Author: Kat

There have been a lot of changes over the past year with the visa process and you may have been wondering – UKVCAS how does it work? I will run through:

• How to book the biometrics appointment online
• The biometric appointment locations
• How to check UKVCAS appointment availability
• UKVCAS upload documents and categories
• What to expect when you attend the biometrics appointment.

Disclaimer: This is based on my experience of going through the process (I’m not a lawyer or immigration advisor). If you have any issues make sure you contact UKVI or UKVCAS.

As things are changing (due 2020 events) with UKVCAS service please keep up to date with UKVI latest information and UKVAS.

Difference between UKVI and UKVCAS

Before we get started on the process, let’s cover the difference between UKVI and UKVCAS.

UKVI – UK Visa and Immigration

Here’s a quick summary:

• UKVI are the ones making a decision on your application
• If you have any questions about the application they are the department to call
• Most importantly if you want a quick decision (i.e. super-priority) on your visa and you are eligible for it, this is where you want to spend the money!

Read more about the service here: UKVI Services and UKVI Information About UKVCAS.

UKVCAS – UK Visa and Citizenship Application Services

Here’s a quick summary:

• It’s a third-party service run by Sopra Steria
• Their website is where you book to have your biometric information taken
• Upload your supporting documents for your application
• Attend your biometric appointment at one of the centres which fingerprints, photo, signature and submitting your application.

UKVCAS website.

Choosing Standard or Super Priority Service?

When you get to the payment screen you will be potentially presented with two options. This is the most critical part of the application, especially if you wish for a faster decision. They are:

• Standard service – get a decision within 6 months
• Super priority – get a decision in 24 hours
• Read more about processing times here.

If your visa is eligible for super-priority, then you will have the ability to choose this during the payment screen. This will give you a decision within 24 hours. Just to note this doesn’t give you a faster biometric appointment.

In this example, you can see there is only one option and unfortunately, UK citizenship is not eligible for super-priority.

The type of visa’s service is offered to are:

• Tier 2 or 4 visa
• Tier 2 or 4 dependant
• Tier 1 or 5 dependant
• Remain in the UK with family – applying in the partner, family life as a partner or private life in the UK routes
• Indefinite Leave to Remain
• And a few more.

The price of super-priority is currently £800. Here is the price list from UKVI.

Step by Step Guide to Biometrics Appointment for UK Visa (UKVCAS)

To complete your application, you must attend a UKVCAS service point to have:

• your identity confirmed
• any required biometric information enrolled
• any required supporting documentation digitised and checked
• confirm you are happy to send your application sent to UKVI

I will show you the steps I completed to create my account, booking an appointment, uploading documents and what to expect during the appointment.

UKVCAS has no bearing on the decision process, all it does if you choose to pick a premium appointment is to provide you with an appointment quicker, after hours etc. There are a few options. If you want a quick decision, then you need to choose this during the application process as stated above.

If you prefer watching the step by step process here is a video version.

UKVCAS Account Setup

Once I reached the further actions page on the application I was presented with mandatory actions, one of these will be ‘book appointment’, I clicked this button to commence the set-up for the UKVCAS site.

Please note: if you have any issues with setting up your account you will need to call UKVCAS.

Next, I was presented with a screen to ‘get your access code’. This will be sent to the email address you registered with UKVI.

In my inbox I received an email like this with 6 digits, you have 30 minutes to use the code.

Finish the sign-up process I added the code and created my own password for the UKVCAS website.

That’s it, my account was all set-up with the email I registered my UKVI application with.

Book Your Biometric Appointment

You can book an appointment in two ways:

• On the UKVCAS website
• by phone by calling the UKVCAS Premium Support Line on 0900 165 6600 (Calls cost £2.50 per minute)

Personally I did all of this myself via the website.

Once I set-up my account and then logged on, I was taken to a home page which explained the booking of the appointments, the extra services and stuff they offered. I kept scrolling through until I got the book appointment button at the bottom of the page.

Next was choosing a service point location. The tool gave me the closest centres near me or I could search by using a postcode.

If you wish to get a free appointment there are 6 core service centres offering free appointments – Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Cardiff, Belfast and Croydon.

Once I was happy with the location, I clicked on select this service point which gave me the available appointments.

