Pollyana

The official "Got it" post is on the Lifestyle forum, but I know lots of
you don't frequent it, so here's my timeline....

April 27th 2003,
Medical (in UK)
May 29th, Prospective Spouse Visa granted (in UK)

November 2nd, arrived in Brisbane
January 31st, The Bloke and I got
married
February 24th, lodged application for residency, in Brisbane

March 22nd, Yellow Envelope, containing Temporary Residence Visa for 2
years, PR comes after that!


The case officer apologised for her staff
being over-zealous in requesting the original of the Pros Spouse grant
letter, and said she would have been happy with the photocopy.

Good
luck to everyone still waiting......

Pollyana, the happy bunny :)

Jodie

Hi Polyanna

That is great news Im really delighted for you ! Thanks
for the note on including the original letter from the case office for
the prose spouse.

Would you mind PM'ing a list of what u included in
your application, would be very helpful.

Thanks and all the best


Jodie

Originally posted by Pollyana
    > The official
"Got it" post is on the Lifestyle forum, but I know lots of you don't
frequent it, so here's my timeline....
    >
    > April 27th 2003, Medical
(in UK)
    > May 29th, Prospective Spouse Visa granted (in UK)
    > November
2nd, arrived in Brisbane
    > January 31st, The Bloke and I got married
February 24th, lodged application for residency, in Brisbane
    > March
22nd, Yellow Envelope, containing Temporary Residence Visa for 2 years,
PR comes after that!
    >
    >
    > The case officer apologised for her staff
being over-zealous in requesting the original of the Pros Spouse grant
letter, and said she would have been happy with the photocopy.
    >
Good luck to everyone still waiting......
    >
Pollyana, the happy bunny
    :)

Atticus

Hi Pollyana

Congrats on the good news - couldnt have happened to a
nicer person.

regards

atticus


Originally posted by
Pollyana
    > The official "Got it" post is on the Lifestyle forum,
but I know lots of you don't frequent it, so here's my timeline....
    >
April 27th 2003, Medical (in UK)
    > May 29th, Prospective Spouse Visa
granted (in UK)
    > November 2nd, arrived in Brisbane
    > January 31st, The
Bloke and I got married
    > February 24th, lodged application for
residency, in Brisbane
    > March 22nd, Yellow Envelope, containing
Temporary Residence Visa for 2 years, PR comes after that!
    >
    >
    > The
case officer apologised for her staff being over-zealous in requesting
the original of the Pros Spouse grant letter, and said she would have
been happy with the photocopy.
    >
    > Good luck to everyone still
waiting......
    >
Pollyana, the happy bunny :)

Pollyana

Thanks Atticus; most unexpected!!!

Jodie - certainly will do, not
tonight owing to having had too much of the bubbly stuff, but I will do
a list for you. I can tell you now, we sent a lot lot less tha for the
Pros Spouse, and yet we still had lots returned - all the personal
stuff, and even some of the joint bills have been returned. I'll sort it
all out tomorrow and get back to you.

Pollyana, the happy bunny!

(PS
If this posts several times, its down to the wobbly fit my computer just
had, NOT to the amount of alcohol consumed tonight!)

S Oldfield

    > (PS If this posts several times, its down to the wobbly fit my
    > computer just had, NOT to the amount of alcohol consumed tonight!)
    >




Yeah alright..............if you say
    > so....................

Jodie

hehehe .. very good Polyanna glad you are celebrating !!

do you know if
in Sydney (which where we are applying) that we can obtain the visa over
the counter ?

cheerio

Jodie

Originally posted by S
Oldfield
    > (PS If this posts several times, its down to the wobbly
fit my computer just had, NOT to the amount of alcohol consumed
tonight!)




Yeah alright..............if you say
so....................

Jasper Pentop

sorry to be stupid - what is a pros spouse? what do u do with it?

Mlbonner

Originally posted by jasper pentop
    > sorry to be stupid -
what is a pros spouse? what do u do with it?


Congratulations
Pollyanna!! I've been reading a lot of your posts in a quest for my own
spouse visa and I'm so glad you got it :)

BKate

CONGRATULATIONS!!

I think your past threads must have been used as a
help for everyone applying for prospective spouse, especially me! So
thanks.

Lots of luck for the future

Pollyana

Thanks guys;
Jodie, I think someone did post about 2 months ago that
you can get the visa over the counter in Sydney. You can't in Brisbane,
we had to do it by post. I can't remember whether it was on this forum
or the lifestyle one though.

Jasper - "Pros Spouse" is the lazy way of
writing "Prospective Spouse" - ie "Fiance", which is the visa you get if
you are coming to Oz to get married. You then have to apply for
residency afterwards.