owensfamily

Our visa was granted today after 4 years and 3 months of waiting, the feeling this morning is happy but also a bit surreal. We don't plan on going for another 12 months as my wife needs to complete her nursing degree but still it's a strange feeling to have the visa, so long has passed since we applied, so many things have changed in our lives so it all feels a little odd. Don't get me wrong we are happy we have the grant and will definitely be going its just not how I expected it would feel.

Thanks everyone, have a fair few things to try and sort out and few more questions I need to ask on here.

Hi everyone, much to my surprise I woke up this morning with an email from Adelaide processing centre with our case officer details and requesting we provide medicals and police checks within 28 days. We applied in August 2008 (175) and have sat in the lowest priority processing pretty much from the start, obviously the news last month regarding Cat 5 applications gave us some hope but I only checked the allocation dates last week and it was still on December 2007 so we felt we had a while to go before we got a case officer, but today we have one which hasn't quite sunk in :biggrin: Anyway just wanted to post this so others in similar situations are encouraged that DIAC are actually processing Cat 5's and it would seem are far ahead of what is posted on the allocation webpage.