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<p><p>Hi Sujit.</p></p>
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<p><p>To update the first post without losing all the formatting, I viewed the original post in html (by clicking on the button at the bottom of the post box), copied it, and pasted it into the new box in html, then click on the button at the bottom to view it back with all correct formatting.</p></p>
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<p><p>That's what I recall having to do to get it to work.</p></p>
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Hi Flex! Great to see another South African apply! And congrats for getting your application in before the big change. The link to the spreadsheet is on the first post of this thread, and also here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqEBgay7xfFvdEpQS2NMbTItV1o5bTctcE4wa1pVWHc&hl=en_GB#gid=1 The spreadsheet hasn't been updated in about a month, though, which is pretty sad. If there's anyone willing and able to update the spreadsheet, please try and get in touch with Florentinustay, who is supposed to be updating it - and you'll be given access to edit the spreadsheet. Cheers PatrickW
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Congratulations, Craigdon, Heidim and ERIKinSA Great to see the movement at DIAC. Got to clear the backlog before end of the month, and the start of the new system, I expect. Celebrate! And good luck for your new lives down under! PatrickW
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Hi all Who is supposed to be updating the spreadsheet? I've not seen any changes being made. Has Flo moved on to other things? PatrickW
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Hey, no worries! I saw it as a general query too - not specifically at either of us! :cool:
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Hah, fantastic news, Jit7! Congratulations, and enjoy leaving behind the old stresses of waiting for the visa, and welcoming the new stresses of the move! Exciting times await us all! PatrickW
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Hi all My medicals were all marked as 'met' and 'finalised' on Saturday this past weekend. After doing the 6-8 online checks a day, I decided to give DIAC a gentle prompting, so I phoned the contact centre from home this morning. Not too bad a wait - the phonecall was only 9 minutes in total: just politely asking if there were any outstanding requirements from my side, if I needed to send anything final, how long it might take to get the visa finalised etc. I was told by the operator, after looking up my details, that all was showing as met on their side, and my case looked decision-ready; so he made a note on the file for my case officer that all was in order. When I got in to work, I checked my status routinely (ho hum) expecting nothing major, only to see "APPLICANT APPROVED" for the three of us! We are so thrilled here! I've not stopped grinning like a Cheshire cat since I saw the online status - and the email was just behind, with all of the official documentation. Go Team 4! We're not going to do a LSD visit, we'll just do the move over to Perth in around September-ish this year - depending on the house and car sales. I'd like to express my sincere appreciation to the people who have administered this thread; you've done a great job - and the spreadsheet has been an invaluable resource (on a related note, please turn me PURPLE, baby!), and also to the people who have contributed to the thread; the personal glitches and questions and problems and snags in your own visa applications that you have shared, have asked the questions I've had; and your kind, sensible and supportive answers have provided me with the answers to my own issues. Thanks again to everyone - you're a great crowd of people! Hope to see you down under! Cheers, PatrickW P.S. Can anyone explain the meaning of the following from my 'entitlement details' page: Enter before date: 13/04/2013 (normal, no problem); Must not arrive after: 06/05/2012 - seems a touch impossible to me...
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Hi Sujit. I sent the supervisor login details to Flo, who is administering the thread at the moment - now that SHandGH are moving onward and southward. I'll try and sort that out in the meantime, though - but Flo will (I assume) be continuing with the administration of the thread. Cheers PatrickW
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I'm fully with you on this one Jit7. I've now been in the waiting room for going on 3 weeks. Medicals were delivered to DIAC on Monday 14 May 2012; marked as received on Friday 18 May, but one set of medicals were referred. Today I got the referred set of medicals marked as 'finalised' - so I've now gone from the general paranoid visa checking of 6-8 times a day to the more frenetic shoving-to-get-to-the-exit-door-of-the-waiting-room checking of every 10 minutes or so. ARGH! Hurry up already! *ahem* I'm trying to stay cool here, but I'm struggling. Patrick P.S. My morning ritual is: Get woken up by the alarm on my iPhone Roll over and turn off the alarm Press the 'email' button Check for an email from DIAC Sigh, swear, and re-set the alarm for 20 minutes' snooze time Go back to sleep We're a strange breed of person in the waiting room.
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Hi, all As you can now see, all incarnations of this thread have now been merged into a single thread. The Admins have changed the ownership of the thread to the account name 'cat4july2011', and I've given the password to this account to Flo to carry on administering and updating this thread. When Flo moves on with a visa, the username and password can be passed on to the next person taking over the updating of the thread. Hope this helps. I know I'm finding it much easier to search just this one thread than 4, as previously. Cheers PatrickW
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My understanding of the process is it is a year from the date which the Medicals were completed, or the police clearance was issued to you.
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Hi - Thanks for setting this up, Stephen. I'll contact Admin and give them the go-ahead. Watch this space! Patrick
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OK Following on from my post yesterday: I've contacted site Admin, and they propose the following: either 1) Using a new user name to create and maintain a single thread from this point on, as described in my original post above - leaving parts one, two and three as separate threads; or 2) Merging all of these Cat 4 threads (Part 1, 2, 3 and now 4) and changing ownership of the thread from Tania Collins (as hers will be the earliest chronological post) to the new supervisor account referred to in 1) above; or 3) Leaving things as they are now, and when Flo gets the visa grant (which should be in a few weeks at current processing speeds!!!) and wants to pass the running of the thread onto someone else, a new thread will need to be created. (Part V, The Empire Strikes Back?) What is the general opinion? Shall we merge all of these threads into a new thread, and change ownership to a new account that can be legitimately passed on when the person running the thread moves on? I certainly found it annoying having to search all 3 threads for "medicals referred" - and it would be great to have everyone's contributions to this thread all consolidated into one - in my opinion. Please let me know, and I can then pass this info on to the admin to make any necessary changes. I don't know whether people should PM me their opinions to prevent off-thread items spamming everyone? Regards Patrick
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Ah. I see that, buried away in the forum rules. It seems to be primarily geared toward preventing anonymous trolling, but I expect they wouldn't want to set a precedent. I also see that all mods and admin are offline at the moment, but I'll keep an eye out and ask one when they come online. Thanks
