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How long did you all wait for the application to be approved?

We submitted ours 4 weeks ago and within a week had a letter acknowledging receipt and money was taken. Within a week my wife had a letter telling her she had been accepted. Now two weeks on I am getting a hard time for not chasing them despite the acceptance letter clearly stating it can take 90 days.

If I ring to chase just 30 days in they are going to tell me to bugger off and be patient aren't they? I am being relaxed about it - they would contact me if there was a problem and it is only 30 days. It is not like we are going anywhere.

When I did my test the computer was down so they couldn't scan only copy documents. I had my daughter on my application. I also have a traffic infringement that was dealt with by a court in the UK to complicate it. So there are plenty of reasons why they would take differing amounts of time.

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Anyone?

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will I do?

probably not becasue I don't know either...

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ours only took a couple of weeks.... but they were straightforward, no infringements or anything

hang in there, give it another couple of weeks and if you want give them a bell, I always use the excuse about having had something lost in the post so you just wanted to check that they hadnt sent it and it's gone astray

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Took us about 3 months to come through in Joondalup.

What's the rush? I know you're not one of the "get our citizenship and bugger off back to the UK" piss-takers.

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If you both got acknowledgement letters I guess you're just going to have to be patient.

My OH got an acknowledgement and I didn't. After 4 weeks I called them to ask why OH got one and I hadn't. They didn't know who I was even though they had taken the money and I had a reference number.

I called every couple of days and eventually was told that someone else in Australia has the same name and date of birth as me, so they were having to do extra police checks before they could process my application. I think that the guy in the Post Office had stapled my application to the back of OH's! After about two weeks I got an acknowledgement letter.

From applying to the ceremony took five and a half months.

They mispelt a name on one of our certificates and it took another two weeks for them to produce another one. You will not get a passport if the name on your certificate doesn't match the name on your documentation, marriage cert, birth cert, etc.

I know that you're not in a hurry to leave the country, but your citizenship cancels the PR visa in your UK passport. What if you had to get back to UK in a hurry? You can leave on UK passport, but will get hassle at the airport when you return to Australia because you have no visa. (There was a recent thread about this.)

Good Luck!

M

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Personally, no rush at all. But if I get nagged by my wife to chase it again...

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For what its worth my ackowledgement came first and my wifes two weeks later for no appreciable reason.

I wouldn't worry about that too much because this sort of delay is nothing compared to then actually getting a citizenship ceremony to go to.

We ended up Brisbane City because Redland Shire are so crap and I was fed up waiting 5 months and had no passport that was valid.

But as others say, I'm going nowhere so it didnt matter much. I just wanted it !!!!

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OMG

Two Worzels?! :eek::ohmy::eek:

:rofl:

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But if I get nagged by my wife to chase it again...[/QUOTE]

Good at that us wives!!!! nagging that is.......................;)

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Good at that us wives!!!! nagging that is.......................;)[/QUOTE]

If it ever gets made into an Olympic event Sam will be able, and undoubtably chosen, to represent Australia after we have citizenship:D

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If they are getting together an olympic team then they might consider fast tracking the citizenship thingy.... like Britain did for Zola (who?) Budd

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If they are getting together an olympic team then they might consider fast tracking the citizenship thingy.... like Britain did for Zola (who?) Budd[/QUOTE]

Another 'barefoot' wonder!

M

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There is already a Worzel on the comedy circuit in Perth, I have seen his car with personalised rego. But you all know I am special, eh?:lol:

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The worry is the time from acceptance to the formal bit, mine in Woollahra NSW took 7 months! However I'm now the proud owner of a Blue passport to match my European one, the reduced delay on arrival back in Oz is great again reafiming I feel part of this great, over taxed nanny State, Country.

D

P.S. I'm still going to drink Bundy&Cola Sod Rudd