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That's great Jen - congratulations!

Congratulations oppyddrum, vickey1 and heidim. You're next sol2oz

Just been looking at the google doc - november is looking close to finishing now.

Am i mistaken or did thegig5 get a case officer this week? It's been a crazy week so hard to keep up.

I think we should start seeing early december applicants next week.

I wonder if those that grants this week are busy spreading the good news and more importantly booking flights. How exciting!

Have you heard anything yet sol2oz?

Guys....

 

Application Being Processed Further ! :biggrin::wub:

Yay at last! Thats fab. So now just meds and pcc.

:em3600: The red bull worked!

 

PURPLE!!!! Purple purple purple purple!!! Email recievied 3.45 am

 

Now I have to wait for hubby to wake up so I can tell him.

 

Good luck everyone -

 

Jambos... Really make my day and tell me you got to too x

Congratulations! The wait is over .... and you win lol. Have you told your OH yet?

Hi Everyone.

 

We have good news. 26/04/2012 - Now have Case Officer.

 

We are booked in for our meds tomorrow.

Congratulations! Good luck for meds tomorrow.

Come on sol2oz, camilla222 and oppyddrum. It's got to be you guys tomorrow. Or at the latest on Monday

What a day! Congratulations to everyone that got a grant today!!!

So pleased for you all - you made it through. Now the hardest part is over you can put all your effort into moving across and "living the dream"

Good luck to you and good luck to the rest of us still waiting

Hi SHandGH,

 

Please can you turn me purple, I got notification from my CO this morning :biggrin: Thank you to everybody that has kept this post going, it has really help me plan and has given a very accurate indication of time from getting trades allocated to CO assigned, to the amount of time in the waiting room.

 

One issue that we did have was my sons medicals were refered due to what I thought was very minor, his medical took an extra 10 days to be finalised.

 

Once again thanks very much - we will be looking to fly around Aug/Sept:smile:

Congratulations

Hi everyone

 

just wanted to finally say "turn me purple!!"

 

I have received our visa grant from DIAC this morning. No more restless nights for me!!! The downside is we now have a massive list of things to do in the next three-four weeks before we fly out to Brisbane!

 

To all those that are in the waiting room or awaiting case officers I feel your pain but all good things come to those who wait!!

 

Many thanks to all the contributors, especially SHandGH - I'm sure your grant is imminent too - fingers crossed for you!!

 

James

Congratulations James!

I hope you get everything sorted in the next few weeks. Good luck for your move over to Brisbane

Agents are quite rightly very cautious and duty bound to make sure you don't spend money unnecessarily. They will always instruct their customers to do things in sequence so that if you are unsuccessful at any stage along the way you won't have spent money unnecessarily. You take a chance when you do things out of sequence i.e., front-loading meds and PCCs. For example if you were concerned about meeting skills or language assesment requirements then you would not apply for a visa until you had passed this stage. Some people spend up to £1000 for their family's meds so they might not want to attend until instructed to do so by their CO, just in case there's an issue with their application and a delay in processing. Many people take a chance and front-load their meds and PCC. If you are in a hurry to get to Oz, are unconcerned about your appllication's accuracy and expect to pass your meds without issue then front-loading meds can be a good idea. Conversely if you are not in a hurry to get to Oz, are even slightly concerned about you application or suspect you might not pass you meds then wait for instruction from your CO. Personally I had planned to front-load but got assigned a CO before I thought I would. (Definitely not complaining about that).

I would go tomorrow if I could :cute:

But being realistic, I think we would need 3-6 months to sort everything out in the UK and say our goodbyes after we get the visa. Plus it depends on whether we can get jobs from here (husband to get a transfer) or whether we have to find jobs in Oz for ourselves.

I think I will book meds though in May just so that I feel like I'm doing something

It is tempting, which is why I asked my agent. But my application wasn't lodged until December so may be jumping the gun a little.

I think I might wait until I start seeing some activity in December to book meds. I have the PCC forms printed which I will make sure is ready to send again in line with seeing some movement.

Everytime you or Camilla222 post on this thread my heart jumps as I think you've had some good news!

Hey Camilla -

 

I feel like frontloading my meds. Have you noticed that all who have frontloaded their meds have gotten direct grants? What do you think?? :wideeyed:

I wonder if that makes a difference?

I asked my agent last week whether its worth doing, but she still advises to wait because of its validity. It would be interesting if you got a direct grant if you front loaded these docs instead of waiting for a CO first.

So a very quiet week but we had one of these a few weeks ago.

Hopefully this coming week we see more CO's and grants. I am hoping the 4 from November (sol2oz, camilla222, thegig5 and oppyddrum) get some good news.

Seems like the stress of it all has been getting to some people, but we will get there. We've all waited this long so just a little further and we'll be starting our new lives in oz.

Good luck to eveyone playing the waiting game for this week

:wink:

Turn us purple!!

email from CO this morning to say visa has been granted.wooooooooohoooooooooo

Very excited,now we can apply for jobs,book flights and we are off in September

Today is a GOOD day

Thank you everyone who has helped and supported us

Congratulations.Thats great news

I heard that there are people from mid October who are still waiting for a CO - gosh, I hope that doesn't happen to me :cry:

I hope not. I wish they work in order of date just so we know what to expect. DIAC certainly like to keep us on our toes.

Still got my fingers crossed for you

In the other forum, a December 4th Applicant got CO.

No way!!!! That's ridiculous.

That's great for me as it brings me closer to getting a CO, but what about all the guys from mid-November? What's going on?

I'm getting really excited - time for me to start booking meds and getting the police check form ready to send.

We can't believe our eyes. I've looked and re-looked... and its actually true!!

a Direct Grant!

Woohooooooo

Please Turn us Purple, Stephen. we saved you one post (CO allocation)

Congratulations! That's just fantastic!

Claire101 have you been contacted by any chance??

OMG Yvonne072 - thats fab!!! I can't believe you got a CO today - its very exciting!

Don't worry Camilla222 and Sol2Oz - you will get yours too. Have you guys got agents or did you do the applications yourself? If you have agents......CALL THEM :wub:

I'm keeping everything crossed for you both

Has anyone had any good news today?

I hope Sol2Oz and Camilla222 get CO's today - fingers crossed

Congrats Leah31

Been a quiet ish week hope next week is better. It would be good to see more nov CO's and grants for those that got CO's in march.

Do you think if apply the concept of positive thinking and guess the next update to be 13 December (which is our app date!), we'll have a CO next week?:laugh:

It's worth a try! On those positive vibes lets just say 20th December so I can have a CO too :smile:

Congrats on getting a co - we're nearly at the end of oct for co allocations

The man from Delmonte (DIAC), he says YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Visa Granted today - 175, applied on 11th July 2011.

 

let the celebrations begin - please turn us pink - or whatever colour you fancy.!!!!!!

Congratulations!!! I think you're Purple now

Best wishes