We posted those about a week later. I then left it for about two weeks and emailed them to double check all was received etc. They had received all bits, said health checks were fine, and that they didn't need any further information from us. I received our photos back in the post a couple of days after we dropped them to Australia House (waste of time that was, to have all the pics printed out, stuck in little book with little snippets to say where they were taken and who was in them etc). So now have been waiting nearly four months, hoping secretly to hear something in the near future!!

Hi Laroo, we submitted ours in early September in exactly the same way that you did and it was approved in just under four months, just in time for Christmas :biggrin:. We were also told at the time that it would be a five to six month wait, so fingers crossed you'll get some good news through very soon!

We got MT allocated today. Meds requested and more evidence of our ongoing relationship. Huge amount of stuff.................sigh.

 

nyoelsehad MT?

We had MT and were granted a defacto visa in just under 4 months. We were asked for meds and 1 additional piece of information (very specific to our circumstances, which I won't go into here).

Wellieboots & mtlboi are right, this does sound a bit strange. We submitted our application at Aus House in September and it was approved just before Christmas. I would have thought a 6 month backlog would only affect people who had only just sent their applications in, not those that had already been sitting there for 7 months.

After my post on the forum this afternoon I get home to find out that the visa has been granted today! 3 months & 3 weeks after it was submitted. Our CO was MT. :ssign19:

And mine! Submitted ours on 26th August, no news yet :-(