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Hi Debbie,
Paul keeps a check on the flights, they are going up by the week unfortunately, he reckons Air Mauritius are the best at the moment, I think he said we are looking at £2200 as our kids count as adults 14 & 12.
I wont let myself look into the flights too much as we still have a real good chance of being refused!!:curse:
I do keep a check on the house rental sites and I have stipulated the sort of house I wanna rent.![Sunglasses](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/sunglasses.gif)
Where are you heading to?
Speak Soon Claire x![Love](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/wub.gif)
Paul keeps a check on the flights, they are going up by the week unfortunately, he reckons Air Mauritius are the best at the moment, I think he said we are looking at £2200 as our kids count as adults 14 & 12.
I wont let myself look into the flights too much as we still have a real good chance of being refused!!:curse:
I do keep a check on the house rental sites and I have stipulated the sort of house I wanna rent.
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Where are you heading to?
Speak Soon Claire x
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we will no for certain if we have a yes or a no. odd's on now that you will get your visa before us because its 4 weeks till test, then 1 for consultant report, looking like we will know by middle of july
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Claire.........we got our date with destiny July 7th.
we will no for certain if we have a yes or a no. odd's on now that you will get your visa before us because its 4 weeks till test, then 1 for consultant report, looking like we will know by middle of july
good luck
we will no for certain if we have a yes or a no. odd's on now that you will get your visa before us because its 4 weeks till test, then 1 for consultant report, looking like we will know by middle of july
good luck
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Hi Debbie,
Paul keeps a check on the flights, they are going up by the week unfortunately, he reckons Air Mauritius are the best at the moment, I think he said we are looking at £2200 as our kids count as adults 14 & 12.
I wont let myself look into the flights too much as we still have a real good chance of being refused!!:curse:
I do keep a check on the house rental sites and I have stipulated the sort of house I wanna rent.![Sunglasses](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/sunglasses.gif)
Where are you heading to?
Speak Soon Claire x![Love](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/wub.gif)
Paul keeps a check on the flights, they are going up by the week unfortunately, he reckons Air Mauritius are the best at the moment, I think he said we are looking at £2200 as our kids count as adults 14 & 12.
I wont let myself look into the flights too much as we still have a real good chance of being refused!!:curse:
I do keep a check on the house rental sites and I have stipulated the sort of house I wanna rent.
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Where are you heading to?
Speak Soon Claire x
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Well hopefully none of us will be refused, that would just be so awfull!!
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Hi all,
Just read up to date and I CAN'T BELIEVE so many of you are still waiting. Whats happening?. Any way I hope its not for much longer and we hear more good news before the end of the week. (fingers crossed).
Feel terrible now, as I wanted to ask you lot if anyone had booked their flights from Manchester to Adelaide on July 1st. We have finally booked with Singapore airlines. So if anybody has done the same give me a yell. I would love to meet one of you lovely Augustees face to face.
Also I need advice on booking an Hotel in Singapore. I read somewhere a few weeks ago that a certain hotel was great and highly recommended. Thought it best to book somewhere as we land at 6.00 in the morning and don't catch our next plane until nearly midnight. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Joanne x
Just read up to date and I CAN'T BELIEVE so many of you are still waiting. Whats happening?. Any way I hope its not for much longer and we hear more good news before the end of the week. (fingers crossed).
Feel terrible now, as I wanted to ask you lot if anyone had booked their flights from Manchester to Adelaide on July 1st. We have finally booked with Singapore airlines. So if anybody has done the same give me a yell. I would love to meet one of you lovely Augustees face to face.
Also I need advice on booking an Hotel in Singapore. I read somewhere a few weeks ago that a certain hotel was great and highly recommended. Thought it best to book somewhere as we land at 6.00 in the morning and don't catch our next plane until nearly midnight. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Joanne x
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Claire.........we got our date with destiny July 7th.
we will no for certain if we have a yes or a no. odd's on now that you will get your visa before us because its 4 weeks till test, then 1 for consultant report, looking like we will know by middle of july
good luck
we will no for certain if we have a yes or a no. odd's on now that you will get your visa before us because its 4 weeks till test, then 1 for consultant report, looking like we will know by middle of july
good luck
not much longer now!! good luck!!!
