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Merry Christmas gang! I hope it was a wonderful day with your loved ones, filled with food comas and crushing hangovers. Question around the 'settled' citizen requirement please... I lodged my parents' contributory PR application back in Sept 2017 which means they are unlikely to be granted the visa for at another 3-4 years at least... My partner and I have lived in Sydney since 2015 but are thinking about moving back to Melbourne. Will this mean I'm no longer a 'settled' Australian citizen until I've lived in Melbourne for a further 2 years? I've been living in Australia since 2002 - Melbourne originally, but have moved to Brisbane and then Sydney for employment opportunities. I understand 'settled' to mean I as the sponsor need to be living in the same place for 2 years but am unclear on how they define the location - must the 2 years be spent in the same postcode / city / state / country etc...? Of course we could always wait till my parents have been granted their PR but it seems a little silly to have to put any plans on hold (particularly with rapidly rising house prices) when there's so much ambiguity around processing times.
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Qatar is still flying to Australia and from all accounts, little reduction in inflight service and amenity since pre-COVID. Best to check transit requirements to ensure you are actually allowed to travel on a transit itinerary via their hubs but others that are technically operating to both Europe & Australia include Emirates, Cathay, All Nippon Airways, Singapore Airlines.
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I just started a part-time MBA and am planning to go on exchange to the US in 2023, assuming COVID gets sorted by then (and 2023 is looking aspirational at this stage given the flipping thing doesn't look like it's even peaked). Whilst I certainly hope for an optimal outcome and can't wait to have them in Oz, I'm kind of hoping to not have to bother with all the paperwork during the 3-4 months I'm away haha, as I'll be away in a third country! Sod's law etc.
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Thanks! Just re-read the website and realised that to be the case. Phew. Thought it's a piece of info that I'd completely overlooked.
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How do I find out what the queue date is for my parents' 143- short of calling up? I believe I only have a lodgement date (that up till now have mistakenly believed it's the same thing as the queue date).
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Whoa... ok! Serves us right for procrastinating! We started on the paperwork around Mar-Apr 2017 believe it or not, but then it took some dithering (some on my part) whilst we worked out what we needed and information we needed to gather (like evidence that my dad had been discharged from the Malaysian armed forces back in the 60s), and didn't end up lodging the thing until September.
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With the AoS, what exactly does Centrelink assess other than income? Is the assessment criteria like applying for any other kind of finance? I've been accepted into a postgraduate degree course, starting this November, and unfortunately will have to incur a FEE-HELP debt. My parents lodged their 143 in Sept 2017, so should be up for assessment in late 2021/early 2022. I'll be studying part-time (1-2 subjects per semester) over 3 years whilst working full time so at least the debt will be drip-fed on a subject-by-subject basis rather than the full whack all at once by the time they're up for assessment. Will "debt to the Commonwealth" impact my chances of sponsoring my parents? Otherwise I earn a pretty healthy (6 figure) salary so have no issues meeting the income requirement. Also have a mortgage if that makes a difference.
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Thanks all ?
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Friendly bump... ? Think I know the answer to my own question (which is to get an agent) but just wanted a sanity check...
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My parents are in the queue for a subclass 143. The old man had a health scare last night - "acute pulmonary oedema secondary / hypertensive emergency" last night (fluid in lungs due to heart failure). Thankfully he's out of the woods now, just needs to stay a couple of nights in hospital. We've been DIYing their application so far. They're a few years away from having their visa application assessed. Would Dad's health scare warrant going to an Agent for assistance? I'm nervous about the implications this might have on his health assessment when the time comes. Also, they're in Malaysia whereas I'm in Sydney. I've been coordinating the paperwork to date. Would people recommend an Agent in Sydney or should an Agent also be based where they live? (they aren't too tech savvy but Mum has grasped email and Facebook).
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If you have an American Express account overseas you can initiate a global transfer to set up an AMEX card in Australia. Friends who have moved to the US found this very useful as it is very difficult to build a decent credit score over there. https://www.americanexpress.com/global-card-transfers/
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I'm assuming they can visit as tourists as often as they like (to the extent that an ETA allows) - do my parents have to flag upcoming visits with IMMI as whilst waiting for their application to be processed? They don't tend to stay more than a fortnight at a time.
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That's good to know re use of email. When I applied for my (onshore) partner visa back in 2010 it was all snail mail. In fact I nearly lost my visa grant letter as Australia Post for some inexplicable reason didn't let me know I had mail waiting for me at the Post Office until I suddenly received the final mail pick up notice.
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Did they at least email you or was a lot of time wasted on snail mail? Would hope they at least use email. I set up a Gmail account for Mum who's the main applicant and taught her how to use it with great success recently. Dad's Gmail account on the other hand is still gathering dust...
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Yeah that's what I figured. And I've just realised that you can type into the PDF file - I have been handwriting them all this while! They filled out Form 956 appointing me as an exempt person providing assistance so that I'm the designated form filler and all they have to do is sign the things. Being able to type into the form and emailing it to them for printing and signing would have saved me a bit on postage. Ah well, never mind.
