Barry001
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Hi ,My recollection of the AOS procedure is that our daughter ,the sponser, had to submit evidence of earnings etc to Centrelink in order for them to approve the application. Centrelink then informed Immi that the application had been approved and that the Bond had been deposited with the Commonwealth Bank Hope this helps
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Hi When you say you applied for 143 June 13, do you mean June 2013 ? or June 13, if so which year 2013 or 2014 ? I suspect it was June 13 2013 in which case you applied exactly the date we applied so the communication on 8th January would be the CO assignment and they are asking for outstanding documentation and when that is received they will make their assessment and if everything is in order they will request the 2nd VAC When did your sponsor submit the AOS application, was it only after immi requested it ? If so ,I have heard that,in some states, Centrelink who notify immi when the AOS is in place, sometimes drag their feet a little I would suggest that your sponsor contact the Centrelink office where she/he submitted the application and inquire about it's progress. They may not as yet,have informed immi , which may be the hold up Hope this helps cheers Barry
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My daughter's AOS took only 3 weeks from start to finish in Perth but I understand it can take longer in some states Barry
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Hi Maisie We already had an account in OZ with enough funds for the 2nd vac and our plan was to transfer funds online to our daughter's account who would then go into her own bank and request a bank cheque (in UK we call it a bankers draft) payable to DIBP and send by post to Perth immi We were, as it happens' in OZ when we were assigned a CO so we knew that the 2nd vac request was imminent so we organised the bank cheque ourselves and left it with our daughter to send to immi when it was requested . We bank with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and they charged just A$10 to provide the cheque One can pay by credit card but that attracts up to approx. a 3% surcharge or you could pay by credit card in GB pounds through the Australian High Commission in London but the exchange rate is set every 6 months and it could work to your disadvantage hope this clarifies cheers Barry
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Hi We paid our 2nd VAC last month and the was no option to pay by electronic transfer so therefore you cannot instruct the foreign exchange company to pay on your behalf by that method Barry
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Hi, That was my understanding of the situation and was just checking on the OZ government website when your message came in Good luck Barry
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Hi Sylvia My post on page 483 may be of help Cheers
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re initial entry date in above post Reply from Perth immi - Quote "The initial entry date was extended by 3 months as per our policy to allow for more time for you to make an initial entry into Australia on your new visa" One learns a little more each day of the workings of the Immigration service cheers
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Hi everyone whoopee, received our visa 143 grant letter today Time line: 14 June 2013 Application lodged with Perth immi 28 June 2013 1st vac (A$2060) taken by creditcard 7 th September 2013 Acknowledgement received with dates to complete UK police checks and Medicals and to complete form 80 immediately 18 September 2013 Sent scanned copies of Form 80 to Perth immi 15 March 2014 Requested HAP(health assessment portal) Id numbers 20 March 2014 Received HAP Id numbers from Perth immi 15 May 2014 Received UK police check certificates @£45 each 26 June 2014 Completed Medicals @£270 each Late June 2014 Daughter completed AOS application 16 July 2014 AOS approved and A$14000 paid 8 January 2015 CO assigned (whilst in OZ)with request for scanned copies UK police check certificate and were asked to apply for Australia Federal Police clearance certificates because we had spent more than 365 days in OZ in the last 10 years (actually spent 368 days in Oz but they wouldn't waive it for the sake of 3 days) They also asked for passport bio data scans, which we knew we had sent ,our marriage certificate, which they couldn't trace as having received and the Forms 80 scans 10 January 2015 Perth immi said they had found evidence of receiving forms 80 but couldn't locate them (they had not been placed on file)and had found the passport bio data scans - fortunately email and forms attachments were on our files so just sent again 13 January 2015 Back in UK - Set about applying for AFP clearance certificates online and sent scan of the "missing" marriage certificate 27 January 2015 AFP certs scanned and sent to Perth immi 10 February 2015 Request for 2nd VAC , A$84440, and sent by daughter on 12th 16 February 2015 Visas 143 granted The visa grant letter sets out the date by which one must complete your initial entry into OZ and we were quoted 14 August 2015 but based on the fact that our UK police check certificate was dated 15 May 2014 we expected the latest date to make our intitial entry would be 15 May 2015 Does anyone know if the rules have been changed recently ? We have sent an email to Perth immi to clarify this point It seems that the days of sending certified copies of documents is over and they now will accept scans - so master this skill Good luck to all those patiently waiting Cheers Veronique and Bazza Good luck to everyone still waiting for things to happen
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Hi Has anyone views on which removal companies they would recommend and which to avoid dealing with Cheers
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Hi Got 2013 on the brain at the moment Our 143 was lodged 13 June 2013 and if we follow the timeline of Carob (who posted earlier today) we should receive our CO assignment within a day or so Cheers
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Hi you're dead right, should be 2014 Must have had a senior momemt
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Hi According to Perth immi auto reply email today,they are assessing 173 to 143 applications lodged on 24 June 2013 So perhaps they applied later than you can recall Cheers
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Hi everyone The good news is that the immi auto rep!y is functioning again after a lapse of 10 days or so The bad news is that the assessment date for 143/173s is unchanged from the auto reply dated 9 December, ie 27 May 2013 Things seemed to be looking up a month ago ,but alas , not much progress since then
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Hi everyone Just to complicate the lodgement to assessment/CO assignment date, today's auto reply from immi says they are assessing applications lodged on 20 May 2013 So in 5 days they have gone from assessing applications 19 months and 2 weeks after lodgement to 18 months and 1 week after lodgement How Tony1 got his assessment date less than 5 months after lodgement complicates it even further Barry PS perhaps Alan Collett of Gomatilda could throw some light on this - Please
