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and so is Paul.

May I suggest that you take advice about Genuine Temporary Entrant? Mr Google is an expert on this topic.

I am not Paul! Parents are an acceptable source of money, grandparents too! You still have GTE to consider.

Students do not need a sponsor and cannot be 'sponsored' unless they are being offered a scholarship of some type. In the circumstances you have described your daughter might have trouble satisfying GTE that applies to student visa applicants, search GTE.

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If you count resorting to subclass 602 to keep visas alive while the client is as a success, Westly the Magnificent has a 100% success rate in medical cases. This includes clients afflicted by HIV+ (in the days when that almost always led to a visa refusal) Hep B, type 2 diabetes, a cochlear implant in a child, and so on. An interesting case was a GP with 4 coronary bypasses who assured His Magnificence that these would not show on an x-ray and asked should he declare them? Even for those eager to lie to the honourable, the minister, the answer is obvious: If further medical intervention became necessary, there would no hope of convincing the honourable that you did not know you had 4 bypasses, and you could probably say goodbye to your visa, or citizenship. I obtained a cardiologist's opinion which was (in paraphrase) He will either live a fairly normal life, or he will drop dead. There were no significant costs to see here.

It is not a good idea to take migration advice from medicos. Consult one of the registered migration agents who posts on this forum.

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Me too, or should that be 3?

Don't hire a dog and bark yourself. If your agent is a REGISTERED migration agent s/he should be able to phone immigration and be put through to the right person. If you contact the right person (sometimes no meant feat) you will get the right answer. In some visitor cases where there might be an issue with 'intention to return' I advise clients to book return travel on a small deposit (my travel agent does this for $50) with the balance to be paid upon visa grant. This gives them a travel itinerary to lodge with their visa application. This does not always work.

Instruct your RMA to do it ! Here is the sort of complication that can arise, if you stick your head in: I was instructed and paid to lodge a partner visa application. The sponsor who was caring for her infirm mother had already lodged a DIY carer visa application that had been refused. I ran the carer case pro bono in the AAT and won it. The sponsor had been granted a half fee concession by the AAT, due to financial hardship and received a full refund when the case was decided in her favour, so it cost her nothing to get PR for her carer and 3 secondary applicants. I had deferred action on the partner visa, because the primary applicant was medically qualified and a partner visa grant would almost certainly resulted in a confirmation of the carer visa refusal. The sponsor took it upon herself to phone the case officer and demand an immediate decision on the partner visa application. She got one! I subsequently advised her that a review application to the AAT was her only way forward. I heard no more for a couple of years when the processing office sent me a request for a medical examinations to be undertaken. I informed the office that I held no instructions and that I had sent a copy of their email to the last address I had for the sponsor. Presumably there had been a favourable review application, managed by someone else? I have other examples of applicants instructing me and then sticking their heads in. I usually warn them, if you want to DIY, then DIY.

From our service agreement: 24. If we are informed that you have contacted relevant authorities directly, without us advising you to do so, we cease to act in your case.

For teachers: 1. Pre-migration skills assessments are (for the most part) criterion referenced, but invitations to apply for a visa are norm referenced. The latter introduces an hymenopterous, aeronautical insect into the salve. 2. Teachers can work in Australia without a skills assessment, provided they are registered to teach in Australia and hold a visa with work rights. 3. In most cases registration to teach makes a skills assessment straightforward and relatively inexpensive. 4. Some teachers come here on a 417 or similar and dig their own graves by changing bed sheets in a motel, instead of working in their profession; not only teachers. 5. If you think that being an Australian-born citizen, having half a decade satisfactory secondary teaching experience in one of the non-existent Australian secondary colleges, post graduate qualifications and a physics major qualifies one to teach physics, think again. Your B. Ed major was mathematics curriculum studies, so... This did not matter when I was supply teaching; woodwork, Japanese, French, mothercraft... for 5+ years when waiting for a permanent appointment. At the time teachers with any major were being offered a ten week conversion course to become mathematics teachers. 6. How would you like to child-mind year 9 girls (the most objectionable creatures in the known universe) for a lesson in mothercraft, there being no preparation provided; of course: Ladies, can you help me out by letting me have your estimate of how big a baby is when it is born? The largest estimate was 20 cm. Ladies, I have bad news for you... and I bluffed my way through a further 45 minutes. Think on your feet! 7. I was lucky enough to be injured at work and medically retired. I should have stuck to writing scrofulous novels. 8. If you do not know what you are talking about, don't let that stop you. 9. As David Niven wrote (in paraphrase) You think I know F*** nothing, but I know F*** all. 10. The world runs on BS.

I am constantly amazed by people who use the contact form on our website and include an invalid email address. From our assessment form: The purpose of our preliminary assessment is to advise prospective applicants whether they appear to qualify. Detailed case analysis and advice about strategy are beyond the scope of a preliminary assessment. Complete this form and send it to us as an email attachment and a Registered Migration Agent will assess your visa prospects. If a question does not apply to you write N/A. Spouses of applicants MUST complete a separate assessment form, so must de facto (common law) partners and same-sex partners and dependants 17 years of age or older; even if not applying for a visa. Please send files to us in pdf, or Word format as email attachments not via Dropbox, or Google Docs, or similar and not in Apple Pages format.

It might be worth noting (in some cases) that those who travel on a bridging B are deemed not to have left Australia.

I wonder whether RMAs can charge and whether JPs can charge for helping declarants whose English is not too flash to prepare a declaration?

There are elements of truth in this post, but the plumbers I have assisted have not experienced this level of difficulty.

As a rule I do not give telephone advice. I reduce all advice to writing, so it is more efficient and certainly less susceptible to error to use email in the first place. I do not charge for preliminary assessments.

I have had several DIY clients who put themselves in, from what has been posted, was more likely than not a similar position.

States and territories can set the criteria under which they might nominate visa applicants, but only the immigration department (or whatever they happen to be calling themselves) can set criteria for skilled or other family nominations.

WA plays no part in deciding which family members may sponsor, nor does any other state or territory.

If you had parents or siblings living in Aus ... An eligible relative can be: a parent a child or step-child a brother, sister, adoptive brother, adoptive sister, step-brother or step-sister an aunt, uncle, adoptive aunt, adoptive uncle, step-aunt or step-uncle a nephew, niece, adoptive nephew, adoptive niece, step-nephew or step-niece a grandparent, or a first cousin

Qld expect teachers to agree to be deployed anywhere, at the exigencies of the department, or at least they did when I told them to shove their offer into the lower part of their large intestine.