Danny842003

I have a fairly large amount of Lego at my parents I would like to ship over for my son what’s going to be the most cost efficient way to do this. 
I know it’s a bit open ended but I don’t actually know how much there is until I get there in a few weeks. My guess would be 10kg. 

On 14/10/2020 at 10:58, coquette said:

I checked mine at Bayside council, yeah they recommenced. Not sure if that is good or bad as i hoped virtual one may be quicker to get ours 

What’s the rush? You’re not going anywhere on an Aussie passport.

I noticed that my local council Fairfield, Sydney are holding in person citizenship ceremonies again. Just thought I would share as I had only heard of them happening in Perth. 

9 minutes ago, 04April2017DE said:

no, when did you apply for the citizenship? 

June 2019 like I said in the post you quoted

4 hours ago, 04April2017DE said:

Congrats, when did you apply? 

for what the original marriage visa? June 2014 

So did my test yesterday in Paramatta, just checked my IMMI account and it’s been approved. Just waiting for the ceremony now I guess. 
arrived in May 2015 on a marriage visa and applied for citizenship in June 2019. 

8 hours ago, helppls said:

Question:

I'm a permanent resident waiting on citizenship - applied January 2020 and haven't heard anything yet. If I go on holidays overseas am I obliged to report this to the department? 

 

How are you going to go on holiday abroad? 

4 hours ago, Abro said:

@Danny842003 Congratulations! Danny. I submitted my application last year December. Still, waiting. Happy to know Parramatta is inviting for tests. Have you mentioned Parramatta for a test interview in your application? I mentioned the Sydney City center. 

Yes as far as I know if you mentioned the city you will have to wait until they’re up and running. 
I imagine Para are running at a lower capacity so they won’t want to take on work from another centre. 

Just been invited for my test mid September at Parramatta. Was originally booked in for early April. Applied June 2019. 

On 14/08/2020 at 23:19, warren84 said:

Hi All

Good news! Following on from Perth restarting In-person citizenship appointments, Adelaide, Parramatta and Brisbane have now followed suit. No word yet on Sydney Central or NSW/Qld regional offices, but hopefully coming soon!

https://covid19.homeaffairs.gov.au/citizenship

Interesting I had my test in Para canceled two working days before it was booked. You would imagine I would be at the front of the line but haven’t heard anything yet. 

5 hours ago, Canada2Australia said:

$25K grant from the government? What is this grant for?

I believe it’s a home builder/buyer grant 

2 hours ago, cams326 said:

Hi everyone,

I lodged my citizenship a few weeks ago. I am just wondering if there is anyone's application here that was processed quicker than expected? I am kind of hoping to still be able to get the $25K grant from government if there is any chance the citizenship will be granted this year.

Thank you all

 

Nobody can say for certain but I don’t think it’s very likely. 
I submitted in June 2019, had my test booked for April 2020, that was cancelled because of Covid and they haven’t started tests again in NSW since, meaning there’s quite a backlog. 

On 26/07/2020 at 12:09, elderberry said:

Please don't put any more wind into the sails of that petition. It landed up spamming every forum on citizenship. They won't start the tests if it is unsafe to do so, and quite frankly that situation is getting less rather than more certain at the moment. Just be patient, stay safe and be grateful to be in a country with such good healthcare and relatively low numbers at the moment. I'd suggest it is not a priority when we are fighting a battle to save lives, avoid transmission and ensure businesses can survive. 

I wouldn’t sign a change.org petition but is it unsafe to do the tests and interviews? With the exception of Melbourne/Vic pretty much everyone is at work. I’ve never stopped, kids are in schools, crowds are at the footy, I can go to the pub etc etc

Yet it’s unsafe to go and have an interview which would be socially distanced anyway I imagine? 

On 18/07/2020 at 22:57, babysleep said:

I submitted my application in May 2020 and I am based in Sydney.

Anyone knows whether immi is still processing applications and tests recently?

Thanks for answering! Good luck to all of us

I submitted in June 2019 has my test booked for the start of April and had it cancelled 2 working days before. I was hoping they would start soon as WA had but it looks as far away as ever with this current up tick. 

Sorry citizenship was booked in at Paramatta end of March start of April. I can’t actually remember now as the weeks are mergining in to one. 

