Pinny

Hi All

I have had my Visa granted in Dec.

On the email sent by Immi has a paragraph "Obtaining Evidence of Visa Grant".

Can anybody tell me, as we have phoned Australia House and they said we don't have to do anything, whether we have to have anything placed in our passports before we go to Australia to Validate the Visa.

Any help on this would be really appreciated.

Thanks
Stuart

deb68

We got our visa granted in May, and although all you need as proof of visa is the visa grant letter (email) with all your details on it, we sent a copy of this to Australia House with all our passports. They will then put a visa grant sticker in everyones passport, which then becomes the evidence. A much more permanent option.

Pinny

Hi
Thanks for the info.

So, as far as you know, we don't have to send them to Australia House and can just take the letter/email as evidence?

Cheers
Stuart

deb68

Yes, that's right, but for the sake of a fiver to send the passports by recorded delivery, I would strongly recommend you get that sticker. Passports get send back pretty quick too. For some reason, our emails from immi vanished, still got no idea where they went to, just lucky I'd already printed off the info I needed.

australianinleicester

Hi Deb

We thought we had lost all our e mails from immigration too, however, we since found them. The problem was, we had been swapping between pc and lap top when sending and receiving e mail. All the important messages were stored on the pc and I was desperately trying to find them on the lap top and thought that maybe I had deleted them by accident or something durrr.

If you own more than one computer then check the other one for the missing e mails, you never know

hantsfamily1

As I remember we had to send our pasports with a pre-paid signed delivery envolope with it to Austrlia House. The actual visas are then stuck inside the passports. Everyone I know has done it this way and has the visa details permanently in their passports.

man777

if you have bio metric passports, you don't need to send it anywhere, the visa is directly sent to your passport chin...