To Pbeeby, deeacz and sunshinebee,
Before we applied australia, we have applied for visa of New zealand (1 year ago, and still waiting for CO decision). during the waiting game with new zealand, I found 222311 is a nominated occupation in NSW, then I started to take the skill assessment by VETASSESS, and it went smooth. on 1st July, I was pretty happy to find that NSW will continue to nominate 222311 applicants. Then I make my documents certified by Consular of Australia embassy in my country, translated my working documents by NAATI, and prepared my documents in well-organized order according to the BOOKLET6. for partner relationship documents, we attached a summary, classifying different documents based on their purposes. Before we uploaded the files, we reviewed the documents from the CO's perspective, and questioned ourselves whether there was anything unqualified. After at least twice review like this, we finally uploaded our documents one by one. I am sure every CO would like to make an application finalized if they are confident with the documents and they have working flow target, i guess.
Another point, i would like to mention, is after we got a CO, we wrote an email to the team emial box, expressing our appreciation of their assessment, and make general introduction of our application. We didn't push them to tell us CO's name or telephone number.
I think the different COs, different styles apply. however, the common sense is they generally respect applicants as a reward if we behave politely. They dont wanna risk themselves to approve or delay any application intensionally. the much better we prepared, the much faster we get the grant.
So take a look of our application from the CO's perspective, and question ourselves before we send emails.
that's my own opinion. take it if you like it, or let it go if you dont like it.
All the best to everyone,
Cheers.
GJMFL