carahunter4

Hi, You will hear any day now then I'd imagine - how exciting! When are you planning on moving? We're not sure where we're going yet, it depends where my husband gets work, he's looking for estimating or project managing. Ideally we'd like to be by the beach but it's something we need to look into properly when we get there before we buy somewhere. Are you from central London? We're from West Sussex and are used to living by the sea. yes the wait is agonising, I'm just trying to keep busy and stay positive and calm about it all. I just can't wait to hear form a case officer and hope they only ask for police and medical checks and the rest of the info is all ok. They have changed the processing times on immi.gov to aiming at 5 months from date of lodgement to visa grant so fingers crossed they are speeding up a bit. I also read on here that once they've done their bit in the UK they have to send it to the Australian High commission to approve which seems to take it's time - that must be the bit you're waiting for.

The waiting is so difficult but you're a good way through the process now, it might take another couple of months though as the average seems to be about 6 months. Fingers crossed you get it approved before Christmas! When are you planning on moving and have you started organising yet?

Most people seem to hear in a couple of months so I'm sure you'll hear very soon. I wouldn't worry about too much info, I think the worst that can happen is it takes them a bit longer to look through it all. Your case officer might just have had a holiday so is a bit behind. You could try chasing up and see what they say. Got fingers crossed you hear next week, keep us updated.

Hi everyone, I applied for my 309 spouse visa 4 weeks ago. I've read back quite a few pages and seems people seem to hear back from the case officer approx. 6-8 weeks after lodgement so hopefully not too long until I hear back. I'm anxious that we've done everything correctly so can't wait to hear back. I'm hoping they will just request medicals and police check which I'm assuming should mean they are happy with everything else. We are both British, when I met my husband he was just finalising a permanent visa which he had granted not long after we were together so didn't get the chance to add me on then. We settled into life here for a bit, bought a house, got married and validated his visa on our honeymoon last year but now we've decided we would like to make the move together. We really need to move there before October next year to fulfil his resident return visa requirements however, we'd love to go about May time if we can get the visa in time and the house sold. I really hope it won't go against me that I had a permanent visa to move to Oz with my ex husband but I pulled out of going the last minute as I was getting increasingly unhappy in the relationship. I divorced him and stayed here so the visa lapsed. In the meantime I met my husband! What a wonderful twist of fate that he has a visa so we see it as a sign that it's the right life for us! I have been transparent about all this in the visa application and exactly how everything panned out so we've got everything crossed as now we've made the decision we would be heartbroken not to be able to go! Can I ask who is still waiting for their visa to be approved? I could do with some support as I'm starting to get a bit anxious about it all. I'm hoping a spouse visa is just a formality to check we're a couple. We have a mortgage (1 1/2 years), joint account & are married (just over a year), 2 lovely statements from friends, have written a statement each, added photo's, official docs etc I called Australia House and they actually told me to send less than what I was originally going to send as it was overkill! Looking forward to meeting some people on here - anyone else going to Queensland? :-)