Contributory Parent Visa

randpm · 13-03-2007, 12:22 PM

Hi everyone..... my wife and I are new to this forum idea...so we have applied for a parents visa on 1st Nov.2006 and wondered if anyone can give us any clues as to how long it is currently taking?

luckyhorse · 13-03-2007, 05:25 PM

hi guys
I applied for my parents on March 16th 2006 and I got allocated a case officer in January. All our documents have to be submitted by 19th April 2007 and then I think its just a matter of a couple of weeks for the final decision to be made.
Hope this helps.
Lou x

Gollywobbler · 13-03-2007, 07:31 PM

Hi Randpm

My mother's Contributory Parent 143 visa was granted last year. When you say your application was submitted on 1 November 2006, is that when you sent it to Perth or is it the date they are treating it as having been officially received into the system?

Currently they are taking about 9-10 months to appoint the COs on the whole, and everyone who asks the POPC is being told 12-15 months for this visa from start to finish. I know two couples whose applications were lodged (officially received) in May 2006. Both have heard from COs for the first time during the last fortnight.

It is a slow old process but you'll get there in the end......

Best wishes

Gill

randpm · 13-03-2007, 11:31 PM

Thanks for those insights ..... the date our application was officially acknowledged was 15th of November. So it looks like we will be waiting until 2008 before we get our "freedom of passage!"
Any infomation on what the medicals are like and how much they cost?

Gollywobbler · 14-03-2007, 12:28 AM

Hi again, Randpm

I have moved this thread up to here where more Contributory Parent applicants will see it and may decide to join in. I will send you a private message in a mo to make sure you can find it.

My mother's meds were done in Southampton in Npvember 2005. The chest x-rays were done at the BUPA hozzy in town and cost $61.50. The Panel Doctor charged an all-inclusive price of £140.

Some PDs chop it up and say £x for the actual examination, £y for the blood test and £z to send the meds to Australia either by courier or by International Signed for.

The list of Panel Doctors worldwide is here:

http://www.immi.gov.au/contacts/panel-doctors/index.htm

The two forms are here:

http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/pdf/26.pdf

http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/pdf/160.pdf

These links are highly informative too:

http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/pdf/1071i.pdf

http://www.pomsinperth.com/discussio...cah+newsletter

In the last link above, scroll down till you get to the medical stuff. I'm not sure of the exact source but it looks like the Guidelines for Panel Doctors to me. Not sure, though.

I note that you mention KL as one of your locations. You can have the Meds done there if you wish (they can be done anywhere in the world.) I was born in Malaysia and we lived in Ipoh throughout my childhood (though my sister & I came to school here in the UK and went out to Malaysia 3 times a year) so I'm jealous of you.....!

If you decide to get your meds done in the UK, then if there is a chpice of Panel Doctors within a reasonable radius, it is worth ringing round both the doctors and the x-ray clinics. There are variations in price, and also the doctors especially vary quite a lot about how quickly they can see people in order to do visa-meds.

Hope this helps

Gill

randpm · 14-03-2007, 05:20 AM

Great source of information...thanks a lot. I hope I shouuld pass the medical...have to work on the blood pressure!!! although the waiting time does that no good.....

I f anyone has any other info on this parents contributory visa ...please "chip in"

Alan Collett · 14-03-2007, 05:35 AM

As a guide, yesterday (13/03/2007) I received a request for a CP visa client of mine to arrange medicals and police certificates. The application was submitted to the Perth Offshore Parents Centre on 18/05/2006.

You are therefore probably looking at a processing time of about 12 to 14 months => you should be able to have 2 summers in one year this year!

Best wishes.

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Originally Posted by randpm

Hi everyone..... my wife and I are new to this forum idea...so we have applied for a parents visa on 1st Nov.2006 and wondered if anyone can give us any clues as to how long it is currently taking?

randpm · 14-03-2007, 06:01 AM

Thanks Alan...... its not the best news, but gives me a clue. I think we will wait out the time in Malaysia it is warmer than the UK!!!

Gollywobbler · 14-03-2007, 06:32 AM

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Originally Posted by randpm

Thanks Alan...... its not the best news, but gives me a clue. I think we will wait out the time in Malaysia it is warmer than the UK!!!

'Ere, you!!! I've slaved for you with all the links etc........!

Now then. Chinese cured and dried pork.... takes a bit of chewing but loaded with honey and one of my faves. Banned in the UK now (I used to buy it in the Chinese supermarkets in Soho. Till the Min of Ag, Fish & Nonsense interfered.)

I'll meet you at LHR, shall I, I?????? A box of....:wink:

Cheers

Gill

randpm · 14-03-2007, 07:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Gollywobbler

'Ere, you!!! I've slaved for you with all the links etc........!

Now then. Chinese cured and dried pork.... takes a bit of chewing but loaded with honey and one of my faves. Banned in the UK now (I used to buy it in the Chinese supermarkets in Soho. Till the Min of Ag, Fish & Nonsense interfered.)

I'll meet you at LHR, shall I, I?????? A box of....:wink:

Cheers

Gill

Hi Gill,

You seemed so prolific in your many relpies to every one that I seemed to have taken you for granted!

We won't be back in LHR for long if I can help it... we've sadly had enough of the UK. So after a few weeks to pack up our stuff and leave we will spend a couple of months in Ireland ( only a nice place in Summer) and that wait it out in Malaysia..... so I will top up on great food on your behalf!

Bye the way are you the same person on the "timeline" site? who has just recently got their visa?

Anyway cheers it is great to find a website like this and helpful people ...the worlds not half bad eh!!!