Sleeping Beauty

hi sankev and welcome to BE

from what mum/dads CO said to me, the priority will be to those that have submitted their bond (and rightly so me thinks). there will be a lot of visa grants come july. there cant be too many in this position, where the AoS bond has been lodged. are you using an agent or going alone? have you a house to sell or can you just up and leave? there are now 4 on BE from what i know who are in this position. i kone there are other websites etc, so it would be interesting to see how many applicants are in this position.

i hope you hear soon xx

Sankev

Hi Sleeping Beauty, thanks for your welcome.

We are using an agent. We are in the happy position of having sold our house,
although the exchange rate is a worry. We are currently living with my mother-in-law, so that my wife can have some quality time with her Mum, who will be 90 this year, but is still quite active. There are two other sisters who will keep an eye on Mum after we go.
So, as soon as they say we can go, we can go!

Regards, Sankev

CazBeckham

ozdog

When are you going to ask for the three month extension? Would we have to wait till we are asked for payment then ask just before we pay it or what?
Don't suppose we can ask for it now can we?

Our house is not going on the market till end of May (we have until mid Nov to validate) as we run a small internet photography business and I will not be closing that down till the last minute. Then got to reopen it when we get to Australia - (first stop Bank). So just hope that the house will sell quickly when we put it on the market.

We couldnt go over to validate then come back to sell house as our business has to be up and running straight away with no gaps so if house isnt sold we may have to leave it with estate agents to do the deed for us, but hope not.


Best of luck

Caz

ozdog

Caz

We had not anticipated being able to go to Oz until July/August anyway, bearing in mind we have to sell up arrange for pets etc. so in some ways apart from the lack of certainty, the delay doesn't affect our plans. We have decided to market our house now as originally planned (advertised last weekend) and 'play it by ear'. We will not ask for an extension until we think we need it (if the house doesn't sell or whatever). We are great believers in 'que sera, sera'!

Ozdog

CazBeckham

Thanks for your reply Ozdog

lol

hi there

Someone may of already answered this question... sorry !! but when do we expect to hear how many visas will be allocated and I cant believe they allow you to lodge your bond and then you hear nothing. We lodged our bond about 4 weeks ago and then all had gone quite. thanks guys for your help

CazBeckham

Lol

Our bond was lodged and cleared mid December last year and now we will still have to wait until 1st July until the new quota starts up again.

And prob only get a three month extension to validate which should really be 6 months in our case as it will have been 6 months before we get our visa from originally planned till they run out which wasn't our fault.
Still not got house on market as Sods Law will say if it goes on now before visa arrives we will sell quickly so hope it sells quick by the time we get our visa.
We have an internet photographic business so if we sold early and had to go into rented I would still have to take all my accounts stuff with me till I am ready to fly out, plus I really don't want the added expense of most of our pension going into paying rent.

Fingers crossed when we sell it will all go smoothly, she says hopefully


Best of luck

Caz

donovandenese

its interesting that they are still taking assurances of support - i wouldve thought they would have stopped taking cash until they start issuing visa's again - guess that makes me a bit naive - I suppose they need a steady stream of cash coming in even when they aren't actually issuing visa's!!

CazBeckham

Hi

I thought that they had stopped taking the AOS as friends of ours was told by their CO that they will not be asked for the AOS until nearer the time when the visas will start to be issued again.
We were just about to be asked for our 2nd VAC which I think was on the same say they put a halt on them - how bad is that!!!!!
You would have thought that us being that close they would have let us through as I believe that they had a few visas in hand for that very purpose.
Hey Ho!!!!! just a life on hold thing again but bloody annoying..............

Caz

lol

My thoughts too !! We are using an agent and I was surprised when we were asked by our CO to sort out our AOS and then log the bond. Hopefully things will get moving soon and we can all be on our way.

glorianic

Hi everyone waiting for a case officier, who is next in the queue if we all put our dates down when were were acknowledged we can keep an eye on the time scale, I was acknowledged on the 16th August 2007 and I am hoping to hear may or june ha! ha!
Gloria

CazBeckham

lol

When did you pay your bond and has your CO given any indications as to when the 2nd VAC is to be paid?

All the talk has been speculative saying that we will be asked for our 2nd vac around May or June!!!!


Caz

tawkins1

My parents applied for a parent visa last June & changed to the CPV one in Feb 08. I have read that as they applied originally in June but have now transfered that they will get priority processing. Does anyone know if goes off the original June application date or the Feb08 one?
Thanks

caveman1

We had acknowledgement of cpv on 4th Sept 2007. So hope to have CO June/July.......We hope.. meanwhile we are just waiting along with every one else.

home alone

good luck, keep us informed, it will help us all.

Best wishes. Lin