It was over the Christmas 2001 holidays that I decided to emigrate to Australia. I had been working in Cork and when I returned there in January 2002 I resolved to make a new life Down Under. The process was expensive, bureaucratic and lengthy. Yesterday (May 2nd, 2009) it came to an end as I took the Australian Citizenship pledge.
It has been a long journey from researching citizenship on the web in Cork to standing before an immigration official in Parramatta - but I'd do it all again in a heartbeat.
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Fair Dinkum !
How many tinnies did you have to sink before the pledge ?
Little bit of blog necromancy here.. but I did my own pledge on Monday, 7th December, 2009.
Go the antipodes! Where the beer is cold and the summers are warm!
Huzzah! congratulations on becomming an Aussie*. You know the winters are warm here too.
*you're a Kiwi. So according to the Australian Federal** constitution you're Australian :-)
**I don't recognise Kiwi sovereignty.
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