mrspotatohead
-
Posts
202 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Gallery
Articles
Everything posted by mrspotatohead
-
What a shame, hope your sister is ok. :wideeyed: As for £600 extra for flights, if your anywhere near as tight as me, you'd wait a whole extra month to avoid the extra expense!!!!!!!!!!! :twitcy:
-
Congratulations Tillyloola!! :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin: If thats yourself and Sinead granted, I musnt be far behind!! Who was your CO?? :unsure:
-
Oh Amanda, it will be our turn soon! If your 2 year old screams as loud as mine, I really feel for you!!! :twitcy: Congratulations Sinead you lucky devil!!!! I'd imagine you'll be popping the bubbly at your mum's tonight!!:laugh:
-
We are heading to the sunshine coast (originally from sydney). We'll be living with my sister for 6 months till we find our feet. Any tips/advice for the area?
-
The standard processing time at the moment is 5-6 months (information received from Australia House). Seems to be quite a few recently approved at the 4 month mark. I doubt they'd make you resubmit, you should be fine. Good luck with it all :v_SPIN:
-
Sinead, will we start those daily chocolate deliveries to the case officers today? :biglaugh:
-
is this your partner visa application away?! Yey! Exhausted from all the paper gathering?
-
He wont be allowed to hold your ref number from you. Get a hold of it and call Australia House direct for an update if you've got a gut feeling that something isnt quite right. Good luck. :hug:
-
I emailed AH last week. I know he must be up to his eyeballs with work, but I saw everyone else was getting updates and couldnt help myself! He was really nice. He said we were being processed on a 100 visa and that it would be completed on or around 5 months!! OVER THE MOON! :biggrin:
-
Oh Sinead, thats fantastic!!!! I cant believe you go in 51 days! We are still looking at start of November. I'm getting a little excited now...seems to be lots of activity up at good old Australia House...must be the sunshine! :wink:
-
Welcome to the forum! :cute: We applied back in March, then I became a wee bit of a psycho and checked my email/bank account every day for about 2 weeks. I've chilled out a bit now and have just decided 'it will be granted when its granted'... These first few months have flown in for us, so I'm sure the 8 or 9 days your CO is away will be over in no time. I too cannot wait to go home...its been 5 years! :wub:
-
Congratulations! :laugh: It sounds like the process has been pretty intense for you guys (phone interviews etc) so it must be a relief. Good luck with your new life together in Aus. :cute:
-
My CO is AH too, seems very professional (and to the point). Told me the same thing on the 15/5! :cute:
-
I've been told you get 12 months from the date on your Police check/medical (whichever was first) to go and validate your visa. :spinny:
-
So happy for you Sinead....although I almost wish I hadnt read this now...I am going to become a paranoid email checker now! lol. x:laugh:
-
Question 22: We put the date the relationship actually began, not the date we moved in together. Question 26: Put your current address, you'll be given a dedicated Case officer, so its very easy to change details later on. Question 60: Put in a guestimate of dates and then add a separate sheet of paper to explain the circumstances and the fact that you cant remember. All the best. :v_SPIN:
-
'MARKED FOR APPROVAL'- fantastic! :cute: I've just emailed our CO asking for an update...couldnt help myself! :twitcy:
-
'or more places created in the Australian migration program, I will let you know. ' I didnt think they had capped partner visas? If you do go over, its a good excuse for a long weekend in NZ!:laugh: We've always kinda banked on it taking about a year from when we first started putting paperwork together, to a grant being received so the 5-6 months is actually good news for us....although I absolutely hate being left in the dark waiting! :cute:
-
ha...i assume you'll be having an aussie baby then? wise move...we'll be on a 26 hour economy flight with a 2 year old...lol
-
From Sydney but going to the Sunshine Coast as my sister has just moved up there with her family and my mum and dad are about to follow. sounds like a good plan to use the country as a bit of a porthole for a while. do you have children?
-
We did the same. Found the paper gathering and triple checking a little stressful, but glad we did it on our own now so that we can contact our CO direct if need be. Where in Australia are you returning to?
-
Did you use an agent or did you do it on your own?
-
Well thats me (and everyone else in the March gang) at the 2 month line. I'm going absolutely bonkers thinking about the visa all the time!! We technically still have 4 months to wait. :twitcy: I have become completely homesick and in turn am making OH so excited about going as all I seem to talk about now is australia! I've been away 5 years...I wonder if much has changed?
-
Well worth it though! :wubclub:
-
Really? Congrats on getting out there so quickly! Is this something you requested when you initially lodged your application? Wish we were doing the same, but we're using these last 6 months to save like mad! :twitcy: