mandyjd1965

thank you for your advise

originally I was on a student visa which was cancelled because they believed I went over my 20 work limit on 2 occasions even though I had the evidence that I didn't, the immigration case officer interpreted my time sheets incorrectly so she cancelled it. I immediately appealed against this and I am now on a bridging visa until the case comes to court. just before my student visa was cancelled I applied for the 457 visa. after many letters and stat decs they said that they would not grant my visa unless I could show that it affected an Australian resident/ citizen. my sister who has a café restaurant wants to sponsor me as head cook and she wrote a state dec stating that because of my experience she wants to sponsor me through her business and because she knows that she can trust me fully to run it for her ( she has a full time job away from the café) she also took on 2 traineeships. the immigration stated that they did not feel that it would affect my sister because she has been running the business for 4 weeks without me and the trainees can get other jobs elsewhere. My eldest son who is applying for his second student visa also had a phone call from his case officer on the same day my application was refused stating that she did not think that he was a genuine student and accused us of running a business and he know we had done the wrong thing against Australia and our visa

we have just had our 457 rejected and we are going to appeal but I have been told that hardly anyone wins these appeals so why bother doing it can anyone give me advise ???