Is email visa enough at check in??

[moss2oz]

I know this may be a silly question to some but am just a little concerned that all I have is an email confirming our visa grant. I am assuming it is enough now that everything is electronic, so to speak. So, for those who have already flown, when you get to the airport do you just show them the printed email as confirmation??

[donnachivers]

I have the same worry but have been assured that visas are allocated to passport numbers, so all should b fine

[gazza18]

I had to send my passport to my agent (assuming it went to Australia House) to have my visa grant stuck in it and showed it to customs when I went to activate it might be different now as that was back in 2012

 

Gaz

[SJT]

When you are getting organised to come here all sorts of questions pop into your head at the most ridiculous times and you need an answer, so then you can move onto the next niggly question, those that are here already have been there and done that and know those little questions really can take over your life until you have the answers (and no I'm not joking, I remember many a night waking at 2.00am in a blind panic because of a question). You do not need any physical evidence of having been granted your visa, they just need your passport, but if you are like me, I always carried a copy around just in case, and when you first get here I did need to show my actual visa for things like the bank etc, but that was just so that you put on the record that I had PR.

 

We have had to produce paper copies of our visa for certain things like rental agreement, Medicare, Centre Link for the Oz version of child benefit, bank account opening, but that was purely for future use in case we needed a loan or a mortgage. The mortgage company we are using needed a physical hard copy and so did the bank's solicitors, so it is handy to have a couple printed off ready to go.

[nikkiwd]

There should be a 'visa grant notice' for each person on the email, we just printed a few off for each of us but didn't need to show any until we were doing banks,schools etc. At airport check in they see the e-visa on your passport.

[Druid]

It actually costs you to have a visa label stuck in your passport nowadays, the cheeky bas*^ds have the Gaul to charge you for a visa label after you have spent thousands getting the bl@@dy visa issued in the first place.................don't get me started

 

and no, you don't need one, it's all electronic, but as others have mentioned, keep a copy of the visa grant letter with you until all is sorted, you never know ...........

[Give me a break!]

I'd get the label. I needed to show it at the school and when I started a job.

[moss2oz]

Thanks guys. Knew I could rely on PerthPoms to put my mind at rest.

[Plimthing]

Your visa is electronically tagged to your passport. We just used copies of visa grant for rental, school applications and Medicare. I've flown out and back since our arrival and had no problems whatsoever.