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Thanks god and pomsinoz

Got PR today

186 DIRECT ENTRY ,

MA

occupation: designer

Family of 2 person

time line:

submission date: end of Jan 2014

Co ask for further documents: 2 May

submit doucments: 3 Jul 2014

pr granted : 8 Jul 2014

Good luck for all of the waiting friends.

Hi, We just got an email once our employer had a case officer (after 12 weeks) asking for a bit of extra info, then the nomination was approved about a week later. We submitted ours 1 week after nomination approval. FIngers X please that we hear of a case officer soon! Im assuming Form 80's are totally mandatory for everyone? I have mine printed but as yet have not tackled filling them in. Cant wait!!

sooo congratulations

Hi Eveyone

 

Finally, after a process that started last August, we have been granted our Employer sponsored PR today!!! To be fair it took me ages to get my Dubai Police check so after all paperwork was submitted on 12th Feb it took 16 weeks.

 

Woo Hoo

 

Good luck everyone

congratuations!!!

are you direct entry? or trasmission from 457?

much better than me

I submitted at the end of Jan

and a long waiting from then on

no news until today...

got informtiaon from other forum

some visa granted who submitted on 9,10,16,17 Jan

may be the queue is in the middle of Jan right now

Anyone has got a grant this week? Seems very slow since last week.

Maybe as the school holiday and the coming easten holiday:(

Update!

 

186 Direct Entry Nominatin + Visa application submitted Feb 10th 2014 with MA with police checks (no medical)

In Progress on Immi Account

NOMINATION APPROVED March 31st 2014, CO has also requested medical and has checked over all visa. Has told my MA once medicals are uplaoded onto Medibank, she can release the visa grant

 

So in total 7 weeks for nomination approval. Medical booked for April 14th. Fingers crossed the visa wont be much longer after that! Seems very quick...

So quick, lucky

what is your original country?

are you form low risk country?

Hi everyone, I just received my 186 visa yesterday. I've read this forum obsessively for the past months to get me through the waiting time and wanted to share my timeline with you all. It seems as though they're moving quickly right now.

 

Nomination, application and all materials lodged on January 3 2014

approval on March 28

exactly 12 weeks (84 days)

 

good luck and thank you so much for all of your updates. I really appreciated it along the way!

congratuations

are you direct entry?

Thought I would share my timeline with you all ...

 

nomination submitted oct 13 th

Nomination grant 23 rd Dec

main application submitted Jan 19 th decision ready direct entry( not that that matters!! )

Visa grant yesterday mar 28 th

Delighted

congratuations moldec 1999

did you have the same co for your nomination and application? or different person?

thanks

Hi Everyone,

 

Just wanted to share my timeline for ENS 186 direct entry lodged through Melbourne office. NON DRC through Migration agent.

 

30th August 2013 (Nomination and Visa lodged together) along with full medicals police checks, skill assessment and all other required docs.

10th Feb 2014 (Further documents requested by CO from Paramatta)/ company training schedule and current residential address proof for me and my wife.

19th Feb 2014 submitted requested documents.

25th March 2014 NOMINATION APPROVED TODAY. (6 months and 24 days)

Waiting for VISA decision, fingers crossed!

congratuations Dve2012

were you in australia or overseas when you submitted your application?

Visa Approved. Woop Dee Doo!

 

Here's my complete timeline:

 

Nomination submitted: 01/07/13

Nomination approved: 29/08/13

Application submitted: 06/09/13

CO assigned: Early December sometime (Parramatta Office)

24/2/14: Request for wife's medical, minus the x-ray since she's pregnant

21/3/14: Request for Health Undertaking form in the morning, visa approved in the afternoon. Just in time for the weekend

congratuations Caomhin

Are you direct entry?

According to the immi, if you apply your nomination and 186 at the same time, it will be the same CO. If you apply after the nomination approved, it may be the same CO.

HI Channel

I have different Co for the nomination applicaion and the visa application

are you still waiting ?

Hey friends

 

do you guys have any idea after you have co assigned how long he/she takes time to make decision ???

my MA told me around 2 weeks

but it was about my 457 visa application one year ago

I am not sure whether it is the same with 186 visa

Hi, very new to this forum and would like to share my "ing" time line.

 

457-186

Chinese Nationality

visa and nomination:1 Feb 2014

All docs uploaded with application, medical checked in prior of application.

The IMMI account online status changed to in progress on 13th Feb 2014 and all uploaded docs showed 13/2/2014 as Feb.

 

Not received any contact from IMMI yet, however will keep update here with all folks.

 

Good luck everyone.

we submitted on the similar day,

fingers crossed

I sent it Feb 20 to nsw.pse@immi.gov.au The NSW is obviously the state (I was also given the choice to send to vic.pse) pse seems to be the email for the ENS 186 transition scheme.

Thank you so much for your informaiton

Quick note with a suggestion. My application, at 87 days, was the quickest by a couple of days of the 30 or so I tracked through yesterday, or 2 to 3 weeks shorter than our average and about 40 days shorter than the typical longest of 125 days or so. This is all a bit of black arts, hence tracking and sharing data, but I did something that may have helped.

