The endless form filling and applying to various government departments is going to all start again soon. It is just seems that I have to repeat myself a lot, and pay a lot of money each time just for someone to give me a certificate, or tick in the box.
I've gotten a phone call from work, and informed that the person who deals with the sponsorship of employees has signed my nomination form, and I'm able to apply for the visa that I have been waiting for. It is our family's permanent residency visa. I'm just waiting on a certificate from some organisation here in Australia to say that my State Registered Paramedic qualifications from the UK (recognised the world around) are recognised here in Australia.
It is a rubber stamping exercise and the skill assessment has been underway for about 4 weeks. After that, there will be a lot of photocopying and getting a lot of documents certified. Then filling in more forms, and then medicals (not a physical like from the UK) – just answering questions from the doctor (for a small charge), and then a wait while the immigration sorts through everything, and then asks for more information.
All in all, there isn't a time limit on the process, and the only thing that needs to happen is that I need the approval before 6th of January 2010. That isn't going to be a problem, although I would like it to have it done a lot sooner.
I spent most of the day at work looking at all the forms, and just thinking how daunting a task it seems. Can't really complain though, I need to get the form into the government as soon as possible. Actually I'm going to wait until the girls are here. I'm not making that mistake again.
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