It`s a wonderful life: Visa

Kaori's visa

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:48:43 GMT

Kaori got an email from the embassy yesterday to say that her visa has been approved. We're very excited, now we can go back to Australia and start establishing our life together. It's been hard here, because we haven't been able to do anything for our future, things like buying a car and furniture and getting permanent work. We hope to go back before the end of this month. We'll be staying with my mum for a bit, until I can get work anyway. From there we'll look for somewhere to live. We'll stay in Victoria, but there's so many beautiful places we'll do a bit of searching, and everything's so close that it doesn't really matter where we live and work. I think we`ll stay away from the western half of the state, though. It's too dry and very depressing. Of course, if I find work in the city we'll probably have to live there.

Probably OK

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:01:51 GMT

Haven`t written about Kaori`s visa here, except for our trip to Kagoshima. We think we`ve got everything we need now, except for the $1300 odd application fee. We`ll apply for Wataru`s citizenship by descent at the same time. It`s been so stressful. Anyway now we`re planning to go back to Australia in March next year. With a little bit of luck I`ll be able to get on to a vineyard before too long.

Kagoshima

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 01:50:42 GMT

yesterday we went to Kagoshima for Kaori`s medical check. We`ll go back to Australia in November, and have to apply for Kaori`s visa.

We left at 4.45am, and arrived 9.00. Wataru was excellent. He really likes to travel. We got the expressway, which cost us 3670yen (AU$48). Very surprised! On the way home we took National road 10, the same road we live on. Left Kagoshima 2pm and after quite a few stops got home at 9. Took us 3 hours longer, but we saved 50 dollars. And we could see Sakurajima very well. I took some pictures from the car, we didn`t stop as we were quite keen to get home.