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Arrrrgh. Though PMV-to-820 applications usually go through really quickly (several days to several weeks) I've been waiting on mine since 24 April, and absolutely everyone else I know from here and another forum who applied for theirs AFTER me have already gotten it. Theirs are going through at a normal pace. It's been almost two months. I don't get what the holdup is for us. Anyway, glad you got yours quickly!
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No, it says that for everyone. Your application for a 309 is in fact an application for the 100 at the same time. They'll "reassess" you in two years (from the date of your 309 application) for the 100, but you won't skip directly to it unless you've been married/de facto three years or longer, or two years+ with a child together.
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The application for the 309 and the 100 are the exact same application. There's no difference in the way you apply. Whether or not to grant the 100 is up to the CO, but they're supposed to grant it (per their own regulations) if a couple is married/de facto 3 years or longer, OR 2 years or longer and has a child together. It doesn't hurt to include a note in the application asking nicely to be considered to go straight to the 100 if you qualify, as COs are human, and once in a blue moon forget to push someone straight through to PR who qualifies.
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You must have been living in Australia for four years, at least one as a permanent resident, before you can apply for citizenship. You can't have been outside of Australia for more than 12 months during those four years, and for no more than 3 months the year before you apply.
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Quite simply - quotas. Each embassy is given a certain allotment of visas they're allowed to hand out each fiscal year in each category. So they have yearly quotas, and then monthly quotas on top of that. When they have more applicants than spots in a given month, the applicants have to wait for approval.. and when there are way more applicants, they get pushed back for approval for quite a while.
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I think your CO misunderstood your question. She's saying you'll have a minimum of three months from grant to initial entry date (which is typical). I don't think she understood you were asking how long you'd have to get offshore once she notified you she was ready to decide. I imagine most people want to do it fairly quickly so it's probably not a question they get asked too often.
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I'm assuming, James, that you hadn't gotten your visa grant yet? The only reason I thought you might is because you said it's a month before you were due to go over there... that makes it sound like your visa was granted. If your visa was granted and it was a permanent visa (subclass 100), which it should have been given the length of your relationship if you were de facto for at least 3 years of it, it is no longer dependent on your relationship.
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The funny thing is I've now seen reports from people who didn't get the original survey email, but now got the one you've mentioned apologizing for the incorrect survey email. :laugh:
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What's the actual new time frame they quoted you? Just curious.
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Rob - a 189 with a partner added is not a spouse visa. A spouse visa is a 309/100 or an 820/801 (and sometimes extended to include 300s as well). They are visas for people who are already permanent residents "usually resident" in Australia, who want to LATER bring a spouse in. It's an entirely different thing. Hope that helps.
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George is great, isn't he? I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for your hubby! I know nothing about what happened to my medicals once they left the panel doc's office. Never heard what they were graded, if they were referred or not (though I'm pretty darn positive they were - very different issue). I don't know if they're back from being referred, if they were. I don't know if I'll have to go through the Health Waiver process and potentially be waiting another 6-12 months for that... or if, even after all that, they'll turn us down.. It's such a scary, stressful place to be with everything up in the air. I really hope your hubby just gets an A-graded medical!
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Obviously you didn't recommend this... but if someone were to say that hypothetically it's possible to get an immigration medical exam before filing your application (i.e., without having a HAP ID yet) and get the panel doctor's findings through FOI, that would be accurate? However, wouldn't that only provide the grading (A,B) and the panel doctor's recommendations? If there were a condition serious enough that it would surely be referred, and have to go through the MOC, it's not possible to get what the MOC's findings would be ahead of actually applying... is it?
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I wish I could be as calm as Snifter was. At least you all in the UK get an actual timeframe to work to. In the US, we don't get that. They just point us to the "5 to 12 month" average on the DIAC website that is completely useless and hasn't been updated in years. And even though that website says 5 months for low-risk countries and 12 months for high risk, they continue to point to it even when US applicants are well past five months waiting. If I could have been given an actual estimate of the average time it was taking to process applications here in the US, I would have (I think) been able to gladly work to that and plan around it. As it is, it's impossible to make plans as you have no earthly idea when to expect a visa. Earlier in the year, almost everyone's PMV took 4-5 months and Spouse Visas took 5-6. Like clockwork they churned them out within those periods. Then bam... in July, suddenly NO ONE was getting grants. Maybe one person a month on other forums I frequent, with a grant bizarrely early at 2-3 months, whereas previously it had been 2-3 people a week who had been waiting the then-average 4-5 months. We thought maybe it had something to do with the new administration or the new fiscal year... nope. Last month, finally, we started to see some grants again - 5 grants in 10 days. Then... silence again. And now we're seeing people here and there sporadically get grants who have only been waiting only two or three months. While there's a stack of us (most without health or character issues or anything else that should delay a visa) waiting 7-8 months now. Anyway, you'll make yourself crazy trying to figure it out. You have more rhyme and reason coming out of the London embassy than we do out of DC. Take what bit of order and sanity London manages, be grateful for it, and run with it. lol
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It is my understanding that they look at costs over your first 5 years in Australia for permanent visas, and that if they predict that cost will be more than $35,000 over those five years, then you have to go through the health waiver process if one is available for your visa type, or else be denied outright.
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They look at the next five years. I would definitely take a statement with you from your opthalmologist to your husband's panel exam. Make sure it explains everything you said on it, and have it speak specifically to the next five years. If your doctor can say that your husband will in all likelihood need no treatment and will not have his ability to work impacted over the next five years, I really doubt it will be a problem. Basically they want diagnosis, prognosis, treatment - and anything you can throw in there about potential costs (or lack thereof) over the next five years will be icing on the cake. If you really want to consult a specialist, George Lombard is a registered migration agent who has a doctor on staff who is an expert on these things (not optical issues specifically, but medical issues) and George is always brought up here in relation to handling visas with medical issues. In all honesty I don't think you even need that - but if you want to be on the safe side, I'd email him. Another migration agent brought up here for similar cases is Peter Bollard.
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Uh oh. Arshadcrow, did you do the medical? They're saying they've requested it from you and they've not yet gotten the results. Have you done it?
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Yes, the immi.gov.au processing times page hasn't been updated in at least a year. I don't understand the point of it when there are almost no embassies right now anywhere (high risk OR low risk) processing applications that quickly anymore.