And again, Finally ...

... A decision has come through about Jim's application for permanent residency.  Not quite 2 years after the application went in:

You can't get this visa unless you first have the Partner subclass 820 (temporary) visa.  Jim had his for all of a minute before the permanent one arrived :-)

I was given this for my 60th birthday.  I said I would open it when we had sold the house. I wasn't expecting it to be in the booze cupboard almost three and a half years later!  But I think the sale of the house and the granting of the visa in the same week merits cracking a good bottle of French Fizz.  What say you?