Hooray! After some ten months of waiting, waiting and more waiting, without a peep from the Department of Immigration, a phone call. ‘Hello, is this Stephanie? This is Sarah from the Department of Immigration [at this point my heart leapt into my mouth] Could I please ask you for Emmet’s phone number, I need to speak with him about a couple of things’. ‘Um, okay, just one second, I need to get his number from my phone for you, I haven’t quite memorised it’. God, could I have sounded like more of a numpty? In that few seconds I forgot everything.

And then, the good news. Before lunch time, Mister Emmet had been emailed through his visa approval letter! Hooray! I had only said a week earlier on our vow renewal day that it would have been lovely to have the double celebration…we were a week early!

So now the doors are open, we can move forward. But it’s funny. We’re not quite sure what to do with our new-found freedom!

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