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Thanks. do you know what the timeframe is?

So I was granted a PARTNER (MIGRANT) (Class BC) PARTNER (Subclass 100) visa back in 2013 and as part of the requirements I needed to enter Australia by January 2014. During the time of preparing to leave the UK and head to Australia I was offered a job in the Middle East which I decided to take. I did enter Australia before January 2014 on my PARTNER (MIGRANT) (Class BC) PARTNER (Subclass 100) visa with no problems but was only there for 3 weeks on 'holiday' before leaving to head back to UAE. Am I right in thinking that this particular visa has no conditions or expiry timeframes on it. Even though i am not actually living in Oz at the moment it is still completely valid?

Yeah! ​applied 19 October and visa (100) granted today! Good work SV!

Anybody got any recent rough costs for 20' container? Does it all depend on how much time is spent inspecting at the Oz end? UK shipping agent is quoting £540 -does this seem about right?

Thanks all...seems like both have a good rep. JM did come in marginally cheaper and seemed to think that we'd have no problem getting everything in a 20' container whilst PSS seemed to think there would be more - different packing techniques??

Just wanted to add to this for what it's worth...I applied back in October 2012 and got the standard 8-9 month response re processing time. SV is my case officer. Did my medical and police checks around the end of Jan, beginning of Feb. My wife's Australian and we're actually heading back to Oz at beginning of June as expecting 2nd child and that will be last chance for her to fly but it does mean that my visa probably won't be ready then. So I contacted my CO just to let her know that I was travelling in June on a tourist visa due to pregnancy etc and did she think there was any chance my actual visa would be ready. All other contact I'd had with her had just consisted of her copying and pasting text from their website but this time I actually got personal response advising me to contact her again at the end of May to see where they were with the visa - I'm taking this as a positive! However the concern was that she then asked me for my Police checks as she said that she hadn't received them. I went back to her to advise that she must have done as I'd had the orginal returned to me - turns out they had received them but nothing had been done with them and it wasn't on system. Who knows how long would have passed if I hadn't been in touch before they contacted me to ask for the checks again? So, always worth getting in touch every so often with your CO and asking if they need anything extra. Fingers crossed for 8 month processing rather than 9 months!

Whittled them down to the fianl 2 and nothing between them to be honest in terms of price and service provided so far. Any last minute reputational recommendations to sway my decision? Thanks

oops..hit reply without reading to end of page 5 and have just seen Snifters post...:embarrassed:

First post but long time lurker soaking up a lot if really useful information here on PiO. This however is probably time to get involved as we've just started our quote process with shipping companies. Please could you let me know which company you used so we know which to be wary of. BTW I'm not aware of any law about not being able to say publicly on the internet that you had a bad expereice with a company - plenty of Forums dedicated to just that! Cheers