raeoni83

Yes all, as i said to mum of 5 our wait is over and visa granted with a week to spare, best of luck to everyone who's applied around the same time - fingers crossed you all get an early Xmas present!!

We did find that by phoning our CO we got more information and assurances, especially as we had already booked our flight and shipped our belongings.

Hey

Me and my partner are in the same situation as you - he is Irish and applying for 309 offshore.

We are flying to Oz with or without the partner visa, just make sure your CO is aware of your plans and they are "supposed" to warn you that your visa is about to be issued so you have time to fly out of Oz. From my explorations on the internet about the same issue, people tend to do a Bali or NZ run (i.e. take a week's holiday) when they get that communication from their CO and then upon their return to Oz they're good to go...

At least i hope to god that is how it works because it's too late for us to back out now!

Wow, you're actually getting responses from SV then - we're in the same boat, our flight to Oz is about 7 days after the estimated 5mth processing time and we've emailed SV 3 times to make sure they are aware that OH will possibly be in Oz if the processing time goes beyond 5mths but not getting any response yet... Here's hoping we've not dropped into the 8-9mth processing timeframe otherwise it will be OH living it up and me working my butt off since i'm the Aussie!!!

Hi off to Aus.

my co was SV and I emailed her a couple of weeks ago advising that I was flying out on the 27th sept. she replied advising to send her a reminder email on the 25th saying she would then grant it.....a bit close for comfort....! But it came through on 13th thankfully!!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...2TWJoLVE#gid=0

This sheet is brilliant - just added our stats (OH is applying for PMV 309), although it would've been nicer to also add the granted date too!