Reply To: Australia visa timescale

[John]

LD27 wrote:

I applied last September for 651 eVisa on official site and had to wait nearly 2 weeks. Flew Singapore airlines from Frankfurt without it being granted as no one checked and decided to risk it and sort out on arrival. Fortunately email saying visa approved arrived whilst I was en route between Singapore and Melbourne.

Interesting. You shouldn’t have been allowed to check in at all, at least for the final leg to Australia, as I thought the airline systems would verify your passport number with the Australian database before issuing a BP. One of my family members has a complicated Australian visa history which means airline staff always need to send a message to Australian immigration before the computer will give him a BP, thus when travelling with him we must turn up 4 hours in advance.