Just need someone to listen and maybe give advice Sender: ormrod7

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Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 70 Just need to talk to someone!!

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Well here goes, Sorry if i go on one we're just so confused.

We decided to try for Australia about 6 years ago got my husbands TRA certificate back then under a Communications Linesperson instead of his trade which is an Electrician as he s been working with Fibre Optics for years and not Electrical.

We then decided the time was'nt right!! Then in the beginning of 2005 a company advertised in our local paper saying Australia needs you!! We enquired they were an agent we decided the time was now right to go for it the only thing was he wanted us to go for a sponsered visa 138 as my husbands brother lives in Adelaide (he was born in Aus) with his Australian wife.

It took ages to get them to agree to do it as they were worried about how it would affect them etc etc it took us a year to convince them so our application went in at the beginning of this year and acknoledged at the beginning of Feb.

We front loaded our medicals and police checks in May 2006, we also did some police checks back in November 2005 foolishly thinking we would of got the visas quite quick We've been sat waiting ever since!!

We got a call a week last weekend from our agent saying they are going to grant our visas but we need to be there before Nov 18th this year We found out they had used our old police checks instead of the new ones We were prepared to go then but it did,nt leave much time to sell house they do go quite quick around here so we put it on the market last Monday.

We emailed our agent saying what we had done and he replied with saying he has contacted our case officer and asked for the May checks to be used instead to give us more time and he would contact us when he hears anything but were still waiting it feels like were in frigging limbo land

When he rang and said they are going to grant the visas we thought whey hey as we were also worring about my husbands brother having to go for the interview as he is so lazy and takes forever to do anything plus the bond money as we have nt got the funds until we sell the house!! But our agent said don' t worry as they don t always send them for interviews or ask for the bond money every case is different. So we thought we might not have to worry about that.

Sorry for telling our life story

But don t you think if they were ready to grant the visas a week last weekend that we should of heard something by now??

I've contacted our agent and he s quite abrupt and has been since we started i think thats just him though. He just said "i'll advise when necssary"

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