chad_b

Hey all, You can chalk another November application up in the 'GRANTED' column! My wife (Spanish) got her golden emails this afternoon to say that both her 309 and 100 visas had been granted. We didn't have any requests for further information, but we were super thorough when we did the original submission, so that seems to have helped. We submitted the application on 11 November 2018 and they've given us until 10 November 2019 to enter the country, so almost a year to the day from when we applied. (The 10 November date doesn't correspond to anything else such as uploading police checks, medical, etc., so I'm not sure what they base this on.) Thanks so much to everyone for all your support and encouragement in here. Good luck to everyone else who's waiting patiently for their big day. Your time will come!

CEP, you are an outright star. Thanks so much for doing this!

Hey CEP, This is so great! Is there anywhere that we can see the full spreadsheet online so that we can see when people submitted prior to 22 October? If you want to add us to the bottom, we submitted on 11 November 2018 and haven't had any request for further info yet...

That's just what I was hoping for. A few days in NZ never goes astray Thanks so much!

Hey guys, I'm an Aussie citizen living in the UK with my Spanish wife and our new baby. We are hoping to move back to Oz in October this year but only submitted our 300 visa application in November last year. If it doesn't come through before we want to leave at the beginning of October, does anyone know if there would be any problem with her being in the country on a tourist visa when her partner visa is approved? Would it just be a case of leaving the country and re-entering or would she have to go back to either her home country (Spain) or the country where she applied for the visa (UK)? Or, can we straight up just NOT be in the country when it is approved? Thanks for all your help. This thread is AWESOME!