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Have a look at the Google document in my signature, and add your details on the October tab. That way we can all see the makeup of this forum group.
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Check with your MA that Immi will not keep the old application and check it against new ones for inconsistencies. Surely it's a complete waste of money (and of the CO's time so far) to start all over again? Can your MA not correspond with the CO, if you can show from group certs that you worked there, then state that you cannot explain the inconsistency with your employer's statement, but in any event the the work experience is not relevant and just detach it from your application?
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Surely your MA should advise you on that? But as above, can you find your payslips, contract or bank statements showing money going in, and submit them with a document stating when you worked there, what you did, and that you included that out of completeness even though it was not directly relevant to your present application. But seriously get your MA to do something worthwhile, you're paying them...
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The phone number should be on the Bridging Visa and Acknowledgement of Application which you'd have got automatically on receipt of your application.
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I feel for you Rishikesri, but I can only say, from reading this forum for the last 5 months, there is no-one who can tell you when you will get your approval. There are so many variables, I suspect even the PESE teams across the country have little clue of what the others are doing, and no matter how reassuring people can try to be, saying "You will get it this week" is not within anyone's knowledge or control. I wish someone could wave a magic wand and give us some transparency in this process, but it is not possible. After all, why did they change the automatic response to "Currently allocating July" on 25th November and since then appear to have processed about 3 applications, and those were from June!??! We just all have to wait, and carry on as normal - refreshing Gmail, clicking on Spam, refreshing again, just checking other folders, clicking on Spam again, logging onto My Immi in case the auto reminder hasn't been triggered, checking the correspondence tab for invisible emails which may have been sent, check the forum for news, refresh Gmail, check Spam... That's all normal, right???:eek:
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Immi doesn't show Co assigned, no, just Application Received, Assessment in Progress, Documents Requested and Finalized, as far as I know. And it could go straight from Application Received to Finalized.
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There are a maximum of 9 more business days this year so hopefully they'll just keep working. They said they were allocating July files 2.5 weeks ago, so we ought to see a bit of movement.
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A friend told me today that most govt departments work until 24th, then return after New Year. So another 9 processing days potentially.
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It can't harm, might prompt them to look at it quicker?
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If your 457 visa is still valid then you can travel as normal, there is no need to get a bridging visa with permission to travel, that's only for use if your 457 expires and you still haven't been processed.
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Yes, I found that this evening, but the website definitely said that colour scans were sufficient when we applied back in July, we checked and double checked. They've obviously tightened things up. Current position (as at 10/12/2015 - http://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Visa-1/186-/Employer-Nomination-Scheme-(subclass-186)-applicant-document-checklist
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So what's the standard now then for Transfer Stream, certified copies of birth cert, marriage cert, passport ID page? I might go and get those done anyway, I will be distraught to be delayed any further at this stage, and I expect arguing the toss with a CO that colour scans were stipulated as sufficient at the time of lodging (which they were...) won't get me far except deported, which is a bit too far!
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Well there goes that hypothesis... Then again we're trying to look for consistency here, has the last 5 months [sob!] on this forum taught us nothing??
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I sure I read that colour scans were an acceptable alternative to certified copies. Cheaper too...
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Did you upload colour scans of your passports with your application?
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@Sampa Did you copy and paste the info from here : http://www.australianimmigrationvisas.com.au/employer-nomination-scheme-ensregional-sponsored-migration-scheme-rsms-decision-ready-application-processing-frequently-asked-questions/ Because the rest of that article refers to decision ready processing, which ended in Dec 2013, so that info is hardly current.
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Yeah, no way was I risking that, the training benchmark was a huge problem for my disorganised firm (they even missed the grant of nomination, I had to chase it up with Immi two months later) which is why we're STILL waiting...
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I thought everyone had to be nominated by their sponsor company first, then their personal visa application is made, either at the same time or once nomination is approved. That's the way it has been for me anyway, I'm transition stream.
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All but two had lodged their nominations a few weeks before their visas, so were really in the June application pile I guess. You would hope that applications without supporting documents just get kicked back with a request for a whole checklist of documents, then it's on to the next (hopefully better prepared) application. Some more visibility in the system would reduce the stress I think, a change of status to Allocated, then to Processing, then to Woo Hoo, PR granted, Yay! (They can change the labels, it's just a suggestion) because it's the silence that is so frustrating. But the system's not focused on our feelings, so as long as they pull their fingers out and start processing again at normal pace, we'll all be happy in the end...
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And finally, the latest (June 15) document here http://www.border.gov.au/about/reports-publications/research-statistics/statistics/live-in-australia/state-and-territory On page 20 it looks to me (it's late and I'm on my fiddly tablet!) that there were 34,000 individual ENS visas granted in the year to June 2015, with a total of 16,000 applications (which included secondary family members). So that's better, but still too huge for comfort.
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Sources are here : http://www.border.gov.au/about/reports-publications/research-statistics/statistics/work-in-australia
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According to some statistics I've just found on DIBP website, over 50,000 457 visas transitioned to PR in the year to June 2015. So there are a LOT of applications we're not seeing in this forum. I'm trying to keep the faith, I truly hope that they won't let allocated cases sit on desks while COs are on leave over Xmas, as that would blow out their internal KPIs which they're bound to have. So, let's have some positive thinking for end June/July allocated files guys!
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@tuckersgirl - once you have lodged your visa application you will see that there is a link on the Immi dashboard to get your health check authorisation code, at which time you can go ahead and book your health checks. The immi dashboard has changed since I lodged my docs so I'm not sure how exactly it will look. Has your employer lodged their nomination application yet? In my experience that was by far the most complicated part, making sure the training benchmark was all satisfied. Also, are you planning a trip back to the UK any time soon? I would imagine that the UK police checks would have to be redone after that, so keep that in mind, as you're looking at up to 6 months from lodging your visa application for it to be decided.
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Yup, looks like it's down. The whole of border.gov.au is down according to a checker - ouch... Maybe they'll have to lighten the load on the system by approving all outstanding visa applications!