contributary parent visa

[smiley grandma]

Just to let you all know that the processing of visas is really still going on. My son and his wife informed us today that we have been issued with a case officer. We applied June 2007. They are acting as our agent in aus so all info goes to them first.
There is light at the end of the tunnel

[Gollywobbler]

Hello Smiley Grandma

Great news!!!

Thanks very much for letting us know because it really does help the people following on behind you. It all helps to prove to them that there IS progress and not to lose heart or to stop believing that their visas WILL be granted sooner or later.

Please could you let us know as and when you have any more news? It would be a great help if you could.

Have you done your meds and police checks yet or are you going to start arranging both now, please?

Best wishes

Gill

[scala]

My husbands parents applied for a cpv in May 07 , and were asked to do their meds and police checks last week.

[Gollywobbler]

Hi Scala

Thanks very much for this information. It really does help to give those of us following this issue a clear "mental map" of how the whole thing is working in practice.

Many thanks again.

Gill

[Sunsh1ne]

Hi all

Keep this news coming please - I love hearing about it !

My parents applied in July 2007 so it won't be too long for them now hopefully before they'll receive a CO.

We're off 20 April so the sooner they are processed the better for us - it's going to be really hard without them there.

Thanks for all your updates - Gill is right - it does give us hope.

Sunsh1ne

[smiley grandma]

we had meds and penal search done in Jan 08. we have found it easier to have my son and his wife deal with everything then they can ring for updates etc straight to Perth. All we had to do was fill a form on the website belowhad to print it so that we could scan it then e-mail to my son then he filled in his part then it was faxed to address at popc http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/pdf/956.pdf
kind regards

[SEFFnSARAH]

Hiya,

My mum applied for her CPV end Feb 08 (orig told no problems so held off on applying as thought hers would be through before our 175 - BIG MISTAKE!!!!). Anyway she was getting really depressed but the news is reassuring. She had a letter from her agent this morning saying received acknowledgement from Perth but will be a while before CO allocated as currently dealing with May 07 applications.
If our visa comes through and we go, anyone know of a way of mum coming too? I know there aren't any bridging visas for CPV. If she goes on 1 year visitors visa and CPV still not issued can she come out and reapply does anyone know? My sister is Aus Citizen so can 'sponser' her on visitor visa. Any info to reassure us it will all work out greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Sarah

[Gollywobbler]

Originally Posted by SEFFnSARAH

Hiya,

My mum applied for her CPV end Feb 08 (orig told no problems so held off on applying as thought hers would be through before our 175 - BIG MISTAKE!!!!). Anyway she was getting really depressed but the news is reassuring. She had a letter from her agent this morning saying received acknowledgement from Perth but will be a while before CO allocated as currently dealing with May 07 applications.
If our visa comes through and we go, anyone know of a way of mum coming too? I know there aren't any bridging visas for CPV. If she goes on 1 year visitors visa and CPV still not issued can she come out and reapply does anyone know? My sister is Aus Citizen so can 'sponser' her on visitor visa. Any info to reassure us it will all work out greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Sarah

Hello Sarah

Your Mum can go with you to Oz, travelling on a tourist visa that will give her a stay of 12 unbroken months in Oz if you ask for that.

When her CPV is ready to be granted Mum will just need to nip to Auckland, Fiji, Singapore or Bali for a week - wherever is closest - so that her CPV can be granted whilst she is outside Australia. The visa label can be put in to her passport in any of the places I have mentioned (there is in-person counter service in all of them.) Then she can go straight back to Oz using her new CP visa.

If CPV processing becomes protracted meaning that one 12 month tourist visa is't enough, a quick nip to any of the places above will get Mum another tourist visa for another 12 months on the spot.

Please see here:

Tourist Visa (Subclass 676)

If your Mum is 70 or over, she will need to get her own GP (not a Panel Doctor) to complete a simple form of Medical Certificate, which is here:

dima_health - Australian High Commission

Note that the website says that tourists of 70 or over must have medical insurance for a long-stay visit to Oz. This does not apply to British tourists. The reason is because there is a Reciprocal Health Care Agreement between theUK and Oz, which counts as medical insurance for the purpose of a turist visa. Please see here:

Visitors to Australia - Medicare Australia

When your Mum reaches Oz, if she takes her passport to Medicare they will give her a temporary Medicare card.

Your Mum's meds for her main visa can be done in Australia. Health Services Australia do them and I have heard that it is cheaper than getting them done in the UK.

To make the application for the tourist visa, personally I would do it by paper & post, using Form 48 and paying $75.00 (the current fee though that will increase a bit on 1st July 2008.) Send the form, her passport, the medical cerificate if needed and all the other stuff in the checklist to the Australian High Commission in London, with a covering letter explaining about the CPV application.

Ask for 12 unbroken months in Oz and it will be granted automatically because there is a special concession for people who have applied for Parent or Contributory Parent visas, so that they can all-but move to Oz during the wait if they want to.

Do not interfere with the CPV application. Just leave that running in the background. That will just rumble on till the POPC is ready to grant it (the Perth Offshore Parents Centre, where your Mum's CPV application is being processed.) Tthe method which I am describing is the proper way to "bridge" the wait for a CP visa.

Our member June Coates is in Oz at the moment using this arrangement. SAVTA did it before June (and SAVTA needed to get a second 12 month tourist visa , so she & her hubby made two trips to Auckland in the end, one for the second tourist visa and the other for their CPV.) My mother did it before June & SAVTA and LOADS of British CPV applicants have either done this or are doing it currently.

It is no sweat at all though I do think it is easier just to pay a bit extra for a paper application so that the whole thing will be dealt with by a human in London. Just send a copy of the CPV acknowledgement letter with the tourist visa application. They are quick about the processing. Your Mum should get her passport back within 2 weeks and you can then book her flight.

Meanwhile, SAVTA's threads might amuse you. Please see here:

http://www.pomsinoz.com/forum/arriva...ry-minute.html

http://www.pomsinoz.com/forum/migrat...melbourne.html

Best wishes

Gill

[SEFFnSARAH]

Hi Gollywobbler

You do not realise what a weight that is off all our minds. It is the first smile I have seen on mum's face since we started reading about all the delays. We were really at our wits end knowing what to do. I sort of knew about the 12 months extended visa but didn't know what happened if it took longer than that and also how long you had to be out of the country to renew it. Oh well, must get on - we can now continue with the planning - what's next? oh yes, what to take and what to leave!!!

Thanks again

Sarah

[june coates]

hi sarah,just to let you know that there is light at the end of the tunnel.i came over here early dec.07 on 12 mth visa.i have a case officer,meds and pcs.cleared.i would have most probably had my visa by now if the 3,500 quota for the year had not been reached.i am waiting patiently for july 1st in the hope that i will be one of the first to be allocated.i applied in april 07.i am so happy to be with my family and am moving into my own little place next weekend.it is so much easier waiting here instead of in the cold uk.good luck on your visa journey.pio has been so helpful to me over the last year.
june