 

I wrote a short, very polite, email in the hopes of expediting my application. I have no idea if it did so, but I did get it approved prior to the date I requested. Obviously, your situations will be different, but if there's any reasonable request you can make, it may well be worth doing. From contacts, the key is to remain polite and have that sensible reason. Just asking for priority treatment could well backfire on you. Here's a slightly edited version of the email I sent:

 

I'm writing regarding my ENS 186 application. I'm hoping I may be able to expedite the review of my file due to my son's education status and the significantly lower fees if we are granted the 186 visa.

My son <redacted>, who is also on the application, was able to achieve an excellent ATAR score which has resulted in acceptance to the University of Melbourne on a Commonwealth supported position. However, as we are currently on a 457 visa, that acceptance has been transferred to an international fee paying position.

The difference in fees between Commonwealth supported and International fee paying is quite significant. Approximately $9,000 p.a. compared to approximately $37,000 p.a.

I appreciate that the service standard for processing visas is 6-8 months; I have also seen a number of 186 applications approved that were submitted in October or November last year.

Those processing time examples give me some hope it may be possible to receive an answer on our application prior to the University's cut-off date for a Commonwealth position.

The cut-off date for securing the Commonwealth supported position varies slightly depending on which specific courses he selects, but the earliest is 17 March and the latest about 30 March.

Should it be possible to have my file reviewed in the next 3 to 4 weeks it will make a huge difference to <redacted's> University career and our finances.

Best regards and thank you for your consideration.

Hi CDR , thanks for your sharing.

When did you sent the email? Just several days before the approval?

and you send it to your case officer or other email address?

Ours just got approved today!

 

ENS 186 DR, transition stream.

Nomination and application submitted 16 Dec

Visa Granted 13 Mar 14

87 days. No contact with Immi between submission and grant.

 

Have the grant letter in one hand and a champagne in the other!

sooo congratuations CDR

and thanks for your tracking record

do you know the transition stream and the direct entry stream are in the same queue or different ones?

Hi Everyone,

 

Just wanted to share my timeline for ENS 186 direct entry lodged through Melbourne office. NON DRC through Migration agent.

 

30th August 2013 (Nomination and Visa lodged together) along with full medicals police checks, skill assessment and all other required docs.

10th Feb 2014 (Further documents requested by CO from Paramatta)/ company training schedule and current residential address proof for me and my wife.

19th Feb 2014 submitted requested documents.

14th March 2014 still waiting for a decision on nomination and visa...

All up 6 months and 14 days of waiting and still continuing...no end seem to be coming and to add to the frustration few of the people on the phone with immi are just so rude...

 

Hopeless!

Hi Dve2012

Maybe the good news is on its way.

Or you can contact with you co who contact with you for further documents, and inquiry whether he/she received your documents already.

good luck

so quite this week...

Can anyone advise? I am applying direct entry and had my nomination approved within 2 days of applying back in December. Unfortunately I couldn't lodge my application at that time as I was waiting for police clearance checks to come back. Made my full application with all medicals etc on 12th of feb. is there any advantage of applying after the nomination was approved in terms of time taken to grant the visa or am I at the back of the queue and processed according to application date?

 

fyi contacted the case officer who approved the nomination at the Perth office. They are processing November applications currently.

Hi drsury

we are on the same boat, my nomination was approved on Jan, and submitted the visa application at the end of Jan

I think we have to come to back of the queue as the visa application date.

The only difference is there is a case officer's name on my visa application acknowledge letter,

maybe it means I have a co already, maybe not , I am not sure.

I did not get a word from the submission of my application to right now.

Swimming, office of application is no longer relevant. There is a single national queue.

it is good, at least easy to count

PR granted today!!!

 

I've been following this thread for a while it has been really helpful.

 

So... I want to share my timeline:

 

Visa Type: ENS 186 Direct Stream

Nomination lodged: 03/12/2013

Visa application: 18/12/2013 (Decision Ready with MA)

No contact from DIAC during the process

 

Nomination and Visa approved on the same day: 07/03/2014

Total time: 95 days

 

Best of luck for all of you!

HI liz21

which office did you submit your applicaiton?

PR granted today!!!

 

I've been following this thread for a while it has been really helpful.

 

So... I want to share my timeline:

 

 

Visa Type: ENS 186 Direct Stream

Nomination lodged: 03/12/2013

Visa application: 18/12/2013 (Decision Ready with MA)

No contact from DIAC during the process

 

Nomination and Visa approved on the same day: 07/03/2014

Total time: 95 days

 

Best of luck for all of you!

congratuations LIZ21

DECEMBER IS COMING...

I am FRB

should be the other 2 months

hope soon...

I heard an interesting bit of news today. Immi is working to hire some retired CO's on contract to help deal with the backlog, my contact expects to be working in the next couple of weeks. The "target" processing time, for a complete "decision ready" file, once a CO is assigned is half a day, or in other words, they are targeting two decisions per CO per day.

it is good news

Hi can anyone tell me what the process is following Medical - I had mine last week do I need to do anything or is it sent directly to immigration?

If the co ask you to do this

he/she will give you a hap id

the result will be given to co directly according to this ID

you need not to do anything after the body check