Next was the choose your appointment screen which showed me the appointments for the first week and you can keep pressing next for further dates. When I clicked on the dates it told me if there are appointments available and the price if it was a paid appointment.

As you can see below there is a range of free and paid appointment between £50 to £100. Read more about the fees here.

I was happy to wait for an appointment but it is dependent on what you want to do and how quickly you want to get your application done.

I selected a time I was able to make and then went to the checkout screen which gave an order summary. As I had a free appointment it states 0 but if you have a paid appointment this is where you would enter the payment flow. You can also add additional services here like document checking.

Once I finished booking the appointment and I received two emails. One was the tax invoice and one was the booking confirmation.

The booking confirmation is a must to take to your appointment and this will be the thing that will track you through your biometric appointments. It’s really important. You can either print it or you can take it on your phone but you do need to have a copy available.

It has a QR code and information about me and my appointment and that’s basically it, so nothing too exciting.

UKVCAS Upload Documents

Remember that checklist from the application? Well, that’s your guide on what you need to upload document wise! You do have the option of paying UKCVAS to do this for you but I just did it online at home for free.

You can upload documents in stages right up until you attend your appointment. When uploading your documents, there are a few guidelines.

1. Document type:  The documents are marked as either mandatory or other documents. A description of the mandatory documents required for each category is provided in the tabs.
2. Category: Your supporting documents need to be submitted under the categories. Some are easier to determine than others – see categories below.
3. File Format: PDF is the preferred format, JPG and PNG format. If you don’t have a scanner just search for an app in the Google Play or Apple Store, there will be quite a few available.
4. File Name: needs to be as simple as possible e.g. bank-statement-Apr-2018.pdf. Do not use filenames having special characters, #,ë, or bank.statement.apr.2018.pdf
5. File Size: maximum file limit is 6MB. You can separate your documents into parts if your file is too big and there is no limit on the number of documents/files you can upload.
6. Scan in Greyscale or Black and white: This helps with controlling the size, although I didn’t end up reading this part before I scanned all my documents and they were fine in size. In fairness, there wasn’t as many as my ILR application.
7. Password: Make sure there are no passwords on the files and they are fully accessible. I know it can be worrying by not protecting your information but it can delay a decision if they are unable to access any of this.

How to Upload Your Documents on UKVCAS

Depending on where you are ready to upload documents, you can either do this straight after booking the appointment or whenever you’re ready.

I did this before my appointment so when I logged in you will be presented with a welcome page that had an upload your documents button.

Once I clicked the button I was presented with visa applicants, as it just me, it’s only my details. I clicked the blue action link which took me to the next page.

There is some information about the files and formats which I have summarised above and you will reach the upload section. This example just covers the mandatory document.

All I did was upload the named file I had and added a description which basically Katherine’s Front Page of Passport. Just to note I also uploaded a copy that had every page that was stamped in my passport in another section.

Once uploaded my document there was a status to say how many files were added.

That’s it! I kept repeating until all my files were uploaded.

UKVCAS Document Upload Categories

One of the biggest things that I found a bit annoying is there is no guidance from the UKVCAS or UKVI on where you’re supposed to put them. I made a few assumptions and added information where I thought it suited best.

This is all based on UK Citizenship to give you an example, if you are applying for other visas like Spousal Visa then chances are you will have documents such as life events. Just make sure you include all the documents that your checklist states in the visa application.

Mandatory Documents

Statement from UKVCAS website in the document upload section: Below is a list of mandatory document categories for your application. Each category tab contains a description of the documents required. Please ensure that you provide a document in each of these categories.

Proof of Application – I only added my passport here because that’s what it stated I need to put here.

Optional Documents

Statement from UKVCAS website in the document upload section: Below is a list of optional document categories. Please ensure you check your Access UK document checklist before including documents in the categories below. For some application routes, ‘Optional’ documents offer you the ability to provide evidence in a number of categories at your discretion to satisfy immigration rules.

• Other – I included my referees in this section.
• Residence in the UK – I included my approval letter for my indefinite leave to remain and then I put my BRP card with my indefinite leave to remain there.
• Finances – I included six P60’s from 2014 to 2019.
• Proof of Business – I didn’t include any proof of business.
• Life Events – I didn’t include any Life Event documents.
• Medical Information – I didn’t include any medical information.
• Sponsors / Employment – I included two employment letters and also one HMRC letter from 2018 from my indefinite leave to remain application.
• Proof of Identity / Travel History – I included my Excel Spreadsheet that covers all of the dates I’ve been outside the UK, my current passport and my old passport, which includes all of the pages from the passport. The front page and then all the pages with stamps on them.
• Educational – I included my life in the UK pass notification.

