AUGUST 2007 Applicants
Mar 14th 2008, 2:48 am
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Fingers and toes crossed you hear something next week.
JOANNE
Mar 14th 2008, 2:59 am
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Re: AUGUST 2007 Applicants
Thanks hope you're right, been looking at Be update and everyone around us is turning either green or yellow on sheet- we're feeling a tiny bit jealous!!
Mar 14th 2008, 3:15 am
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Re: AUGUST 2007 Applicants
Hey Gonnago,
Delighted all is going well with the exchange. It must be such a relief
Enjoy the weekend everyone!
Irish Gal
Happy St Paddy's Day to all!
Mar 14th 2008, 4:29 am
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Re: AUGUST 2007 Applicants
good morning fellow augustees,
i checked my e-mail this morning as i do every morning, wishing and praying for some news and there in my bulk / junk mail tray was the e-mail i was waiting for.....
WE GOT IT !!!!!!
am so chuffed gonna send passports off today to australia house, gonna book flights as well for july.
Need some advice re: rental accommodation and car hire when we arrive
many thanks
i checked my e-mail this morning as i do every morning, wishing and praying for some news and there in my bulk / junk mail tray was the e-mail i was waiting for.....
WE GOT IT !!!!!!
am so chuffed gonna send passports off today to australia house, gonna book flights as well for july.
Need some advice re: rental accommodation and car hire when we arrive
many thanks
Congratulations
Mar 14th 2008, 4:40 am
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Re: AUGUST 2007 Applicants
good morning fellow augustees
i checked my e-mail this morning as i do every morning, wishing and praying for some news and there in my bulk / junk mail tray was the e-mail i was waiting for.....
WE GOT IT !!!!!!
am so chuffed gonna send passports off today to australia house, gonna book flights as well for july.
Need some advice re: rental accommodation and car hire when we arrive
many thanks
i checked my e-mail this morning as i do every morning, wishing and praying for some news and there in my bulk / junk mail tray was the e-mail i was waiting for.....
WE GOT IT !!!!!!
am so chuffed gonna send passports off today to australia house, gonna book flights as well for july.
Need some advice re: rental accommodation and car hire when we arrive
many thanks
congratulations and enjoy! hope the hangover won't be too bad
The viewing went well. Apparently an investor is interested so his agent was around and took lots of photos. I've been told he wants it so its just down to price. I have to wait another week though to find out. Don't care really as long as the price is in-and-around what we're looking for.
Thanks for asking!
(PS. House back to being a complete mess again)
Thanks for asking!
(PS. House back to being a complete mess again
) house in mess again - i so know the feeling!!!we've had the EA over earlier to get pics taken of the rooms and house - luckily kids were at nursery till 12 so oh and i got time to clean everything!
EA was rather impressed by the changes we've made from last week
- good luck with your investor!!!!!more great news!!!!
- i am dreading the house sale more then the actual visa 
- well done you!!Have been looking at flights from Manchester and Birmingham to Adelaide.
Can't seem to make my mind up -I know alot of you have to deal with looking after toddlers throughout the journey which I can imagine will be a nightmare if they don't get much sleep. Have been looking at overnight flights. My two boys are old enough to understand whats going on. Even so dealing with a whinging teenager can be just as bad.
Joanne
Can't seem to make my mind up -I know alot of you have to deal with looking after toddlers throughout the journey which I can imagine will be a nightmare if they don't get much sleep. Have been looking at overnight flights. My two boys are old enough to understand whats going on. Even so dealing with a whinging teenager can be just as bad.
Joanne
- we deffo will take a night flight!!! and find something to dose the 2 monsters to go into hybernation for the duration
Mar 14th 2008, 5:11 am
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Re: AUGUST 2007 Applicants
good morning fellow augustees,
i checked my e-mail this morning as i do every morning, wishing and praying for some news and there in my bulk / junk mail tray was the e-mail i was waiting for.....
WE GOT IT !!!!!!
am so chuffed gonna send passports off today to australia house, gonna book flights as well for july.
