Mukesam

gyes is that true we canot carry perfumes sprays and cents with us while travleing to australia? cuz these cents catches the flame?

Hi Micky Mac,

This restriction is only for your hand carry. You can't carry any liquid in your hand carry . But you can carry any liquid including perfumes in your luggage.

Receive my passport with beautiful Visa Stamp on it.....Allhamdulillah.... Entry Date : 15th feb 2013...... AwwwWwwww ... M soooo Happy....:biggrin:

Congrats Aqsa, Have a great life ahead !!!!

Yesterday, I received my passport with VISA Stamp on it. Entry date should not be after Nov, 2013....so plenty of time for me...

Interesting thing to note on the grant letter was that Visa Grant Date was just a day after my medical was done. So, it was fast. Thank You AHC for speedy processing... Five and a half months from start to end.... I am glad that I had a very smooth journey.

Thanks everyone on this forum. :notworthy:

I pray for early visa grants for all those who are in the waiting queue. Allah Hafiz

What's IOM's Website...? Please share the link thanks..!!

Here you go: http://www.iomaustralia.org/programme_fm.htm

Yes Mehak i got request for passport via email...i think the jazzi and mukesam got calls though.

I think it goes like this:

AHC tries your cell number first, if it gets through, you will receive a call from them. If not, an email is sent. Also, it can also happen that different CO's use different methods of communication. It might be just a method of preference for them. Some CO's would like to track everything they do on a case so they would use Email. Others might prefer direct call to an applicant.

but i did not send PCC yet which was requested two days ago. strange

That can happen, you must have submitted a PCC earlier to AHC? Didn't you?

I was asked to send additional docs and PCC, I sent them an email that I have already sent you these docs.... also applied for a fresh PCC.... When I was about to send them new PCC.... I received a call from AHC that visa is granted....they must have checked my email and confirmed that PCC was submitted by me. Anyways, all is well that ends well.... .So, Congrats to you again...

now the time has come to write Visa Granted and passport has been received today by post. God is great. thank you everyone here for all your support:):biggrin::biggrin:

That's a great news, Heartily congrats to you Jazzi..... this week is turning out to be a great week for all of us. Best of Luck to new phase of life!!!

It took them two weeks but i finally got my passport back today with grant letter.. Shukar Alhamdulillah..

And i hope everyone of you get your visa just keep on praying and it will be there in no time and you'll be like where are all those months gone but its gonna be worth it in the end.

Good luck guys and those who have just applied have some patient which is quite easy to say at this point.

Congrats AMZ.... Best of luck to your new life in Australia

K, now I get it, they initially asked for additional docs on 1 Oct, 1 Nov they asked for medical.

Sorry, if I wasn't clear. I received two emails on the same day, in fact almost at the same time. One was for medicals and one for further docs.

mashalah.. my hubby is also IT analyst in american bank!! wot do u do mukesum i mean professionaly?

Good to know that. Is your husband in Australia? I am not aware of any US banks in Australia. When you would go to Aus, you would hear two names when you would use the term bank....1st is ANZ and second is Common Wealth Bank.

I don't do anything specific. Completed my Masters degree few months back.

wow mukesum uv got visa in such a small time, ur hubby must be on wondersull job in australia, r u doctor or sumthing? wot does ur huby do?

He is a Software Engineer in a very highly reputed organization in Aus. So, he does pay a big amount in Tax. So, in those countries a tax payer is well respected and is honoured when it comes to things like sponsorship etc.

Thanks vexperts

Mukesam Congrats SIS for the big news.

 

Best of luck for future endeavors.

 

newone

Thanks newone, you will have your turn pretty soon. In sha Allah

Anyone has idea about external checks ....as today we call AHC n they said your external checks is going on in AUs

Hi,

External checks are outside the domain of AHC or Aus agencies. No one can give you a timeline for its completion. Hopefully, you will get it done soon.

They ask AFP from those who have kids so dont worry about it.. Sabi got asked for it and a week later she got visa granted so better send it as soon as you can.

I don't have kids but I submitted my husband's AFP to AHC along with all my documents.

My husband got his skilled immigration in 6 months time from Pakistan; the first email he received from Embassy was Grant of Immigration. My Visa is granted in 5 months time. The first call I received was of Visa Grant. There are couple of things that we did. Submit everything in the first place before Embassy asks you for it. Any document that can help your case was submitted from husband's bank statements to Payslips, Tax returns to employment letter, PCC to AFP, Urdu Nikkah nama to English Nikkah Nama, proof of relationship docs, pics, skype logs, viber call history, photos, my phone calls history, my husband's phone call logs, Form 80, form 888, Wedding movie etc etc etc.... The list goes on and on..... We knew that additional documents won't harm our cause.