What Happens at the Biometrics Appointment?

When I arrived at the biometric centre, I was greeted by a security guard and he requested that I give my booking confirmation and my passport. The next step was speaking to the receptionist who my booking barcode to confirm what floor I needed to go to.

Once I arrived at the appropriate floor I was greeted by another staff member who gave me a ticket number which was to be used during the process. They advised me that there will be two parts phase of the appointment.

Part One: The Biometrics.

Basically, they have these booths that record your biometrics with a computer system. The only way that I can describe it is like the passport e-gates at an airport. When you go through the e-gate and you scan your passport and takes a photo and then lets you through, that’s basically how these biometric systems were, except they just take your signature as well.

You will be explained the process before you register your biometrics. The photo process is probably the lengthiest process of all of it. It’s very picky and can take a while to get a photo it likes.

Once I did that, I walked back out to the waiting room until my number is called again.

Part Two: Checking of Documents and Submitting Your Application

Another representative came and collected me. This is the stage that they went through my application, documents and biometrics. The first thing again they ask for is that confirmation sheet with a QR code and your passport. They will scan that in, it’ll bring up all the details of that and your application.

My biometrics was reviewed which just double-checks your photo, signature and fingerprints are ok. I had to explain any scars or markings on my fingerprints which was recorded against my biometrics.

The next thing he did was scan my current passport again, I did previously have both my latest and older passport uploaded to my application.

Next he just quickly scrolled through what I had put in there, for example, you’ve put life in the UK test on here and a few other documents, but he didn’t check a single one of my documents.

After that, he asked, “Are you happy with the application and the documents you’ve put in your biometrics?” You must state yes and then they will submit the application for you. That will trigger the decision process for your application.

Next Steps

The waiting game! There is no ability to track your application through UKVCAS or UKVI, you just have to wait for a decision to arrive. You can call UKVI to discussion your application if you want further confirmation.

Hopefully, my experience has given you an understanding of what you could potentially expect. Make sure you keep up with the UKVCAS and UKVI websites to see if there are any changes.

Moving to the UK

By Kat · Applied August 2019, ceremony October 2019

You’ve got indefinite leave to remain (ILR) and next is finalising British citizenship and getting the passport. “You alright?” will officially be your new greeting once this is done. What you want to know is the day you can apply, what it costs now, who these two referees have to be and what they want in the envelope.

I applied in August 2019, a year after my ILR came through on the Ancestry visa. Sixteen days after my biometrics appointment the approval letter was in my hand. Two months after that I was in the council chamber in Bromley making the affirmation and by November I had a British passport.

Mine was the Ancestry route. If you’ve come through a work visa, a partner visa or settled status, the shape is the same: five years here, a year on ILR, the test, two referees, the fee. The detail for your route is different and I’ve linked the official guide wherever I’ve used it.

Here’s what I’ll take you through, in order:

• the day you can apply and the absence limits that decide it
• what it costs all in and the one way to pay for a faster answer
• the two referees, who they have to be and who mine were
• every document, in one list, with what I sent next to what they ask for
• the ceremony, the certificate and the passport afterwards, with what my day looked like

Covers	Naturalising after a year on ILR, which is what I did from the Ancestry visa. The core steps hold on the other routes; the detail differs.
Have up front	£1,839 for the application, which includes the ceremony. £500 more if you want the faster decision. £102 for the passport afterwards.
Do first	Count your days outside the UK against the limits. Then ask your two referees.
Works for	You, if you’ve had ILR for a year or nearly and want to know exactly what to gather and what the day at the end looks like.

The day you can apply

Twelve months after you got ILR, as long as you’ve lived in the UK for five years and you were physically here on the day five years before your application lands. If you’re married to a British citizen you don’t wait the twelve months and it’s three years, not five. Both are on the gov.uk page for citizenship after ILR and the one for the spouse route.

Then the absences. This is the bit that decides it for most people, because the limits are tighter than the ones you met for ILR.

