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I had my mine approved about 2 weeks ago without dereg papers. I just sent the form along with full details of the cars and invoices from the supplier.

Hope that helps,

Andrew

this is apparently my de-reg paper

i dont understand how it would have any meaning to dotars tho, as far as i can see there isnt even a date of first registration on here, unless its in japanese

That's because its using the Japanese date system, which relates to the year of the Emperors reign (in this case, Heisei).

The third box along the top (that reads "(Jap. Character) 2 (Jap. Character) 5" means your car was built in the fifth month (May) of 1990.

DOTARS uses the de-reg papers for proof of age, not proof of first registration.

LW.

Yeah also, if your car is already past 15 years to the year, they don’t really mind you sending an import approval off with out the deregistration papers.

I.e., my car is built 1989, September, I sent my IA off in February, but because it wasn’t a 1990 model, it wasn’t necessary for the deregistration paper work. Well thus is what was told to me by my custom agent.

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I think what Geoff is suggesting is that you should lodge your application immediately, even if its somewhat incomplete.  Once its lodged they will find it that much more difficult to deny you an import approval due to the new rules as its already "in the system" so to speak.

I would follow Geoff's advice, but fully expect to get a call from DOTARS asking where the deregistration papers are.

LW.

The only trouble with this advice is often dotars just don't call..........you have to do all the chasing. They'll be flooded with Import applications in the next few weeks until the law change is gazetted, so don't be waiting for them to ring you!

I jus got import approval the other day. It took a while as I faxed off the application form without the proof of month of manufactur, i ended up getting a fax requesting 'proof of manufacture date', so I called up Nissan Australia and got them to write me out a letter confirming the date of manufacture. No problems!

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