maisiedaisy
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Hi Julie When we came out in August on a 651 we got a return. There didn't appear to be an awful lot of difference in the price to be honest and I believe you have to have either a return flight or an onward ticket. Maisie
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Just thought I'd give an update now we've been residents a whole two weeks. We've actually been here since August and spent six months with our daughter and then spent the last three months in a holiday rental overlooking the water and watching the dolphins next week we move into a new rental for six months while we decide to rent for ever or to buy. Went out at the weekend and bought new furniture, bed, chairs, sofa, table, fridge/freezer, washing machine, tv, vacuum, coffee table, lamp table, unit, saucepans, crockery, kettle, toaster, etc. Phew!! Our twelve small boxes being looked after for us in the UK have now been collected and are making their journey to us. We brought a car in August and now have Medicare cards, drivers licences and tax numbers (well hub has his tax number but mine is still to put in an appearance). Letters have been sent to all the relevant official place, ie tax and pensions. We wake up in the morning to the sunshine, the sound of the waves lapping, the birds singing and our glimpses of the dolphins. Seeing our gorgeous grandkids and just being in the country we love. For all those still in the waiting room, you will get there, it will happen, just keep the faith and if anyone is coming Brisbane way we can always meet for a drink Best wishes Maisie
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Hi Lorraine We had to have Oz police checks done because we had spent in total a year over the last 10 years in Australia. Adding up the days over the last 10 years, a month here, a month or two there. It soon adds up. I do believe you can get your medicals done in Oz too. I'm sure one or more of the lovely people on here will let you know if I'm wrong. Good luck Maisie
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Thanks Steve. I went on to VEVO and there we are Maisie
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To add... I don't think they actually have to stamp anything in your passport anymore as it's electronically linked. When my daughter came over she had practically half a page stamped in her passport. Guess it's all changed Apologies again fisher from a very embarrassed Maisie ☹ Maisie
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Arrived back in Oz from our little jaunt to Wellington and got our visa stamped I did think it would say 'resident' or something but it just said Arrived! Is that what they stamped in your passports fellow residents? My daughter had a big thing splodged in hers. Just checking they didn't miss anything! Maisie
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Hi Have you tried to ring them as Steve suggested. I can imagine that it could be difficult to do that but as there have been no replies to your two emails I can't think of any other way to go. I hope you hear from IMMI soon. Please let us know what happens. maisie
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Hi all Arrived today and now sat here in our hotel room in Wellington, NZ. My phone has just beeped and our Agents have emailed me to say we have been granted our 143 :wink:. So with an enormous Wooooohoooo!!!! Maisie has left the waiting room. Good luck to all those still keeping the seats warm, hopefully you'll all get the email you've been waiting so long for really soon. maisie
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Hi Sadge Not sure how they decide who does and who doesn't need to fill in the dreaded Form 80 but looking at most of the signatures on here I think we all have. Someone shout out if I'm wrong. maisie
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That's very true Alan, the brightness will be shining through my tent which is all I can afford now hahahahaha! maisie
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Something will turn up Julie trust me. Just when you think nothing is happening, it all happens at once. Keep smiling nice lady maisie
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Thanks everyone for your lovely comments. I'll definitely let you know how things are going. Looking for somewhere to live now!!!! Bank balance looked so much better last week before I paid that last VAC :confused: maisie
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Hi Bev Yes I'm afraid they did ask for the dreaded form 80!! I was so glad to see the back of that form!! maisie
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Hi good people Great big Woooohoooo!!!! Just had notification that PVC have received the final vac from us and will be granting our visa once we've left to go to NZ on Tuesday. I've vacated my seat and I'm stood at the waiting room door with my foot in it ready to go. Shuffle up everyone :wink: I'll let you all know when we get the word that it's done. maisie
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Hi Wooohooo! Just had the request for the 2nd VAC, we are very smiley people at the moment :jiggy: maisie
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Hi Sadge We also used an agent and were also one of the lucky ones to get all the AOS, police check info and HAP nos. With our acknowledgment. I believe your agents will send you all the relevant information when you get your case officer. We had already had police checks both in the UK and Oz and we had our medicals completed because two years ago when we started all this that's how the process worked. It's such a shame you have to leave things now till last minute. Hope things go well for you Maisie
