hmsmark
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I expect that it will take them until the end of March to get all of the June 2011 applicants allocated. I hope not, but they have a lot of June applicants and we're only seeing a handfull get allocated per week. This is strikingly different to Nov/Dec, when we saw loads of allocations every week. As a July applicant, I started to think that I may be in Oz by August of this year when I saw everyone getting allocated quickly in Nov/Dec, but I may have to push that back a bit. Oh well, I'll get there when I get there.
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Well, we all knew that there were a lot of cases in May and June. What they don't want to put on the update is something like: "and a bunch of us took the month off, so we didn't get around to many cat 4 applicants." Hopefully it starts to pick up as they all come back from holiday.
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It's about 1 am Friday in Oz (at least the part of the country that contains the processing centres), so I guess we should take a stab at the update. I'm going to say it will be 31 May. They'll officially put May to bed and focus on the remaining Junies. Whatever it is, I hope it far surpasses the last update's 3 days movement!
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Can I ask the sources used to get that information? I have been looking for official DIAC numbers of those waiting in the pipeline, especially numbers of Cat 4's, since I applied. I found some very old stuff, but nothing that applied to us.
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Good news! What is the telephone number that you use to contact DIAC?
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Different offices, different cities, and different teams.
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There are a lot of June 2011 applicants. However, when they were processing quickly, we saw a lot of the early June applicants getting COs and visa grants. Now, the mid and late June applicants are just not seeing allocations. They're just not allocating many cat 4s right now. Either they're getting a lot of higher category applications, still have a bunch of people off on summer holidays, or their people are doing something else. I don't know which it is...
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Well, it may be old hat, but it is still true. Positivity is good, but realism is better... On-shore Cat 5s are being processed because all Cat 4s are allocated. Off-shore Cat 5s won't be allocated until all offshore Cat 4s are allocated. That doesn't happen unless: #1 DIAC dramatically increases its processing capability, #2 they stop taking higher categories when EOI comes into effect. #2 is the most realistic option. After the current glut of Cat 5s is done, they will not have any post 1 July 2012 Cat 5s because they won't let them apply when they submit their expression of interest. Another option is that they re-prioritize applications, say anyone who has been waiting two years or longer gets pushed to the front, but then they wouldn't be Cat 5 anymore. They would be a higher, special Category. Another option is to continue on with business as usual, which means little to no offshore processing. I hope everyone gets to Australia as soon as possible, but those are the facts. Another fact is that allocation of Cat 4s has ground to a halt over the past month or so. The allocation date on the last update showed only 3 days movement. Hopefully, they get moving again because under the current processing priority scheme, Cat 5s aren't going anywhere until Cat 4s are allocated.
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Cat 5 off shore applicants will not get allocated unless and until there are no higher category applicants coming in. This MAY happen when they move to the EOI format in July. They may simply not allow higher cats to apply while they catch up. Then again, Cat 5s may never be processed...
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AWESOME!!! Hopefully you're the first of many this week!
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Unlikely. No one has looked at your application yet, so they don't know if there is a problem. DIAC really doesn't start looking at the application until after allocation. As you have noticed, the update gave us a date of 18 May. DIAC allocates within a range of usually a month from the update date. So, imagine how someone who applied on 25 May feels. There appears to be no rhyme or reason to diac's allocation of case managers. It is very, very common for someone with an application date several weeks ahead of another to get a case manager first.
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It is my hope with SA schools going back on Monday, that mum or dad will had back to work and we'll see things move again! Fingers crossed, anyway...
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Someone on BE Update got a CO on 24/1/12. Type 175; applied 24/6/11 Again, they're moving a few, but not many...
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South Australia, which is where offshore GSM applications are processed, end their school holiday next week. Lets hope that gets DIAC's employees back to work.
