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[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

I am totally hungry right now.

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

I just had leftover brisket that got slow-roasted on the grill last night.

Mmm, Mmm, Tasty!!

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

Nice.

Prowlah tell me more about this getting citizenship in Aus. thing? Can you tell me how it works and why it is taking so long for you? If it's too personal I understand if you cannot divulge such info //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

Nice.
Prowlah tell me more about this getting citizenship in Aus. thing? Can you tell me how it works and why it is taking so long for you? If it's too personal I understand if you cannot divulge such info //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

The main reason it is taking so long for Mrs Prowler and myself is because we had to start over and re-apply midstream for a different type of visa than we originally were after.

Australia is seemingly one of the most difficult countries in the world to gain citizenship of due to lack of livable real estate. There's heaps of space in the interior where a person could theoretically live but because of the extreme conditions nobody but the most die-hard of bushies (Aussie slang for those who prefer the outback over the city) and the Aboriginals care to be there for any extended period of time by choice. Other than that everyone lives in coastal areas and there is only so much space available there, you know?

When all of this began between she and I the plan was to get a fiance visa (obviously before we were married)

There are reams and reams of paperwork involved and tons of supporting evidence to acquire such as statements from her family and friends showing that they knew about and supported the relationship (basically to prove that it isn't some kind of scam that either she or I was running purely for the purpose of my gaining permanent legal entry into Oz) and the same for folks on my side of the world.

It's such an involved process that you almost have to take it on as a vocation rather than an incidental occurrence to make any real headway in a respectable amount of time and real life has this strange tendency of getting in the way more often than not.

Her job takes up tons of her time (though she loves it and is very good at it) and it's hard to take the mutiple hours upon hours upon hours that it actually takes to gather all of the required forms and information to get it sent in. Then the statutory declarations have to be notarized and whatnot blah blah blah....

Add to that the fact that when all of this began we were after a fiance visa thinking that we would have it all sorted out in X amount of time. Well, that X amount of time came and went without us having everything completed as needed but we had already set a hard date for the wedding. Now that we're married we basically had to start over from scratch since the fiance visa is no longer applicable. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

It's dealing with a governmental agency if that gives you any indication of why it takes so freggin' long. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

Do you have a lawyer involved at all? I had a friend from Venezuela whom was married to an American woman and he was 4 years into getting a green card //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

He said that you needed $$ and lawyers and you could get a GC in like 6 months.... which I find pretty sad. No one should be able to short-cut the system like that.

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

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[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

I had some HotDogs, they be good //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/yumyum.gif.0556df42231b304b9c995aefd13928a8.gif

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

Gah I am teh bored //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/thumbsdown.gif.d22f25895e9b40f2300c953691dacfa2.gif

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

No, Beat, no attorneys.

If I had $1,125,000AUD in a verifiable account they'd issue me the residency visa I'm after immediately!

Sadly, I'm nowhere near that wealthy and neither is my wife (though she does make a durn good living - especially for someone with no college degree...)

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif 1.1M....... oh well. You'll get there doing it the honest way //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

That's what I keep going back to ~ it's a major PITA, without a doubt, but it will all be worth it once it is done with and I shouldn't ever have to hear "What have you ever done to show me you love me?" from the wifey (since I will have moved 10,000 miles away from any and everything I have ever known or cared about to be with her //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif)

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

Q: What's the difference between penis and bonus?

A: Your wife will ALWAYS blow your bonus.

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

A lady walks into a high class jewellery shop.

She browses around, spots a beautiful diamond bracelet and walks over to inspect it.

As she bends over to look more closely she inadvertently breaks wind.

Very embarrassed, she looks around nervously to see if anyone has noticed her little accident and prays that a sales person doesn't pop up right now.

As she turns around, her worst nightmare materialises in the form of a salesman standing right behind her.

Cool as a cucumber and displaying complete professionalism, the salesman greets the lady with, "Good day, Madam. How may we help you today?"

Very uncomfortably, but hoping that the salesman may just not have been there at the time of her little 'accident', she asks, "Sir, what is the price of this lovely bracelet?"

He answers, "Madam, if you farted just looking at it, you're going to shit yourself when I tell you the price"

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif silly joke.

 

[Chevillac 5,000+ posts]

Do you have a lawyer involved at all? I had a friend from Venezuela whom was married to an American woman and he was 4 years into getting a green card //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif
He said that you needed $$ and lawyers and you could get a GC in like 6 months.... which I find pretty sad. No one should be able to short-cut the system like that.

would you rather have him sneak across a border?

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif silly joke.

yeah.

Im old guys. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif