mrspotatohead

I was waiting five months for my visa, fleabo around three.

 

Phone harrassment will get you nowhere, I learned the hard way. The COs are trained with ninja skills to not budge. I spent months hassling and cajoling her in the belief that it would help my case. My agent got so frustrated with me they offered to resign from my case. I wished I saved myself the heartache as ultimately I didn't get my visa any quicker.

I have promised not to phone or email till the day of the 5th month hits, then I'm not going to be able to help myself.

are you in aus now?

Going home to sydney, you? are you shipping stuff or leaving it and starting fresh??

We're making a fresh start in brisbane (i'm from sydney but the house prices make my eyes water).

We are shipping a couple of boxes. We had planned to take everything, but have decided against it now. When I watched my little man smear cream cheese across my lovely chocolate brown cord sofa this morning, i knew we'd made the right decision!! :laugh:

Fridays are my day off, I'm have a feeling i'm going to be on this forum a lot to keep insanity at bay!

Im the ozzie!! so i feel your pain!! and my hubby is Irish but is the exact same.. so laxey daisy about the whole thing.. his attitude is, "its gone off now, all we can do is wait!!" I HATE WAITING!!!

 

Maybe we'll get a C/O today!!!! :biggrin:

I hope so. The send receive button on my email is getting a workout. My little one is having a nap at the moment, so I've too much time on my hands (completely ignoring the white elephant that is the washing). :huh:

What part of aus are you returning to?

My visa application was submitted the same day as another member on here (fleabo). We both had similar circumstances (long relationship, mortgage, kids) and were assigned the same CO. Yet his visa was granted 2 months ahead of mine - go figure.

I'm sure thats nothing a bit of phone harrasment wouldnt fix. I wont...I promise, I wont!! :twitcy:

I know that with the visa, once it's been granted you need to go over to validate within a certain timeframe. I'm under the impression that this is connected to the medical, although I might be wrong in thinking that. We plan to move over in June next year, if we sent my application off now is it worth frontloading with the medical? I would rather frontload the application completely with the medical and police checks so that it's done, but would the medical "expire" before we plan to go? Or are you usually given a year to validate from grant of visa rather than date of medical?

 

Thanks guys.

Jess

I think you get 12 months from the date of the medical & police check. We didnt frontload our medical as we didnt really know if you could or not, so we decided just to wait till they told us to go. We plan to leave within a month of an approval, so we werent too bothered about the dates of the police check. Have you already completed all the paperwork? :spinny:

YEAH WE DID THE EXACT SAME..:biggrin: FRONT LOADED WITH POLICE CHECKS :policeman: BUT NO MEDICAL YET.. WAITING TO HEAR FROM THEM TO SEE WHAT THEY WANT... I REALLY HOPE IT DOESNT TAKE 5 MONTHS!!! IM DYING TO GET OUTTA HERE!!!!!

 

IM SO BLOODY IMPATIENT:arghh::arghh::arghh::arghh:

Me too. Are you the Aussie or is your OH the aussie? I'm aussie and OH is scottish. I'm dying to get out of here too. Its snowing and its march!! lol. :goofy:Will be interesting to see what sort of timeline we both end up with considering we've sent the same thing on the same day. I'm terribly impatient to. I said to OH last night...do you think they'll email us tomorrow. He just laughed and said, forget about it till we hear. How can he be so calm? :laugh:

I have the advantage of having no commitments or responsibilities in England, so I'm gonna be jetting off as soon as. I haven't looked in to flights too much yet. I did find a couple for between £600 & £700. Think I will have a quick browse now

the taxes are the worst part! (typical). i really wanna fly singapore airlines, i still think they are the best. with emirates coming in a close second. flew cathay pacific last time i was out and whilst i love the fact noone can intrude on your seat in front, they do get uncomfortable. would love to fly business but i cant justify the cost!!:twitcy:

have you already done your medical?

P.S. DP told me my visa should be granted around July, current spouse visa processing times are aprox 5 months.

when you get approved, do you plan to leave soon after?

shocked by the price of one way flights at the moment!! :realmad:

oooo how exciting!! will good to see how we both get along, time wise!! applied nearly the same day!!! Dying to know who our case officer is!! :biglaugh:

I know. It would appear we're looking at 5 months regardless of what we provided. Did you frontload? We frontloaded with Police/ character check, but not medicals...

MY MONEY JUST GOT TAKEN OUT!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i know its only the beginning but its something!!!!:biggrin:

We've also just applied.

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Hoping to be assigned to a case officer soon!

all very exciting. good luck! :jiggy: