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is it best to wait till you get a case officer before sending for you medicals and does everyone have to have them done.

can you send them with your visa and would it not save time....

Wendy

Hi

Yes everyone who is on the application will need to have medicals done.

You don't say which visa you have applied for, but mostly it is recommended to wait until requests before sending meds. (I think spouse visa's and a few others are the exception to that rule as they are quite quick in being granted)

The reason you need to wait is that you will have to enter Australia to validate your visa within 12 months of them being done (or within 12 months of police clearance whichever are done earliest). In some cases it may only be 6 months (if you have a medical issue), if you sent them with your application and the visa took 10 months to be granted you'd either have to have them redone, which would cost you quite a bit, or only have a few weeks to get over here.

suzimc

It really depends on your situation, and the visa you are going for.

We were in quite an unusual situation which led to our agent advising we pront-load our visa (send the medicals and police checks with the application itself). In the end the medicals got held up and our agent advised we wait until a case number got assigned before forwarding the docs on so that they wouldn't get seperatd from the case. We're going for a 138 which is notoriously slow, and we put our application in in February. Our police reports/medicals were dated in early January, which means that we will have to enter Australia by the same date in 2007. As yet we haven't been assigned a case officer, although the fact that we frontloaded should help things to move a bit quicker (although in reality only likely to be by a few weeks) as soon as we are assigned one. The probability is that we will have to move very quickly once we do get a case officer to ensure that our docs don't expire before our visas are granted, luckily we are in a position where we could either move very quickly (and have experience doing so because we moved to the US in 6 weeks from initial discussion to actually moving!) or go to Australia for a holiday to validate our visas with relative ease, then move a few months later at a more convenient time.

If you are going for a relatively fast-moving visa and/or you are in the position to up and move quickly, or else go on a validation trip when your visas come through, and you don't mind a bit of stress if the deadlines get quite tight ( :scared: :scared: ), then there's not really any reason not to.

no longer in scotland

hi should have said it is a 136 and he is a builder, going as soon as it is granted, myself, him and the two kids..

temptininnit

Many "frontload" their meds and police checks, it has advantages and disadvantages.

If you have a pressing need to get there such as a job offer, concern about house prices rising etc go for it.

Also consider that due to the large numbers applying to leave the UK many of these medical centres are booked months in advance. Waiting for the request THEN trying to book could cause ujnforseen delays.

Good luck.