Need some advice re: rental accommodation and car hire when we arrive
many thanks
i checked my e-mail this morning as i do every morning, wishing and praying for some news and there in my bulk / junk mail tray was the e-mail i was waiting for.....
WE GOT IT !!!!!!
am so chuffed gonna send passports off today to australia house, gonna book flights as well for july.
Need some advice re: rental accommodation and car hire when we arrive
many thanks
Mar 14th 2008, 5:29 am
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Re: AUGUST 2007 Applicants
good morning fellow augustees,
i checked my e-mail this morning as i do every morning, wishing and praying for some news and there in my bulk / junk mail tray was the e-mail i was waiting for.....
WE GOT IT !!!!!!
am so chuffed gonna send passports off today to australia house, gonna book flights as well for july.
Need some advice re: rental accommodation and car hire when we arrive
many thanks
i checked my e-mail this morning as i do every morning, wishing and praying for some news and there in my bulk / junk mail tray was the e-mail i was waiting for.....
WE GOT IT !!!!!!
am so chuffed gonna send passports off today to australia house, gonna book flights as well for july.
Need some advice re: rental accommodation and car hire when we arrive
many thanks
Nice to see the Aug lot moving at last
Good Luck
Tina x
Mar 14th 2008, 6:47 am
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Re: AUGUST 2007 Applicants
CONGRATULATIONS UK4OZ
Ejoy your new life organising and cu on the other side
kathx
Ejoy your new life organising and cu on the other side
kathx
Mar 14th 2008, 7:03 am
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Great news uk$oz,
Another case officer available!
Hope all the house sellings goes well, cant believe its starting to get closer, i like the idea of going in september and having 2 summers
fingers crossed for next week
minibelle
Another case officer available!
Hope all the house sellings goes well, cant believe its starting to get closer, i like the idea of going in september and having 2 summers
fingers crossed for next week
minibelle
Mar 14th 2008, 8:45 am
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Re: AUGUST 2007 Applicants
good morning fellow augustees,
i checked my e-mail this morning as i do every morning, wishing and praying for some news and there in my bulk / junk mail tray was the e-mail i was waiting for.....
WE GOT IT !!!!!!
am so chuffed gonna send passports off today to australia house, gonna book flights as well for july.
Need some advice re: rental accommodation and car hire when we arrive
many thanks
i checked my e-mail this morning as i do every morning, wishing and praying for some news and there in my bulk / junk mail tray was the e-mail i was waiting for.....
WE GOT IT !!!!!!
am so chuffed gonna send passports off today to australia house, gonna book flights as well for july.
Need some advice re: rental accommodation and car hire when we arrive
many thanks
Mar 14th 2008, 6:55 pm
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Re: AUGUST 2007 Applicants
good morning fellow augustees,
i checked my e-mail this morning as i do every morning, wishing and praying for some news and there in my bulk / junk mail tray was the e-mail i was waiting for.....
WE GOT IT !!!!!!
am so chuffed gonna send passports off today to australia house, gonna book flights as well for july.
i checked my e-mail this morning as i do every morning, wishing and praying for some news and there in my bulk / junk mail tray was the e-mail i was waiting for.....
WE GOT IT !!!!!!
am so chuffed gonna send passports off today to australia house, gonna book flights as well for july.
CONGRATULATIONSJust bumping this up. Been up since 5. My 6 year old not very well. Hoped we might have had an email. But of course not. Starting to feel very despondendent. Hardly anyone has got any acks or COs this week. What's going on? We have just had to take another 6 months out on rental we are in. Landlord said only need to pay month at a time and give a months notice, which is nice but it is money lost. Is there an end to this Visa process? My OH actually said that if he knew we were going to go through this we would not have bothered.
Anyway, at least Shannon Matthews has been found. Now that is GOOD NEWS!
Last edited by mullalloo; Mar 14th 2008 at 6:56 pm. Reason: error
Mar 14th 2008, 9:16 pm
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Re: AUGUST 2007 Applicants
Have been looking at flights from Manchester and Birmingham to Adelaide.
Can't seem to make my mind up
I know alot of you have to deal with looking after toddlers throughout the journey which I can imagine will be a nightmare if they don't get much sleep. Have been looking at overnight flights. My two boys are old enough to understand whats going on. Even so dealing with a whinging teenager can be just as bad.
