It's all go here for the homeless nomad Stewarts! Andy (lucky boy that he is) was granted a permanent residency visa for Australia yesterday. All thanks to my Mum being a '£10 pom' back in 1970 and chancing her arm on a 6 week sail to a life Down Under and then of course having me (which is where Andy is really lucky!). I can't believe it really as it has been pretty straight forward for him to get the visa - he applied the 1st week in December after a frantic 2 weeks of evidence gathering of our relationship as the house had sold. A case officer was assigned the next day and medicals and a police check asked for as expected. No further evidence was required, we did include quite a lot though and we have been together 7 1/2 years, married for 5 and have 2 children. It's quite hard to get into Australia now and non shortlisted skilled workers are being delayed until 2012! Of course they still have to pay the money up front and play the waiting game. It's pretty pricey to even apply and if they knock you back that's your money gone!
So, all in all I think we are pretty fortunate to have a relatively smooth path to Australia and it's nice to have another task ticked off the list.
Now in a truly indulgent moment of appreciation of the littlies of the Stewart family here are a couple of pictures from the month of January.
Wow! What a train set.
In London - it was very cold!
Looking very industrious.
Slippery when wet.
Love her.
Love him.
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