icequeen1

*lol* yeah let's start first with the acknowledgement

Weasy

Trouble is Melty I just can't wait to be there... Luckily we are going for a recce trip for 3 weeks on 16th July - we won't want to come back I think!!!!!!!

Lou
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icequeen1

I wish I could go nooooooooooow! *lol* but on the other hand, we still have lots of things to do, to finish renovating the house, then selling it, arranging shipment (or maybe not?!) .....etc...etc.... it is a long way to go

Have a great time in July, remember us poor souls who cant go now *lol*

leechy100

Hi all!

Well the visa is sat there ready to go, all done and dusted, checked and rechecked and checked again!!!!!!!! Just waiting for hubby to go get money order from bank, so if i'm lucky we may make august applicants!!!!!!!!! Agent advised us not to pay by credit card and to use a money order.

Got plasterers and joiners and decorators all coming over next six weeks to complete house ready for going up for sale, which I hope will be by the end of June, fingers, toes and legs crossed.

Nicky x

Weasy

Hi Nicky

It all starts getting exciting now!!!!!

Lou
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leechy100

It may do, after all the works been done, at the moment fed up of living in a building site and been the tea lady!!! Just give me a pinny and some rollers!!

Nicky x

Weasy

Good point - been there when we renovated this house... not pleasant.

Lou
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denise6372

Hi
We were hoping to be March too, but forms took much longer than we expected, then we were waiting for our sponsors (my parents) to do their bit. Then just as we were about to send the form off, I found out they had changed the form. Never mind.

DHL picked up from us last Monday and it landed in Melbourne yesterday, hopefully it will be delivered to the Adelaide processing office this monday.

Best wishes everybody
Denise
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denise6372

Hi

We're being lazy re: the house, we're not putting it on the market until we are booked to go and the house is empty. Going to spend a couple of weeks visiting rellies before we disappear to oz and leave the solicitor with power of attourney to sell the house. We figure we have enough money to rent for 6 months without jobs, and have checked that we can get a 6 month payment break from the mortgage too. So hopefully it will all work out, but then you know what its like, it could all change next week!

Denise
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Weasy

Hi Denise

Welcome aboard!!!! Looking forward to all the acknowledgements now. Where are you heading, we're Adelaide

Lou
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denise6372

Hi Lou

Hoping to head for Perth area, but my parents live in North Queensland and are laying on pressure for us to go there. We will consider it if we get desperate, or if we get a job offer from there.

I just can't wait, I'm like a clockwork spring just waiting to go off. I have sent off for police clearance forms already, and wondered if we can go ahead and book meds? I don't know much about it really

Denise
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Weasy

Hi Denise

You're brave regarding the house - are you not a bit worried that people may put in silly low offers if it's empty? Mind you we may consider it if house hasn't sold when we get the visa........

We're going to get the police checks on the way next week and book the meds as soon as we have acknowledgement - probably for late June. Know what you mean about feeling like a coiled spring - we want to be off as soon as we get those visas....

Lou
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lisa and greg

Lou

You had any acknowledgement yet?

Get increasingly frustrated now, just want it over and done with - whats that saying "good things come to those who wait" - how long does one have to wait!!!

I stupidly thought, that once the paperwork had gone to Adelaide, then we could breathe for a little while without living and breathing all thing Oz, but I think it's got worse.

We have a huge list of things that the kids have been asking for, and the poor little buggers keep getting the same reply - "when we go to Australia"

Well thats two weeks our papers have been in Adelaide now, how much longer??

denise6372

Me too

The only problem I have is that my inlaws are NOT happy about us going, and the later in the year the visa comes the more necessary it will be for us to stay for Christmas. Partly because of the song-and-dance they will make, and partly because I will feel eternally guilty. It is so hard.

As for the house, I agree they may do, but to be honest so long as we make some profit and I don't really mind. House prices in our area haven't gone up that much, so I won't take a loss. But you never know, it may work out that we will put it on the market sooner than that. I just can't bear showing people around my house, and getting the children tidy up is nigh on impossible!

Denise
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Weasy

Not yet Lisa but Jackie (Mrs JFW) got hers yesterday and she DHL'd her app on the 25th April so we should both hear this week hopefully..... Know what you mean about living and breathing all things Oz but I find this quite exciting after the long dull wait for vetassess - at least there's bits happening along the way with the visa application.

Our kids also get the same reply from us when they ask for stuff.....

Lou
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