Joanne
Can't seem to make my mind up
I know alot of you have to deal with looking after toddlers throughout the journey which I can imagine will be a nightmare if they don't get much sleep. Have been looking at overnight flights. My two boys are old enough to understand whats going on. Even so dealing with a whinging teenager can be just as bad.Joanne
Regarding flights to Oz with the children.Console yourself with my experience,"NOTHING" could be worse I'm sure.It took us 3 days to get there and we missed 2 flight connections.We should have landed on the Saturday and eventually landed on the Monday afternoon-Aahhhh !!!!! My little girls were 2 & 4 at the time. We were due to fly from Manchester to London-then London to Melbourne with brief stop for refuel in Singapore.
Due to technical problems we were late leaving Manchester and missed our flight in London.Waited hrs for another and then the only flight available was going via L.A (the long way round)
We got to L.A and because of the strict security it took us 2.5 hrs to get through customs and we then missed our Melbourne flight.
There were no other flights available for 24 hrs so they put us in a hotel for the night but, had misplaced all our luggage so no clean change of clothes and only a few nappies in my hand luggage for my little one.I was really stressed at this point-in fact I cried !!!!!!!!
Eventually got booked onto another flight but this was going to Sydney so had to get further connecting flight to Melbourne.My 4 year old had started to get "air sick" by now on every take off and landing so thank goodness for the little brown bags -bless her !! The 15 hrs flight from L.A to Sydney was a real budget airline and there was no inflight entertainment other than 1 projection screen showing "The Queen with Helen Mirren(nothing for the kids)Due to the stopover in L.A,we had gone through 3 time zones and their sleeping pattern was completely "scrambled."
On our return flight,we boarded the plane,only to be told we had technical problems again and to cut a long story short- as I'm sure you are all getting bored by now-we had a 7 hr delay at Melbourne airport.Needless to say we will not be going with British Airways again-oh yeh, forgot to say they also mislaid our stroller so my 2 yr old had to be carried as she'd fallen asleep.This didn't arrive until 2 days after we got home.
Despite all this my girls were angels during this horrendous experince and surprised me as to how "resilient" kids are.So, all of you out there who will be travelling with children,console yourself with my experience and believe me,the flight will probably be a breeze.Good Luck and my only words of advice if you are not planning a stopover is to make sure there is at least 3 hrs between flight connections- just in case.
Take care
Mar 14th 2008, 10:19 pm
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we're just blindingly sending off all our requested documents to the aspc email address, waiting for the auto-reply receipt and then sitting here waiting.
hopefully they now have a hold of everything.... pccs from 3 different countries, meds, ref letters, everything.
there shouldnt be anymore documentation requests so just got to sit & wait..... humph
hopefully they now have a hold of everything.... pccs from 3 different countries, meds, ref letters, everything.
there shouldnt be anymore documentation requests so just got to sit & wait..... humph
good morning fellow augustees,
i checked my e-mail this morning as i do every morning, wishing and praying for some news and there in my bulk / junk mail tray was the e-mail i was waiting for.....
WE GOT IT !!!!!!
am so chuffed gonna send passports off today to australia house, gonna book flights as well for july.
Need some advice re: rental accommodation and car hire when we arrive
many thanks
i checked my e-mail this morning as i do every morning, wishing and praying for some news and there in my bulk / junk mail tray was the e-mail i was waiting for.....
WE GOT IT !!!!!!
am so chuffed gonna send passports off today to australia house, gonna book flights as well for july.
Need some advice re: rental accommodation and car hire when we arrive
many thanks
Hi Joanne,
Regarding flights to Oz with the children.Console yourself with my experience,"NOTHING" could be worse I'm sure.It took us 3 days to get there and we missed 2 flight connections.We should have landed on the Saturday and eventually landed on the Monday afternoon-Aahhhh !!!!! My little girls were 2 & 4 at the time. We were due to fly from Manchester to London-then London to Melbourne with brief stop for refuel in Singapore.
