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By Cheery Thistle · Posted
I’ve just re-read my post and unless you’re illiterate I’m not sure how you can read it as you are describing. I suspect there may be some selective reading and filtering going on. Since I’ve recently gone through the process and I’m in regular contact with a wide network of people currently going through it, I thought sharing that experience might be helpful. Pardon me once again. I’m sure people who got partner visas decades ago are far more clued up. @Ausvisitor yes I also paid an agent and their advice to me was 189 (no state affiliation, for avoidance of doubt!!!) and 190 for SA and NSW, which is how we proceeded, just the 189 invite came first within a few days. -
By Ausvisitor · Posted
You can tell you've been here a while now starting your messages with "mate" you are losing your pommieness -
By Ausvisitor · Posted
Hope you are well, and the plan for the move is going swimmingly - it can't be long now... I share some of your "perceived wisdom" concerns, often there is a bit of a "pile on" sentiment on this forum - but it's only done from a position of trying to help. In my case the "don't submit a 190 for more than one state" advice didn't come from here, I got that direct from my migration agent long before I found this forum, given I paid him the best part of £2,500 for help and advice (which in my mind was cash well spent - but I'm a consultant and so am naturally predisposed to paying people for expert help - otherwise I'd starve 🙂 ) I felt that it was probably true - or at least was true at the point it was relevant for my application. You are correct I've no cast iron evidence that applying to more than one state results in non-selection, but I do have evidence that applying to just one can result in an invitation (as that is what I did); but that is just my experience. The thing about this forum is that it's a bit of a have and have-not set of communities - a large number have already got their visa (and maybe even citizenship) and whilst they are keen to help the emotion of being in that "queue" is no longer current (or maybe even rememorable) and then we have the other community the have-not got a visa yet people - these are looking for advice, reassurance and generally just a warm fuzzy that hopefully the dream will come true for them too. I am guilty often of not thinking how a quickly sent reply (however well intentioned) may affect someone to whom that answer has a pretty significant on their mood - given that moving to AUS is a pretty big life decision.
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