laf

I definitely don't think it's worth using an agent for citizenship by descent.  There's nothing complicated about the application just some strange idiosyncrasies such as Australia being missing from the list of "countries visited"!  I can't see any reason for this other than that they presumably have access to these records. I would have thought they would state that there's no need to list any Australian trips if that's the case.

Thanks for your help rammygirl. The format is extremely tedious having to add each trip individually rather than just being able to attach a list. There's also the holidays to add which at least have email confirmations.

Could anyone advise on the citizenship by descent form filling that requires all travel details from the age of 18.  This means my daughter would need to list 14 years' worth of trips and as she works for an airline it would involve hundreds of flights, many of which are not even recorded in her passport.  

That's so sad about the penguins. I'd be distraught to witness that. As far as I know sadly there are no penguins in Sydney.

My daughter's two cats are indoor apartment cats in Sydney. She specifically chose them for rehoming as they had never been outside. She's taken them to the park for a stroll on leads. One quite enjoyed it but the other was terrified.

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 

Congratulations ATE. Such good news.

And this is for my fellow Spreadsheet fans..... [emoji846] for the most part its those of us who had to provide further info who are thestragglers 
Oh and [mention=265638]Katiebobbles[/mention] the IT tickets... yes it has been known (not that I condone it of course!)..... [emoji6]
 
 

On 24/12/2018 at 12:38, Katiebobbles said:

Merry Christmas to everyone. All crossed for an amazing start to 2019 for us all x

Merry Christmas Katie. I'd hoped your post might have been to announce good news for you.  The staff will all go back to work refreshed next week raring to go with your application. 

Thanks guys!
 
Another question for those in Oz who got email and had to leave (laf was it you who went to Bali?) When you emailed them giving flight details how quickly did they come back and say ok. I've booked for this Sunday and am worried they won't see my email in time!

2 hours ago, dondons1uk said:

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. 

 

 

That's wonderful Dondons1uk, so pleased for you.  Good luck with the job search and have a lovely mini break! 

Are you named on the council tax or electoral roles (You know the please verify who can vote letters you get each year???) Also are on each other's wills, pensions as named beneficiaries or in a joint life insurance as I assume he they have these for the house? That way they can show would go to you if something happened to him and vice versa?

In other news I saw 6 magpies before 10am .... was sure it would be my day but nope turns out we just have a lot of bloomin magpies around at least I'm not getting dive bombed by them and those blasted drop bears [emoji23][emoji23]

35 minutes ago, ATE said:

Police check finally arrived in the post, uploaded and now praying for a quick answer! We fly in 28 days.....

Mine took 26 days from submitting further information so it's tight but you and Tanc7 might be lucky. I really hope so especially as you have booked your flight 

Will put in a good word for all us in the further info queue ... prob is not sure how much credit I have I'm usually a bit too cheeky to be called a good girl [emoji39]

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! 

20 minutes ago, mhaffie said:

Hoooooooooooorahhhhhhh .... couldn’t be happier for you, such great news. It’s been a long wait, now you can relax a little and celebrate at last

 

Thanks so much mhaffie.  Out for a family curry tomorrow night, nothing too fancy, wine and beers instead of cocktails and champagne. Need to conserve our money for the forthcoming trip!  Still can't believe it's real. 

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.

It is crazy coincidence!  Yes looks like they are on work visa.  Both lovely houses, ours has another bedroom and nicer Kitchen with high ceiling and velux windows, but we are asking £25k more.  Tricky to tell.

1 hour ago, Jon the Hat said:

I'm getting irritated on your behalf Laf!

Our house went on the market today.  And then unbelievably a neighbours went on hours later, I messaged them and they are also moving to Sydney with a job offer!! Mental.  They are literally 50 metres round the corner.  Oh and the family next door are considering a move to Dubai.  I just want to sell my house!!

Wow that is a coincidence. Are they going on a work visa? Hope the competition doesn't hinder your sale.

On 28/11/2018 at 15:03, Katiebobbles said:

Oh and I figured would just get ... you are well within their 12-17 months line if we called

Yes Katiebobbles and if it wasn't for this forum we'd all be sitting back thinking it was quite normal to wait up to 17 months.  Unfortunately we're all comparing ourselves to the speedy grants .

6 hours ago, Jon the Hat said:

Ah no I have just looked again:  If you go into the application details page / view attachments tab there is a print icon top right, and when you click on it this creates a pdf listing of all the evidence uploaded.  I would absolutely keep a record of this.

That's a really good idea Jon.  I will definitely create a pdf copy of my attachments, just in case 

That is strange.  I have 4 of them with the documents listed by category, with received written next to them.

17 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

If you download a copy of your application it included a list of the documents received.  I find it unbelievable Ben that you agent has not done this, and been able to show it to the Immi immediately.

My attachments don't show in the downloaded application. I can only see them online when I click on "Add Attachments". It's not possible to open them to look at them.

3 minutes ago, Ben34uk said:

It’s an absolute joke. How are u even suppose to know that the embassy actually get the evidence there should be a response email saying documents have been received so u actually know they have received them. This is the problem we have had.  

Even wehen we sent off for our appeal my agent sent 5 documents with the appeal application and we got an email back stating each item they have received 

Really wishing you luck with your appeal Ben. 

1 hour ago, Ben34uk said:

So have people had issues with documents not showing at the embassy end as this would be interesting to know as ours was refused as the embassy didn’t receive anything apart from our application. Subsequently it was refused due to them not receiving anything although 50 docs were sent. 

Will be helpful to know as we can use this in our appeal. 

It seems as if no-one knows until if and when they decline their application!

1 minute ago, Katiebobbles said:

I know unsure why i cant see signatures on the app either. Hence the questions. Sorry
I know I shouldn't let myself get worked up not hearing anything but I am getting in a bit of a tis most days ... so unhelpful
This all has to be over soon ... surely!!!!

Everything definitely displays and updates better on my laptop. 

I'm lucky in that I don't have a job offer or flight booked like some of you but it's the fear that something disastrous has happened like documents not showing their end!!