Well...

[cmoore25 4]

It's not a yes yet.

The CO did not accept his police record from Australia. Which is strange as we got the one that covered the whole of Australia and Allan even double checked that we had the correct one with the embassy about 2 weeks ago.

So, he's on his way to have his fingerprints at a specified place by the embassy - then has to figure out if they are picked up by the courier service and returned to the embassy or if they need to go somewhere else first then picked up by the embassy.

I guess my question is - once the embassy receives the results from the fingerprints - how long until he gets his visa? The CO said everything else was fine...

[yash0500 5]

It's not a yes yet.

The CO did not accept his police record from Australia. Which is strange as we got the one that covered the whole of Australia and Allan even double checked that we had the correct one with the embassy about 2 weeks ago.

So, he's on his way to have his fingerprints at a specified place by the embassy - then has to figure out if they are picked up by the courier service and returned to the embassy or if they need to go somewhere else first then picked up by the embassy.

I guess my question is - once the embassy receives the results from the fingerprints - how long until he gets his visa? The CO said everything else was fine...

If every thing else goes fine . It should not take more then a week to get the visa (provided there is no RFE from embassy). Good luck

[cmoore25 4]

So, I have more information now. The CO wants him to get a Australian Bi-Fingerprints Certificate. He has an appointment with the New Scotland Yard Metro Police at 2. They have said that the fingerprints go directly from them back to the embassy - does anybody know if this is true? Can they run the fingerprint check for Australia that is needed?

[qwerty1974 11]

Urgh, how annoying. I expected to log in and see 'approved'. Still, it sounds as though everything else is fine so you'll be able to get those wedding invites sent out after all

[cmoore25 4]

Not sure - the fingerprint website said it could take up to 40 days to process??? Uuuuuugh.

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

It's not a yes yet.

The CO did not accept his police record from Australia. Which is strange as we got the one that covered the whole of Australia and Allan even double checked that we had the correct one with the embassy about 2 weeks ago.

The London webpage that lists the documents to gather says:

Note: Police certificates from certain countries are unavailable or are obtained directly by this office. Many countries require fingerprints to process police certificates for immigration purposes (e.g,

Australia

, Canada, Nigeria).

Police certificates completed without the required fingerprints are not valid.

View the attached PDF file for a list of UK police forces (PDF - 338kb) that offer a fingerprinting service.

So are you saying you didn't read London's instructions?

Or did he send official fingerprints to Australia and London still didn't accept it?

Edited November 7, 2011 by Nich-Nick

[cmoore25 4]

Well, I read the "required documents" section on the embassy page - I guess I either did not click the link that gives you the detailed information, or, did and somehow overlooked that detail. I feel like I read that site a million times this summer - so I'm not sure how I missed it. Thanks for pointing it out - it makes me feel better that it is something we missed/could have prevented vs being out of left field.

Allan has already gone to New Scotland Yard and will have a courier service pick up the prints tomorrow and delivered to Australia, where they will process another report, and courier it back to him. Hopefully it won't take too painfully long.