Due to technical problems we were late leaving Manchester and missed our flight in London.Waited hrs for another and then the only flight available was going via L.A (the long way round)
We got to L.A and because of the strict security it took us 2.5 hrs to get through customs and we then missed our Melbourne flight.
There were no other flights available for 24 hrs so they put us in a hotel for the night but, had misplaced all our luggage so no clean change of clothes and only a few nappies in my hand luggage for my little one.I was really stressed at this point-in fact I cried !!!!!!!!
Eventually got booked onto another flight but this was going to Sydney so had to get further connecting flight to Melbourne.My 4 year old had started to get "air sick" by now on every take off and landing so thank goodness for the little brown bags -bless her !! The 15 hrs flight from L.A to Sydney was a real budget airline and there was no inflight entertainment other than 1 projection screen showing "The Queen with Helen Mirren(nothing for the kids)Due to the stopover in L.A,we had gone through 3 time zones and their sleeping pattern was completely "scrambled."
On our return flight,we boarded the plane,only to be told we had technical problems again and to cut a long story short- as I'm sure you are all getting bored by now-we had a 7 hr delay at Melbourne airport.Needless to say we will not be going with British Airways again-oh yeh, forgot to say they also mislaid our stroller so my 2 yr old had to be carried as she'd fallen asleep.This didn't arrive until 2 days after we got home.
Despite all this my girls were angels during this horrendous experince and surprised me as to how "resilient" kids are.So, all of you out there who will be travelling with children,console yourself with my experience and believe me,the flight will probably be a breeze.Good Luck and my only words of advice if you are not planning a stopover is to make sure there is at least 3 hrs between flight connections- just in case.
Take care
Regarding flights to Oz with the children.Console yourself with my experience,"NOTHING" could be worse I'm sure.It took us 3 days to get there and we missed 2 flight connections.We should have landed on the Saturday and eventually landed on the Monday afternoon-Aahhhh !!!!! My little girls were 2 & 4 at the time. We were due to fly from Manchester to London-then London to Melbourne with brief stop for refuel in Singapore.
Due to technical problems we were late leaving Manchester and missed our flight in London.Waited hrs for another and then the only flight available was going via L.A (the long way round)
We got to L.A and because of the strict security it took us 2.5 hrs to get through customs and we then missed our Melbourne flight.
There were no other flights available for 24 hrs so they put us in a hotel for the night but, had misplaced all our luggage so no clean change of clothes and only a few nappies in my hand luggage for my little one.I was really stressed at this point-in fact I cried !!!!!!!!
Eventually got booked onto another flight but this was going to Sydney so had to get further connecting flight to Melbourne.My 4 year old had started to get "air sick" by now on every take off and landing so thank goodness for the little brown bags -bless her !! The 15 hrs flight from L.A to Sydney was a real budget airline and there was no inflight entertainment other than 1 projection screen showing "The Queen with Helen Mirren(nothing for the kids)Due to the stopover in L.A,we had gone through 3 time zones and their sleeping pattern was completely "scrambled."
On our return flight,we boarded the plane,only to be told we had technical problems again and to cut a long story short- as I'm sure you are all getting bored by now-we had a 7 hr delay at Melbourne airport.Needless to say we will not be going with British Airways again-oh yeh, forgot to say they also mislaid our stroller so my 2 yr old had to be carried as she'd fallen asleep.This didn't arrive until 2 days after we got home.
Despite all this my girls were angels during this horrendous experince and surprised me as to how "resilient" kids are.So, all of you out there who will be travelling with children,console yourself with my experience and believe me,the flight will probably be a breeze.Good Luck and my only words of advice if you are not planning a stopover is to make sure there is at least 3 hrs between flight connections- just in case.
Take care
I hope your next journey is much better! 
Last edited by bextaroota; Mar 14th 2008 at 10:22 pm.
Mar 14th 2008, 10:46 pm
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Re: AUGUST 2007 Applicants
Hi Joanne,
Regarding flights to Oz with the children.Console yourself with my experience,"NOTHING" could be worse I'm sure.It took us 3 days to get there and we missed 2 flight connections.We should have landed on the Saturday and eventually landed on the Monday afternoon-Aahhhh !!!!! My little girls were 2 & 4 at the time. We were due to fly from Manchester to London-then London to Melbourne with brief stop for refuel in Singapore.
