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Hi there, I dont have 1st hand experience of EOI, as we applied before this process, but what i can tell you is that my husband passed his skills assessment through ACS, we are both English and he had to take IELTS. The main reason he took it is that if he got over 8 in each section, it gave us 5 extra points. When you know what category he will apply to the ACS through, it also tells you on the SOL how many IELTS points he will need. You can book this anytime and my advice for this is to revise revise revise!! Just fyi - my husband passed his skills assessment as a Systems Analyst. We just need to sell our house now!!! Best of luck, Liz
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Hi Dan & Jo, Congratulations!!! I thought I would reply to you both as we too are emigrating to Melbourne soon..... We have been granted a permanent residency visa and are literally waiting to sell our house! Its been on the market now for 5 months - we sold after 4 weeks, then it fell through 5 weeks into the sale, then we've had Xmas.... Arrghhhh! We hope to be there in the next 3 months, in any case we have to validate our visa by the end of May. We have 3 children and family in Melbourne and will be looking for work when we get there. Mark has already been looking (He works in I.T) and I will wait a couple of months after I get there, however, when we were there last Xmas I did go to a radio station and have a chat with them, so fingers crossed I'll get a job with them! I thought we would get in touch with you as we are in a similar position and can't wait!! Good luck with the next few weeks - we've also been selling lots of things and have a skip on our drive! Mark & Liz
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Hi, We had the same problem when my husband had his BP taken at the medical! His was also 170/90 - he had to go to GP for 3 weeks and have readings taken. We borrowed a monitor at home and he was fine - every time he went to GP, it went up. They wrote him a letter and all was ok. I was referred for a known medical condition and we passed - so dont worry! You'll have no probs - good luck! L x
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I would imagine you'll be absolutely fine. I've just passed my medical for a PR Visa and I've had surgery 4 times (I have crohns). Not on any medication and am generally fit and well. I had to provide a report from my gastroenterologist and that did the job. Best of luck xx
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Hi Pumpkinhead, Our meds changed straight from referred to Applicant Approved and had our grant on the same day - this was 13/08. Weve had a very busy week with estate agents etc! House going on the market tomorrow... Feels weird! Regarding the entry date - ours is May 28 2013 as that's a year from our PCC. all the best everyone x
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Hi All, We got our visa approval today ))))) As I mentioned last week, we have been referred for a while now. I have a known medical condition, so took a specialist report to the medical. We had our medicals on 7th June. My children and husband all passed in June. Mine was referred 20th June and at the end of June they asked me a question regarding a drug that they thought I was on (but i'm not). I got this letter from my specialist mid July and have been waiting again since then. We have applied for a 175 and are from the UK. So...... Medicals - 7/6/12 Kids finalised: 14/6/12 Referred : 20/6/12 Additional info sent: 18/7/12 Finalised 13/8/12 I got the shock of my life this morning as it didnt say finalised - we had all changed to approved and had our visa grant too. If this helps at all - I also emailed my CO on Wednesday last week and asked if she had received everything she needs. She emailed me back Thurs to say yes and then we had our grant today. We are all so so pleased as we (mostly me) was worried about not getting the visa due to my medical condition (even though I am ok 90% of the time, it is a life long illness and I have had surgery a few times). I will still sit on the macbook every night reading all the threads.... its part of my life now! Melbourne here we come!!!! The Gibbos xxx
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Hi All, i too have been relieved to find this thread! We had our medicals on June 7th. All 3 kids were finalised June 14th. My husband was finalised July 25th (He had to get some blood pressure readings done as they were high at the medical - but were fine over a 3 week period). Mine were first referred June 20th, this was expected as I have a medical condition. I provided a specialist report at my medical, but they came back early July and asked a question regarding medication (which I am no longer on). I got another specialist letter back to them by July 18th. This has not changed since and neither have I heard anything. I've called our panel Dr in England and they've said everything has been sent off from them and that we now need to deal with GH. I've been trying to be patient, as i do feel nervous due to my medical condition. Today though I decided to email my CO to ask if they do have everything that they need as nothing has changed on our application since July 3rd against my name. Its funny isn't it....when you're waiting for a CO, you don't give it much thought and you just get on with life, but as it gets closer, its all you think about! My poor family in Australia are texting/facetime every other day and can't believe its taking so long! Me.... I'm getting more nervous each day and am becoming more negative I've no idea how they cost you up - if its as a family or individual... I keep saying each week "We should know this week..." and another week passes! We got our CO at the beginning of May so its really dragging out now and everything is hanging on me now! Anyway.... Let's hope we all hear some positive news this week. L x
