llindabrad ...if its telling you they have got to birmingham ok they will be back with you in a few days time

Mine came back today
to everyone for your support throughout this "traumatic time" and for all the advice given .......I'm so chuffed (and relieved) I am having a glass of wine to celebrate

Good luck to everyone who is still waiting, it'll be fine, you'll see.

Brilliant Fizzy, its such a relief to get your passports back. I will join you in a celebration G&T. Don't need much of an excuse do I. Good luck to everyone who is waiting for theirs or about to apply online (it's not that bad once you have done it!).

Fizzy 2
brill news I will have a brandy for you
Pat

Brilliant Fizzy, I know how you feel now and its a brill feeling

I am so pleased you are all joining me in a wee drinky poo.....

Looking forward to seeing everyone in Goa for a

Hi Toe, my friends have downloaded and manualy filled in the old type forms, sent them to vfs and have got there visas ok. Infact i think i will be doing the same, as it seems less hasle. They did phone vfs to enquire first and was told they can do this.

denham you should put that wee tip in the new visa tip place

got our visas and even though we put single entry they came back with mutiple,going to pay my hol off now only 101 days left before we go

brill lizzley im so pleased for you ..we did the same and we got a mutiple one too ...colleen

I accidentally put a single one, and got a single one! Usually get a multiple entry one, but never go more than once in a season, so will be OK.

mine have been handed to royal mail, eeek'
is my visa in the ppt?
wish me luck

Just been through the process with online and in person application to VFS Victoria.
While some people may consider this mad, I can get there easily and the post in my area is not reliable enough.

Filled in Online Sunday, got appointment for 11:45 monday.
Delivered the application on Monday, only 25 minute wait.
At 14:00 on Wednesday online tracking said ready for collection, quick trip to collect, no waiting, in and out in 4 minutes (home to home in 1h35m).

I found that my print of the online application came out with some blank fields on previous nationality/migration details - I asked at the counter they said no problem.
I had entered NA for Previous Nationality of my Parents, at the counter I noticed she hand-amended that to British with a black pen).

Overall the new system has advantages over the old.
No queueing a crack of dawn to get queueing ticket.
Much less waiting around.

Downside is that it now cannot be done (except for emergencies) in one day, so now rather than having to set a whole day aside and still not be sure that it will be done, it just takes a few hours on two days of my choice.

Have my fingers crossed Judsmiles, let's hope the visas are in your passports this time!!

Thanks miccie .... i'll let you know when to un-cross them!
I'm waiting for my postie now, royal mail tracking says the SD envelope is arriving today (my lovely hubby last night had every possible combination of bad dream senarios! )
I've got to admit I'm feeling a bit sick!

I hope you have the champagne ready You will probably feel like it when you get your passports and visas back

Judsmiles have they arrived yet??? my fingers have got cramp now

no miccie ... KEEP THEM CROSSED pleeeeese!

Owwww, okay!