Contributory Parent Visa

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?

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

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

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?

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/discussionboard/viewtopic.php?t=9627&highlight=iscah+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

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"

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.

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?

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!!!

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

'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!!!

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.

Chipping in here, my CPV application, acknowledged May 11 2006, request for AoS sent Feb 22 2007 by Perth Offshore Parents Centre. I've got major problems on the AoS, so there will be delays now, but hope that gives an indication of current processing timescales.

Cheers

Nico

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!!!

Hi again, Randpm

No - I haven't recently got a visa for Oz. I live in the UK - my sister lives near Fremantle. Whereabouts in Oz are you headed for?

Are you aware that if you want to, you could go out to Oz for anything up to a year whilst you wait for your CP visa to come through? You have to be outside Oz at the time when the visa is actually granted, but "outside Oz" means exactly that. Auckland or KL would do perfectly well for this purpose and the visa can be "evidenced" (pasted into your passports) in either place. Several Contributory Parents have spent long periods in Oz whilst waiting for their CP visas to be processed, including my mother. The visa-meds can be done in Oz if you happen to be there at the time.

Are you working in KL or are you there on a "Malaysia my second home" visa? I'd love to retire to Malaysia in due course, so if you know anything about the Malaysia etc visa I'd be very interested in anything you can tell me about it.

Do you actually live in KL or outside it? We lived in Ipoh till I was 20 & Dad retired to the UK, but we had lots of friends in KL who all seemed to live in Damansara Heights.

Have you been to Penang lately? It is 10 years since I last went to Malaysia. I'd be interested to know whether the Lone Pine in Batu Ferringhi is still there. We used to stay there right from when I was a baby, so my OH and I stayed there again on our visit 10 years ago. I felt that the land had surely become so valuable that it wouldn't be long before they built an anonymous skyscraper of a hotel on it instead - at the expense of the most beautiful casuarina trees on the planet. It would be criminal damage to cut those down, in my view.

Cheers

Gill

Thanks Nico,

11 months to get the AOS wow! well wish you luck with sorting out the problems with it.... lets hope the all goes well. Have you seen http://www.austimeline.com interesting stories perhaps you should add yours.... Good luck !

Roger.

Im Married To An Aussie And We are Planing To Move Over The End Of This Year, But My Parents Need To Come To As Im The Only Child Can Anyone Roughly Tell Me How Long Parent Visas Take As I Keep Getting Told Different Things

Im Married To An Aussie And We are Planing To Move Over The End Of This Year, But My Parents Need To Come To As Im The Only Child Can Anyone Roughly Tell Me How Long Parent Visas Take As I Keep Getting Told Different Things

Hi Tracyb

Non-contributory Parent visas are taking around 15 years at present, because so few are available each year, but there are so many applicants for them that the wait is immense.

Contributory Parent visas cost around $30,000 per parent for the visa itself, plus a Bond of $14,000 also has to be set aside in a special account at the Commonwealth Bank, where it is held for 10 years. The quid pro quo for the price is that the vsa is processed and finalised within about 12-15 months.

For more information, please see these lins:

http://www.immi.gov.au/migrants/family/parent-outside.htm

http://www.immi.gov.au/allforms/booklets/books3.htm

Cheers

Gill

Hi All

A couple who are already in Perth (I'm not sure what visa they are on) heard from the POPC on Moday 19 March with a letter from the CO who will finalise their CP 143 application. Their application was lodged on 26 May 2006, so this confirms Alan Collett's info last week and the processing is still rumbling reasonably smoothly, plus making the all-important process.

A UK based couple whose application for a CP 143 was also lodged on 26 May 2006 haven't heard any more yet but they ahven't done their meds yet, either. It could be that the POPC have written to them with the meds forms etc and that they might have to wait a few days more for an airmail delivery.

Nico - if it is any help, it may be possible to extend the vaiidity period of your police checks and your Meds. As you kow, we frontloaded Mum's meds in November 2005 but they were not finalised till 15 Feb 2006 because of needing to get a specialist's report. Her police checks were not done till April and July 2006 respectively (UK & AFP) so they still had plenty of validity left to go.

At the begining of September I started to worry that the time to validate the visa might become very short, since the original meds had been done on 9 November 2005. When we asked the CO what date she had in mind for the Initial Entry Date, she said 16 Feb 2007, exactly a year after the medical OK had been given. However, she said that if necessary she could extend the Initial Entry Date by up to six months as long as the Medical Officer of the Commonwealth was agreeable. She asked whether we wanted her to ask the MOC about this.

16 Feb was fine for us so we asked the CO not to worry about it and just leave it at 16 Feb 2007 for the Initial Entry Date.

However, the offer of a possible 6 month extension was the CO's own idea, not ours.

