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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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It's complicated. We're worried that asking directly about my medicals would just call unneeded attention to my issues.
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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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Well damn. Thanks Westly. I wonder what they consider a "permanent and ongoing condition..." Just when I think I have a pretty good handle on all this, it gets even more complicated. Glad I have a great RMA working with me.
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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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Lizzy, it sounds like you're doing absolutely everything you can! I hope you get some replies from people who have similar conditions. I think it's rare enough that it might be a stretch, though. Best of luck!
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Great - it sounded like that to me, but I just wanted to make sure! Didn't want you guys tripped up over something silly.
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Here in the US Opticians are not actually doctors - are they in the UK? Here in the US optometrists and opthalmologists are doctors, but opticians are not. Just checking because I think it's likely important the letter is from an actual doctor.
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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.
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Either way, though "make sure you're not overweight" is not really helpful advice, IMO. If someone is such a tiny amount overweight that they can fix that before they're medical, they're unlikely to be obese enough to warrant failing the medical.
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Mmm, in certain circumstances with certain accompanying conditions (heart disease, diabetes, hypertensions), from my understanding. But for visas with a health waiver provision, most people without accompanying health conditions are not going to be denied, from what I understand.
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Curious why you said this?
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Sorry for your loss, Pointyhats, but congrats on your visa.
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Being added to your husband's visa does not mean you're applying for a partner visa. You're just being added to your husband's 457. The rules are different for that, as is the wait time, so asking spouse/partner visa applicants is probably not going to give you a whole lot of insight, in my opinion.
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BIG congrats, Tulip!!!
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Type them on the computer to make sure they're legible. COs aren't bothered if they're typed or not, but they ARE bothered if they can't read it.
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Why only female applicants?
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My fiance applied in the beginning of August, DRC, Parramatta. He just received his visa grant letter about a week ago. Good luck to the rest of you still waiting!