bridgie

Do you mean this one?  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qdUJtvi43-4Ma76iDQWtT3Dv2KK4HxA1lvQzeAB2MOE/edit#gid=0

Hi everyone,

I’ve been trying to check up on people’s progress on the visa tracker and mine has strangely disappeared. Can anyone give me the link...ta muchly.

Two months has passed since we received our PR. At the time we were in NZ awaiting the email and were lucky to get back. The lock down has been severe, possibly not as bad as Europe but bad enough. I think the bigger problem is going to be the effect on the economy and of course China is ramping up the rhetoric and stopping trade.

I wouldn’t even think about buying a house now and I would also keep money in the UK as well as Aus and play the exchange rates.

We can get loo rolls now though[emoji16]

Bridgie

I can’t believe I’m writing this.....Bridgie has left the building.

PR has been granted today, we have been wandering around Auckland checking emails hourly since Sunday. The stress has been incredible and now the relief is immense.

There’s only one thing left to say,,,,,

G’day Mate.......

VISA GRANTED!!!!!!  Best feeling ever!!  Mum and dad will finally be allowed to stay here with us forever.  So exciting!!  They will arrive in 3 weeks time!
Thank you to everyone on this forum, this road with you all has made the waiting so much easier.
All the best to those waiting still, your glory day will come and you will rejoice!! 

2nd Vac payments - do you send a copy of payment via email to pvc team? [mention=276812]Greece[/mention] you just been through this super fast, did you send them an email?

Hi Bridgie If you don't mind me asking, how come if you paid 2nd VAC 7/2/2020, you're only getting out next week? Is it your own preference? We're a bit stuck in what to do at the moment. Completed AoS and all required documentation returned to Immi this week. My parents are in Au at the moment on a 600 visa, they have to leave by end March (12 months), and without knowing how long this may take, we don't know if to send them all the way back home to Latin America or to send them somewhere closer such as Bali.

Why did you guys end up cancelling Bali?

Thanks heaps

 

 

When you get the notification to go off shore (only applicable if you’re in Oz) they give you notice to tell immigration within 7 days your travel plans and you have 28 days to leave the country.

We have been here on a 600 visa for a year with the proviso that we leave every three months. We had previously booked a trip to China to coincide with the three month time period. The corona virus has made that trip untenable. We then booked to go Bali and after we booked Australia made the announcement re China that they would only allow Citizens and Permanent Residents to return to Australia after Quarantine. We took the view that we would rather face quarantine in NZ than Bali if the same conditions were applied to Bali or NZ. In the meantime we received the notification to go offshore for grant of visa so it has tidied up well.

The only fly in the ointment is the footnote on the email asking you to go offshore. They advise you to be offshore for 5 working days our trip falls short by a day. If it comes to it we’ll book another flight and stay until grant. After all the costs over 4 years of back and forth it’s a small amount to stump up however, once back in Oz we don’t plan anymore offshore jaunts for a loooooong while.

Bridgie

Same here, the suspense is killing!! ha ha

Just received notification to go off shore to be awarded visa.

You have to show your travel plans within 7 days of receipt of the email and leave Australia,if you are on shore,within 28 days of payment of 2nd Vac. You are required to be off shore for a minimum of 5 working days.

Bridgie

Congratulations!!! Can you tell me how long they give you to pay the second/final instalment when you get the email? I just paid the AOS - currently also hopefully buying a house so making sure funds are all in check as a few weeks of money going all over the place! Thanks [emoji846]

Just when I thought no one loved us and we had been forgotten!!!

Boom

Request for 2nd VAC arrived. I’ve never been so happy to pay $87200.


Did someone say “ it’s Wine O’Clock[emoji3][emoji3][emoji485]”


Aussie Bridgie.

Probably a daft question after spending all day form filling but do we have to fill out two form 80,s or is it just the main applicant and not one for my wife ?

Also some said they didn’t pay the $150 set up fee on this thread but I was just told this is unavoidable?! Any ideas?

Yes hopefully soon.  We have still got one supporting document (police certificate) that we are waiting for, which I am slightly nervous about as we are now past the 70 days to provide documents.  So hopefully we will get that very soon so we are complete on all our requested documents.  Fingers crossed.

Likewise we were told we needed a UK police certificate even though we haven’t been in the UK for 12 continuous months since 2006. Hey ho 412$ later , they arrived in 13 days and have been submitted. China trip cancelled unsurprisingly and now trying to guesstimate when and where to go off shore.

Also providing you can show that you have applied for the certificate etc it is acceptable to go over the allotted time span for the request for further information. It was on our email they sent for further information.

Never a dull moment.

Bridgie

Did you contact your bank before hand to have the daily limit of you BPay lifted in order to pay the large sum of $$?

So sorry to hear that. Maybe it's worth just sending a message to your case officer to explain that it was 13 years ago you left the UK...? He/she might reconsider, you never know. Yes please for red wine!! [emoji4]

Email received today for additional information........ UK Police certificates [emoji35][emoji35][emoji35] we left the UK 13 years ago to live in Spain. The stated criteria is any country you have lived in for 12 months in the last ten years.....Are we going to complain?, Are we going to protest?, Are we going to try and contact Immigration?

Or

Are we going to grit our teeth and smile sweetly....of course...$412 thank you.

Just for your information if it applies to you.

Red wine anyone[emoji3][emoji3]

Hi Linda,

We did all this three years ago. In the end it worked out better for us to have a UK company pick up in Spain, take back to the UK and then ship to Oz. We speak more than conversation Spanish and that wasn’t the problem. The problem was shipping routes from Spain to Oz.

Bridgie.

Am I reading this correctly. Do we need to open a commonwealth bank account to do the AOS bank guarantee? 

Wow, we’re flying now AOS totally completed. AOS notified NO.1 son that they are now sending notification to home affairs.

Hi Bridgie
 
What number or department did your son speak to from centrelink? my husband is the AOS for my parents and he missed a call last week

The only follow up was after the missed call. Our son phoned Centrelink and true to their word he was contacted after a couple of days by email . The CBA in the Sydney’s business district were very used to the bank guarantee as were Centrelink close by. I guess that was to be expected as they must get an awful lot of enquires from migrants.


We still have to receive the notification that the whole AOS system has been received and then the wait for the 2nd VAC request. Looking at other time lines we are still about a month away for all that......providing of course there are no hiccups.

Bridgie

Hi,

the details are on my time line

Application to notification 2.43 months. No interview. Original phone call missed on 9/1/2020. Phone call to centrelink to query process email receive on 13/1/2020 saying AOS complete please pay bank guarantee. Bank guarantee paid 14/1/2020 and paperwork taken to centrelink office where they uploaded it 15/1/2020. A copy sent to immigration same day. Now waiting for notification that everything has been received.

Sorry, can someone remind me how to update my timeline.

Thanks

Bridgie

Spooky.... didn’t see the post above thx milly.

How many days are you given to go offshore once you have been notified that your 2nd vac has been received. We find ourselves after all this time hoping it will go a little slower[emoji3][emoji3] as we have booked a trip to China beginning of March and would obviously love that to double up as our PR trip. Bank guarantee paid today and uploaded to centrelink today.