Secondly, we knew we need to be patient. I know AHC guys are not dumb. They have a system in place. So, if you have provided everything to them, just sit back and relax. .......And in the end, we got our Visa just as we expected. I already told everyone on this forum that my Visa journey would be very smooth. You may call it self-praising or even bragging but I won't worry about it.

I pray for all of you who are in the waiting queue.....Allah kare aap ko bhi jald achi khabar mil jaye. Ameen...

My philosophy of handling these things is:

[h=1]"If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my axe." — Abraham Lincoln[/h]

Oh wow two visas today.. Congratulations aqsa and mukesome.. Now i hope you guys get your passport soon..

@aqsa told you, you will hear something good from them this week.. Your prayers got answered

Thanks Amz,

Aqsa Musakem, how much time they have given u to make initial entry. Did they inform u via email.

Hi Adnanm,

AHC sent me 2 emails earlier this month. 1 generic email asking for further documents and 2nd to undergo medicals. For the 1st one, I sent a detailed email to my CO that I have already submitted all docs that were requested and requested to check my file. In the same email, I also told my CO that as per her advice, I will submit all the requested docs again. I didn't want to go into a debate with my CO about what happened to my docs that I submitted earlier. I decided to make better use of my time by arranging all docs again including PCC, MRC, FRC etc. I went under my medicals last week and was about to send all the requested docs in a day or so but there came the final twist in the story....

Thanks to my CO, who might looked into my email and might have crossed checked that all the docs were already submitted by me. As a result, a VISA grant was issued. Yesterday, I received a call from AHC to submit my passport for visa sticker.

Congrats Aqsa....

Just got a call from Embassy.....

***********VISA Granted*********

In 5 Months..... 12 days..... from start to end.....

Only in 7 days after Medical ............

what a smooth journey it was.....

I am really grate full to Allah................

Australia.... Here I come.....

Alhamdolillah, we finally got the medical request.

 

can anyone please tell me what this is?

-Applicant’s Birth Certificate from NADRA

Is this normal birth certifcate, hope its not the FRC thing.

 

That's great news, congrats. By the way, FRC does have your date of birth on it and FRC is also issued by NADRA. Same goes for your passport. They are asking for NADRA's birth certificate as if NADRA would look into some different database to generate that certificate. No man, NADRA has a centralized database. If FRC is showing 'aa/bb/cc' as your date of birth then it means NADRA's birth certificate will also show the same date. And every document generated by NADRA will have the same date of birth on it. I think AHC should better make use of FRC document. It provides alot of information apart from your family details. Anyways, I hope AHC will come of age very soon. :-)

well i appreciate your 6 sense, gratitude+attitude!! and all other gyes, once again m saying you!! EVERY ONE HAS RIGHT TO SPEAK WHATEVER HE/SHE IS FEELING, if you do not agree with me than its your choice, but i always speak to them, email them whatever situation i am going through!! and they do respond me!!

at least i am satisfied that i TOLD them what i am going through. may be this-es totally UN professional but it helps me to get out my frustration!! thats it

Thanks for your compliments. Yaar, don't take tension, everything will be fine. By the way, I do have very good 6th sense but it wasn't my 6th sense that lead me to know every thing regarding my case and I knew some thing is coming my way from AHC. Actually, I applied for 309 visa a week after my cousin did. So, she tells me when ever she gets an email from AHC. I got ACK couple of days after her, got medical request 2 days after she received her medical request. So, there isn't any black magic. I will again re-iterate, submit all your docs to AHC, give them what you think can assist your case to accelerate and then most importantly....just relax.... you will get it when your turn would come. That's it.

OMG!!! OMG!! i cant get FRC from Nadra until my wife changes her marital status on her NICOP. And it take 3 months from Australia(Canberra) to process..

Union Councils in pakistan are just sh*ts they even can't give me the MRC because i got married in Aus and they don't accept or recognize my aussie certificate.. Do i need to marry again in pakisatn to get a paki Nikah Nama and then get it registered in pakistan.. Farr out..!! I am so pissed @ Nadra. They said if she can come here to pakistan then we will process it in 7 days.. What should i do ..?? OMG!! I am so stressed.. :unsure:

 

Any Suggestions Guys..??

Rees Ahmad,

The first step is must, your wife needs to change her NIC and make appropriate changes like marital status and husband name etc. There isn't any other legal way that I know. This should have been done as initial steps of your application.

Secondly, getting MRC from any Union Council is not a tough task. Do you have any male back home like buzargh who has some political references in your Union Council? If you have, then its not an issue, you will get your MRC but for MRC, your wife's new NIC copy would be a proof of your wedding so NIC Copy and Aus Marriage certificate should do the trick.

