c1are

Hello there

Was wondering if anyone can help or just give me a little advise

We are emigrating to gold coast the first week in Jan 12 this will also activate our visa's, my five year olds passport expirys in july 12, and not sure if we will be allowed into the country with this? and if we can will we be able to get her a new british passport when there? This may seem a really silly question but have tried to contact our agent but ain't getting any reply, when we were given our visa's they must of realised the expiry date for her visa

Please help

Thanx

Pollyana

As long as her passport is valid when she enters Australia she will be fine. Beware if you are stopping off en route though, some places like Singapore need 6 months validity on a passport. You are fine on a transit stop - just changing planes - but need 6 months if entering th country itself.
You can renew her passport in Australia but its easier, quicker and cheaper a=to do it in the UK before your emigrate.

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=609751

c1are

Thank you, thats really eased the wondering Just thought it might of been more hassel if we changed it before we go with us having been granted the visa, the passport numbers will change if we got a new one here. Might have to have another think

Pollyana

If you change the passport before you go, let DIAC know the new passport number (form 929) and carry both passports

Bermudashorts

I would think it much less hassle to get the passport renewed now, rather than trying to do it from Australia down the line.

Once you get a new passport you can send both to Australia House and get the visa evidenced in the new passport. Or carry both, as Polly suggests.

moneypenny20

You can renew a passport up to 9 months without losing any of the time, they'll just add the months on to the end of the next passport. Unless AHC London have changed things (which I don't think they have), once you have the visa sticker in a passport you can't get a new sticker in a new passport through them so you'll have to carry both through passport control but that's no problem. Once here though you can take the passports to your nearest DIAC office and they will put a new sticker in free of charge there and then.

c1are

WOW You are all ever so helpful Thank you Xx

Now that it is getting closer to our leap, my husband is starting to having doubts and these hurdles are getting narrower and higher

Would he be able to go out alone to activate the visa's or do we all have to go? least if we do do this it might just give us a little more time to sort things etc

Bermudashorts

Eeryone needs to validate their own visa by the given date, when is that for you? Possibly one of you could go on ahead.