At last!

Finally Rene has received his papers for applying for permanent residency. They were supposed to have been mailed late last year to our home here in Clayfield but we never received them. It took a second call to the relevant authority to finally get the papers sent. Where did the original mailing go? Who knows, but now we set about getting all the new information the government needs.

Rene needs a new Federal Police criminal check, new pictures and details of our living together (nowhere near as detailed as in the original application, but detailed enough) and statutory declarations etc. He has made the first moves. This time we don't need statements from friends and family so that's a big time and effort saving, but it is still a little time consuming, however the result will be a permanent residency visa stamped in his passport. Well worth the effort.