With the government moving to get the country going again has there been any word on tests being restarted?  
Mine was cancelled with two days notice so I’m hoping to be near the top of the list when they do. 

2 minutes ago, samlab said:

No, but thanks for the information. Looks like tests have been put on hold. 

They’ve no option as it’s impossible for them to ensure people aren’t cheating doing a test remotely and you would still need an interview for the to sight your documents as genuine anyway. 

On 08/04/2020 at 14:21, Mamir said:

Anybody got their August appointment cancelled or postponed? 

I was supposed to have mine 30th March was rebooked for August l, that got postponed with about 17 emails a couple of days ago. 

Was due to get my test early next week, it’s now been moved to august. 

24 minutes ago, Gbye grey sky said:

The first case is irrelevant.  Two weeks ago the UK was showing about 1500 cases while Australia was 300.  Even if the infection figures were reliable you really need to look at death rates alongside the infection rate numbers of 2 weeks ago particularly when the upward curves on the graphs are so pronounced.

The 0.3% death rate in Australia is a statistical anomaly caused as much by the lag in the spread on infection here as much, if not more, than the relative testing.

Sadly the number of deaths here is set to rise sharply in the coming weeks. 

I’m not disputing that at all.
 

But if you’re testing more the numbers are more accurate. The original claim was that the numbers were around the same given the differences in population, that doesn’t appear to be the case. 
The more testing you do reduces the speed of infection that’s the entire point. Once someone is confirmed people around them are given notice locked down and the spread is slowed. That’s why Korea has a huge number of cases but very little deaths. 
Testing is as important as social distancing if not more so. 

6 minutes ago, Gbye grey sky said:

Whilst I don’t disagree with your point the death rate in Australia may be influenced to by the duration.  If the UK spike in cases was even a week earlier than Australia those infected would have progressed further with the disease.

Ideally each and every one of us needs to be tested on a weekly basis over a sustained period in order to be able to get any handle at all on the mortality rate of this virus.  This is unlikely to happen particularly as every country is in crisis management.

Again it’s just a simple way of looking at it but ScoMo is claiming Australia is testing to a much higher number per capita than the uk and an insane number higher than the US and the stats seem to back it up, if you look at South Korea where they are known to test test test this is reflected also  

The first recorded case in Australia was on the 25th jan and the uk the 31st, both from abroad rather than domestically spread. 

5 hours ago, Ausvisitor said:

I'm not sure I agree, the UK has 8000 confirmed cases, Australia 2,500 but the population disparities make it that they are roughly the same statistically

Both countries acknowledge that they have many more unconfirmed cases than the offical numbers

I suspect it's goign to bad wherever you are, it's going to ramp up quickly everywhere

I don't think anywhere is safer than another (on a country level) - what is safer is if you live in a community that is abiding by the advice and personally you take every precaution you can

You’re looking at the stats in a far too simple way. If you look at the death rate to confirmed cases the UK is at over 5% whilst Australia is at 0.3%. That suggests the UK is massively under testing and that Australia’s figures whilst probably not accurate are much more so than the UKs. 

8 hours ago, Ausvisitor said:

No one is saying it will be easy (or even possible) but I'd certainly be trying.

Whilst it's currently unthinkable that someone presenting at a hospital with symptoms wouldn't be treated, roll this forward 2 months and things haven't improvement and health services are on their knees, then we are going to start hearing the anti-immigration people (in every country) saying that we shouldn't be treating aliens, and the governments should only be looking after proper (insert country) people.

I don’t think you understand how healthcare works. Drs take their oaths pretty seriously and even if ScoMo decided this would take place Drs would not enforce it. 

If they’re on a 12 month visa and they’ve only used 4 weeks I would be checking where they stand with the reciprocal medical agreement. If that is ongoing I don’t see any good reason why they need to wave. 
Yes the foreign office has said return but that’s a blanket statement and it’s not like we’re living in Sierra Leone with militias attacking hospitals. 
If my parents wanted to stay, the visa was good and they were covered medically there’s not a chance I would be making them go home, reading between the lines I think it’s going to get very nasty in the UK very soon. 

Anyone seen any announcement on tests etc? I’m due to have mine in the next week, I’m not fussed if it’s postponed just looking for info either way.