Waise, I was lecturing on corruption but there is always a way to get your work done in Pakistan... $$$$$......Oh..sorry yaar...I was supposed to be against corruption. :-)

Musakem. You are jun appl u got ur med request didn't rem that. How cool, mine is also jun. Hope v get soon. Did u bug them few times before u got the med request via phone or email

Hi Adnanm,

I never bugged them. The only time I sent them an email was when I received my medical request. The reason was that they have mistakenly asked me to submit some documents that I already submitted along with application e.g PCC. I will wait for their reply but in the mean while I will use this opportunity at hand and will get a fresh PCC and send it to them as soon as possible to avoid any delays. I have booked my medical next week so its just round the corner.

I hope you will get your visa soon as well... best of luck !!!

You are right; Apologize if anything hurt you par waise what was wrong that you were writing about to Aus High Commissioner? Why ACH is taking 7,8 months on avg to process cases when they have a policy of 12 months? I am not defending AHC here. You also said in your email to high commissioner that "I am are writing on behalf of all the women who are living without their spouse" Sorry, but I can stand for my right and I don't need a representative for me.

Just chill.... my visa is on its way... how about in 5 months as a timeline? :-) My advise is that if any one wants a visa in minimum time, put things in order for your case.

well i really didnt know what to do so i thought to throw an email to mr peter heyward who is australian high comissioner

"dear peter heyward,

I am appealing to your good faith, I am writing this email to you on behalf of all the woman who are living without their spouses in Pakistan. Hopping you will pay few seconds of yours to listen my request.

According to Pakistani culture after marriage lots of woman are living in there in laws (husband,s family) without there husbands and many women are physically and emotionally abused too,as there spouses are not physically present with them. Please pay attention to these women who are suffering without their husbands,and they have been waiting for so long.Pakistan doesn't have any law which can support them but you can help them & grant them visas so that they can start happy married life with there spouses.I am not doubting any visa granting standards, Case officers are doing there jobs sincerely. I have applied for spouse visa in Australian high commission Islamabad on 7th may 2012 but they say that standard time is 12 months, it might take more than 7 months.

Sir believe me its even hard to imagine to live without my spouse for so long. kindly facilitate the granting of the spouse visa that is being requested."

lets c what happens:)

Dear Micky,

Although I am a female too and have been living with my in-laws for months now but sorry to say that I was offended by your email. The perception that I could see from your email was that all the females are being brutely abused by their in-laws. Not all the females and I hope not majority of the female applicants are abused by their in-laws. There would surely be exceptions but rules are never made to cover exceptions. Pakistan does have laws to protect women from abuses but its a separate issue that not majority of cases are reported and those which are reported are not dealt accordingly by law enforcement agencies. And I am ashamed to say that there is no writ of law in our country these days.

Your email is not going to help in any way to process cases quickly. It will not change anything at all. Believe me orgz like AHC are ISO certified and there are processes that they follow strictly. Its a separate story that we may not like those processes. High commissioner officer has authority to grant visas directly to special cases (extra ordinary cases) but overall policies regarding immigration, visas and security checks etc are made at Govt level and at a much higher level than High Commissioner officer.

We are in a high risk country category and Aus Govt has a policy that for high risk countries avg time is 12 months. So, its not just for Pakistan, there are hundreds of other countries that are in this category. If you look at the timelines of people here, AHC guys are granting most of the visas in less than 12 months time. That means AHC staff is working efficiently enough that they are finalizing cases in less than avg time. Its true that few cases are going beyond 7,8 months but there are reason behind that. We have to understand that everything is not in control of AHC staff, some times security agencies (local and international) take months to give security clearance of a person. There are other factors which are vulnerable like verification of your information, certificates, documents, missing req documents from your file, further docs required etc.

AHC can't tell us the inside story as we will start asking more questions from them if they will give us a tip of what's being going on in our case. And we will get more worried about our case if we will get the inside story. Everyone would be posting more questions on these forums about their particular situations and environment would become more tense. So, its better for both AHC and us not to get into nitty-gritty of our Cases.

We all can complaint and we all want visa granted in matter of days after lodging an application. I can understand that and its purely in human nature, can't help it there. There is no doubt that AHC staff makes mistakes but to err is human. Last but not least, I know its very hard to live without your spouse. There is no doubt about it. But one should give herself solace by imagining those females who belong to lower-middle class families, their husbands work in the middle east and in other countries. Their husbands can't sponsor them and they never live together apart from 30, 40 days when their husbands come back to their homeland on holidays. Just imagine it and I am sure 7,8 months separation would not look too bad after that.

I am sorry if I offended anyone's feeling. I hope you will all get your visas and join your hubbys as soon as possible. But keep one thing in mind, visa grant is not the destination.....its just a start of a long journey which could be very cumbersome for some of us. I have lived abroad and lived happily but believe me its not a land of paradise, there are many +ve and many -ve out there....you can't always keep yourself protected from -ves.

I have seen dreams of people shattered when life comes to reality. So, best of luck and Stay blessed all.