Slartibartfast
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Surely this is only before you lodge your application? You do it through your existing account once it is lodged?
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Oh for goodness sake. I'd just weaned myself off obsessively refreshing the forum to see if anyone had news, and now I'm back again. Fingers crossed for you Peppa, as well as others of course.
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I agree. There's a queue, you're in it, and everyone is waiting. How would you feel if people after you in the queue all phoned? This would then delay other cases, including yours, from being addressed and if they get their cases opened then they make you even more delayed. I know it's so frustrating, the lack of transparency and communication is maddening, but all applicants are in it together, your case will be reached, you will be dealt with and you (99.99% of the time) will be granted a visa. Ringing offices will delay things, if not for you then for everyone else. The amount of times I felt like ringing, emailing, I can't count, but I just waited, and ranted on here a couple of times. It will come. Have faith!
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Right. No skills assessment for transfer stream, that's correct. You'll be asked for form 80 if you need it, I wasn't asked. So either take the time to get the info together now or wait, it won't be needed for submission, and you'll unfortunately have lots of time to upload extra docs. Make sure your docs are colour scans, there's some doubts as to whether the passport and birth certs should also be certified, we got ours done in a panic a few weeks before they were eventually looked at but I have no idea if they needed to have been or not. Qualifications, I didn't attach them but there's no harm in uploading. The September grant was from a May nomination, so it was sort of in the usual schedule. So no, there's very little chance of your nomination being looked at before 31/1/16. It's tough, I certainly waited until my nomination was approved as my company are disorganised and I had to really fight for training records etc. See if your husband can keep on top of them, politely of course, make sure everything has been submitted and you know the training benchmark is met, for all 3 years. You can save a little money by not doing medicals or police checks until your nomination is approved, they'll only take a couple of weeks in any event unless they're from certain countries. You get an instant bridging visa when you submit your visa application, but bear in mind it's got a no travel condition so you'll have to allow time and some money to pay for a different class if you plan to travel overseas for work or leisure. I hope this helps. This is an incredibly stressful process, but so worth it in the end..!
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Might you risk confusing matters by trying to order medicals at this stage without going through your Immi dashboard? If you could import your application across then (from memory) you just click on the Health Checks bit on your account and it automatically generates a HAP ID which you then lodge with BUPA when you make your appointment. Your MA should give you your TRN - you are paying them, handsomely I expect, after all. If you can't do it that way then I would just wait.
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I think it's more that his visa application rode on the coat tails of the nomination.
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Here they are, the name in the spreadsheet is slightly wrong.
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Looks like some sort of formatting error. I've rolled the spreadsheet back to when it was last correct, which was early on 8/1 I'm afraid, but there were only 8 revisions between then and now, so if anyone has amended the spreadsheet since then, can you please redo your amendments?
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Still early July
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NSW.
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GRANTED!!!!!!!!!! Oh my goodness! Received a phone call about 15 mins ago saying they couldn't open my husband's AFP clearance, could I send it again - I said yes, that'll take me ooh, 30 seconds, don't go away. Sent it, 10 mins later. the most anticipated emails EVER arrived in my inbox. Awesome!!
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No idea, it's very frustrating... I presume, as per Maggie's analogy a few pages back, I'm allocated, and in the queue for processing, but behind someone who's lost crucial documents and the dog has gently chewed their passport, so they're taking ages to process in front of me.
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Hey, how did you find that out?
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Oh good grief, do I really have to wait until after Xmas for any news? I was so sure it would be a quick grant, just the visa, nomination already in, so October, well, early November then, yay - November 25th, allocating end June early July, that's us, it'll be anytime now, hmmm, how about end of November, gosh it's December already, it must be soon, still allocating July / mid July / early July, surely everything allocated must be dealt with before Xmas, surely, surely???? <Sits in a corner and rocks, sobbing quietly...>
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This is weird. You are from transition stream. Why did CO ask for degree certificate... This should have been assessed while applying for visa 457 and shouldn't be required for visa 186. That's what I was thinking, I thought I'd missed something. I've just been looking at my immi account and wondering what category it would be in, we don't need skills assessment.
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Great news! Where in Australia are you? Are NSW working until 6:15pm their time? Can't they just make grants all through the day, not at the beginning and end as it usually seems?
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And this tells us? That there is no coherent service standard which COs abide by, it's purely the luck of the draw. Or the bad luck. Bitter? Me? Bah humbug...
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I think they're only supposed to be off on the 25th and the 1st,although it will probably be a skeleton staff between Xmas and New Year.
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Look, July checks for August visa application should be fine. All I'm saying is that the previous poster was talking about lodging nomination in January. I did nomination separately from visa, as my company are useless record keepers and I didn't want to waste the visa money if the nomination failed. My nomination went in in November 2014, was granted May 2015, and I have no doubt that any health check from October/November 2014 would be (quite understandably) kicked out quite quickly if I tried to use it for my application now and it's a lot of money to throw away.
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I think the important word there is usually. There's no benefit in doing the medicals much before lodging your application, and they give you a specific route to apply for them once your visa application is submitted, visa the HAP system, so don't tempt fate to get a picky CO who wants it redone if visa processing is delayed - the 6 months it's currently taking is stressful enough as it is.
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You should wait until you lodge your visa application to do the health checks, otherwise they risk being out of date. Common sense would dictate that police checks remain valid if you haven't gone back to the UK since, but I wouldn't bet on it, COs are being rather picky nowadays. Maybe shoot them an email once your application is lodged?
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I think that's a typo - he wrote Nomination 26th , Visa 2th - the 26-9th probably.
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The common sense answer would be that it's valid if you haven't left Australia since you got the clearance, therefore you couldn't have done anything else... However, common sense doesn't necessarily apply with Immi it seems sometimes... Try emailing the address on your application acknowledgement or bridging visa letter, they should respond within a week.
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No one can say, have a look at the spreadsheet and at this thread. Some people get both at the same time, some a few days apart, some a month later. There's no way to predict it, I'm sorry.
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9 What? Surely this is beyond their remit? The criteria for a 186 transition visa is 2+ years on a 457 in that job. There is no requirement to check skills. That's ridiculous, and a complete waste of CO time and ours.