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?

are they not electronic?

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

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

Joex

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

Cheers folks! They will be in the post on Monday

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

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?

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

mine came back within 3 days also,

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

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

Gina

Now I do have concerns lollllll

Jen

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.

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.

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.