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Hi Guys.... Just wanted to add a glimmer of hope to all waiting this bank holiday weekend. As you know we have ABPF yesterday and apart from the obvious excitement yesterday, thought nothing of it when I got up with my children at 6.30am this morning! However... when my OH surfaced at 9am and checked his emails - we had an email from our CO which was sent at 3.13am today - Team 2. They have requested Meds and PCC and have requested we respond within 28 days. I have a question.... we are having the week off at the beg of June for half term and this is outside of 28 days. Does this mean we will have to bring our meds forward and does anyone know if they are open weekends? Thanks all and have a great bank holiday weekend. Liz :biggrin:
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Morning guys! ABPF for us today....... Eeeeeeek! Thought I'd check quick before work and I nearly missed it as I was reading the top line which still says commenced. Then I saw today's date and ABPF! Wow, I thought I'd be really nervous when we got it but I'm so so excited!! Must be all this rain...... We've got half term off beg of June so am going to book meds for then. I'll let you know when we get an email re CO. Happy Friday, and May the 4th be with you!! Ha ha Liz :wink:
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Right here goes..... been following since the original thread last year and due to my little shock I thought you had disappeared last night I thought now is a good time to add ourselves to the timeline. Applied early Dec, husband main applicant as I work in the media and this is nowhere to be seen! So, this morning I have swapped the ipad for the laptop so I can add our details! Have to say and I am sure this is pretty common, but we are starting to feel a little nervous now.... didn't anticipate it till later this year, but hey... one step closer to our dream of living near family in Melbourne Name: thegibbos Destination: Melbourne Date of Visa application: 06/12/11 Nationality: British High / Low Risk: LR Trade / Profession: Systems Analyst Visa Type: 175 Onshore / Offshore: Offshore Processing Priority Group (Category): 4 Date Medicals submitted: Date Police check submitted: Date CO assigned: Date of employment verification (If applicable): Date visa granted:
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Our application was for Systems Analyst for my husband. It only took just shy of 3 weeks to get back a positive response. However.... We were rejected for a VIC SS - so get your app in now for that in case you do too! We were gutted at first, however, we would have had our visa by now and actually it's a bit soon for us. We applied for a 175 in December and the way they are tracking, we should have a CO by Aug. Best of luck. the Gibsons
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Hi all, We are currently filling out our 175 application online and there is a question regarding previous visas. I have tried searching on here to no avail. We have been to Oz 3 times in the past 7 years and have been issued ETA visas. (tourist visa). I see that I can put that and you don't have to give a number, but my question is - I have no idea when they were issued as our travel agents did them each time for us. What has anyone else done for this? Do I put the date we travelled? Is there a way I can find out? Also, do I have to fill it out for all 3 times for all of us? Thanks guys, The gibbos x
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Hi, Yes we got ours in the post yesterday. We looked online the day before and the date is in there, but when we called out test centre (Rugby) they dont post on the IELTS website, so you may have to wait for them in the post. Im sure you'll get them tomorrow though as they post them out 13 days after the test. Try the results page again - you do need your candidate number too. Good luck anyway, I hope you get what you need. Thegibbos
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Well done Jars. My OH also got positive results yesterday as we also need the 10 extra points. We were rejected by VIC for SS so now have to go for a 175 so we needed the extra points. Our application is going in this week.... Good luck, Thegibbos
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Hi, we use Mick Breen at Destination Oz to assist us - very knowledgable and always at the end of the phone as he works alone. He is based near London. Good rate too!
