Gayle

We submitted our application 31st May 2001. Medicals and Police checks
handed in New Years Eve 2002. Just wondering if there is anyone else
still waiting for their final decision?

liz and mark

Hi we are waiting ( applied feb 01) medicals and police checks sent 18th Nov 02 they were delt with 25th Feb 03. ( processing time 3 months if thats a help ) Recieved letter 28th feb and although police checks were clear ,we had told them in are application that there was a driving conviction 11 years ago they now require a statement about the conviction. Also as we had just been married we had to send a ( we were told ) certified photo copy of the marriage cert . They now say they want a certified copy not a certified photo copy. This is going to take possible another 3 months as you have to wait for the mail to be opened and they are 3 months behind. SO yours must be quite soon.

good luck
Liz and Mark

Jaj

You should not mislead people into thinking the mail is 'not been
opened'. Of course it's being opened - how on earth do you think they
are stamping visas in passports or dealing with other high priority
matters?

The time it takes to *process* certain items of mail is another
question.

Jeremy

    >On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 21:09:29 +0000, liz and mark wrote:
    >This is going to take
    >possible another 3 months as you have to wait for the mail to be opened
    >and they are 3 months behind. SO yours must be quite soon.
    >good luck
    >Liz and Mark
    >--
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Gayle

Hi Liz and Mark

Painful isnt it!

Its spooky! Your situation is very similar to ours. My husband also
had a minor conviction from 17yrs ago, and we only got married
recently. It was a certified photocopy of our marriage certificate
that we sent in straight after we got married. We heard from AHC when
it was time to do our medicals, and they asked for my husbands work
record to be bought right up to the day we first put our application
in. (There was a short fall from having them done and sending in the
application). But nothing was said about our marriage certificate
being a certified photocopy. Because of our marriage we have just had
all our passports changed. I don't know if it was necessary but we
have written to them and informed them of the change with the new
passport numbers included. Hopefully so we won't have to wait extra
time at the end. We too also had to send a statement in about my
husbands conviction, we did this with the original application but
they still asked for it again, even though we had already sent one in
with all our docs indexed.

Are you as sick of being asked "Have you heard anything yet" as I am?

Best wishes to you both. Hope you hear soon especially as you have
been waiting longer than us.

Gayle

joh117

Started to get panicked then. I am sending a certified photocopy of our marriage certificate on Monday with a certified copy of the passport page as now in married name. When I read about certified copy got a little worried as this would be near impossible as we got married in Sri Lanka and their systems are slower than Oz so we would have been waiting a long time. Did you fill in form 1022 Change of Circumstances form?? Not sure whether we need to or just put it in writing

Jo

liz and mark

Hi
please dont worry.. we were asked for a certified photo copy
we were married 9th Nov 02 and I took the marriage cert the following week to the solicitors and they photo copied it and stamped it and signed it. For what ever reason the 1st person at AHC said that it looked like a photo copy of a photo copy I insisted that this was not the case and was told to re do it. I spoke to the solicitor because in my eyes if they did it again it is only going to look the same.they advised me to get the vicar to do another copy, which is what we did.
Spoke to 2nd person at AHC who said they did not want a photo copy. so your guess is as good as mine.


Best wishes
Liz and Mark

liz and mark

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jaj
You should not mislead people into thinking the mail is 'not been
opened'. Of course it's being opened - how on earth do you think they
are stamping visas in passports or dealing with other high priority
matters?

The time it takes to *process* certain items of mail is another
question.

Jeremy

Please there was no intention to miss lead anybody I am just telling how I was told.When I spoke to AHC last thursday I was told that they were opening post beginning dec 02.

liz

keel

Hi Gayle

I,m another one stuck in the cue in London.

I put our application in on 23rd feb 2001, just a couple of days after Liz and Mark and sent furthur information to them on 12 dec 2003.

And I,m still waiting for a reply from that, we should here from them this week hopefully.

Mark

Jaj

Hi Liz and Mark
All I'd say is don't believe everything you are told, especially if
it's not remotely plausible.

She probably meant to say *processing* post. A different concept
entirely.

Jeremy

    >On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 19:57:24 +0000, liz and mark wrote:
    >> Please there was no intention to miss lead anybody I am just telling
    >> how I was told.When I spoke to AHC last thursday I was told that they
    >> were opening post beginning dec 02.
    >> liz
    >--
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