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Old 04-07-2009, 08:12 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Hi,

I made an online application ve175 on 26 march 2008 and had an CO allocated on 11 march 2009. CO requested various documents which I provided but until now did not hear anything back.

Is this normal for it to take that long?

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not sure as the time I applied the CSL didn't exist so its all new to me...but I am civil engineer so I'm guessing this makes me on the CSL??
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Bare in mind we got our visa over 2 years ago, but our CO asked us to go for medicals, get police checks .... then we didn't hear from him again until he sent us an email with our visa grant letter. As a rule, I don't think the CO's keep in touch with you other than to ask for things or give you your visa. I guess if they spent all their time dealing with correspondence there would be less time dealing with the actual applications.



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not sure as the time I applied the CSL didn't exist so its all new to me...but I am civil engineer so I'm guessing this makes me on the CSL??
Hi there

http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/gener...kills-list.pdf

The CSL is above. Civil Engineer is on it as long as your skills assessment says 2124-11. Have you done this bit of things correctly?

Where did you send the additional documents to? Did you e-mail them direct to the CO? Did you ensure that the file formats are acceptable to the DIAC computer?

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If none of the above explains the sudden and lengthy silence, are you from a high risk country? That is not supposed to make any difference with the processing times but I suspect that it still does so.

If we still do not have a rational explanation for the delay, I would phone the ASPC. The CSL was suddenly changed on 16th March without warning and about 1/2 of the occupations that were on the original CSL were removed from it.

As far as I know DIAC does not have an automatic sift & sort feature on its computer. I believe that the sorting is done manually by office juniors. If so, errors are inevitable with such a boring job and it could be that your application got thrown out of the "CSL pile" by mistake.

I would definitely query the delay, though, in case your CO has sent another e-mail which has not reached you. Some anti-virus and spam filters have a habit of dumping some of the stuff from DIAC into trash bins, so check that as well.

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