Due to technical problems we were late leaving Manchester and missed our flight in London.Waited hrs for another and then the only flight available was going via L.A (the long way round)
We got to L.A and because of the strict security it took us 2.5 hrs to get through customs and we then missed our Melbourne flight.
There were no other flights available for 24 hrs so they put us in a hotel for the night but, had misplaced all our luggage so no clean change of clothes and only a few nappies in my hand luggage for my little one.I was really stressed at this point-in fact I cried !!!!!!!!
Eventually got booked onto another flight but this was going to Sydney so had to get further connecting flight to Melbourne.My 4 year old had started to get "air sick" by now on every take off and landing so thank goodness for the little brown bags -bless her !! The 15 hrs flight from L.A to Sydney was a real budget airline and there was no inflight entertainment other than 1 projection screen showing "The Queen with Helen Mirren(nothing for the kids)Due to the stopover in L.A,we had gone through 3 time zones and their sleeping pattern was completely "scrambled."
On our return flight,we boarded the plane,only to be told we had technical problems again and to cut a long story short- as I'm sure you are all getting bored by now-we had a 7 hr delay at Melbourne airport.Needless to say we will not be going with British Airways again-oh yeh, forgot to say they also mislaid our stroller so my 2 yr old had to be carried as she'd fallen asleep.This didn't arrive until 2 days after we got home.
Despite all this my girls were angels during this horrendous experince and surprised me as to how "resilient" kids are.So, all of you out there who will be travelling with children,console yourself with my experience and believe me,the flight will probably be a breeze.Good Luck and my only words of advice if you are not planning a stopover is to make sure there is at least 3 hrs between flight connections- just in case.
Take care
Regarding flights to Oz with the children.Console yourself with my experience,"NOTHING" could be worse I'm sure.It took us 3 days to get there and we missed 2 flight connections.We should have landed on the Saturday and eventually landed on the Monday afternoon-Aahhhh !!!!! My little girls were 2 & 4 at the time. We were due to fly from Manchester to London-then London to Melbourne with brief stop for refuel in Singapore.
Due to technical problems we were late leaving Manchester and missed our flight in London.Waited hrs for another and then the only flight available was going via L.A (the long way round)
We got to L.A and because of the strict security it took us 2.5 hrs to get through customs and we then missed our Melbourne flight.
There were no other flights available for 24 hrs so they put us in a hotel for the night but, had misplaced all our luggage so no clean change of clothes and only a few nappies in my hand luggage for my little one.I was really stressed at this point-in fact I cried !!!!!!!!
Eventually got booked onto another flight but this was going to Sydney so had to get further connecting flight to Melbourne.My 4 year old had started to get "air sick" by now on every take off and landing so thank goodness for the little brown bags -bless her !! The 15 hrs flight from L.A to Sydney was a real budget airline and there was no inflight entertainment other than 1 projection screen showing "The Queen with Helen Mirren(nothing for the kids)Due to the stopover in L.A,we had gone through 3 time zones and their sleeping pattern was completely "scrambled."
On our return flight,we boarded the plane,only to be told we had technical problems again and to cut a long story short- as I'm sure you are all getting bored by now-we had a 7 hr delay at Melbourne airport.Needless to say we will not be going with British Airways again-oh yeh, forgot to say they also mislaid our stroller so my 2 yr old had to be carried as she'd fallen asleep.This didn't arrive until 2 days after we got home.
Despite all this my girls were angels during this horrendous experince and surprised me as to how "resilient" kids are.So, all of you out there who will be travelling with children,console yourself with my experience and believe me,the flight will probably be a breeze.Good Luck and my only words of advice if you are not planning a stopover is to make sure there is at least 3 hrs between flight connections- just in case.
Take care
Joanne
Mar 14th 2008, 10:50 pm
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Re: AUGUST 2007 Applicants
Hi i have just got back our new pcc checks how do you get them to where they need to go?? do you just scan them an attach them to an email with the ref no that came on your recipt email?????? help please