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Yeah I second that - sorry to hear your viewers have changed their mind Mottie - sure there will be some more around the corner. ![Thumbs Up](https://britishexpats.com/forum/images/smilies/thumbsup.gif)
After checking our shipping quotes we found that Burke Bros had only quoted us for 360 cuft whereas John mason were 460cuft - there was only £100 between the quotes. We have decided to go with JM as apparently if you get can under quote you and then charge you more when they get the shipment! Cheek of it eh!
JM are letting us take a few more items too for no extra charge.
Hope we get some visa grants and house sales soon - good luck all
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After checking our shipping quotes we found that Burke Bros had only quoted us for 360 cuft whereas John mason were 460cuft - there was only £100 between the quotes. We have decided to go with JM as apparently if you get can under quote you and then charge you more when they get the shipment! Cheek of it eh!
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Hope we get some visa grants and house sales soon - good luck all
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Phoned to DIAC today. They say that allocation of case officer is not linked to HR or LR country and COs are assigned in the sequence of applications received. Currently they are processing applications received on 5 June 2007 (that is also written in weekly letter).
I believe that is true for my case and I'll have to wait another 2 months at least. However it is surely not the entire truth as we can see from many visas already issued. Congratulations to the lucky guys. It will remain the secret of DIAC what kind of rules they use to assign COs earlier to many applicants...
VISA application received at DIAC 16/08/07
Acknowledgement 29/01/08
Medicals and PCC 13/04/08
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I believe that is true for my case and I'll have to wait another 2 months at least. However it is surely not the entire truth as we can see from many visas already issued. Congratulations to the lucky guys. It will remain the secret of DIAC what kind of rules they use to assign COs earlier to many applicants...
VISA application received at DIAC 16/08/07
Acknowledgement 29/01/08
Medicals and PCC 13/04/08
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Hi all,
Just read up to date and I CAN'T BELIEVE so many of you are still waiting. Whats happening?. Any way I hope its not for much longer and we hear more good news before the end of the week. (fingers crossed).
Feel terrible now, as I wanted to ask you lot if anyone had booked their flights from Manchester to Adelaide on July 1st. We have finally booked with Singapore airlines. So if anybody has done the same give me a yell. I would love to meet one of you lovely Augustees face to face.
Also I need advice on booking an Hotel in Singapore. I read somewhere a few weeks ago that a certain hotel was great and highly recommended. Thought it best to book somewhere as we land at 6.00 in the morning and don't catch our next plane until nearly midnight. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Joanne x
Just read up to date and I CAN'T BELIEVE so many of you are still waiting. Whats happening?. Any way I hope its not for much longer and we hear more good news before the end of the week. (fingers crossed).
Feel terrible now, as I wanted to ask you lot if anyone had booked their flights from Manchester to Adelaide on July 1st. We have finally booked with Singapore airlines. So if anybody has done the same give me a yell. I would love to meet one of you lovely Augustees face to face.
Also I need advice on booking an Hotel in Singapore. I read somewhere a few weeks ago that a certain hotel was great and highly recommended. Thought it best to book somewhere as we land at 6.00 in the morning and don't catch our next plane until nearly midnight. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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yes, i've heard that hotel is great!
many use it and if only for a few hours to take a shower or get a couple of hours of sleep.
i think you can only book it in blocks of 5 hours?! (something like this ...)
many use it and if only for a few hours to take a shower or get a couple of hours of sleep.
i think you can only book it in blocks of 5 hours?! (something like this ...)
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yeah, thats it, you can have just a room with beds, and use a shared bathroom, or one with a bathroom. i will deffinately use it again if our stop is that long.
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Lets hope at least one of us is getting the visa today - just so we know that they are moving along... we still don't have a case officer officially but I am telling myself that we don't and they just haven't told us yet... we planned to leave in July - I am still hopeful that somehow somebody will just move us along and we will get the visa within the next couple of weeks.
I don't even want to look at flights at the moment - they have propably gone crazy since I've last checked...anyway HAPPY THOUGHTS....
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