Thanks Raul and snifter, yes, I know what you are saying but unfortunately its a little late now, flight is booked for April, and to be honest I could not practically support myself to stay here until citizenship later in the year, I have been trying to do citizenship but struggled to find some one to sign the form, and still would. I have to go for the next best thing really, which is a 5 yr RRV...would I be correct in thinking that if granted that would give me 5 yrs to be able to come back to live in OZ?, as I said earlier, its doubtful, but I guess anything could happen.