Certified Copies and Statutory Declarations - Wise ones please help

[suzywong]

Ok, I know you can help me with this, it's dull, but I need to know

I am applying for my Australian Permanent Residency and the form is asking me to supply Certified Copies of passport, marriage certificate and all that kind of stuff.
Question: who can certify copies, the issuer, a JP?

I am also required to provide statements supporting the claim that I really am married to Australian DH, no problem just that these statements must be in the form of Statutory Declarations
Question: my friends and family have provided signed and dated letters supporting the claim, will this do or should they be in another format?

Told you it was dull but hope someone can help, please

TIA

ours did not take four months - although others who personally delivered their application to Australia House had theirs through before ours..( only by a couple of days)

It is processed quicker apparently if you personally deliver it as the person who takes your application then works on it rather than it being assigned when it arrives via mail.

Ours did not take the full four months - I think that is a standard processing time and it can take up to four months.

I applied to nz, it took a week!

Very interesting, the hand delivery thing
When Dh applied for British residency 8 years ago we queued up in the heinous Lunar House in Croydon (I think it is so vile so as to put people off living in the UK) the bloke behind the counter was Australian and from the same part as Dh so I think that helped in go through quicker. Unfair but good timing for us.
So where are you too living now?

still in the UK as we had things to sort out - head off to Aus in June... 17 weeks time I will be in Singapore having a little holiday on my way home......

Beauty
Singapore is great for a stopover, will you take the kid/s to the zoo?
Are you east coast Aus?
Sorry, very nosey

yeh returning to east coast for now - depends on where dh can get a job... definitely heading to the zoo with dd ( be almost 2 by then)