Your route	Years in the UK	Days outside the UK, in total	Days outside in the last 12 months
On ILR, not married to a British citizen	5, plus 12 months holding ILR	450	90
Married to a British citizen	3, no wait on ILR	270	90

Only whole days count. The day you leave and the day you come back don’t, so a Friday-to-Sunday weekend away is one day, not three. That’s in the naturalisation guide and it’s the thing to know before you panic about your total.

Mine. ILR on 14 August 2018. Application submitted 19 August 2019 at five past one, so a year and five days. The five years count back from the day your application lands, so for me that meant being in the UK on 19 August 2014. I’d landed in October 2013, so that was covered.

The absences list was the spreadsheet I’d built for ILR with a year added on and my fingers did get a little sore entering every holiday. Start yours now, not the week before. If you’re Australian you can request your travel records from Home Affairs instead of rebuilding five years from memory. I didn’t know it existed at the time.

What it costs, all in

What	Cost	Source
The application, per person	£1,709	Home Office fees from 8 April 2026
The ceremony, paid up front with the application	£130	same fee table
Biometrics	no fee	citizenship after ILR
Priority service, decision usually within 30 working days	£500 on top	faster decisions
Standard service	no extra charge, usually a decision within 6 months	citizenship after ILR
Life in the UK test, if you haven’t passed it already	£50	Life in the UK test
Your first British passport, afterwards	£102 online, £115.50 on paper	first adult passport

That’s £1,839 to apply, £2,339 if you pay for the faster answer and about £1,940 by the time the passport lands without it.

There’s no super priority for citizenship. Priority is the only faster option and it’s thirty working days, not five, so don’t budget on the ILR timings.

What I paid. £1,349.20 in August 2019: £1,330 for the application and £19.20 for biometrics. There was no faster service for citizenship then, so standard was the only service. The total has gone up by about five hundred pounds since my run and the ceremony fee is now folded into it.

How long mine took. Sixteen days. Biometrics on Monday 2 September 2019, letter in my hand on 18 September. Everyone’s timeline is different and gov.uk still says usually within six months with some taking longer, so I count mine as luck, not the rule.

What you need before you start

Three things have to be done before the form is worth opening.

• The Life in the UK test. £50, booked at least three days ahead, the name on the booking matching your ID exactly. If you passed it for ILR you don’t sit it again. I’d sat mine for ILR the year before and just entered the pass, which I was thankful for, because that test was the most stressful part of ILR. Don’t leave it late: the pass is valid for a long time and a fail can cost you your application window.
• English. As an Australian you’re exempt: your passport is the proof. Same for New Zealanders, Canadians and the rest of the majority English-speaking list. Anyone else needs an approved qualification or a degree taught in English.
• Two referees. Next section, because it’s the bit people ask me about most.

And good character, which you can’t prepare for. The naturalisation guide sums it up as observing the law and respecting the rights and freedoms of its citizens. Convictions, money trouble, deception and immigration breaches are what they look at. If any of that is in your history, that’s the point to talk to an adviser, not a blog.

The two referees

Two people who’ve each known you for at least three years and will sign a form saying you’re who you say you are.

• One can be any nationality but has to be a professional person, an accountant or a solicitor for example.
• The other must hold a British passport and be either a professional person or over 25.
• Neither can be related to you or to each other, be your solicitor or agent, work for the Home Office or have an imprisonable conviction in the last ten years.

All of that is in the naturalisation guide. If you’re not sure your person counts as a professional, ask UK Visas and Immigration before you rely on them.

Mine, in 2019, were a lawyer and an accountant, both friends, both easily on the professional list. Finding them wasn’t the struggle. Finding the form was. I looked for the referee declaration for ages before I worked out that, in 2019 at least, it was only handed to you in the step after the documents page. Look there before you start hunting the internet for it.

What the online form wants from each referee, so you can ask them for it in one message:

• full name and date of birth
• every address they’ve had in the last three years
• profession
• phone number and email
• British passport number, for the one who has one
• how they know you

They each fill in the declaration themselves, sign it and give you a passport photo. The form told me to write my name and date of birth on the back of the photo. I was uploading everything, so I uploaded the signed form with the photo and that was accepted.

Every document, in one list

Two columns. What the checklist asked for and what I sent in 2019. The online form builds the exact list for your case at the end and it’s different if you’re applying through marriage.

