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I am a bit gutted so far to see only 1 189 grant last night... Lets hope they pick up their act a little over the next few days of this week.

£15k for 2 adults, 3 children PR visa this year.

No shipping or reccie in that.

Just visas, paperwork and few months living expenses.

Im on my only day off this week and supposed to be doing a lot of housework but my brain is pre-occupied with this visa malarky!

Well it's 8.31pm in Australia, The website is closed until 7am for maintenance so I would presume we wont get visa's until it opens back up. So it looks like we will start hearing from 10pm tonight... Although immigration did tell me it could take a week or two for us all to hear. It's nice knowing there is a chance. However, counting down to 10pm is like sitting here on xmas eve watching Norad Santa Tracker!

We drove from Nottingham to Blackpool last Wednesday afternoon and had to avoid 3 'near misses' thanks to other incompetent drivers cutting lanes or slamming their breaks on and we saw 2 major crashes. On the way home on Saturday lunchtime only 1 'near miss' but again 2 major crashes. We had only done a 2 1/2 hour drive. Is it like that in Australia?

They started in London at the start of the year but have been expanding them throughout their entire range. The Etihad website has lots of info on them. Lots of video's on their facebook page. Feel like a plane stalker.

I usually plan my meals and budget accordingly in the UK but tonight we were short on time and went to Morrisons. A week's worth of food and toiletries £117!!! I couldn't believe it. Last time I just 'nip' to a UK supermarket without pre-planning it. Most the stuff was on offer or Morrisons own brand. Total alcohol purchased 1 x £2 bottle of cider!

Woohoo nice to have you on board CaptainC!

Talking of uniforms in my job I have to frequently take trips with nice police men in their cars to make regular statements, I am a quivvering wreck in front of them. The problem is it's usually a night shift that I have to call them and I look like death warmed up!

The new Etihad planes look amazing, make sure you try and get on one of them if you are booking them.

Without going off topic, I hope you are enjoying your trip back!

Yer the mrs will definitely plan ahead .. what is the wet season like out there >?

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[TD]The Townsville area has a tropical climate but, due to its geographical location, rainfall is not as high as elsewhere in the tropics.

The winter months are dominated by SE trade winds and mostly fine weather. Further north the coastline runs north/south and the trade winds are lifted to produce rainfall right through the year. However, Townsville lies on a section of coastline that turns east/west, so the lifting effect is not present. As a result, our winter months are dominated by blue skies, warm days and cool nights - although every now and then we can experience a few days of showery weather.

The summer months are hot and humid with "build-up" thunderstorms starting in late October or November. Bursts of monsoon rains from late December through until early April deliver our highest rainfalls, and this is also the season that Tropical Cyclones can threaten the region. The monsoon winds coming down from the northern hemisphere pick up abundant heat and moisture to feed into the monsoon trough, often producing widespread flooding rains over the region.

Tropical Lows can develop within the monsoon trough, and when they form over warm seas, they can develop further into Tropical Cyclones, which can whip up destructive winds and phenomenal seas. A feature of Severe Tropical Cyclones (category three or greater) making landfall is the storm surge that occurs with them - a rising of the sea level which can be devastating if it occurs near high tide. Thankfully, Severe Tropical Cyclones are rare, effecting Townsville on average once every twenty years. Storm surge is even more unlikely - it is estimated that a surge one metre above the high water mark would occur, on average, once in a hundred years.

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Im on days next week and I think it is seriously going to affect my sleep hehe. I doubt I will be going to bed before 1am (despite being up at 6am)!

I submitted 189 in April (24th) and had a CO ask for extra docs but that has been it... Waiting anxiously. I phoned Brisbane team who said my file is in the batch due for completion early July.

Hi Geordiekev, I am a mh nurse and there are lots of services in Townsville. They were very excited to take me on 6 months before I started and they were willing to pay accomodation on arrival etc too. Worth sending a speculative CV ahead of time to the HR dept! :-)

So I have just returned from a 3 days 'goodbye' trip to see family (we are doing this now and in Sept) and getting ready for 2 night shifts in work. By the time all that is settled we will be nearly at the 1st of July guys, we finally nearly completed the wait. I didn't think I could survive that long without hearing but we did.

Going to be such an exciting time for so many of us in July!

Does anyone happen to know what time the visas are granted? Is it random? Is it pre-set to arrive at say 01:00hrs UK time?

We are paying a $100 fee to a private school in an area near to where we want for our 3 children, this will secure them a place. However, we will decide on schools once we arrive and we know where we will be living. The private school will be our insurance!

They asked for mine as they noticed on my old marriage certificate I was married in the Bahamas and they wanted to know if I had lived there. So there can be multiple reasons for them to request it.

I am sorry I don't know. Perhaps search this forum with the code that is used to identify the form? Or try google, I usually find all answers somewhere on Google. I am sure this is quite common. I was convinced I must have spelt someone's name wrong or got a DOB wrong but for once I managed no typing errors.

When you log into your account on the page with all the documents, there is a list on the right hand side with advice. One option is to change details... Good Luck!

The Immi facebook site stated that this year they would post the SOL on the 1st July 2015.

Well folks, the peaceful weekend has gone. Is anyone looking forward to another 5 nights of stalking their emails?

I was told that if they ask for a form 80 they usually ask all adults over the age of 16 on the application.

Oooh really... so it may be worth me ringing immi again on Sunday night??? haha

Hahahahahaha...... I've been on nights and me too..... Checking every couple of hours lol

I work in a mental health unit so my patients sleep most the night. I do my paperwork on the computer so I am checking every 5 minutes! I am so happy it's weekend. I feel like I can live again. I did facebook stalk my CO yesterday too haha.