Hi Guys and Gals,
Thanks for all your advice.
On Thursday Lina went back to the office with all your information and also information from the Australian Embassy in Jakarta.
The blokes in the Area Office still would not believe that Lina needed a police check to migrate to Australia. In fact, they refused point blank. They then proceeded to lecture her on mixed religion marriages, sex out of wedlock and everything that you can think of. They refused to give her the permission letter to move to Bali and they also refused to take her fingerprints so that we can apply for a police check from Hong Kong - she worked there for 1.5 years.
It was outright bullying and she called me in tears to confirm the reason for the police check. Finally, she had no choice but to flee from them and is now back in Bali. Sadly, the embassy cannot intervene and ask on our behalf.
Oh yes, her father went with her for the 1st 2 weeks she tried, but her father is only a farmer and couldn't stand up to them. We do have their blessing for Lina to come to Australia and marry me.
The Jakarta lawyer has dropped his fee to 9 million, but I don't really want to go that way.
Anyway, our application for a tourist visa is in Jakarta and hopefully Lina will be here in Aus within 2 weeks as everything has been pre-approved for it.
Just one sodding police check is preventing her migration and our happiness together. Lina has discovered a side of Indonesia that she had never seen before and is totally disgusted by it.
Sorry for the vent but I find it so frustrating especially when the embassy tells me that they have already received many police checks from her home town.
I'm hoping for a happy 3 months together before she has to go back and retry. At least we know that her visa to migrate will be available within a week of the embassy receiving the police check :)
And, yes CB, I do believe that she loves me as much as I love her and and more importantly, the embassy believes this too :)
Thanks and best wishes from a rainy Adelaide on Adelaide Cup day
I.L.L.