contributary parent visa

**Gollywobbler** · 21-08-2008, 09:24 PM

Hi Evelyn

Which agency are you with that you keep getting given new agents, please?

Are you aware that you could send Form 956 to the POPC requiring them to direct all communications to you instead of to your agents?

Application Forms – Numerical List – Forms 1 to 99

Something is wrong with the DIAC website tonight. It won't let me into the next page with Form 956 on it, but once the link is fixed you will be there.

Best wishes

Gill

june coates · 22-08-2008, 10:41 AM

hi cat,
cant explain any better than gill has.i do know that the aos bond is to cover if you end up desperate and need s/s assisstance.its nothing to do with health care.i just find it hard having to pay so much for prescriptions and i also wear contact lenses which are more expensive over here.i will feel as if i have won the lotto when my 2yrs are up and i can get help with things.the seniors over here just pay $5 for their medications.hope you manage to swing early retirement or reduncy before you come.it would surer help you a bit.

Scardycat · 22-08-2008, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by june coates

hi cat,
cant explain any better than gill has.i do know that the aos bond is to cover if you end up desperate and need s/s assisstance.its nothing to do with health care.i just find it hard having to pay so much for prescriptions and i also wear contact lenses which are more expensive over here.i will feel as if i have won the lotto when my 2yrs are up and i can get help with things.the seniors over here just pay $5 for their medications.hope you manage to swing early retirement or reduncy before you come.it would surer help you a bit.

Thanks June, I have already retired and loving it, so no problem there, I just want to get out there asap, haven't a clue what my plans are after that, just go with the flow

but obviously finances play a big part in your choices.

All the best

Cat

jewatt · 22-08-2008, 07:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Gollywobbler

Hi Evelyn

Which agency are you with that you keep getting given new agents, please?

Are you aware that you could send Form 956 to the POPC requiring them to direct all communications to you instead of to your agents?

Application Forms – Numerical List – Forms 1 to 99

Something is wrong with the DIAC website tonight. It won't let me into the next page with Form 956 on it, but once the link is fixed you will be there.

Best wishes

Gill

Hi Gill thanks for this information we are with Visa Connection in Manly Sydney Aus it was a friend if my Daughters Partner he does all the IT for them well she was great until she walked out and they wouldn't let her take our files with her, so we got another agent who was not a very good help, after Rachael paid the bond we kept getting told 2wks 2 wks then it was 4-6wks taking us to Sept and we would be put in a batch and given a number ( no one else has had heard anything like this) we don't know the name of our CO and every time I e-mail DIAC they say to contact our agent
anyway last Monday we got an e-mail to say our agent was moving on and papers to sign for a new one. We have paid the full Immigration Fee up front it is supposed to be in a holding acccount until finalising the visa but to say I am smelling a rat is an understatement.
We were also told at the start we would have to have Police Checks and Meds done at the beggining due to our ages and would probably need doing again which i now know is not true but DIAC have given us an extension anyway which I didn't know about until we asked.police until Oct and Meds until Jan,
Anyway i am waiting to see how it goes with all the other CPV rs who lodged about the same time as us but think it would be a good idea to fill in the form then we could go direct to our CO.
Would be gratefull for any advice you can give me and thanks again
Evelyn

jewatt · 22-08-2008, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Gollywobbler

Hi Evelyn

Which agency are you with that you keep getting given new agents, please?

Are you aware that you could send Form 956 to the POPC requiring them to direct all communications to you instead of to your agents?

Application Forms – Numerical List – Forms 1 to 99

Something is wrong with the DIAC website tonight. It won't let me into the next page with Form 956 on it, but once the link is fixed you will be there.

Best wishes

Gill

Hi Gill I have just been into the site and that is the form we had to fill in to agree to a new agent would i just fill it in asking for all communication to go to us or would i have to let the agency know, how would it affect us at this late stage.
Evelyn

**Gollywobbler** · 22-08-2008, 09:37 PM

Hi Evelyn

I have sent you a PM and an e-mail.

Best wishes

Gill

missymon · 23-08-2008, 10:00 AM

Hi evry1,

On checking the queue calculator yesterday how come there are only 70 applications in front of our CPV 173 visa application when up to now there has been 320 before us? Does it mean they are processing quickly now and we maybe need to get excited? Or is it a mistake do you think?

Monica

june coates · 23-08-2008, 11:19 AM

hi sarah,
as long as she has applied for cpv she can come out on 1yr visitor visa as i did.she will just need to go out of oz to have visa granted.if the visitor visa runs out before she gets her cpv,she can go to bali to renew it.i have been here since last dec.with no problems.i go to bali to validate my visa in october.good luck.i am sure gill will come in on this one as she is the expert and has helped me alot.

**Gollywobbler** · 23-08-2008, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by june coates

hi sarah,
as long as she has applied for cpv she can come out on 1yr visitor visa as i did.she will just need to go out of oz to have visa granted.if the visitor visa runs out before she gets her cpv,she can go to bali to renew it.i have been here since last dec.with no problems.i go to bali to validate my visa in october.good luck.i am sure gill will come in on this one as she is the expert and has helped me alot.

Hi June

The 12 month visitor visas are improving and all! Quite a few have been granted in the last 6 months or so and Condition 8503 has not been imposed on them, meaning that onshore applications for new long-stay tourist visas will be possible when the old ones expire.

There are rumours that if a CPV application is being processed, DIAC might well look sympathetically at a request for a waiver of Condition 8503 if it has been imposed.

I sense a desire on DIAC's part to try to make up for the fact that 18 months or so to process a CPV application really isn't good enough. There is nothing "fast track" about 18 months or longer. I suspect that they are doing everything they can to sweeten the pill. If so, I'm 100% behind them and applaud them for their sense and sensitivity about trying to make the waiting as easy as possible for the families concerned.

Best wishes

Gill

**Gollywobbler** · 23-08-2008, 11:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by missymon

Hi evry1,

On checking the queue calculator yesterday how come there are only 70 applications in front of our CPV 173 visa application when up to now there has been 320 before us? Does it mean they are processing quickly now and we maybe need to get excited? Or is it a mistake do you think?

Monica

Hi Monica

Don't get excited. Your visa is likely to take around 18 months to process, I strongly suspect. I don't know what the Queue Calculator is up to. I have started a new thread about it.

I'd put money on the idea that Austibeach can crack the code of how the thing works. It could be that it needs more time to settle down until they have cleared the backlog of grants that were held up in 2007/8. But at the minute I do not understand it and I can't do anything much with Excel. Excel is just a few extra fingers and toes as far as I am concerned. I can't work out a mathematical formula.

Best wishes

Gill