jasonshek

Thank you very much for all the reply. It's helpful. What I have to do is to enter Oz once to activate my visa before the date specified. Also, in coming 5 years before the visa expiry, I have to enter Australia again and stay there for the period at least I can apply for the RRV or citizenship. Then everything could be fine.

Hi all. I have obtained the grant today with application date on 5 May. May I ask an question, I saw that the subclass 189 visa has an expiry period of five years. What if I can only go to Australia four years later and stay there, however the 189 visa will be expired in 1 year, and there should be not sufficient staying period for applying citizenship. Based on this scenario, may I know how to extend the visa and what is the criteria. And will my PR expired forever due to insufficient stay in Australia. Actually what my status is that I have just a career progression in Hong Kong. And I plan to achieve more in this career, say for a few years. So I might still stay in Hong Kong for two to three years more before really moving to Australia. Thanks a lot.

I have received contact from CO yesterday (24 June), and my application date was 5 May. Only the police check is needed to provide. Good luck all.

Thank you for the prompt reply. Right. It seems I should be patient instead of taking unnecessary steps first.

Hi all, would like to know if anyone here applied the subclass 189 from Hong Kong. I have a question on the police check. According to the Hong Kong Police Department, the certificate of "no criminal conviction records" could be applied for the immigration purpose by submitting a referral letter( with the address to send to) issued by Australia Immigration Department. From browsing the Internet, the referral letter would be given upon the CO allocated. However, after I lodged my application of 189 Visa on 5 May, I went to the Police Department to request the no criminal conviction certificate by using acknowledgement letter of my 189 application (on which my application confirmation and TRN are printed) as I wish to speed up the document submission process (the police department normally takes 4 weeks to issue the certificate of police check). The problem I encountered is: the police department has their policy that the recipient of my "no criminal conviction record" certificate must be sent directly to the immigration department, which should be printed on the referral letter. And the police department requires me to provide the appropriate address to send. So I would like to see if any Hong Kong applicant here could share with me the information about the appropriate address? By the way, one more question, is the F80 required to submit as well, I saw some of you here would submit that as well. Thanks a lot.

Hi all. I lodged my application on 5 May and have done most of the douments upload. However, I still have the "no criminal record" by Hong Kong Police Office outstanding. The HK police office says I need to provide the address of the recipient, however I do not have that. I would like to ask if anyone have this experience or know the address of the proper recipient? Many thanks.