It’s official
Our first correspondence from the Department of Immigration in Adelaide. Our application has been received. The covering letter explains the ‘how long is a piece of string’ process to come – essentially, between one and four months we’ll be contacted to let us know we’ve been assigned a case officer. Sometime in the one to three months following that, they’ll request police checks and medical checks. Annoyingly, this could take up to two months to organise, in which time the application sits in limbo, but it’s a neccessary evil. At this time, our sponsor will be asked to provide an assurance of support bond (coming in at a cool $5,000 AUD) and attend an interview. We can provide them with the bond, but the interview is out of our hands :-).
Once this lot is done, it’s a matter of getting a sticker in our passports and making a trip over there within 12 months to validate the visa. Once this is done, we have a further four years to take up residency. My gut feeling, though, is that we’ll take up residency during our validation trip – we don’t see any need to hang about.
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