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We now have another Australian citizen as our second little guy got his citizenship approved just three days after the first little guy. That was way back on June 16th and we’ve heard nothing more since, though I guess the next thing we would hear would be the visa grant email as they don’t do any progress updates in the process.

The global timescale is currently saying 20 months which would take us up to the end of 2027. However, that’s the global timescale and we’re applying from the UK which is classed as a low risk country and therefore applications from here supposedly motor on somewhat faster. For instance, we had expected that the little guys’ citizenships would take about four months so would turn up around August but they arrived a couple of months early. We’re expecting that the visa grant will turn up in around six months (i.e. around October), but perhaps August is possible, although anytime in 2026 would be fine, into 2027 not so much.

One promising note is that, because the backlogs on the Partner Visa that we’re applying for has gotten totally out of hand, Immigration Australia have allocated a lot more people to get that backlog down. However, they’re initially concentrating on the older cases and those which are more complex, neither of which applies to us. In fact, we think our case is about as simple as it could be: couple who’ve been together for over twenty years, with two kids who are now Australian citizens, and all (we think) fully documented.

We’ve been keeping an eye on the Australian housing market and it looks like the best time for us to move would be late 2027. However, there are things that we need done with the dogs about nine months before the move, so an December move means that we need to start on the moving tasks around March 2027, although the pace of the move wouldn’t really pick up until the final three or four months as it’s mainly planning things towards the start.

Although the pace wouldn’t really pick up until around summer 2027 (assuming that we get the visa at some stage in 2026), there are things that we can be doing early on and therefore I’m hoping to go part-time in work from September to chip away at those early stages. Whether or not they’ll approve that is a different matter, but if not, the plan is that I leave late 2026 and get going on the moving tasks a bit more intensively.

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