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All about our adventures in Oz.
Australia / October 20, 2006 / John / 0
Woo and indeed hoo! The courier is on his way to take the passports off for evidencing. This usually takes five working days. We’re booking flights for the 31st of October. It’s cutting it fine, but then the prices skyrocket in November so it’s worth the risk. I think. AAAARGH! [0] Too many badly translated
Australia / October 19, 2006 / John / 0
….although we kinda expected it would be. Our sponsor called DIMA last night to ask for an update on timescales, as they need to arrange time off work. Our case officer assured him she’d be working on our application on Wednesday or Thursday, meaning we should have heard this morning. Never mind – maybe tomorrow.
Australia / October 16, 2006 / John / 0
We discovered, purely by accident, on Thursday night, that our case officer was on holiday on Thursday on Friday. So nothing was done those two days. That’s alright though – everyone is allowed holidays. Over the weekend, we had a lot of opportunities to think about whether or not the migration agents provided value for
Australia / October 4, 2006 / John / 0
And it has been. Our assurer lodged the bond at the bank today and took the resulting documentation into Centrelink who pretty much processed it on the spot and sent it all off to Adelaide. Hopefully this means that we’ll hear something back from the case officer in the next day or two. That’s the
Australia / September 28, 2006 / John / 0
It’s all done. Our sponsor was in at Centrelink today and cleared the whole lot up. From now on it’s just a matter of waiting for the bond request letter (which they hope to send out tomorrow) followed by bond lodgement and notification of DIMIA. DIMIA will then hum and haw over it for a
Australia, Ramblings / September 25, 2006 / John / 0
It’s strange how things manage to change but nonetheless remain the same. Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose, as Rush said – although they said it nicer, with accents in all the right places and I’m on a PC which isn’t kind to foreign languages. A fair percentage of my memories of the
Australia / September 19, 2006 / John / 0
Gah, this is frustrating. We have a leaving party planned for Saturday. I leave my work a week on Friday. It would be nice if we actually had the visa granted by then! Really, it’s down to the last day or two now, but that day or two of processing is dependant on the Australian
Australia / September 16, 2006 / John / 0
Monday is the start of my last fortnight at work. Well, technically it’s my last week, but they wanted me to stay for an extra week – which is fair enough. It’s difficult to believe that it’s all likely to kick off next week – assuming our sponsor gets the documentation through from the tax
Australia / September 5, 2006 / John / 0
As ever, I’m not posting because I’ve nothing to say We’re still waiting for Centrelink to be happy with the Assurance of Support information. There’s some paperwork our Assurer needs to provide them with which requires processing by the Inland Revenue, so until that comes back, there’s nothing happening. On a cheerier note, though, DIMA