MaggersandJen

I have just been granted a permanent visa under the ENS subclass 121 - In my grant letter and on the Australian embassy in london website, it says that we need to send off our passports with the grant letter to get the visa label.

Is it possible to do this in person at the Australian Embassy in london without having to send off passports in the post?

killamarsh

are they not electronic?

GinaUK

No, you can't do it in person. As it says, you send off your passports with the visa grant letter/email and a paid for special delivery enevelope (so they can return the passports to you) - all of it is sent to London "special delivery".

If you send it off on a Monday, you'll get it back Thursday.

Gina

mark 'n' joe

They are really quick, ours came back within 3 days too.

Joex

JenJen

Ours came back in 3 working days too.

Hubby wanted to go to London but it would have cost more than the £9.00 somethign we paid to send it special delivery there and back.

Ooh and your visa is same as ours the little sticker thingies look nice though i was hopign they'd be gold LMAO

Jen

MaggersandJen

Cheers folks! They will be in the post on Monday

Mumfords

get it posted asap , the lazy gits at the post office are on strike soon

MaggersandJen

Heres me being impatient again...

Can you use a scanned in copy of your grant letter to send off with your passports (I wont be back to the address its been posted to for 2 weeks)?

I would have thought this would be ok?

GinaUK

Don't see why not. Our "grant letter" was an email attachment. So, I printed that off and sent it. A scanned copy won't be any different. I think they only need it because it's got your DIAC numbers and names on - so they can match it to the info on their computer. Therefore, a scanned copy should be fine.

Gina

penky

mine came back within 3 days also,

I too was expecting something a little more exciting than the sticker that came back!!

GinaUK

Hehehehe ... I am a very sad (mad) person and have been known to stroke the sticker

Gina

JenJen

Now I do have concerns lollllll

Jen

ex_exile

Of course you can do it in person, if they are busy they may ask you to leave your passports and come back in an hour or so as the labels cannot physically be printed at the counter but it is definatly possible to do.

MaggersandJen

Yep! You can do it in person as i did it yesterday

Australia high commision is only open from 9am-11am and it takes about 15 minutes and you dont have to worry about postal strikes etc.

Nearest tube station is Temple.

ex_exile

Yeah, its a bit annoying when people post things that you know to be untrue; I'd been and done it myself so knew it was possible.