RAG62

Hi Ang
Yes and Yes. Cheshire Police only took a couple of weeks the last time I did a check ( I did a dummy run using me as the guinea pig, at the very start if the process to see what sort of thing I would get back and how long it would take).
Hope to be there tomorrow
Rich

RAG62

It can be worth shopping around, the problem is time - sometimes they cannot fit you in when required and so you get "fleeced".

Richard

Rich and Angie

Just thought it was rather handy as he was so close
They are booked now. We have saved money in other places so not that bothered. I know he does a good job too cos he did Carolinegorka's meds

Ang

Rich and Angie

Rich the meet is today not tomorrow 5pm at the pub as normal
We will all be there, all the ones from the first meet (apart from Amit and Reshma) who are in Sydney

ad4ozz

We have had our house valued at £165,000 so goes on the market now with Halifax then it is wait and see time as to when we can move to Oz.

Boomie

Originally we booked in at Hanford Health Centre.....just because it was at our doctors surgery and it was handy..... the week before we were due to go we backed out as we had shopped around....this is a breakdown of what we paid this time last year.....

We have a family of seven

2 adults and children aged ....16,14,12,6 and 8 (at the time)

Our Total...... comes to

£144 for x rays for Me andy Lauren Charlotte and Philippa

and Meds/bloods come to £410 (Bloods - Me Andy and Lauren)

so all inclusive total (including postage to addy) comes to £554



If we had ov used the local surgery at hanford it would ov cost us £760..... so we saved £206 overall. So deduct that from our £700 agent costs.... £500 for the agent to do all the work and paid all the postage to Au we felt was good value and less stress knowin that all necessary forms were submitted and everything was filled in correctly leaving us to concentrate on selling our house (the worst nitemare eva as we didn't want to pay for a validation trip for 7 ov us...5 at adult fares as that would kiss 10K away!) sortin out passports and planning for the future

Love Boomie

wayne&mandy

Whats frontloading? sorry to be numb

lynnlovessun

Its when you enclose your police checks and medicals in with the application BEFORE they have been requested by DIMIA - you are not allowed to take the meds from the panel Dr anymore but you can still ask the Dr to send them to DIMIA in Sydney unrequested.

I enclosed my police checks with the 136 application and the Dr sent my meds unrequested once DIMIA had sent me a case file number to put on them (so they didn't get lost)

For me it did speed things up - at the point (around 12 weeks after DIMIA recieved the application) where DIMIA would request meds from you they just went straight on to the final decision and I got my visa granted after 12 weeks 1 day. The only thing is that your visa validation/ entry date is from when either the PCC or meds were done (whatever is the earliest) so you have a shorter time to enter the country whereas if you waited for dimia to request the meds you would have a year to validate.

Hope this helps,
Lynn

Rich and Angie

OMG Lynn our Pcc's were done in Feb 05 and meds will be done at the end of may unrequested.
Does this mean that when we get the visa we will have 6 months from Feb to validate. Thats August in my reckoning.....
Need to esll the house quick.
Is this true??

Thanks
Ang

Boomie

if ure police checks were done in feb 05.... you have till feb 06 to validate

Rich and Angie

Thats ok then we will be out there by then - when the house is sold....

paulb

My understanding is you have 12 months to validate the visa, from the first check being done, not 6 onths.

Paul

paulb

Too slow again!!

Boomie

sorry paul..... i should go on who want to b a millionaire


boomie
x

lynnlovessun

Yeah Ang I meant you have a year from earliest PCC or meds - I never said 6 months!!? Your entry date will be by Feb 2006. Mine is 16th Jan 2006 as thats when the PCC were done.

Sorry to confuse,
Lynn x