alexwest

alexwest........... - 25th March 2004 - (approved on May 20th)
QoM ……………...… - 29th March 2004 - (meds/police checks req on 27th Jan 05; sent on 23th Feb 05)
SKHAN ………..…… - 1st April 2004 - (PCC's and medicals req 10th May 2005)
marson ……………… - 4th April 2004 - Visa grated 6th May (PCC/Meds as requested 4th April 2005)
Bed of Roses ..……… - 8th April 2004 - VISA Granted
Badri …………..…… - 8th April 2004 - ( GOT THE VISA 29/april/2005)
Windaelicker …….… - 13th April 2004 - (Visa grant 7th April 2005)
Cantwait………….… - 13th April 2004 - (Visa grant 7th April 2005)
Ozbod ……………… - 13th April 2004 - @ 6th June - can’t go on 136 - looking at other visas
YouCanLaugh ……… - 13th April 2004 - 6th June Nothing heard yet (DIMIA requested extra info on 14th April)
DunRoaminTheUK … - 13th April 2004 - (PCC's and medicals req 6th April 2005)
Dreamaway ………… - 13th April 2004 - (investment bond requested 10 th May 2005)
Reka ……………...… - 13th April 2004 - Meds/police requested
Ady Whit …………… - 13th April 2004 - PCC's, meds + extra info requested 19th April sent back 12th May
Steve ……………..… - 15th April 2004 - (meds etc req 14 04 05)
Vikk ………………… - 5th May 2004 - (CO assigned & req meds/police checks 27 04 05)
Longreach ……..…… - 8th May 2004 - (20th June all posted to oz for final decision)
Shaakq ……………… - 10th May 2004 - (Still waiting for meds/police checks)
Margoo …………..… - 18th May 2004 - May - Request for police checks (meds previously sent unrequested)
CAZ76 ……………… - 21st May 2004 - (requests for meds/police checks 23 05 05)
XDA ……………..… - 24th May 2004 - Meds/police checks requested 31 05 05
Myvkee ………..…… - 25th May 2004 - Meds/police checks requested 31 05 05
Hubbard………..…… - June - Sent meds/police checks unrequested Apr’05
Aflatun's Brother …… - 8th June 2004 - (16-June Med/PCC requested 6 June - CO allocated)
Loidy ………..……… - 9th June 2004 - Meds/police checks requested 31 05 05
Justmd ……………… - 11th June 2004 - Meds/police checks requested 31 05 05
Mum, are we there yet - 15th June 2004 - (sent meds etc unreq Apr'05)
Cool_archie ………… - 18th June 04 - (CO assigned & req meds/pcc/etc on 30 05 05)
Mk4 ………………… - 21st June 2004 - (CO assigned, meds/pcc requested on 02/06)
Ed Ed…..…………… - 21th June 2004 - (Meds and PCC are delivered to DIMIA on 24/06)
Naved ……………… - 26th June 2004 - (CO Assigned & Medicals requested on 22 06 05 )
chilliman …………… - 26th June 2004 - (CO assigned, assurer been to centrelink)
Yinwong …………… - 28th June 2004 - (PCC & meds requested via email 04 05 05)
Charlieg…………….. - 30th June 2004 - (Still waiting for meds/police checks)

youcanlaugh

Hang on? Not bloody likely! Already done the dirty deed.

What is your position now regarding your application?

youcanlaugh

Hi Paula,

Fingers crossed indeed. Like you say, with them being doctors it shouldn't be a problem, but if you're like me, you won't believe a thing until you've exchanged.

Have you considered doing the conveyancing yourself? I just saved £700+vat (the cheapest quote) by doing it myself. Quite straight forward really although I was in the lucky position of not having a mortgage which can cause some complications apparently because the lenders have to get their own conveyancers involved for which, of course, there is a charge, but I guess you'd have to pay that anyway (or maybe not, I don't know). Mind you, if you go for a conveyancer rather than a solicitor, it is much cheaper anyway and a lot of them seem to offer fixed prices on the internet and some don't even charge if you don't get to completion which is very good as that is the most complicated stage, and the most likely to cause problems.

Glad to see you are still with us. I'd noticed you'd been a little quiet, but it's quite dis-heartening when you are waiting on something like selling a house (or waiting for the friggin visa).

I see Badri has arrived in Brisbane. Nice to see. Good on him. That certainly happened quickly.

Well, I'm now about £40K worse off thanks to the bond and the rubbish rate, but at least it's done now. I wasn't going to hang around and hope the rate went back up, although it has gone up pretty well today.

loidy

excellent news 'youcanlaugh' you've waited long enough for that yellow envelope, by the way, was it yellow?! visa can't be too long behind now...x loidy

myvkee

Helay helay....good news you can laugh, now you must change your name to 'I am laughing' :-)

good on ya mate :-)

Bed Of Roses

Good for you bite the bullet and get on with it

We are at visa granted

Just sitting with the house on the market now with 3 agents and not a sniff

Got a property quick sale shark comming wed to give us a laugh

Keep us all posted with yours.

youcanlaugh

Thanks everyone. Yes Loidy, it came in the same A4 yellow envelope as a previous letter I received when they asked for more info on a previous employer in April. Looks a lot like the envelopes that play.com use, which has caught me out several times thinking I had a letter from DIMIA which turned out to be a DVD I had ordered and forgotten about (I guess that description only helps if you use play.com)