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You keep smiling too Julie, we will all get there! Just a few more hoops to jump through and you'll be on your way maisie xx
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Hi Steve I was always under the impression that if you applied off shore then you had to be off shore to get your visa. It would benefit us no end if we could stay and still get the visa granted but I'm sure you have to be off shore. I'm not sure if you can do it separately either! Lets hope there will be someone on here who has entered the country separately and can clarify that it can be done. Or when you get allocated your case officer you could ask them. Don't give up Steve, it'll all come right in the end - keep smiling maisie x
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Hi everyone..... We have our AOS acceptance letter today :jiggy:I can't believe it has only taken 2 days!! Wow!! Way to go Centrelink!!!! So here is the timeline we had for those with the AOS still to do: 16.03.2016 Collected forms from Centrelink - I just went in and asked for the AOS forms. 17.03.2016 Allocated Case Officer 18.03.2016 AOS form filled in and taken to Centrelink 04.04.2016 Letter (via post) from Centrelink requesting telephone interview, resulting in the request for a form Correct form uploaded to Centrelink (if your AOS person has an account with them, then I believe they can do it that way too) 07.04.2016 Centrelink confirm upload had been received. Wait for letter to pay the bond 12.04.2016 Letter (via post) asking for the bond to be paid 13.04.2016 Bond paid at Commonwealth Bank - daughter spent an hour and a half in the bank as the teller had never done this before. Took paperwork received from the Bank straight to Centrelink. They photocopied it and passed it to the processing team. 15.04.2016 Daughter received Acceptance letter by email via her Centrelink account Maisie and Pete jumping up and down in our holiday rental :-) Hope that helps Waiting now for the 2nd Vac request :-))))) maisie
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Hi there, Wrong email address!!!! Arghhhhh! So frustrating. Yes it should be as far as I know. The medical information is sent from the Dr you had your medical with straight through to IMMI so they should already have that. I hope it all starts to move along quickly now for your Mum-in-law. Best wishes maisie
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Hi Joe When we got all the initial paperwork with our acknowledgement (lucky because as you know about 2 weeks later they stopped doing it). Amongst all that there was our HAP no. dates to get our police checks and dates to get our medicals. There was also the letter from Immigration telling us we would need an AOS Sponsor. Once we had been allocated our Case Officer we had another letter asking for the dreaded Form 80, police checks, and medicals (that goes straight through) and asking our AOS to phone centrelink to make an appointment. That letter that came with the acknowledgement regarding AOS is the one you need to take to Centrelink. My daughter took the one we had lastly with our Case Officer's name but it's the initial letter you get advising you that you will require an AOS that they want. (IMO, take both). We actually went into Centrelink and picked up the forms she needed to fill in (it's a green 10 page thing). Incidentally, it says phone for an appointment and after my daughter spending hours hitting the redial button because it was always engaged she eventually got through and was told she didn't need an appointment!! So she went into Centrelink and lodged the paperwork. It took almost 2 weeks to receive a letter from them asking for a telephone interview. In all fairness the lady in Centrelink was really helpful and very nice. My daughter phoned (easier to get through for this), had the telephone interview. She uploaded the correct form they required straight to Centrelink and phoned the following day to make sure it had been received. 5 days later she had a letter from Centrelink asking her to go and pay the bond. That's been done. The bank gives you some paperwork back and you have to take that (or upload it) to Centrelink within 14 days. We took it the same day as she banked the money. Which leads us to where we are now..... waiting for an acceptance letter! Hope that helps Joe maisie
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Hi Julie My daughter went into the bank yesterday and paid the bond. We then took the paperwork from them and went straight to Centrelink to hand it in. The lady there said she had passed it onto the processing team and now again, we wait to hear. Will definitely post how long it took for the AOS, I've noted all the dates and I'll give you a good run down of it all. So far it's taken 4 weeks tomorrow. Does anyone else feel they've aged 10 years waiting for our visas? Good luck Julie maisie
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Thank you Linda. My daughter is going there today and then on to Centrelink to give them the payment acknowledgement. I just want it all to move on now, it's been sooooo long. Good luck with everything best wishes maisie
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Thank you Phil, very kind of you Best wishes Maisie