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Hi there, as we will be putting our 175 in v soon (this weekend hopefully), could someone please post the link to the spreadsheet that you guys talk about? Or let me know where to go to (the spreadsheet with the 175 application timeline on that you mention quite a bit). Thanks in advance liz x
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Thank you Jayzlet.... I love hearing positive stories and in all honesty we don't want to go for a year yet anyway as we've so much to do. Good luck with your journey x
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Thank you! I felt quite down about it yesterday as its our first knock back. Today though, I have woke up more positive and am going to start filling out the 175 paperwork and just hope that we get the 8's in the IELTS on Fri. Please don't fret about your 176, every applicant is different. My OH does predominantly tech support and I believe they are looking for IT candidates that have quite specific skills which Mark hasn't got. Good luck and let us know how you get on!
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Hi SHanethomas123, OH sat the IELTS 10 days ago now, so if he gets the magic 8's we need, then we can start the 175 application this weekend. There would potentially be a problem if he didnt get 8's as he would need to sit it again and we need to apply before mid Jan as he turns 40 then and then we would drop 10 points! Aarghhh.... anyway, positive thoughts! He did lots of revision, its just the writing part you never know about as he feels v confident with the rest of it. I'll keep you posted and good luck with your application.
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Hi, I am new to this post, thank you Eng32! We were unfortunately rejected today for VIC SS - the letter stated that my OH skills are not 100% suited to their requirements at this time. He is a Systems Analyst. Never mind..... back to our original plan, we are going to apply for a 175 visa this weekend. Dependent on one thing..... We get IELTS results on Friday and need 8's. If this comes back successful, then we have a weekend ahead of form filling and visa applications! To be honest, we only started the process "officially" 7 weeks ago. We looked into it in December last year and found out OH has to pass some Microsoft exams, which he has now done. We got the positive skills assessment back in 3 weeks and also the result from VIC SS in 3 weeks, all be it the wrong result! So, to be honest, we weren't originally expecting to be applying for a visa until March next year as both the skills ass and SS stated upto 12 weeks each. Its a good job we found out its a no from VIC now as OH turns 40 mid Jan and we wouldnt have been able to apply for a 175 after that as we wouldnt have enough points. So, thats our positive - at least we know now and can do something about it! When we get IELTS results Fri, I'll keep you posted as if they are positive, then we can join the '175' gang. Fingers crossed for Friday x
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Our rejection was based purely on the skills. We too have more than enough financial assets. Best of luck, I'm sure you'll be fine - obviously IT occupations are far oversubscribed at the moment!
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Thanks for that. I have read the low risk thing a few times - I see what it means now, low risk country. I assume UK is a low risk country right?
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Not a happy bunny today....... VIC have recently updated their SOL and added ICT vacancies back on, so my OH applied for his ACS skills assessment and passed. We then applied for VIC SS 3 weeks ago and it was going so well..... until this morning! We have been rejected on the grounds that his skillset doesn't match exactly what they are looking for at the moment. Very frustrating, however, a 175 visa was our original plan, so back to that it is. We will only go and live in Melbourne as a lot of my family live there, so cannot apply for another state. I've tried looking for timeline threads for 175 visas and can't seem to find any up to date ones. Does anyone have any of their own recent 175 timelines to share or/and does anyone know roughly how long they are taking? I know the DIAC website says 18 months, but everything seems to be so much quicker at the moment - having said that, 12 months would be absolutely fine for us. If we had been going down the 176 route, I know most of those are coming through within 3-4 months at the minute, so it would have come upon us v quick! Positive, positive, positive...... Anyway - feeling a tad better now I have written this down! I like to share positive stories, but I also appreciate we are all going to get some setbacks along the way - it is not set to be plain sailing otherwise everyone would go! Thanks for reading
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We sent ours off 3 weeks ago - my OH has a positive skills assessment with ACS which is IT related and unfortunately we were rejected this morning. Gutted We had read that they are very strict, especially with IT applicants - so dont worry about yours. We are going to have to apply for a 175 visa now, but thats ok. Happy as we're going to Melbourne on holiday in 5 weeks for a month!
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We too have been rejected this morning with the same reason! Aarghh..... So frustrating! We're gonna have to go down the 175 route now. Oh well, it only took 3 weeks to hear back and we had our pos skills assessment back within 3 weeks too. Husbands IELTS results will be back end of this week too, so if they are ok then we'll apply for a 175. Our application was for Systems Analyst. Let's keep going guys! There are always going to be setbacks x