What they want	What I sent in 2019
Your current passport	My Australian passport
Proof of English	The same passport. Australians are exempt
Proof you’re free of immigration time restrictions	My passport, the ILR approval letter and my biometric residence permit (BRP) card. The cards have all expired now and your ILR lives in your UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) account as an eVisa
Life in the UK pass	The pass from my ILR run, entered into the form
Proof you’ve lived here for the five years	Both my passports with the stamps, plus the same working evidence I’d used for ILR: my P60s, the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) employment history letter and two employer letters. The checklist said bank statements and household bills don’t count and I still get asked about that, so check the guide for your route before you print your bills
Two referee declarations	Both signed forms, each with a passport photo
Evidence of identity	My old passport, the one I’d used as ID for the Life in the UK test, plus my current one

Where my experience stops. I’ve never had an eVisa. I became a citizen before they existed, so I can point you at the UKVI account page and I can’t tell you what that step looks like from the inside.

The working evidence is the same method as ILR, a year on. Either ring HMRC again and ask for five years of employment history in a letter, or take what you sent for ILR and add the newer evidence on top, the P60 and the employer letter for the year since.

The HMRC letter is the same one they send if you’ve lost a P60, so if you’ve got gaps, do it early. Mine took about a week to arrive.

Originals or copies. In 2019 copies were fine for everything except passports, which had to be originals. You either uploaded to the appointment service, UK Visa and Citizenship Application Services (UKVCAS), yourself or paid to have them scanned at the appointment. The naturalisation guide now says you don’t have to resend anything you uploaded for a previous application, because they already have it. If you did ILR online, that’s most of your pile.

Before you open the form, have these to hand, because the form asks for all of it and digging through the drawer every time a long question pops up is what turns it into a whole evening:

• your addresses for the last five years, with dates
• National Insurance number and the tax reference off a recent payslip
• your parents’ names, dates and places of birth
• ten years of UK work history, with start and end dates and employer addresses
• your ILR application: the date, the reference number, the date of your fingerprints
• every trip outside the UK in the five years, with country, reason and dates
• degree details if you have one
• the referee details above

The form, the payment and the appointment

The application is online and it’s received the day you submit it. The form itself is simple once the pile above is next to you. In 2019 the payment page warned me in bold that once I paid there was no going back. After paying you book a biometrics appointment for your fingerprints and photo, which costs nothing now.

Mine. Submitted Monday 19 August 2019 at five past one. Biometrics on Monday 2 September. Letter on 18 September. I did the whole thing myself, uploaded the documents to the UKVCAS portal and it was, honestly, straightforward.

You can still travel while you wait. My sister did, in 2022. Her approval email landed while we were flying to Gdańsk and she didn’t see it for two months. Check your inbox from the airport.

The letter

The approval comes as a letter and it’s also your ceremony invitation. It tells you your application’s approved, how to get your certificate and how to book. Read the whole thing, because it also says you have to bring it with you on the day or the ceremony’s postponed and they may ask for ID as well, which they did for mine.

You have three months from the invitation to attend. You book through your local council and the ceremony’s already paid for in your application fee. Getting the council slot was the longest wait in my whole run, longer than the decision itself, so ring them the day the letter lands.

Booking mine, on the phone to Bromley, they asked four things:

• Group or individual. The group ceremony is free. An individual one costs and I was quoted either £160 or £180 in 2019, so I waited for the next group slot, which at Bromley was every Tuesday at ten. The price and the slots are your council’s, so it depends where you live. gov.uk still says a private ceremony can cost more.
• How many guests. Two is the usual limit. I asked for two.
• Oath or affirmation. The oath is sworn by God, the affirmation isn’t. I’m not very religious, so I took the affirmation. Either is fine and the pledge that follows is the same for everyone. In Wales they also ask English or Welsh.
• Whether I was happy to shake hands with the Mayor. Say now if you’re not.

A week before, the council emailed the details again with a map and the photographer’s price list.

The ceremony

Thirty to forty-five minutes. Smart dress. Two guests. Then tea, coffee and a queue for the photos that took longer than the ceremony did.

Mine was Tuesday 22 October 2019 at Bromley Civic Centre, six years and four days after I’d landed. My sister came and so did my boyfriend at the time. The letter said smart, national costume welcome. It’s not a casual-attire day. I went with a white dress.