Well, it takes about 2 weeks for DIMIA to receive confirmation from the state that I have placed the bond and then, I guess, a week or so after that for the document to wind itself through the DIMIA cogs to land on the COs desk. Hopefully then..... (sighs slowly thinking of what it must feel like to get a visa grant)

For all your information, OzForex gave a better rate than HIFX. I asked for their rate and the inter bank spot rate. From these 2 figures you can see the profit they are making. OzForex took about less than half what HIFX were going to take. I think it all depends how much you exchange. I have a feeling that OzForex take into account how much in total you are likely to exchange, whereas HIFX take into account how much you are changing in each individual deal, but I could be wrong about that. Either way, I thought it would be useful for you all to know.

youcanlaugh

Good luck for Wednesday. Do let us know what they say.

We were lucky with the house. We ended up having 20 viewings between March and May which, looking at others on here, was excellent. The buyers are currently in rented, so don't want to complete until the end of August. Talk about lucky for us! We've exchanged, which was the nerve racking stage as there is no come back during that time, but got through exchange about 2 weeks ago thank goodness. Saying that, selling the house is no good without a visa to go with it.

Not sure which is worse. Having a visa but having to wait to sell a house, or exchanging contracts on your house and still having no visa (so not really knowing if you will be going to Oz or not).

I'm rabbiting. Sorry. Good luck for Wednesday (again)

youcanlaugh

alexwest........... - 25th March 2004 - (approved on May 20th)
QoM ……………...… - 29th March 2004 - (meds/police checks req on 27th Jan 05; sent on 23th Feb 05)
SKHAN ………..…… - 1st April 2004 - (PCC's and medicals req 10th May 2005)
marson ……………… - 4th April 2004 - Visa grated 6th May (PCC/Meds as requested 4th April 2005)
Bed of Roses ..……… - 8th April 2004 - VISA Granted
Badri …………..…… - 8th April 2004 - ( GOT THE VISA 29/april/2005)
Windaelicker …….… - 13th April 2004 - (Visa grant 7th April 2005)
Cantwait………….… - 13th April 2004 - (Visa grant 7th April 2005)
Ozbod ……………… - 13th April 2004 - @ 6th June - can’t go on 136 - looking at other visas
YouCanLaugh ……… - 27th June 2004 Received and paid the 100K bond request
DunRoaminTheUK … - 13th April 2004 - (PCC's and medicals req 6th April 2005)
Dreamaway ………… - 13th April 2004 - (investment bond requested 10 th May 2005)
Reka ……………...… - 13th April 2004 - Meds/police requested
Ady Whit …………… - 13th April 2004 - PCC's, meds + extra info requested 19th April sent back 12th May
Steve ……………..… - 15th April 2004 - (meds etc req 14 04 05)
Vikk ………………… - 5th May 2004 - (CO assigned & req meds/police checks 27 04 05)
Longreach ……..…… - 8th May 2004 - (20th June all posted to oz for final decision)
Shaakq ……………… - 10th May 2004 - (Still waiting for meds/police checks)
Margoo …………..… - 18th May 2004 - May - Request for police checks (meds previously sent unrequested)
CAZ76 ……………… - 21st May 2004 - (requests for meds/police checks 23 05 05)
XDA ……………..… - 24th May 2004 - Meds/police checks requested 31 05 05
Myvkee ………..…… - 25th May 2004 - Meds/police checks requested 31 05 05
Hubbard………..…… - June - Sent meds/police checks unrequested Apr’05
Aflatun's Brother …… - 8th June 2004 - (16-June Med/PCC requested 6 June - CO allocated)
Loidy ………..……… - 9th June 2004 - Meds/police checks requested 31 05 05
Justmd ……………… - 11th June 2004 - Meds/police checks requested 31 05 05
Mum, are we there yet - 15th June 2004 - (sent meds etc unreq Apr'05)
Cool_archie ………… - 18th June 04 - (CO assigned & req meds/pcc/etc on 30 05 05)
Mk4 ………………… - 21st June 2004 - (CO assigned, meds/pcc requested on 02/06)
Ed Ed…..…………… - 21th June 2004 - (Meds and PCC are delivered to DIMIA on 24/06)
Naved ……………… - 26th June 2004 - (CO Assigned & Medicals requested on 22 06 05 )
chilliman …………… - 26th June 2004 - (CO assigned, assurer been to centrelink)
Yinwong …………… - 28th June 2004 - (PCC & meds requested via email 04 05 05)
Charlieg…………….. - 30th June 2004 - (Still waiting for meds/police checks)

CAZ76

Under 48 Hours and counting - what will July 1st bring for us lot? The suspense is killing me! Very good luck to us all. They better have us long time sufferers at the front of the queue this time!
CAZ

youcanlaugh

Sorry to be the pessimist, but I'm still not convinced about this 1st July thing. I know, for instance, that my first CO disappeared onto indefinite leave on 7th June, now my current CO is on leave until 13th July, so that probably means there are a fair number of us that won't hear anything until then at least.

longreach

Don't suppose you could share their initials could you??

youcanlaugh

PM winding its way to you right now

yinwong

Under 24 hours now...

aflatun

You have waited for months. These hours will also eventually pass.