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| New passport - Visa in old one - Do I need to do anything in terms of changing over etc | |
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| Topic Started: 7 Sep 2009, 09:52 AM (936 Views) | |
| Melbourne Mark | 7 Sep 2009, 09:52 AM Post #1 |
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Hi all, seem to remember that a few people had some problems when they had their Visa in their old passport when they got a new one. Is there anything I should do so that makes it less problematic? Thanks, Mark |
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| koalakim | 7 Sep 2009, 09:58 AM Post #2 |
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Hi Mark All you need to do is to call into one of the immigration offices (city is probably easier for you) and they will put a nice new visa in your nice new passport. It's better to spend an hour getting this done that trying to travel with two passports! Hope all is well with you! Cheers Kim |
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| Melbourne Mark | 7 Sep 2009, 10:59 AM Post #3 |
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Thanks Kim, yes all good on our side - been in our new place for a year now and feeling very settled - just need to get the Permanent Residency sorted but thankfully my work has confirmed that they will sponsor me and the aim is to put an application in at the end of November when I will have been working for them for two years. Danielle loves it here now after her initial wobble at the beginning. Hope all is good on your side as well. Mark |
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| Gail.C | 7 Sep 2009, 12:01 PM Post #4 |
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I echo what Kim said. It's a really quick process to do. I've done it for both mine and my daughter's passport. The only problem is timing it when all the foreign students are not there as you have to wait a while. It's right next door to where I work so I used to look in to see how busy it was and found 9am was the best time to go. Monday morning is not good either. Gail |
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| Amanda & Simon | 7 Sep 2009, 01:46 PM Post #5 |
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Mark, I was in that position when we moved out here, and while it was a huge issue at Heathrow for Air Kiwi's check in computer nobody in Australia seemed to give the faintest stuff about it. Immigration at Tulla weren't fussed and when I promised to go and get it changed asap the response from the immigration officers was a kind of 'look, don't go out of your way, mate, just do it when you're passing'. It really seems to be more of an issue when you're travelling than when you're here, but echoing what others have said it's so straightforward to pop into DIMIA's offices (except I think they changed the name from DIMIA to something else) and get them to print another one out for your new passport. Ground floor, corner of Spring Street and Lonsdale, the office block on the left as you look up Lonsdale towards the junction with Spring. |
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| RobN | 7 Sep 2009, 03:58 PM Post #6 |
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It's changed twice since it was DIMIA! It changed to from DIMIA to DIMA about 3-4 years ago, and then to DIAC at the beginning of 2007. |
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| tam_n_brett | 8 Sep 2009, 12:19 AM Post #7 |
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If your over here then i believe its easy but doing it in the uk is a nightmare !!! Anyone with this problem needs to check with the airline they are using as they all seem to have different rules and also depends if their computer systems will allow the 2 passport option. We flew with Cathay Pacific who allows the 2 passports but when we rechecked in at hong kong they rang and transferred it for us into new passport. |
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| Kaz62 | 10 Sep 2009, 10:01 PM Post #8 |
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My DD has just renewed her passport, I sent an enquiry to Australia house and this is the reply I got. She will be travelling with Singapore with a transit stopover in Singapore, does anyone know if this could be an issue with 2 passports?? I am thinking of getting her to send it up to London in the silver envelope so that we know there will not be an issue. Dear Madam, Thank you for your enquiry. If you obtain a new passport and you have a valid visa label in your old passport you may travel to Australia with both new and your expired passport. You simply need to present your old and new passport for boarding and entry clearance. After your arrival in Australia you may approach your local Immigration office to have the visa transferred into your new passport. For contact details of Australian Immigration offices: See: http://www.immi.gov.au/contacts/australia/ Alternatively, you can send your passport to the London office by secure mail (Royal Mail Special Delivery silver pouch recommended for clients in the UK) to: Visa Evidencing Unit Migration Branch Australian High Commission Strand London WC2B 4LA Clients in the UK should include a pre-paid self addressed Royal Mail Special Delivery Silver Pouch for the return of documents. Clients who have submitted a substantially large quantity of documents requiring return should enclose an appropriately sized and suitably secure self-addressed envelope or box that has been prepaid for special delivery. A record of the return registration should be kept for tracking purposes. Please note: - The advice you are given by the London Contact Centre will be based on the information you supply. - We cannot advise clients on the likely outcome of any visa application, as applications are assessed on an individual merits basis. - The Department of Immigration & Citizenship strongly recommends that clients do not make any irreversible travel bookings until they have been granted an appropriate visa. If you would like help finding the right Australian visa please visit the Visa Wizard website: http://www.immi.gov.au/visawizard We hope this information has been of assistance. |
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| Melbourne Mark | 11 Sep 2009, 09:18 AM Post #9 |
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Just in case anybody needs to do this in the future - you can only go between 9am and 10am to the Lonsdale St office in the CBD Went there yesterday afternoon and told I need to come back between the above times. |
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| Amanda & Simon | 11 Sep 2009, 09:25 AM Post #10 |
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blimey - that's a bit tight! No time restrictions when we went ... but that was about 18m ago. |
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| Gail.C | 14 Sep 2009, 04:50 PM Post #11 |
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This happened to me on the way here via hawaii. Quantas almost didn't let me on the plane. Some 'jobs worth' person decided that it wasn't straightforward and easy to do in the system and said sorry you can't get on the plane. After I jumped up and down for a few minutes with steam coming out of my ears demanding to meet the pilot and any senior quantas official available, a more sensible quantas manager allowed me on. |
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| Amanda & Simon | 16 Sep 2009, 11:19 PM Post #12 |
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Just saw the mention of Hawaii there and wonder if it's something about flying via the US. I'd always assumed it was Air New Zealand's check in computer but as we came via LAX to get the extra luggage allowance... :shrug: Who knows, if carriers on the traditional kangaroo route don't create over it maybe ANZ had to do it that way to keep the Yanks happy? |
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| Kaz62 | 20 Dec 2009, 09:12 PM Post #13 |
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Just thought I would let you know that my DD arrived here ok on 10th Dec, we are going to the CBD tomorrow to (hopefully) get here visa transfered. The only sticky point was she could not book in online and had to wait until they got to the airport, luckily they managed to get seats together but they would probably have had better seats if they could have booked themselves in. She went through all the passport controls fine, no probs. We have however had a problem getting both of them medicare cards because it has been 2 years since the visa was granted and about 18months since they validated. My son has to prove he has left UK behind and is settling here with things like cancelled rent in UK, bank, rent agreement here (hard one that as he is staying with us!!) My daughter cannot get any sort of medicare card, she can't provide the evidence required to get one as a permanent resident, because she is at Uni in the UK, therefore not living here permanently (could not get a grant in UK for living expences because they see her as dependant on us and living at home!!) She cannot get a reciprocal medicare card because she has a permanent resident visa!! so if she ever does need medical attention she would have to apply for one at that time and they say they would deal with her under reciprical. If we had applied for them within 6 months of arriving, ie when we validated they would have been given one with no questions asked. sigh . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . |
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