AndyD

How long do you intend to hang around, once you have got your visa? We personal will fly as soon as humanly possible once things are done and dusted, the sooner the better for us. We are talking days, (hours if poss) not months! What about the rest of you

bridiej

We want to go straight away, hopefully the house sale will be completed.

andyedwards

Hopefully in January, we're going to have our last Christmas in UK, then off in time for the start of the new Aussie school year - V I S A willing of course!!
Then it'll be time to P A R T Y!!!

coxfamuk

Same for us, we want to have our last christmas in the UK and then fly off as soon as humanly possible afterwards. My in-laws are flying out from south africa to have xmas with us so they can see us off at the airport as well. It will have been 30 years since they had a UK christmas.

karenjc

As you can see by our ticker we are going quite soon but with hindsight i would have tried to sell the house earlier on in the application process as having your visa and not been able to go is a real pain.

andyedwards

My in-laws got their visas in January and are in Oz validating them now - knew we shouldn't have mentioned our plans to emigrate! They're also going permanently in Jan so at least we've got the luxury of some support. They've just bought a house and are renting it until we get there, then they've said we can move in with them and look round for our own place at our leisure. Feel very lucky and a lot more relaxed about the whole thing because of that.

markeh

AndyD,
I'm working the other way around and have had mine for over a year and still in the UK!

I'm just waiting for the wife is my excuse!

Bye
Mark

Sagacity

We originally planned to go 3 months after getting the visas. However, when we got them, we quickly changed our minds and boarded the plane exactly 45 days after the visas were issued. I wish we could have done it even quicker - the wait was unbearable.

Anastasia Beaverhausen

We have a family holiday in January next year, so cant go before then. Well we could, but would have to come back, so no point going until after. We will be going in mid feb if all goes well.

AndyD

Mark,
How can you do that , you much be itching to get started in Oz. I think of nothing about when will i get my visa!

nik04

We got our visa's in may and are flying on the 19th sept still loads to sort out. In hindsight i wish we had more sorted when we started our application instead of waiting for the visa's to come.

Grayling

Got mine about 18 months ago.

Will probably not go for a couple more years.

G

rossfive5

We would have gone the instant we got our visas but have had to wait for the house to sell which is taking forever. It's driving us nuts.

lovealot

We would love to go straight away but sadley for us we have a house to sell and a court date due 2006 so until then we are stuck but as soon as possible were off
Good luck
We do have our visa's

JAJ

In that case you probably need to validate your visas with a holiday, unless you can move before the first entry date. Don't leave it until the last minute to do this.

In general, once you have your visa it really is better to get on with the move, unless you have some very specific reasons to delay.


Jeremy