WILKINSONS

Hi there,

we are new to BritishExpats.com and this is our first post!!!

We have just had our medicals and were wondering how long visa's should be now???

We are planning to move to Brisbane and have been looking at Forest Lake, Spingfield Lakes, etc and wondered if anyone had any experience of the area.

All the very best from a cold, wet (very wet) Staffordshire.

shiels

Just thought I'd say hi......
We frontloaded our meds for our spouse visa so cant comment, just wanted to say hi and welcome to the site........ from a very wet Kings Norton!!!! C x

curly

Same as us, we had meds done just before xmas, so with the hols etc. wondered when they'd arrive, but checked with ups on website, (docs sent us a letter to track it) and they arrived mon 8th jan we'll have to see how long now!!!!! some say about 6 weeks but it does vary.

mark 'n' joe

Hi Cant answer your question but just wanted to say hi. We are going for our meds tomorrow.

From another one in cold wet Staffordshire.

Joex

comet555

It all depends on when you sent your application in and if you have a case officer.

If you have a case officer and the medicals were requested then I would say 4 weeks from the date they were done. That allows for 1 week for doctor to send, 1 week in the mail and two weeks to get from LCU onto you case officers desk.

In our case we did them before requested, and once they arrived at LCU it took 10 days to match up with our file. Our medicals must have just landed in our filed before or as a case officer was granted. We got a case officer and visa in the same day. Our medicals were done on Nov 6 and we got a visa Dec 2.

If you are a long way from getting a case officer then you will still have to wait until it's your turn to get a case officer.

Hope that gives you a better idea.

curly

we have a co and have had them requested, but I'm not the OP, and we're not in a rush for the visa (house to sell yet!!!) that's why we didn't frontload.

comet555

Curly,

As I said in our case it took 10 days from when LCU got it. I think that was pretty quick, I have seen others that took longer.

But I think it's safe to say you could start hoping for it from Jan 18th onwards. Although as you said it could take much longer.

Good luck!

grahampaula

Hi there and welcome. We had our meds requested by our agent in June and we had our Visas granted at the beginning of August. Good luck with the rest of the application.

smiths

Hi there,

We've been living in Brissie for 3 months now - don't know the areas you mention but we had our medicals at the end of our process on 8/2/06 and received our visas on 16/3/06 - so shouldn't be long now.

Best of luck.

Smiths

no longer in scotland

hi not sure on the meds , we are going to front load and getting them done on monday. We are also looking at these areas got some good info from www.ourbrisbane.com

Donna&Neil

Hi there we had our meds done on 1st December and are still waiting. I think the festive holidays will have an effect. We are all just hanging in there and checking emails daily. Fingers crossed

Donna & Neil

tum

We had our medicals done on Nov 18th, they've been cleared
on Dec 19th, but we're still waiting..........

MarkandShelly

Hi,

We had our meds done on 20/11, they were sent on 28/11 and VISA granted on 20/12

Shelly

TeresaG

Can't offer any advice as we aren't that far along yet. Hope you don't have to wait too much longer.