mangel83

Quite a speedy turnaround! Thanks for the information, however I'm still thinking about postponing it to try to be in a ceremony with my wife. I agree, I've already spent enough as it is, but I guess it's no a whole lot more in the grand scheme of things.

Ceremony invitation received! Date applied: 05/12/2017 City/Council area: Melbourne Online / Paper: Paper Date received the acknowledgement email: 29/01/2018 Date of the Citizenship Test: 25/06/2018 *Passed Date of ceremony: 27/09/2018 However, most likely I'll postpone the ceremony for 2 reasons: - My wife and I applied together (although she applied online) and she just got the invitation today to take the test in November, even though we both nominated each other to be together for the ceremony. Funny how it (doesn't ?) works. Although this post above ? explains a bit! - I have an upcoming trip to NZ for work on the 31st of October and I'm worried I might be cutting it too fine getting a passport on time. Allowing for 2 weeks after the ceremony to apply for a passport, that leaves 2 weeks for me to get the passport, which I guess the "Urgent" service should do the trick with a week to spare, only other issue is tickets have already been booked with my current passport details. Any thoughts on the passport issue? Any experience using the urgent service? Good luck to everybody still on the wait!

Yes we did, I submitted her details and she submitted mine. Yes, I got the approval within a week.

Hey guys, sharing my info here just for the greater knowledge. Both my wife and me applied within a week of each other, she applied online but I applied via mail (Paper). This was due to an issue with my travel records when border control failed to register one of my entries back to Australia, ie. it showed me exiting the country on 2 different occasions without the entry in between. I called and was told to either submit proof of my entry (which could take a few weeks to process) and try applying online again once the issue was corrected, or to apply by paper as even with the discrepancy in the record I met the eligibility criteria. So to avoid the extra wait I submitted a paper application, however at the same time I still sent proof of the missing entry just to get the record right. It actually just took them a couple of days to process, however I had already sent the paper application. See below for our timeline. Date applied: 05/12/2017 City/Council area: Melbourne Online / Paper: Paper Date received the acknowledgement email: 29/01/2018 Date of the Citizenship Test: 25/06/2018 *Passed Date of ceremony: TBC Type of ceremony (Urgent/Normal): TBC Date applied: 02/12/2017 City/Council area: Melbourne Online / Paper: Online Date received the acknowledgement email: 02/12/2017 Date of the Citizenship Test: TBC Date of ceremony: TBC Type of ceremony (Urgent/Normal): TBC When attending the interview/exam I asked the officer why hadn't my wife been contacted yet and he thought it was unusual but he couldn't provide more information, he advised to call the department and ask. When we called and explained the situation they didn't even bothered to ask for our details, just said applications are processed in different batches, and that they were still within the specified time frame ?

Hi people, I've been following this thread for a while now and I'm happy to say that our Visa was granted yesterday! I was able to include some details in the spreadsheet a while back, but it seems now that is blocked for editing. I found it very helpful so please whoever is in charge see below for timeline and add the missing details. User: mangel83 Occupation: Mechanical Engineer HR - 2 ppl - Transition Nom. App. 18/06/2015 Nom. Grant 10/11/2015 Visa App. 26/02/2016 Doc. Req. 05/10/2016 (English Test - secondary applicant) Doc. Prov. 25/10/2016 Visa Grant 07/11/2016 It's just a waiting game, so don't lose hope, good luck to everyone!