hawthorne

Hi

Its 80s for everyone I'm afraid if our recent experience is to go by.

Good luck

Hi all

Well, our visa grant came through this morning so what a relief.

We lodged May 1st at the same time as our sponsor, then had employer approved and case officer assigned on the same day on May 31st. Some shenanigans (on our side) over medicals but final paperwork in on July 5th.

For the record, we have found DIAC to be efficient, responsive and courteous and the whole process was much better than we had feared.

Good luck all

Hawthorne

Hi all

Very final paperwork (medicals) submitted July 5th, since then our CO has not replied to our two gentle emails asking if there is anything further required or if he can give any idea about finalisation. Going into fourth week - others seem to have got final answers more quickly...

Is there any reason to be concerned do you think?

Best

Hawthorne

Hey Nolive - congratulations!

What was the 'other forum' your timeline data is from?

Hi Nolive

Thanks for the message - yes, that is what we understood too - I hope it is the case!

Good luck to you with yours as well.

Best

H

Hi all

I'm interested in what has happened to people as they get to the end (hopefully) of a 186 application. We seem to have a nice and responsive CO and last Friday our last family medical was submitted. He has let us know that they don't need anything else and they will now move to 'finalise' the application.

How long might this stage take, in people's experience?

Thanks.

Hawthorne

Hi Jon

I was in the same situation. My employer put their nomination in at the end of March and received their acknowledgement. It is this acknowledgement that gives you the TRN you need so you will need to get that off your employer (mine just forwarded their confirmation email).

Some on these boards advised that we should lodge as soon as we got that number and we asked the employer if this was wise.

They replied that the risk is that your employer will not be approved, in which case you will lose your application fee (about 3.5k AUD I think).

We judged that this was very unlikely so we lodged at the same time with all paperwork except police checks (waiting on FBI because we spent 2 years in the US) and medicals.

It worked out for us because last week we received the news that our employer had been approved and on the same day we got a case officer assigned. We have now had medicals and just waiting on the FBI checks.

So I think you have to decide if you think your employer will definitely be approved (the criteria are on the DIAC website somewhere and relate to the salary level of the job compared to the local market and their track record in training I think but don't take my word for it)... if you think they are a safe bet, our experience supports the view that you should go ahead and get it lodged, using the TRN they give you but it depends on who your employer is and your attitude to risking the fee.

We used an agent but not for full service just a one-off one hour session to go through the process and our paperwork and found it valuable.

Good luck

H

Well, our sponsors lodged their nomination 5 weeks ago and we lodged our visa application four weeks ago and today we got an email from a case office asking for medicals and form 80... I'm surprised and delighted - and slightly taken aback! Is it usually reasonably quick after a case office is assigned?

Thanks Tickled Pink and a few others for answering queries a few weeks ago