karen79

OK FOLKS....... Finally Finally PR granted today at lunchtime!! im weak, weary and happy all at once!

Our portion of the application was submitted 16th April, SO 12.5 weeks until today.

I know its been said before, and its frustrating, but DO hang in there, i so know the waiting and waiting is agony. I promise itll be over soon! We are dizzy with disbelief!

PS no Form 80's asked for and NO crim record check asked for my 16yr old daughter, even though it just arrived back today also in the mail!

Btw, I was never asked for Form 80 before my application wss approved.

I had a suspicion I had heard this somewhere before which was not only why i asked but also why i have delayed putting pen to paper! very lazy! I have them printed out.... for weeks now! Meds and police checks done and added to application, so will just sit tight wait and see!!

Can anyone tell me are form 80s 100% definitely needed or just sometimes requested? Before I go to hassle of filling them out in advance. I everything else frontloaded thus far. Waiting waiting....

Hey Karen79, I submitted on the same day (Apr 16), though I did submit my nomination & application together. How did the inform you when your nomination was approved? Hopefully we'll both be getting some news in the next few weeks :smile:

Hi, We just got an email once our employer had a case officer (after 12 weeks) asking for a bit of extra info, then the nomination was approved about a week later. We submitted ours 1 week after nomination approval. FIngers X please that we hear of a case officer soon! Im assuming Form 80's are totally mandatory for everyone? I have mine printed but as yet have not tackled filling them in. Cant wait!!

My Partner and I submitted our application on the 12^th of March, both from the UK. Decision ready, went through an agent, medicals and police clearance submitted the same day. Still waiting to hear anything from immigration. We applied under the 186 Transition Stream, the day we had been on our 457 visa for two years.

 

We wanted to submit the company nomination first, but our agent told us that there was no point and we should submit them together, we did that and now I am wondering if it would have been best to submit this a few months before our application…

Oh FAMILY OF FIVE and Joel9271 tell us some good news!! Argghhhh so I see my theory if roughly 10 weeks for proceseing employee portion is not an exact science ha ha although I still live in hope. I am aware that since xmas decision ready no longer exists we are all just in the same big queue oh joy! We waited for our employer part to get approval first before forfitting our 9k! And so our part is now in from 16th april, 7 weeks! NOT so patiently waiting and out employer part took 12 weeks to get a case officer and was approved a week later or slightly less. Yawnnnnn!!

Just got our case officer assigned woohoo! This is after lodging the application on 22 March.

 

We haven't yet posted our UK police clearance applications. I have a dumb question about this. Do we need to send a copy of the entire passport, or just the photo page?

 

Finding someone on the acceptable occupations list who has known us for 2 years to sign the passport photos is another matter...!

 

Well Paisleylass super well done how chuffed are you?!!! Im chuffed for you, because right now i just needed some good news, so i see from your submission date yours is in approx 10weeks? so my theory of the list being addressed after 10weeks seems to be the case again! The fact that i might just have another 3 to wait gives me some hope. Our police checks are long back and medicals done, you just photocopy the bio-data page of your passports and as for who signs it some random cop at the local police station signed ours and it was never questioned!! I see you are in Brisbane? We are moving there in Sept! cannot wait! Keep her lit and keep me posted! Karen:laugh:

ANYONE recently got any grants?? Going out off my tiny mind off course like the rest of you! our portion of the 186 transition was lodged 7 weeks ago this wednesday coming. Im bargaining on a turn around of about 10 weeks from the couple of recent grants on this thread, but who knows!!??:confused:

Thankyou so much "ldticp" for your reply, good i have somewhere to start with for homework now, always better to get a recommendation. Are you in Ferny Hills yourself and how do you find it as an area to live?

Thankyou so much "ldticp" for your reply, good i have somewhere to start with for homework now, always better to get a recommendation. Are you in Ferny Hills yourself and how do you find it as an area to live?

Hi, hoping to move from Melbourne to QLD around Aug or Sept 2014 and focusing on the Ferny Hills/The Gap or possibly Samford valley areas, will be requiring a good Kindergarten, a state primary school and a state secondary school for the 4 girls of various ages, can anyone help or guide me in the right direction as at least 2/3 kinder/primary/secondary schools might dictate which area we narrow our search for a rental in initially? Many thanks in advance:wub: