Yes, Silver will be in the Melbourne quarantine station once she arrives, and I can go visit her twice/week while she's there.

When you start the process with your Schnauzers, one thing to keep in mind is that, within 30 days prior to export, they have to be tested for several (mostly tick-borne) diseases. Silver has tested positive for Ehrlichiosis; she's never been symptomatic but the test doesn't determine if the dog actually HAS it, just whether she's been exposed to it at some point. Now she's on a course of antibiotics for two weeks, we'll test again, if she fails she gets another two weeks of ABs, test again, and so on. I'm told it can take MONTHS to produce a negative result for ehrlichiosis. So my piece of advice for you would be to go ahead and have them tested by your vet for all the diseases listed on the form. It won't be official (only Kansas State can do the official lab test, but you'll learn more about that later) but at least you'll know if your dogs have antibodies that would make them ineligible for import, and you can start them straight away on the antibiotics so that hopefully their import won't be delayed like my Silver's has!