andalog

Rich, they will tell you at immi 24 months, so just hang in there and it will happen, every man and his dog wants to be here.

from start to finish, once allotted CO less than 2 weeks

Hi Rich, ours took 20months, from getting a CO to Visa was less than 2 weeks. Look back over my posts and it will tell you. This was about 4wks ago now.

Cass

When you are asked for your 2nd VAC, you will told how to pay, they will not take transfers, only credit cards which is very expensive AU$900+ as you have to pay the card fees, or bank cheque about AU$10. We sent a cheque by registered post from QLD on a Friday and it was there on the Monday. Hope this helps

Amanda, we have been here in Australia since Feb. On a holiday visa and just been granted our visa. Your CPV143 is just an application so will not interfere with the e-visitor.

OK, we had 2nd VAC request on 10th Sept 2014, sent cheque registered post on the 11th, it was delivered on the 12th, which was last Friday, on Tuesday 16th because we are in Australia immi asked when are we out of the country, we booked a package deal to NZ for Monday 22nd, we come back three days later as PR's. Whoop,whoop. So after waiting best part of 19 months all done and dusted within 2 weeks, and no agents involved.

Hi

What you must remember is that the acknowledgement date is irrelevant ,as every stage in the process is calculated from the application lodgement date so I would guess that your lodgement date based on your stated acknowledgement date of 12 April would be sometime in January/February which means to my way of thinking that your CO assignment is imminent

We have not reached that stage yet as our 143 application was lodged in June 2013 and a recent communication from Perth immi indicated that our CO would be assigned in November/December

From the info I have gathered from this forum,it seems that when you have been assigned a CO they will then contact Centrelink, the UK equivalent of Social Security, for info on your AOS and request the AOS to pay the bond into a frozen account and when this stage is completed you will be granted your visa after you have paid the 2nd VAC

cheers

Barry

PS

Fellow PIO posters please don't hesitate to correct me if my assumptions are wrong

Hi Barry

Our acknowledgement was dated 6th feb 2013, Centerlink contacted our sponsor in Oct 2013 and our AOS was payed. Medicals were done with a HAP in May 2014, police checks have been done, so we are just waiting now for our CO. It seems to me that certain items happen at different times, with different applications, but take the same time to finalise. Hope this makes sense.

Regards

Andalog.

Hi Pri,

We are not far behind you, our receipt was dated 6th Feb 2013, we haven't heard anything yet, all the necessary paperwork has been completed, health checks have been done too. So I will follow your path very closely.

Regards.

lostintransit, I may be wrong so check, If your Mum is not going to work, why pay for the 143, when you can get the 864 or similar with a bridging visa to stay until granted. You should also check what difference it will make to her pension, because once granted it will be frozen.

Congratulations Boss, well pleased for you. We had our medicals yesterday in Brisbane, all done now just waiting for our C.O.

Hi Boss2468, What makes you say and think they have halted the 143 visa.

Hi Veronique, it was the LTR bit that I've not heard of. Can I PM you.

Hi Veronique, what is HAPLTR

Try the Westpac reward saver, I think it pays 3.91%, but you have to set up a standing order for 50$ per month.

Does anyone who is as yet non resident have a savings account in Australia?

 

Now the exchange rate is so much better I would really like to move some cash to our non resident bank account in Sydney, against (eventual) visa payments. This is unlikely to be for some years because we have commitments in the UK at the mo, but I would really like to feel we had the money 'on one side' and could forget about it for now.

 

Problem is our e-saver account pays only 1 percent interest, which is okay for holiday money but not okay for larger sums. Any suggestions?