mhaffie

Hi,
Does form 888 have to be completed plus a hand written statement which both then have to be certified?

Hey guys, 
So I am writing this whilst shaking like a leaf ..... i have joined the golden email club.
Straight to 100 entry before August 2019. 
A million thank you's to you all for keeping me sane over the past 7 months to the day........ I can't believe it. 
House is being valued on Friday and going straight on the market and we are going going going gone..... 
Fingers crossed for all those still waiting .... London seems to be powering through the applications now so hope you all hear soon 

OMG!!!!!!! Exciting News everyone. My husbands 309/100 just came through minutes ago. I cannot put into words how I feel. Entry is by end of April so have to get skates on and get the house on the market, dogs booked etc etc. Thank goodness we had our clearout last year!
my timeline again ..... applied 12th April 2018, more info requested 26th Oct 2018
and grated 309/100 today, 10th January [emoji3][emoji898]
The champagne will definitely be getting opened tonight.
Thank you to everyone on this forum for updates and good luck to everyone waiting, I’m sure your emails will be through very soon.
Tania

So I can't quite believe I'm writing this but
I GOT MY GOLDEN EMAIL!!!!! 
I now just have to leave the country for 5 working days and when I come back I can begin finding a job and then we can begin finding a house. It's all so exciting.
Thank you to everyone on this board for helping to keep me sane!
Jon you were right to have that good feeling. I'm hoping it happens for the rest of you too!  Come on KatieBobbles you must be next. 
 
 

Hi guys, we were contacted on 11.11.18 with a request for further information...sponsors UK and Aus Police checks and a certified copy of my full birth certificate (which I had to order...didn't realise the one I had wasn't a full one!). All submitted and went into further assessment on 29.11.18 so back to the waiting game. 
Thanks to everyone who mentioned being asked for police checks, it meant we already had ours ready for when the request came through! Saved loads of time.

Hi guys, well, we've gone from received to "initial assessment" today and been asked for more information, namely any countries my partner (the applicant) has lived in for more than 12 months for past ten years (he's only lived in England so that one is easy), and more proof of our relationship. 
I am really surprised as we applied in August, but it does seem like they are putting on a big push before the end of the year to clear or move to the next stage as many applications as possible. 
Not sure what more "proof" we can give them of our relationship as I've given them 3 affidavits, 14 pages of timestamped screenshots and photos etc from ours and our friends social media since we got together 7 years ago, receipts of all our joint travel and holidays, and full statements explaining how we met, the development of our relationship, how we run our household etc. We don't have any joint finances at the moment as I moved into my partners house (so mortgage and bills were in his name) and we share one car which is in my name and I pay for sky and groceries.  Any ideas what else we can send them? One of our pals suggested a sex tape but I don't think I'd wish that on anyone!! [emoji38]

It does seem like they approve them in batches - I received my grant yesterday as well. Applied end of April, further info requested 1st November, visa grant 30th November. 
 
Good of luck to all still waiting, I know your pain! 

Congrats[mention=267521]laf[/mention] that is fab news. I hope you are right this is awful ..... I will be so relieved when it's all over. I may write to Santa see what he can do!!!!!

Congratulations BacktoOz!! I also received mine this afternoon. Both the 309 and 100. So relieved. Have to arrive before 23 March so can now look forward to a summer trip.
Thinking of all you still waiting. Katiebobbles you will be next I'm sure.

Hi all,
Well most bizarrely and unexpectedly we got our visa today!
It was unexpected because we were asked for police clearances (extra ones as my husband had declared some convictions in other countries) and we uploaded these exactly a month after they were requested. Then straight away the CO emailed our agent asking for us to sign a further disclosure form which was weird but asked to give permission for NZ police to confirm how many "letters of police clearance we had received (still don't understand this relevance) but we signed it electronically and sent back same day. Our agent told us it was uploaded but that  it would likely take time for them to process the form then request the info from NZ etc (plus NZ were the ones we waited for an entire month for the police clearance) but we received the grant the next day!! That is bizarrely quick without factoring time differences in!! We had all just recovered from a housewide sick bug and put our Xmas decorations up when we got the email at 5pm so we are currently celebrating!  Our timeline below for interested sake:
Lodged 12 April 2018
Info req: 29 Oct 2018
Submitted: 29 Nov 2018
Further form to sign and submitted: 29 Nov 2018
Grant received: 30 Nov 2018
 

I think they are currently processing the 1901-1902 financial year.
Here is the photo my relative submitted with her application, she was approved today!!!!!
Unfortunately she died in 1947 [emoji20]
 

Hey guys! I am also a long time lurker (too lazy to sign up lol) but had to share we just had or 309 and 100 granted this afternoon from UK! 4.5 months from lodgement!!
I am Aussie (sponsor) and partner is from Mauritius. Long story short is that we moved to UK together as our onshore partner visa was refused in 2015 due to schedule 3 requirements. Finally worked up the courage and money lol to apply again and lodged July 5th. Front loaded and included all our refusal paperwork etc as well. We had help from Partner Visa Academy (highly recommended) but was not expecting it so quickly until we saw all of the approvals on this thread this week!
Thanks for giving us hope and best of luck with all your applications. Hard to hang in there but its all worth it in the end. xxx
I should add we are not married and no kids and have been together 5 years

I’m so sorry I’ve quoted laf’s reply, it was supposed to be in response to Samie97 [emoji849]

It was just a basic health check, height, weight, stethoscope, discussion about health records, then being asked if there's any health-related concerns I needed to add.
As I'm a non-smoker I can't comment on whether they take this into account. I imagine there might be some smokers who have been awarded their visas that can answer.

Fingers crossed as soon as AFP check is done they will be that quick. We're going to fly to oz at the start of Jan. 

Brilliant news hearing all these visas getting approved. How long did people have to wait after submitting more evidence for visa to be approved? (Wish the Australian police check would hurry up) 

Looks like the visa team had their weetabix yesterday as I got my 309 and 100 through as well. I applied in UK on 25th June with police checks and medical loaded soon after that. Hope this flurry of activity continues and those waiting hear good news soon!

Boom!
Just received 309 and 100 too this afternoon. As above no contact, applied 28th June.  Actually still awaiting sponsors police checks as only ordered them last week so quite shocked it's come through without question!
Everything else was front loaded, so that was pretty slick given we saw 20+ months in July as the waiting time [emoji3]

Just received my golden email 309 immediately followed by 100 visa grant!
no prior contact, we applied 30th June 
I am flying out 30th December for a visit and March for good, applied evisitor visa a few weeks ago but that's not needed anymore!!
So excited [emoji898]

I read this post the other day and secretly hoped that it would be our week. I didn’t want to jinx it and write anything, but we got our 309/100 tonight!! I’ve actually already arrived in aus now and my hubby (the applicant) is heading out in a couple of weeks! Thank goodness for that!! All the very best to everyone waiting. Fingers crossed that the waits are quick, boringly normal and that your lives in Aus are full of happiness.xx.

That’s great Thankyou so much. Going to be a while for us yet as we currently waiting for date for the appeal so going to be a while 

Has anyone had there saving etc checked for a partner visa and if I don’t have savings will this be an issue as we are moving in with the in-laws when we move and I will have a job already lined up for when we get approved. 

So confusing! I called the IMMI help line and the guy was as equally confused and told me to do both just in case. Ah! I just don’t want there to be hiccups to delay this thing even more. Let you know how I go anyway. 

I also clicked and nothing happened till I clicked again then it greyed out. The website's not designed to give confidence!

Yes, there was a button and then a warning. Thanks for checking. I clicked and clicked again.