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Hi, anyone who has recently moved to NSW or QLD and done the whole plumbing licenses/Gap training? I know each state is different but just wondering if anyone has any info for employment. Thank you

My sister and family live north of Brisbane so ideally didn’t want to be too far from them. We also plan on moving October, had our visas too. We will stay with my sister for a few weeks then look at moving to an area. Is it your partners job that’s got the visa? My partner is a plumber so goin to be a pain getting a job and doing all gap training ect!

Ahh yess I am aware of the distance [emoji4] it was just before we started to look at set places to live for work. I wanted to get an idea of the options available as we think it will be a massive part of why we chose an area. With our visa we have to live in NSW. But I’d travel to places in the gold coast if needed. So we are ideally looking at Tweed heads area (top of NSW) but we are willing to go as far down as Coffs. If the opportunities for our little one were better there [emoji4] sorry if I sound vague!

190 NSW visa granted yesterday! 17 weeks and 5 days in total!
Over the moon!!

Visa Granted today 18/02/2019, 6.5 weeks after submitting the medicals

Hopefully not too long. Keep us updated

Any October applicants got grant after CO contact????

We submitted visa application 18th/19th October, also decided to wait for CO contact. We had contact on the 3rd Jan and have now submitted medicals and police checks. Hopefully you should hear very soon! Xx

Congratulations!! We lodged on 18th October too but didn’t front load. Had contact and everything been submitted they asked for xx

Just to update we received our 190 grants this morning. 200 days in total. 140 days to c/o contact then a further 60 days until grant! Felt like a lifetime, but very excited and grateful!! 

Oh no this is ages!! We lodged 19th Oct, had CO contact requesting police checks, medicals and form 80 3rd jan.. did you all front load?

Our invitation to apply was really quick, less than 2 weeks for the initial one then only a couple more weeks after we had invitation to lodge the visa. Lodged 19th Oct and had contact to do medicals and police checks 3rd jan.

Hi, same as is. First CO contact on the 3rd. Which visa are you? Be interesting to see the timeframe for us both now? We have booked medicals and are doing police checks tonight. I have to have for Australia too so hope they come back quick! We are using an agent, as far as I know the medicals get uploaded by the doctor and police checks you will upload when receive them xx

Yes we already filled out form 80 and sent to our agent so it was ready if they requested it and they did. Did you send form 89 with medicals and police check?

We had CO contact on 3/01/18 for medicals and police checks 10 weeks and 6 days after lodging! So happy. Just hope police checks come back in time for the 28 day timeframe as I need an Australian one too!! Have our medicals booked for the 18th jan! [emoji51][emoji119]

same date19th lol i hope next month or feb , but i done medical nd ppc

That’s great news!! 19th Oct lodgement date here so fingers crossed we hear in jan for our medicals and police checks [emoji3]

Sorry to hear you have been waiting so long! We were shocked we had an invite within 10 days. Fingers crossed you hear very soon. I think once you get an invite it’s roughly a 6 week processing time (it was for us anyway) until you get nominated to apply.

We have 65 points by the way with state nomination. What occupation are you? From what I have gathered this plays a big party in the state sponsored visas

Hi, we submitted EOI for NSW on the 13th August. We received invitation to apply for nomination on the 23rd August. We were then nominated to apply for visa on the 2nd October. Visa lodged in the 19th October. We were originally going for 189 but changed to the 190 and all started happening very quickly. We are going to do medicals and police check in jan then hopefully will be a grant soon!

Hi,
Ours both seem to be very similar timeframes. We submitted visas 19th October for 190 NSW. Just considering doing medicals, police check, form 80 ect before we get contact. Keep us posted :)

yes , what is yours occupation 

Hi, it’s the plumber as the primary applicant. Yes I’m guessing plumbers are in high demand.. just waiting for that go ahead now to submit visa [emoji119] Hope your hear something soon.

Hi,
Our eoi was submitted 13th August and had an invite to apply by the 23rd August. We applied for nomination a few days later and are now waiting for the nomination to apply for visa. It’s been about 5 weeks. My partner is a plumber with 65 points including state sponsorship.

I thought that was the case. We have 65 points with state sponsorship and my partner is main applicant occupation - plumber. We are using an agent who been very good and thorough :)