NewDeep

I have been through same few years ago, I can understand how painful it can be.

congratulations. Can you please share ur timeline and which state did you apply for?

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Hey guys, After processing three times 489 visa's for different people in my family, my experience says: We never got notification about CO assignment. In all three cases (1st 6 years ago, 2nd 4 years ago and 3rd recently) CO never contacted us and we got visa grant directly. We always supplied all the documents while lodging even optional one's. And we didn't engage any agent/consultant either. For all three cases, even in different years, we got grant between 3 and 3.5 months from date of visa application submission.

Hey guys, Keep your fingers crossed. You will get there soon. My sister received visa today and her timeline is: Date of Vetassess Application submission- September 23, 2017 Date of Vetassess Application Result- November 20, 2017 Date of SA nomination Application submission- November 29, 2017 Date of nomination Application Result- 13 December 2017 Date of Visa 489 Application submission- 14 Dec 2017 Date of Visa Application grant- 2 Mar 2018 Good luck everyone!!

Hi all, My sister's family application is in process too. They have submitted on 15th December for 489(SA sponsored). Status "Received" means it's changes from Submitted to Received then "In progress " after Case officer is allocated. Does anyone know about https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/trav/work/work/allocation-dates-for-general-skilled-migration-applications Priority processing information for GSM SkillSelect applications Visa subclass Priority group 3 Priority group 4 189 Skilled – Independent (Points-tested) stream N/A* 10 October 2017 190 Skilled – Nominated 25 October 2017 N/A 489 Skilled – Regional 25 October 2017 3 September 2017 Page was not updated in February , let's see if it does in March, fingers crossed.

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Hi All, Finally the moment has come....:-) hurray!! we got our Visa.. I would like to say thanks to all of you specially to Dibongo for all your support and timely suggestions. Best of luck to All of you. Cheer!! NewDeep

Hi Wetwit, Yes it's normal. Even same happened to me CO asked for documents which has already been uploaded.

Hi Dibongo, We are planning for Adelaide .If someone don’t have any relative in Australia then do you know any other economic option like hostel/govt. guest house etc… Also, case officer allocated and I am with team 2. We are done through the medical examination but didn't receive any reports in hand form doctors. As we were recommended that Panel doctors will upload reports directly to the DIAC health portal. After how many days can we get the result for Medical examination reports acceptance? Any idea?

Thanks Dibongo. It worked but they hold it for long, might be because of lot many calls at a time, so couldn't speak to an executive after waiting for 15 mins I disconnected the call and decided to try luck early morning and hope for success. U were right.it is totally messed up..I was informed that application lodged on 1st September even i made the payment same day and i got the payment receipt. On the other hand, i got acknowledgement email after 21 days and specified that my application date is 19th September when i put any email to skiled immigration no response as of now. when i speak to Agent he says that it a clerical mistake(regarding date change in receipt)....when i look into allocation table it is not updated yet as it was supposed to be fortnightly. Really feeling frustrated helpless...It happens to me every time. it has been 2 years to start initial process and till now i didn't get it. feeling like hell.....helpless...:-(:dull:

It has been more than 5 weeks of my visa application lodge but still visa officer is not allocated. I tried to contact DIAC using +61 1300 364 613 but no success as i got information from some other blogs that this number does not work from overseas. can anyone help me in that case?

Congrats Dibongo...Gud luck....

Yes Dibongo, My query is resolved as of now. Thanks for help.I think I am running behind the schedule. I received only 2 emails yet, one is Payment receipt which I received same day when i made the payment on 1st September and second one is 'Acknowledgement Valid Application Received' nothing after that , though i lodged application on 1st September.No medical request, no visa summary. both the emails were with single attachment as described. Lets wait and watch, what happens next. One more thing- I couldnt interpret your post number #74, in which you said that "booked for 3rd December"....Did u booked the tickets or something else?? m sorry if it something personal....:-(

Dibongo, when we pay the visa charges, DO DIAC consider our application lodged from that date or there is a separate button when they receive it and then they start considering that application has been lodged. I mean after submitting the application are we allowed to upload the documents? After how many days of payment u received the IMMI acknowledgement of valid application?? did you get any such kind of subject of any email from DIAC?? if yes then there must be an .pdf attachment along with the email, describing everything in document like TRN,Application ID etc. Did they include dependent applicant(or spouse) in that document. because I ma primary application and added my husband as secondary, but in my PDF document my Husband details are not mentioned in email. is it normal??

