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Hi everyone, Just got my fresh gold email now. Less than 6 months to get approval. Here's my details. Occupation: Contract Administrator State: QLD Processing Office:VIC PESE Birth Country: Taiwan (Low risk) Stream: 457 - 186 TRT Number of applicants: 3 ENS 186 Visa and Nomination applied: 12th Oct 2018 -- Nomination approved on 5th Mar 2019, 2nd instalment of payment language requested and PAID on 22 Mar 2019 Visa Granted on the 25 Mar 2019 IMMI Status: Finalized

Hi Nemesis, Your case sounds similar to my nomination process, Nomination lodged 8 Mar Additional info requested 6 May Nomination approved 8 July Took 4 months just for nomination, heading to Brisbane. I think your nomination latest result will before 27 Oct. Then another 2 months for visa. 從我的iPhone使用Tapatalk 發送

It didn't specify in official auto reply. But seems it means they will look into your additional information in 28 days. I guess it was from the day requested. As my nomination additional info asked and we provided on the same day but they still reply after nearly 28 working days. 從我的iPhone使用Tapatalk 發送

Additional information requested will take you another 28 working days. Original visa application date now is 50 working days. In total you will be expecting 78 working days. Which is 15 weeks from the date your visa lodged. 50&28 working days were based on auto reply official email. From my experience, it's pretty accurate. 從我的iPhone使用Tapatalk 發送

Hi Krishcross, I'm glade that you saw my post about cost of living in Australia. Based on my last stay on 457 visa 3 years ago. Your calculation was true. Don't forget to deduct private insurance cost and car cost. Food from supermarket to cook at home cost around $150/week for a family with 3 members. Do the math and I'm sorry to tell you, this is barely hard to support basic needs of living. Try to negotiate with your employee to sponsor the following 1. Housing (rent) 2. Car allowance ( a company car will be better) 3. School fee-which might cost a lot in Melbourne, I'm not sure. My salary was similar to yours 3 years ago, resulted in I can't even afford my lunch, sad isn't it? That's one of the critical reason I moved back to home country. This time I requested housing and a company car. Salary increased a bit but the rent and car cost already made a lot difference. I'm happy to share the actual cost here as each move to/back from Australia cost lots of time and money, especially when it concerns children's education. Again, the PPP index between your home country and Australia are important. Where I came from the actual GDP was 1/3 of Australia but the PPP index (after leveling out the cost of living), Taiwan and Australia were similar at $40k USD. Means you need to have same level of salary in comparison to original country. Not the same amount of course but relatively level in their own society. Unless where you came from the GDP was only 1/6 of Australia. Then you might want to live a struggle life in Australia but with some savings while wife is working too and those savings can be helpful in original country. But still it will be very tough to live in Australia. Unless you can bare it or get better deal with your employee. Or I will suggest if you already got 3 times of average income in your country, DO NOT come to Australia. 從我的iPhone使用Tapatalk 發送

Yes, quite normal now. Usually 2 months for nomination approval but since additional documents requested will take another 6-8 weeks. 從我的iPhone使用Tapatalk 發送

By the way, this is my 2nd time got 457 approval. 1st time was easy, 3 years ago. Took only 6 weeks including sponsorship, nomination and visa granted. Too easy that I cancelled it after 9 months when I need to go back to my home country for family issues. 2nd time took me 6+ month and extra 3 months of my wife's changing her nationality. 9 months in total. Such a painful process this time, I would apply for PR after 2 years and citizen after another 2 years. For those 1st time working in Australia and hoping to settle, I have some suggestions. 1. Make sure your salary is above average Australian individuals which is $60k/year if you are single 2. If you brought your family with you, family income better above $10k or even $12k, other wise it's gonna be very difficult for you. 3. A hint is to look at WIKI, check PPP index which is purchasing power index. Convert exchange rate and cost of living level to your mother country. To simply this, let's say if you earn 3 times of average income in your home country. You need 3 times of Australian average income to keep you have same living quality in Aus like you did back home. If not, believe me you won't be happy with your new life in Australia. 4. Education fee- there are some states in Australia do not provide fund for 457 visa dependents. You need to pay yourself and which is a lot of money. Better found out before you departure or the best of all, get your employee to fund you which is not likely as it cost too much. I saw in other forum some 457 visa holders struggling with their kids fee to study in Australia. In Queensland, $100+ a day for childcare, luckily free for prep and elementary schools. 5. Make sure you have enough health care insurance covered, not just to satisfy visa requirements. Medical cost is high in Australia if anything happens. Insurance cost too but better prepared then go bankrupt if accidents happens. 從我的iPhone使用Tapatalk 發送

No, they ignored it as it was only close to their timeline-no replies. However, I wonder that might be a little help just to remind them when it's getting close to the end. 從我的iPhone使用Tapatalk 發送

Thanks a lot, mate. 從我的iPhone使用Tapatalk 發送

Please refer to #2049 of my post here 從我的iPhone使用Tapatalk 發送

Hello visha, I did not use a MA, I check online myself twice a day or more, status goes from "received" directly to "grant". I did not see any "in progress" or any other status in between. 從我的iPhone使用Tapatalk 發送

Hi visha, I did not use a MA and my visa application went from "received" to "granted". Means I can travel to Australia immediately. If you are using a MA, I think they can explain and that's what they should for charging you. 從我的iPhone使用Tapatalk 發送

Hi everyone, Visa granted just now! Here's my timeline Nomination lodged March 8 Sponsorship expired and renewal May 8 Nomination approved July 8 Visa lodged July 8 Health check conducted July 10 Health result uploaded July 25 Visa granted Sep 8 Low risk country From the above please note During nomination if your employee's sponsorship expired and requires renew will take extra 6-8 weeks. Visa application to granted took exactly 2 month (9 weeks) Good luck to all! 從我的iPhone使用Tapatalk 發送

Same here on July 8 從我的iPhone使用Tapatalk 發送