What happened, in order:

1. Signs around the building. Checked in at the door: letter, ID, ticked off the list, given a number and a seat.
2. Housekeeping from the host, then a councillor came in to welcome us on behalf of the Queen and the government. It was the Queen in 2019. It’s the King now.
3. The room was split in two: one side took the oath, the other the affirmation. Then everyone in the room, guests included, said the pledge.
4. One by one to the front for the certificate and a handshake. Mine came with “Congratulations Katherine, you are a British citizen. Look, we share the same name.” The councillor was a Kathy.
5. One verse of the national anthem.
6. Tea and coffee in the room next door while you look at the photographer’s shots and decide. Cash or cheque only in 2019: £15 for a mounted print, £20 with the digital file, passport photos on the day for £5 alongside the ceremony photos or £10 on their own. gov.uk says you also get a welcome pack.

Then it’s done. I spent longer in the photo queue than in the chamber.

Your BRP. In 2019 the letter told me to cut mine up and send it back to the Home Office. Every BRP has expired now, so if you’ve still got one in a drawer, cut it through the chip and the details and bin it. The naturalisation guide says the same.

Dual citizenship, if you’re Australian

You keep it. The UK allows dual citizenship and there’s nothing to apply for. Australia allows it too. I’ve held both passports since 2019.

The one rule: use your Australian passport to enter and leave Australia and the British one once you’ve left. Home Affairs says an Australian citizen without an Australian passport can be stopped from boarding a flight home, so keep it renewed even if it never sees another stamp.

In 2019 I chose the 34-page British passport rather than the 50, because I could split trips across two. With stamps on the way out and everything going electronic, I wouldn’t sweat the page count now.

The passport afterwards

Once you’ve got the certificate, apply online for a first adult passport. £102 online, £115.50 on the paper form, usually within three weeks and longer if they want to interview you. The fast-track and premium services aren’t open to first adult passports, so there’s no paying your way out of the wait.

You can’t apply before the ceremony, because the certificate is one of the documents. Copies aren’t accepted: the certificate and the passport you entered the UK on go in the post as originals.

Someone has to confirm your identity: eighteen or over, living in the UK with a current UK or Irish passport, in or retired from a recognised profession and known you for two years. Not a relative, not a partner, not anyone at your address. You give their name and email, the passport office sends them a link with your photo and a few questions and that part is done.

Mine, in November 2019. Applied online on a Sunday morning, £75.50 plus £5 for secure return post, £80.50 all in. I paid the fiver because the certificate cost a hundred pounds to replace then. It’s £456 now. Pay the fiver.

The form stalled on me once: my mum holds a British passport and the form wanted her passport details, so I stopped, messaged her and waited. Have your parents’ passport details in the pile if either of them is British. My sister took the photo. You’re not allowed to smile.

Then it went like this. Posted the documents by registered post on the Monday. Wednesday, a text: received. Friday: approved. The next Tuesday: on its way, delivery Wednesday. The courier tried on the Tuesday, I rebooked for the Wednesday and it came Wednesday, while the passport office was still texting me it’d be Thursday. Believe the courier.

Ten days from applying to holding it, 10 November to 20 November. The certificate came back in its own envelope alongside it.

The best thing about it, after two visas and a citizenship application where you hear nothing until a letter drops: the passport office texts you at every step. You know exactly where it is.

Doing it yourself or paying someone

I did it myself, because for a straightforward application it is straightforward: the form tells you what it wants, you gather it, you book the appointment. I felt comfortable, so for me that was worth it. If you don’t feel comfortable, that’s exactly what the services exist for, to make it smooth and easy. If your application has a complication, a conviction, a gap, a messy immigration history, get advice from a lawyer or an adviser before you pay, because the form warns you there’s no going back once you have. Neither way is wrong.

What I’d do differently

Ring the council the day the letter landed, because the ceremony slot was the longest wait of the lot. And have my mum’s passport details ready before the passport form asked for them, instead of stopping halfway through on a Sunday morning to message her.

Where this sits

If you’re a year out from this, the two pages that feed it are indefinite leave to remain and the Life in the UK test. ILR is where the absences spreadsheet and the test pass come from. The test is the one you only want to sit once.

If you’re further back than that, start at moving to the UK from Australia: the visas, the money before you’ve earned a pound here and the Australian admin. Six years is a long road and it’s one of the choices I’m most glad I made.

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