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DV 2020 Oceania Selectees

Poonam mala said:
Thanks everyone for all the help , finally got my visa stamped and received my passport on 30th September from Auckland Embassy.
Happy Fiji Day to all Fijians in this group
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Happy Fiji Day from Castaway Island, Mamanucas
 

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For those of you travelling in the New Year - are you doing activation trips? Or actually moving?
My visa is valid until mid-March and I’m just trying to figure out plans
 
Kriken said:
For those of you travelling in the New Year - are you doing activation trips? Or actually moving?
My visa is valid until mid-March and I’m just trying to figure out plans
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Moving. I don’t think you’d be able to travel for just an activation trip?
 
Hevgibbs said:
Moving. I don’t think you’d be able to travel for just an activation trip?
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You’re right - you have to be travelling for 3 months or longer — not sure why timeframe should determine your eligibility to leave the country.
I will just have to try and be ready to move by then!
 
Kriken said:
For those of you travelling in the New Year - are you doing activation trips? Or actually moving?
My visa is valid until mid-March and I’m just trying to figure out plans
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I was thankfully able to do a 40-hour activation trip at the start of May before things like incoming arrival caps and user-paid-quarantine made it basically impossible to come back for anyone but the uber-rich. I was able to get the exemption, thought this was (I think) before the 3-month exemption was available.

So April will be our move trip. Here's hoping everything's a little better/easier by then. Hopefully rapid testing and the imminent vaccines will get us to a point where travel is not so difficult

Kriken said:
not sure why timeframe should determine your eligibility to leave the country.
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I think the idea is they don't want you going away for a short holiday and contracting and brining back COVID. IMO, the user-paid-quarantine and the sheer cost of flights to return to Australia provides enough of a disincentive to travel at the moment anyway unless you really need to so I don't think the imposing step of an all-out ban on travel is necessary anymore - but I don't work in the government....

A minimum three-month timeframe for leaving for no other 'good' reason made more sense when it was relatively easy to get back into the country and the government paid for your quarantine.

Ultimately, if you're an Australian citizen or PR, they cannot deny you entry into the country, even if you return before your 3-month period is up - but the concern is whether you'd actually be able to make it back anyway unless you can afford a $6-8k flight.
 
Thanks everyone for the responses. Was bit torn until I read this board. I’m trying to move before my expiration of March. Wishing you all the best.
 
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