meli at saints had to wait 16 weeks for his visa, this i think is week 12/13 since crockers re-application

I might be wrong but I don't think we have been told all the facts on the delays, wakey signed a guy after luaki and he's been here a month.

I don't think the truth can be too different to what's in the public domain, otherwise it would have been too risky to get politicians involved etc.

I also think it's unlikely that any large scale cover up would have lasted this long without being found out.

not a large scale cover up but maybe an admin error or something simple like that. I don't think luakis application is still in the first que, I think it's been re submitted, if he is criminally clean why should he wait a month longer than someone else who applied at the same office? Ps you are jimmy rule and I claim my 5 pounds

Greg Eastwood - Leeds

there not waiting, he's out the system

I was told a while ago that Lauaki's agent had made a clerical error on his application and it had caused a delay. If true it would explain his case.

Crocker we know about anyway.

I'm inclined to point the finger at the civil servants and politicians involved myself.

I think, there is a guy at Sheffield,still waiting for his visa.

When will the knockers on here realise that the visa situation has nothing to do with James Rule ( he doesn't work for the government ). Things will happen when they do. PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE.

So an infinitely long wait, then?

You could also say that Bradford are still waiting for Greg Bird and Huddersfield are still waiting for Carney.

We're not the only club to get hit by this ridiculous new policy.

With Lauaki, [url=http://ukinnewzealand.fco.gov.uk/en/visas/this[/url was/is a problem.

Which bit

Him having to apply via Canberra, where there was already a massive backlog and where they've decided to be much more strict in their application of the entry requirements. Had he been able to via Wellington, as would have previously been the case, it would probably have been a much quicker process.

ok

trev exton

There is a guy called Patel a New Zealand Cricketer who is awaiting a visa too.

I don't think thatis right! I have a pal in Driffield whose cousin is a specialist engraver and who is an Aussie citizen. He applied for a Visa to work in Middlesboro nad has been waiting 15 weeks all he has been told is that there is a back log and he is in the queue!

Maybe that should be printed on the front of the season tickets.

Josh Brookes - Australian rider in the British Superbikes series for the HM Plant Honda Team: missed the first round of races, visa just approved and will race this weekend. londonbikers.com/news/11266/full ... ulton-park

Josh Brookes - Australian rider in the British Superbikes series for the HM Plant Honda Team: missed the first round of races, visa just approved and will race this weekend. londonbikers.com/news/11266/full ... ulton-park

Nah Kosh, that's not enough rumourmondering to keep the scroats happy, how about, blaming our friends across the way backhandering their mp to lay-on Miss Sharon Ewart (think this is the lady involved in the visas all being held up in Aus) who surely is the self same young woman who used to work in his office pre her days over the pond!!!!!!......there isn't that a much better muckscaper to feed them lot to have fun with.......grannyfan Cindy

Now that's a proper rumour. You've done this before haven't you?

Are they the MUI MUI FOI FOI rules?

When his signing was first announced, someone posted on the N.Z. Warriors section of the Front Row Forum that he wouldn’t be allowed into the UK because he had two convictions for assault committed in Auckland

Why didnt he just sneak in on the back of a cheese lorry from France then claim asylum that if he returned to his native land he would be victimised and forced to play with some rabbits????