The Pommy
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I think it's great that the next batch of visas are starting to trickle through.
Im quite a long way off, in terms of when it's hopefully my turn.
ive done a fair bit of research of this great forum, and can only assume that when a visa is granted, the case worker, picks up the next one!
So I'm glad that when people get approved, I'm one step nearer!!
Cheers
As Samon has mentioned, they are not issued in order it seems. You may find that no matter how much progress is being made on issuing other people's visas, your application may be held up. I am a case in point, having applied in Sept, having been married (in Aus) well over a decade, two children who are Australian citizens, medical and PC requested and submitted at the start of the year, and yet my visa has not been granted.
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Hi all, just an update to give those who submitted last year some hope of a grant soon. We applied 26th August 2015, by post for some reason. We didn't hear a thing for over 5 months although we knew they had received it as they took the money on the 27th!
Case officer then got in touch early Jan to tell us to go for medical and police check, these were done around 16th Jan. Hubbys company then wanted him to start his job in April so we decided we would sell up and go on evisitor visa to begin with. Sold house within a week, booked flights for 26th Feb via Dubai for a few days. We emailed the case officer a week before to ask if a grant was imminent, he responded straight away with a no he wasn't in a position to grant.
We have been here a few weeks now and are having a great time, it's made it easy as we have lots of family already here. So they are going to Bali the first week in April and asked if we wanted to join them, we need to be offshore to have the visa granted so what a great opportunity to kill two birds with one stone! Emailed the case officer again and told him we were planning a holiday and did he think he would be ready to grant by then. Within 24 hours he replied told us to email flight details and itinerary and he would grant it for us! Straight to 100
Very happy and everything seems to have fallen in place nicely, good luck to all those who applied in the second half of 2015 hopefully it won't be long now.
Hi theBetty82,
How did you email your case officer? We had an email from a shared, general email address saying that they do t respond to emails, and have no other email address.
Cheers.
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No, there is no correlation between meds/pcc and grant date. Some people do their meds when they first apply, they still have to wait months for the grant, same as everyone else.
It does appear though that some people are being asked to do them on or after a certain date, whilst others are not. I received a letter from a case officer about three months after submitting the application and the letter had instructions attached on how to arrange the medical and how to obtain the police check certificate. It didn't specifically say to get them done, but I read it as being implied as the instructions were attached. Given there is a time limit (12 months I think) on their validity, and advice on the immi site not to start the checks until told to do so, it's odd that there are such differences in time from instruction to complete them, and issuing of the visa.
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SUMMARY: Spouse Visa Processing times OFFSHORE-UK. Please add your Stats.
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That doesn't add up, from what I read above. There are plenty of people with dual nationality - Australian and British. My wife is one. From what I remember, both countries allow multiple nationality providing any of the other citizenships held also allow that.
From what I understand (I no expert on this), you would need to have renounced your Australian citizenship not to be a citizen. I am also doubtful that you would hold a valid passport if you were not a citizen.