Well, today I got a phone call from Candice at Flight Centre to pick up my passport. I now have my Australian transit visa. It took 6 working days. I droped it off on the Thursday last week and picked it up Friday morning the following week.
It was simple to get. If you are travelling on a South African passport and you have a stop over in Australia, you need a TRANSIT VISA. This will allow you to stay in Australia 3 days at a time (72hrs). The reason behind this is incase you miss your flight or something (touch wood) happens that causes some delay. You do not have to have a visa if your stop over is less than 8hrs. The problem is if you have a delay, after 8hrs you are now an illegal!!!
The cost of the Visa is R160.00, plus if you don't feel like driving to RoseBank, an extra R150.00 for courier services. There are about 10 pages to fill out. If you are single with no kids, you can throw half of them away. They do ask you some odd questions like," where in Australia will you stay?", I just put, "In Transit for 1.5 hrs!
The visa is a piece of cake. They don't request proof of Foreign Exchange or much other details. I'm just happy I am single!
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hiya Mark
it is me
Sian remeber
im really looking forward to seeing you again
(you got my boyfriend scared)
which as preuasall i find funny
so like
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