Ergo, if you need them to stretch things a bit for you, to give you more time to organise the AoS etc, it might be worth asking your Agent to ask about this.

Cheers

Gill

Hi there Randpm,

Just to let you know we applied for our CP visa on 28 June 2006 and STILL do not have a Case Officer. We decided to move to Oz anyway in August and playing the waiting game here as we have a 1 year stay holiday visa.

(Keeping our fingers crossed that our CP visa approved before the expiry of our holiday visa )!!!

Hi All,

sorry to be a dumb dumb but I get really confused by all these abbreviations. Some I can work out but what is AoS short for? I realise it would take ages to write everything out each time but perhaps there could be a spot where all these abbreviations are explained. Sorry if there is one.

Woodview.:swoon:

Hi All,

sorry to be a dumb dumb but I get really confused by all these abbreviations. Some I can work out but what is AoS short for? I realise it would take ages to write everything out each time but perhaps there could be a spot where all these abbreviations are explained. Sorry if there is one.

Woodview.:swoon:

Hi Woodview

An AoS is an Assurance of Support, which is required for the CP 143 visa but not for the temporary CP 173.

Alan Collett has written an article explaining the scheme and there is information on the Centrelink website about it as well. Please see here:

http://www.gomatilda.com/news/article.cfm?articleid=214

On 1 July 2006 the Govt suddenly increased the amount that the Assurer needs to earn by 20%. Alan re-worked his calculations based on the new figures and since he is an accountant as well as a migration agent, his maths is reliable (unlike my own!)

Does this help?

Gill

Hi Gill

Many thanks for the reply. Just to recap for the CP 143 we need to pay A$30,000 per person for the visa, plus a bond of A$14,000 per person (which is returnable after 10 years), plus our son and his partner, no children yet, have to earn over A$40,000 (and rising) per year for 2 years. Can we give him the money for the bond? Is there anything else we have to pay or do in order to comply with the visa requirements, (apart from medicals and police checks)? I think we need to start saving now!!!

Thanks,

also Gill.

Hi Woodview

Chooks, the fees will go up on 1st July 2007, for sure. 1st July is the start of the Australian Financial & Tax Year and it is also the start of the year for the visa program.

If you are able to get an application to the POPC on or before next Friday, the charges would be $60,000 if both of you apply for the CP 143 visa, plus $14,000 between you for the Bond, making $74,000 in total. It is not quite as bad as you thought, therefore.

Besides that, budget for courier charges for the application and for the meds, plus the cost of getting all the documents certified. Plus the cost of getting 2 sets of passport pix each and the cost of the photocopying if you cannot get that done for free. If you think in terms of about £700 on top of the money for DIAC, you'll be about right.

To Assure two adults, the Assurer needs to have a minimum net assessable income of not less than $42,500 at present. That might change on 1st July too, though. They hiked the minimum income required up to $40,000 - an increase of 20% - on 1st July 2006 with little or no advance warning.

If the Assurer has more than one child under the age of 18, increase the income he needs by $1,250 for each child over and above the first one.

Alan' Collett's articles about the AoS are vastly more use than my rickety maths, though!

Please see here:

Go Matilda - Your Gateway to Australia - News

and

Go Matilda - Your Gateway to Australia - News

When are you planning to apply for your CP visas and where in Oz are you planning to move to?

Cheers

Gill

Hi Gill

thank you for the info. I am jumping the gun rather as our son is not even out there yet (he is going to Brisane) but as we want to go we want to find out as much information as possible and apply as soon as we can. We are trying to piece together a time scale of when it would be the earliest that we can apply. Do we have to wait untill he has worked for 2 years with proof of pay or can we apply early on the assumption that his pay will fullfill the requirement? (ie can we apply after he has been out there 18 months as it takes at least 6 months to get a CO?) If we apply on the 10 year wait (parent visa), does he still have earning requirements and do we still have to wait 2 years before we can apply?

Eventhough we are not against paying the A$74,000 to get in early it seems like it is not that quick as we have to wait 2 years before we can apply then at least another 15 months before we may get in.

thanks again

Gill.

I was going to start a new thread, but I feel I am in the right spot. If parents do want to join you in Oz, is the contributary parent visa the only one they can come under? I had read somewhere I think that if they can bring a certain amount of money with them that helps. Is that still under the same visa or different, and is age an issue? Mom is asking lots ofquestions and I cant give her any answers, if I am in the wrong spot I can repost.

Hello Jo and John

You'll probably get a reply from Gollywobbler on the technical stuff here...she is a total expert and sorted her mother's application. I'm just replying to say welcome to PIO. I'm a single mum going over shortly to join 2 of my kids (got my contributory parent visa last month), so if I can be any help to your mum as time goes by, please tell her to ask!

Nico

Many thanks, and thanks for the welcome!