Originally posted by Simone82
We got it!!!!!!!!!! Friday the 13th is now our lucky day!
Pascal has his 309 Spouse (provisional) visa!!!!!
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It was sooooo easy!!! Well, for us, because it was very easy to prove our relationship is genuine AND Berlin doesn’t need/want as much as other embassies.
Good luck to all of you who still have to get it, and for who this whole process is a lot more difficult! And of course all you skilled people! :scared:
I’ve posted (or will shortly) the details of our application on the immi forum of this site.

Well, Berlin was nice (we’re not really city people we realised again)
We went Thursday afternoon by train, took 5.5 hours, and arrived at 17.30. While on the train I developed the flu and a big fever! :-(
When we arrived we thought it was a short walk to the hotel(1,5 – 2 kms), but it ended up being more than an hour!! We would’ve gone by underground train but we kept thinking we were nearly there!! That’s the last time I let Pascal do the maps etc! In this relationship I’m the one with good coordination/map reading skills! Lol! ;-)

Anyway, Friday we were very on time for our interview, he went through the papers very quickly, some we could keep(even the chest x-ray ), and he didn’t really ask any questions. It was just more us chatting to him about some stuff while he went through everything and even skipped half of the questions it seemed!
He also joked about always checking out what people filled in at the 'how much alcohol per week' question and that most people probably lied anyway! In about 20 mins we were finished and we payed, and he asked us to come back at 15.30. Then he gave us the visa, and asked us if it hadn’t been to painful/if he hadn’t been too hard on us!
Well, it couldn’t have been less painful!!
He was a young guy by the way, maybe 30, wearing very casual clothes, and he was 'senior family migration officer'. Love it!
After we got it, we headed down to the Aussie shop, 3 doors down from the embassy and Pascal bought some (expensive!) Aussie beers for celebrating. He bought what they had; XXXX, VB and Fosters (brewed in Germany) but still liked VB the best.

In Berlin we visited the Jewish Museum (interesting, learnt lots, and nice architecture) the Kurfustendamm(shopping), Checkpoint Charlie, Brandenburger Tor, Reichstag....

Well, that’s it, not much excitement, but that’s good in this case! Actually, it would’ve been fun to have a longer interview….. (yes, I’m mad!!)

Oh, nearly forgot: Our hotel was FULL of young Australians. They were of the student/backpacker kind (so our age). But it was weird, cos they weren’t backpackers, cos they all belonged together, and they were on a tour bus together. Maybe they were on a study trip?? I didn’t get round to asking them, cos they were gone this morning.

So, will be posting a LOT of details of our application on the immi forum, which will be mostly relevant for people applying in Berlin, but others may also get some ideas from it.
And of course you can always pm or email me!

Here by a BIG thanks to everyone who’s helped including Mairi &Chris, Bondipom, WBB, Bundy, Pollyana and I shouldn’t have done this cos I’m sure I’ll forget people……. )

Originally posted by bundy
Hurrah! Well done Simone, happy days for you indeed. Enjoy your celebrations.

Originally posted by Pollster
- get packing now!!

Originally posted by Simone82

We're not as mad as you leaving in a week!
Well, at least we can clear out most of the visa paperwork stuff now! And slowly start with the winter clothes....

5 months

You know what I noticed by the way!!!
The initial entry date is 26 January!!!
Isn't that brilliant!

(Australia Day for people who may not know, oh including you Pollster, I keep forgetting you're going to NZ oops!)