Month: October 2006

VISA GET![0]

Woo and indeed hoo! The courier is on his way to take the passports off for evidencing. This usually takes five working days. We’re booking flights for the 31st of October. It’s cutting it fine, but then the prices skyrocket in November so it’s worth the risk. I think. AAAARGH! [0] Too many badly translated

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Not Today

….although we kinda expected it would be. Our sponsor called DIMA last night to ask for an update on timescales, as they need to arrange time off work. Our case officer assured him she’d be working on our application on Wednesday or Thursday, meaning we should have heard this morning. Never mind – maybe tomorrow.

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Is there anybody out there?

We discovered, purely by accident, on Thursday night, that our case officer was on holiday on Thursday on Friday. So nothing was done those two days. That’s alright though – everyone is allowed holidays. Over the weekend, we had a lot of opportunities to think about whether or not the migration agents provided value for

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The name’s Bond…… Paid Bond.

And it has been. Our assurer lodged the bond at the bank today and took the resulting documentation into Centrelink who pretty much processed it on the spot and sent it all off to Adelaide. Hopefully this means that we’ll hear something back from the case officer in the next day or two. That’s the

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New Theme!

It’s either the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning or the beginning of the begee, but I’m not sure which. Anyhoo – many changes are now underway, so I thought I nice sunny theme would work well for a wee while. So, I woke up this morning without having a job

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