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Well, DIAC doesn't have an obligation to keep to those times at all. Not too long ago, there were taking much longer to approve applications regardless of the processing time. Those times could be much shorter, longer, or spot on. However, they DO have an obligation to follow immigration law and policies. The law says that the Minister can direct his department to process migration applications in a certain order. The processing categories you have listed in your post are the Minister's directive. DIAC must follow that directive until the Minister issues another directive. He has not done so. He may do so tomorrow, but I don't think so. Remember that Cat 5s represent jobs that are essentially not in demand in Australia. That is, there is not enough demand to warrant the migration of foreign workers into the field. There are a finite number of spots, and the Minister and the Labor party probably wouldn't want to defend delaying the processing of high need fields for lower need applicants. DIAC's employees and managers cannot simply move on to a lower processing category while others are waiting in higher cats. If you have ever worked in civil service, in any nation, you would know that to do so would invite chaos and probably would mean the end of your job. You follow policy because it is policy and that is that.
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It seems to me that since there are likely a lot of people off on a summer holiday, we feel the brunt of it. If, say, 20% of DIAC's COs take off, then they are working at 80% capacity. They still must process applications according to priority once they come in, so they continue to process Cat 1 and 3 ahead of us. So, those higher priority categories take precedence, and still seem to be getting processed quickly according to the update. However, this post-Christmas, understrength DIAC does not have any capacity left over to allocate Cat 4s, so we're just sitting in the bin. It seems we will stay there until they get back up to strength.
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Well, you get you're wish. You're wrong. To do what you suggest would require a policy change. Of course that could happen, but the minister would need to change DIAC's processing policy and that has not happened. If you were right, then they would have stopped processing Cat 3 applications once they got up to 30 June 2011. They would then, presumably, move on to Cat 4s up to 30 June, and I would suspect that they would be through that group by now, if they didn't have to process higher category applicants as they com in. They might be onto Cat 5s now IF that was reality (but of course, those poor people applied back in 2007, so which processing year would they select?). That is not the case. A Cat 3 application who applies, say, 23 January 2012 will be allocated in the next couple of weeks. They won't be pushed off until 1 July. Likewise, they will continue to process Cat 4s ahead of Cat 5s regardless of processing year. Basically, Cat 5s aren't going to get allocated until every Cat 4 in the bin has been allocated. The only way they will ever touch Cat 5 offshore is if they simply stop taking applications for a time with the new EOI rules coming into effect, or if they add on a lot more staff at DIAC.
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About all we can do is cross our fingers and hope. However, it is shocking that they were allocating and granting cat 4s like crazy before the holidays, and now it has ground to a standstill. I was expecting June applicants to be done by now and I was hoping they would be ready to allocate my July application sometime in February. Now that seems like pipe dream... I know people like to take time off in the summer, but to allow it to impact your organisation like this seems a bit excessive.
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If there is one 19 May application still awaiting allocation, then they can't list a date later than that. It is impossible to say how many May applicants are still awaiting allocation.
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18 May. Let us hope they all get home from holiday and get working!!
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I would love for you to be right, but I think that's a bit much considering how few COs we've seen allocated.
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It is my guess that the next update will probably show minimal movement. I'm going with 22 May. I would say that best case scenario would put it somewhere in first week of June. I hope they get moving again. I can't see how any offshore Cat 5s are going to get processed at this rate.
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On another site, I just saw that a Type 175 lodged on 21 June got a CO on Friday. So, they're still working, just slowly...
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It has been 3+ weeks since Christmas. The holidays should be coming to an end. Of course, it's summer in Oz, so I understand a lot of people take time off, but DIAC shouldn't authorize so much time off where it jams everything up like this. Oh well, lets hope things improve over the next week or two... Nothing to do but wait.
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DIAC is still granting visas, but CO allocation for Cat 4's seems to have died off. Hopefully they're up and running next week after allocating some visas. I know June is a big month, but does anyone have any information on exactly how many people applied in June? They may be allocating, but there may be so many June applicants that no one on this site got one... I saw one Cat 4 June applicant (June 28) get a CO as of 6 January on Beupdate, but no one else. June might be a very big month indeed. Bad news for me as a July applicant.