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Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 16th 2008, 1:12 am
Replies: 1,684
Views: 113,275
Posted By rickinbrisbane

Re: December 2007 Applicants

Thanks!!! :)

Sorry, been a bit busy to post/reply to messages - I'm already in Oz, so had to go to NZ for a couple of days before they'd grant the visa - now I'm back
with a lovely orange sticker...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 7th 2008, 7:43 pm
Replies: 1,922
Views: 134,769
Posted By rickinbrisbane

Re: November 2007 Applicants

That's got to feel good! CONGRATULATIONS!
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 7th 2008, 7:42 pm
Replies: 1,922
Views: 134,769
Posted By rickinbrisbane

Re: November 2007 Applicants

Hi ToughSpiders,

If you go back to the document upload form, here:
https://www.ecom.immi.gov.au/visas/attachment/start.do?attachType=VISA_APPLICATION&group=travel

You can log in and see what...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 5th 2008, 12:27 pm
Replies: 1,043
Views: 168,298
Posted By rickinbrisbane

Re: Current processing times

I don't think it makes much difference in the great scheme of things, but it seems to me that people not using agents might get processed a little bit quicker, only a few days though, I think. In...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 4th 2008, 7:23 pm
Replies: 1,684
Views: 113,275
Posted By rickinbrisbane

Re: December 2007 Applicants

Yeah, I came out here ages ago on a tourist visa, and have been watching my bank balance dwindle while the visa date stayed unchanged for months, so it's a big relief that I can actually start...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 4th 2008, 2:00 am
Replies: 1,922
Views: 134,769
Posted By rickinbrisbane

Re: November 2007 Applicants

Hiya. The phone number I use is on this page:
http://www.immi.gov.au/contacts/telephone.htm
But it says it only works inside Australia - anyone got the number to dial from the UK? (The website...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 4th 2008, 12:56 am
Replies: 1,043
Views: 168,298
Posted By rickinbrisbane

Re: Current processing times

No - I wished I'd had an agent to advise me when I did my medical, x-ray and blood test at the wrong place and had to redo them! :)
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 4th 2008, 12:38 am
Replies: 1,043
Views: 168,298
Posted By rickinbrisbane

Re: Current processing times

Well, you're paying the agent, and it's at least 10-15 mins on hold before you get to speak to someone (if you don't get cut off because they're too busy), so you could save the phone bill.

But......
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 4th 2008, 12:26 am
Replies: 1,684
Views: 113,275
Posted By rickinbrisbane

Re: December 2007 Applicants

I'm on it already - it's half ten at night here!

Luckily they don't have hangovers in Australia... :)

Hope to see loads more December COs over the next week!
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 3rd 2008, 10:57 pm
Replies: 1,922
Views: 134,769
Posted By rickinbrisbane

Re: November 2007 Applicants

Hi - it can't hurt to call them and ask roughly how long it'll be - if you have a CO they can tell you before you get the email - it can take a week or two before the CO gets around to writing to...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 3rd 2008, 10:10 pm
Replies: 1,684
Views: 113,275
Posted By rickinbrisbane

Re: December 2007 Applicants

Hiya.

From the email I got, it sounds like the visa won't take long at all - I just have to book a flight to NZ, and give DIAC 5 days to send an email to the Oz immigration office in Auckland.
...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 3rd 2008, 9:31 pm
Replies: 1,922
Views: 134,769
Posted By rickinbrisbane

Re: November 2007 Applicants

Well, I'm a December app, and I just found out I have a CO, so I reckon that PROVES that most of you November lot will have too very very soon, if you don't already! :)

It's always worth phoning...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 3rd 2008, 8:02 pm
Replies: 1,043
Views: 168,298
Posted By rickinbrisbane

Re: Current processing times

seanshellluke, believe me, you're not going to upset them - I've phoned the DIAC helpline many, many times to find out what's going on, and if anything, it seems to help!

I would phone them up and...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 3rd 2008, 7:36 pm
Replies: 1,684
Views: 113,275
Posted By rickinbrisbane

Smile Re: December 2007 Applicants

OK, I hope this doesn't get you all too excited, but...

I GOT A CO TODAY!!!

Now, it might have been a _little_ bit quicker because I'm already in Brisbane on a Tourist visa and I've got a job...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 3rd 2008, 6:10 pm
Replies: 1,043
Views: 168,298
Posted By rickinbrisbane

Re: Current processing times

The latest people getting 175 visas applied in November - you can see the dates here:
http://www.beupdate.co.uk/visa.php?month=Nov&year=07

So at the moment it's been taking about 8 months, BUT...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 3rd 2008, 3:03 pm
Replies: 1,922
Views: 134,769
Posted By rickinbrisbane

Re: November 2007 Applicants

So, how do you feel about it, then? :)

CONGRATULATIONS!!! Looks like COs are working quickly, which is great news for the rest of us!

Good luck with your new life in Oz!

P.S. If you're not...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 3rd 2008, 3:54 am
Replies: 1,922
Views: 134,769
Posted By rickinbrisbane

Re: November 2007 Applicants

It's funny - I'm here in Brisbane already, on a Tourist visa, and it's all very nice and everything, but I've been walking around thinking to myself: "Y'know, it could all be PRETTIER."

So I say,...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jul 1st 2008, 8:52 pm
Replies: 1,922
Views: 134,769
Posted By rickinbrisbane

Re: November 2007 Applicants

CONGRATULATIONS, grantees!!!

Looks like it's all starting to happen at last - we Decemberists are starting to get excited! :-)

I hope all the rest of you November bunch get your visas this week...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jun 29th 2008, 2:14 pm
Replies: 1,043
Views: 168,298
Posted By rickinbrisbane

Re: Current processing times

Although DIAC are very secretive about it, it seems that the reason the date didn't move for months was that they got close to their yearly quota of visas.

Also, there is another queue, for...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jun 27th 2008, 2:22 am
Replies: 1,043
Views: 168,298
Posted By rickinbrisbane

Re: Current processing times

Hiya.

No, I didn't bother sending them, as the guy on the DIAC helpline told me they didn't need them. He told me to keep them safe just in case I ever needed them.

You should give DIAC a...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jun 27th 2008, 1:05 am
Replies: 1,043
Views: 168,298
Posted By rickinbrisbane

Re: Current processing times

Hi fmadau - did you do your medicals with HSA in Australia? (I did, here in Brisbane, while here on a Tourist Visa.)

The HSA told me I had to send the sealed results to DIAC, but when I phoned...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jun 25th 2008, 7:29 pm
Replies: 1,922
Views: 134,769
Posted By rickinbrisbane

Re: November 2007 Applicants

Hey all - I've just noticed on the BEUpdate page that someone who applied on 28th Nov got a CO today!

Are DIAC lurching back into life? Can it be true?!? :rofl:
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jun 24th 2008, 1:13 pm
Replies: 1,043
Views: 168,298
Posted By rickinbrisbane

Re: Current processing times

According to the email, the only pre-September applications left are the Student/Graduate ones (which they've NEARLY finished), and "paper based applications for Class BN, BQ, BR, UX and UZ visas...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jun 21st 2008, 10:47 am
Replies: 1,043
Views: 168,298
Posted By rickinbrisbane

Re: Current processing times

Congratulations! About time!

Let's hope they push your visa through really quickly.
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Jun 19th 2008, 11:20 am
Replies: 1,684
Views: 113,275
Posted By rickinbrisbane

Re: December 2007 Applicants

Also, if you look at the magical, never-changing email, you'll see they have actually been going through the August apps, which are nearly all done.
So the COs who were looking at August MUST get...
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