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All about our adventures in Oz.
Australia / July 11, 2006 / John / 0
Blimey! You’re a keen lot! Traffic does a little bit of a jump on Tuesdays – must be because it’s the only day I have anything to say! Anyway, applications for the Skilled Australian Sponsored visa subclass which were lodged between the 14th and 22nd of November are currently being allocated case officers. This means
Australia / July 6, 2006 / John / 0
We’re really in the final throes of things. It’s entirely possible that we may have the visa granted in the next month. But with the house sale falling through, everything seems so very far off at the moment. For the prospective migrants that this site is aimed at, I just can’t describe what the waiting
Australia / July 4, 2006 / John / 0
I’m not sure I understand these dates at all. I guess they’re just a broad guideline – although these look fine, it appears the processing window has only moved forward three days at the front and one at the end, which is very slow progress. Still, it does seem to leap forward a fortnight every
Australia / June 27, 2006 / John / 0
Now this is a bit more like it. I think we can expect to be allocated a case officer in the next week or two. So at least we’re getting somewhere. I’m sure the Australian government make the migration process deliberately painful to cut down on timewasters I wish the same could be done with
Australia / June 22, 2006 / John / 0
Ok, so those counters at the top of the page there are quite scary. Over a year since starting out and almost seven months since actually lodging the application. What this means, in real terms, is that we’re only a couple of weeks away from a decision being made, one way or the other. Sure,
Australia / June 19, 2006 / John / 0
It’s not the dates I was expecting :-/ Of course, it’s the number of applications being processed that matters and not the dates – for all I know, 90% of Novembers applications went in on the 1st. Anyway, at least they’re now allocating applications lodged in our month so that’s a definite milestone. The main
Australia / June 13, 2006 / John / 0
Everything seems to be going as expected – I think the speed increase towards the end of October is caused by the bulk of applications being made at the end of summer after the DIMIA’s big migration push on TV. Well, we’ll wait and see. This means that our month should begin processing next week
Australia / June 6, 2006 / John / 0
Apparently – 17-21st October are being processed as we speak. We’re 28th November. The rate seems to be 2 weeks processed per week, if that makes any sense. Anyway, we were down in Northampton at the weekend – our sponsors are over for a few weeks and, given that they’ve come all the way round
Australia / June 1, 2006 / John / 0
Alledgedly, the DIMIA are processing non-priority applications lodged between 10th and 17th October. I think it’s safe to assume we’ll have heard from a case officer before the end of June – probably in the next two weeks. The interminable waiting is just horrible – we have the points, we have the skills and the
Australia / May 20, 2006 / John / 0
Well, in a manner of speaking. The couple who are buying our house have finally accepted an offer on their house, so things on that front won’t be hanging in limbo. We still have no idea how to work it. Basically, we have two options: 1) The easy option. Stay where we are until it’s