Conrad to Aus

Received an update today after again enquiring about thru the immi website. The Parent Visa Centre are processing applications with acknowledgement date (not to be confused with lodgement date) of 28 June 2012. Apparently they received a great number of applications in June 2012 before the price increase. Not sure how accurate this is but at least a response that shows some progress.

I have been reading the treat for the past 6 months and thought I would share our journey, be it incomplete with the forum: I have been the eternal optimist for the past 12 months. Everyday hoping that the Parent Visa Centre has a change of direction (for the better) and process application in a record time! Well, I can say that the optimism has deteriorated on a daily basis, and over the past 2 months optimism has changed over to pure frustration. We lodged my in-laws 143 application and the PVC confirmed acceptance on 23 July 2012. To date we have received not a single word. Tomorrow it will be 500 days and as per the visa tracker, a new record.!! Well done processing centre. As I am the authorised representative for my in-laws, I have contacted the department on numerous times by phone and email. By phone they advise that they cannot give dates and expected durations until a case officer is assigned, but for the past 2 months have every time mentioned that they are working thru a back log and our application should not be too far away. The email returns I have received from the PVC is a bit more concerning, 3 emails over the past 2 months have all come back with the same date the department is currently processing applications as 11 June 2012… I don’t believe this as the tracker shows case officers were assigned to application up to 7 July 2012. We do remain hopeful of getting a case officer before Christmas, fingers cross. I will update the forum on any progress going forward, be it good or bad.