Dibongo, Team is not mention the email. It was a simple containing file number, application ID, TRN etc stuff. Even I was thinking the same that allocation table may be updated in a day or so. Let's see what happens. But just worried bcoz of Agent's behavior. Last time I applied state sponsorship last year. At that time South Australia was needing hard copies of documents and my application got expired and even i was not informed about it. I used to check the status on portal but it was showing under processing. After fighting with the situation for 7 months I got a contact email of SA support and sent an email that why my application is taking so long then they informed me that your application is expired because hard copies of the documents are not received. This kind of responsibility my Agent carries. I am worried that scenario should not be repeated since i am not directly involved in any kind of communication with DIAC and get email information through Agent. Anyways, thanks for help. will contact Alan Collet, hope to get suggestion from Alan.

Hi Dibongo, Thanks mate. u r very helpful. I spoke to Agent , he said that he has associated the group of EOI's to his Agent ID and he checks the status from there for all the applicants or he gets an email. I followed the link provided by u and then clicked on forget password to change the password but again there is a problem. it told me that link has been sent on email ID and that is of Agent. He(Agent) said it will change the password for whole the group. In nutshell he is not providing me access to the portal. It has been 5 weeks of the lodging of the application and Visa officer is still not allocated. Any news if anybody got it allocated?? Dibongo, one more thing I got an acknowledgement in which DIAC mentioned "Date of Visa application" as 19th september, but I made payment on 1st september. I am unable to understand all this. Can please provide any email id or something where can i contact DIAC. I visited few links but in all there were predefined options and auto-generated questions so i didnt get any clarification on the matter from DIAC. I am really worried.

Hi Dibongo, Actually I am not handling it directly, its through an agent, he is managing all the things. I've already provided him the documents and he is supposed to upload those. I don't have access to the portal and when i asked him then he said that there is no portal available to check the status and he gets the information updates through email. I am not sure what to do....I searched on Immigration sites where you can put your TRN and check the status but that is temporarily out of services. can u please guide me what to do?how to check the status?? any link if u have???

Hi dibongo, I got my file number and TRN number...how can I check the status of the application. It has been a month neither i receive health request ID nor any visa officer allocated...I am worried.....Please help...

m so sorry to bother u again, but I am not finding delete option.Its showing edit/delete but not able to find any button to delete the post.

Hi Dibongo... Many thanks. Actually I was new to the thread so when i post i was not able to see it in thread, I thought may be it didn't saved so I posted again. Anyways I am removing all the duplicate or irrelevant posts.Yes I understand the timezone difference. :-)

Hi Dibongo, I am sorry for bit confusing question. I received invitation and lodged visa application on 1 st september,2012 and uploaded all the documents but still i didn't get request for Medical. did u get any email that your application is valid and accepted???how will DIAC inform me??will I get an email request to submit Medical??? I am worried...usually how much time it takes to get visa after submitting the medical, in case of 489 visa category?? any idea?? Regards, Deep

Hi Rajajee, My family is also migrating.but we both asked to submit PCC.I would suggest that you send an email to DIAC support email and get the complete and accurate information regarding this. Regards, NewDeep

Hi Dibongo, I am sorry for the confusing question. Let me explain, I've received the invitation and I lodged my Visa application and uploaded the documents except PCC and Medical on 1st september. When I was comparing the dates so its all similar to you. I was worried that may be I skipped something by mistake thats why I didn't get request for medical. I am wondering if I need to wait till I get the request or should I submit any other document/email before that? How will I get information regarding medical request?? Thanks, Deep

Cheers!!!