My application to become a resident of the Commonwealth of Australia has now been received by the Australian Embassy in Germany and is beeing processed. Earlier this week we received a formal notification that my application had been received and that a case officer had been assigned. The processing time can be anywhere between 1-6 months, depending on the completeness of the application it said. Well, now we just have to wait then.
The application process began for us long before that though. A couple of years ago we decided on a time when we whished to move back to Suze’s place and since then we have been cropping at this application. The work only began in earnest though two months ago since some of the papers have to be recent enough to be considered valid. So it took us almost two months to put this application together. The processing is not cheap eighter. It cost about the same as a return ticket to Australia and there is no guarantee for it beeing accepted. In fact, if it doesnt get accepted we will have to rethink all of our plans. Oh, the joy of uncertainty 
We do however have some hope that the application will be accepted so we are proceeding as planned. A day for the move will not be decided untill the application has been accepted but we are and have been aiming for next September. That way we pretty much go from summer to summer. Things can still change though, Suze might decide she just wants to stay in Iceland and not go home (yeah, right).
* Quoted from Monty Python’s Flying Circus sketch of the Bruce’s
