The Ballydoyle complex that houses the O'Brien horses has already received a favourable verbal report from an Australian Quarantine Inspection Service official.
RVL chief veterinary steward Paul O'Callaghan accompanied the AQIS official to Ballydoyle and Dermot Weld's stables.
Weld is considering bringing Profound Beauty out for the Melbourne Cup.
The report from the official has to be signed off by the AQIS head office in Canberra.
Even allowing for delays, RVL should be able to convey approval to O'Brien by the middle of the week at the latest.
Such a timeline would allow O'Brien to put the horses he plans to bring into quarantine at Ballydoyle on September 24-25.
International horses planning a Melbourne Cup mission will arrive at the Sandown quarantine centre on Caulfield Guineas day (October 11).
It will allow them to serve the newly imposed three-week quarantine period, following the fallout from the bungle at the Eastern Creek quarantine station last year and the subsequent equine influenza breakout.
The Luca Cumani-trained horses Mad Rush and Bauer and Godolphin's All The Good are already in quarantine in Newmarket, England.
They will arrive in Melbourne on September 27, enabling them to clear quarantine on Caulfield Cup day (October 18).
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