Border Control ... featuring Mr Bermudashorts
Feb 7th 2011, 2:36 am
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Re: Border Control ... featuring Mr Bermudashorts
Well I dropped an email to DIAC yesterday and got a response this morning in which they have said it is all very odd and they don't know why there should be a problem with NZ immigration.
They sent me a copy of the visa grant leter again and a screen shot of some system showing his visa is in order. We will take that with us too when we are flying home.
They sent me a copy of the visa grant leter again and a screen shot of some system showing his visa is in order. We will take that with us too when we are flying home.
Good luck with the trip when it happens!
Feb 17th 2011, 7:20 am
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Re: Border Control ... featuring Mr Bermudashorts
Well I dropped an email to DIAC yesterday and got a response this morning in which they have said it is all very odd and they don't know why there should be a problem with NZ immigration.
They sent me a copy of the visa grant leter again and a screen shot of some system showing his visa is in order. We will take that with us too when we are flying home.
They sent me a copy of the visa grant leter again and a screen shot of some system showing his visa is in order. We will take that with us too when we are flying home.
Feb 17th 2011, 9:59 am
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Feb 17th 2011, 9:00 pm
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Re: Border Control ... featuring Mr Bermudashorts
We are still in NZ at the moment.
We will attempt to re-enter Australia tomorrow.
We will attempt to re-enter Australia tomorrow.
Feb 17th 2011, 10:40 pm
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Re: Border Control ... featuring Mr Bermudashorts
OK so they were not actually filming today when we arrived in New Zealand but Mr Bermudashorts did experience some visa troubles at immigration. We are a little worried and wonder has anyone else come across something similar.
We are here in Australia on PR visas and our understanding was that this meant we had free passage to New Zealand. So we arrived here this morning with nothing more than our British passports and Australian visa.
Unfortunately Mr Bermudashorts' visa did not "show up in the system". Supervisors were called over and we thought we would be sent packing. We asked them to check mine and it was OK so I got my residents stamp. Eventually they asked him to amend his landing card so it did not say that he was an Australian PR and they let him in on a visitor visa.
Obviously he has used his visa to enter Australia as we have been living there since July, but this is still a little concerning for us. Should we be worried?
We are here in Australia on PR visas and our understanding was that this meant we had free passage to New Zealand. So we arrived here this morning with nothing more than our British passports and Australian visa.
Unfortunately Mr Bermudashorts' visa did not "show up in the system". Supervisors were called over and we thought we would be sent packing. We asked them to check mine and it was OK so I got my residents stamp. Eventually they asked him to amend his landing card so it did not say that he was an Australian PR and they let him in on a visitor visa.
Obviously he has used his visa to enter Australia as we have been living there since July, but this is still a little concerning for us. Should we be worried?
Feb 18th 2011, 1:31 am
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Re: Border Control ... featuring Mr Bermudashorts
They should have given you the NZ PR stamp. I got it, but they said Mr B's (Australian) visa is not recognized in their system, so we are worried about getting back on plane to Australia now!
Feb 18th 2011, 1:34 am
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Re: Border Control ... featuring Mr Bermudashorts
Thats what I thought but they gave me the tourist stamp and said nothing - weird
Feb 18th 2011, 1:49 am
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Re: Border Control ... featuring Mr Bermudashorts
I rang Centrelink yesterday, as my youngest child had been removed from their records for the child care rebate. They looked up my record and then asked if he was in Australia, as there was no record of him re-entering the country after our trip to the UK last year
. I told the Centrelink person that his father and I often wish that the little one was out of the country
. Obviously Immigrations's records are not as good as they could be
.
. I told the Centrelink person that his father and I often wish that the little one was out of the country. Obviously Immigrations's records are not as good as they could be.
Feb 18th 2011, 4:36 am
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Re: Border Control ... featuring Mr Bermudashorts
I rang Centrelink yesterday, as my youngest child had been removed from their records for the child care rebate. They looked up my record and then asked if he was in Australia, as there was no record of him re-entering the country after our trip to the UK last year. I told the Centrelink person that his father and I often wish that the little one was out of the country. Obviously Immigrations's records are not as good as they could be.
. I told the Centrelink person that his father and I often wish that the little one was out of the country. Obviously Immigrations's records are not as good as they could be.
Feb 18th 2011, 5:51 am
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Re: Border Control ... featuring Mr Bermudashorts
, or Mr Bermudashorts being stuck in NZ. Even worse, that a child could be taken out of the country and not returned and no alerts raised!
Feb 18th 2011, 9:58 pm
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Re: Border Control ... featuring Mr Bermudashorts
We are safely back on Australian soil. Unfortunately in Melbourne and will have to hang around here for three hours for connection, Mr B now claiming he was never worried.
Feb 22nd 2011, 6:25 pm
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Re: Border Control ... featuring Mr Bermudashorts
We were, it was our last stop of the trip. I can't believe we were there only three days ago, I came back and was saying that it looked in good shape after the (previous) earthquake. 
