Working holiday applications are pretty straight-forward and stock standard. As long as you fit the criteria (which I imagine you do) and you provide them with the correct evidence of funds etc. they ask for, it should be turned around super quick. Mine took 2 weeks for them to approve.
You've never been asked to leave the country before etc. so I can't imagine why yours would be a complicated case.
I think on the application you can state your intended date of travel too so hopefully they would expedite it?
So even if you apply at the end of next week, that's still July. + 20 working days = August, I'm not flying back till early October. That gives you a month's lee-way?
Yeah, I can't see why I wouldn't fit the criteria or be a complicated case, so it's just a matter of waiting for the money to come in and making sure Robert is okay with it all. WHich is difficult right because he has gone to the land of no phones and internet. grrr.
Brain was doing his visa the other week, and from what he was saying, I think you have to enter the UK within three months of your application(?) (I sort of tuned out after a while, but it seems to have changed a bit from when I did it, and you just had to specify the date.)
Even so, he got his back pretty promptly, so I don't think they're snowed under just at the moment. He's going on a round-the-world trip before arriving in the UK, so he had to put his application off for as long as possible. I got them to speed mine up because I needed my passport back, so I'm sure they have some kind of priority service.
And if you can't manage to fly with someone you know, there's always Lonely Planet message boards and that kind of thing. You can find someone to meet up with at the airport.
THey won't take any applications that are dated and earlier than three months before your expected arrival date. But it's good to know that they do move pretty quickly.
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You've never been asked to leave the country before etc. so I can't imagine why yours would be a complicated case.
I think on the application you can state your intended date of travel too so hopefully they would expedite it?
So even if you apply at the end of next week, that's still July. + 20 working days = August, I'm not flying back till early October. That gives you a month's lee-way?
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Even so, he got his back pretty promptly, so I don't think they're snowed under just at the moment. He's going on a round-the-world trip before arriving in the UK, so he had to put his application off for as long as possible. I got them to speed mine up because I needed my passport back, so I'm sure they have some kind of priority service.
And if you can't manage to fly with someone you know, there's always Lonely Planet message boards and that kind of thing. You can find someone to meet up with at the airport.
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