Wkdstyle

oh god that is a nightmare! well its time for celebrating then for both of us! no more worries (or at least none after the grant is confirmed ha ha)

How long have you go overseas for? I was hoping to go for just 3 days which I thought would be enough but my CO advised me to go for 5 days.

Hi  I would like some info on the 600 holiday visa, if anyone can help. My daughter's husband is 8 months into applying for the Partner visa 309/100 and they want to come onshore before grant. Could the 600 visa override the Partner visa if the 309/100 was granted before it?

 

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If he applied outside Australia he will have to leave for it to be granted. I came on an e visitor visa, received an email to say I have to leave so it can be granted.

oh tell me about it!

 

I have had one visa declined which im appealing at the tribunal and now just got my offshore visa through. Its still not over it looks like the tribunal are overturning my original decision and I am just short of being eligible for permanent residency (I applied almost two years ago, and had they granted I would be eligible in like 19 days) so im gonna keep pushing for Pr and see how that works out for me ha ha!

Oh no that isn't fair, hope it gets sorted out for you. I had to leave every 3 months on the e visitor visa, I went on a South Pacific cruise and when I returned my e visitor visa had been cancelled because I wasn't considered offshore. I had to go immigration and my argument was it states no where on the visa that I can't travel on a cruise. In the end I had to get a visitor visa, more money spent. :wacko:

I am off to Bali and confirmed my flights with the Department the next day after getting the email. A few days after that she confirmed that my grant had been scheduled for the first working day that I will be away! Exciting times

 

Where you gonna head to?

I've not booked my flights yet, going to Christchurch since there is cheap flights from Brisbane. I just got back from a cruise so I can't afford to go elsewhere, I was on a e visitor visa and had to leave the country. It's been stressful and I'll be glad when I get the grant.

@Wkdstyle Congratulations! I fly next week to get mine! its been scheduled for the first day that im offshore! yay!

Where are you going and how long for? So when you sent your CO the flight details they informed you they would grant the visa on the first day your offshore? :rolleyes:

I just checked my emails, my visa is ready to be granted! "The processing of your application has reached the stage where I am in a position to grant your visa. If your application is granted, you will be required to make an initial entry to Australia before 03/06/2016" YAY! Time to book my flights.

Still really rather quiet on the grants?!? [emoji52]

Yeah I expected to get my grant this week, I don't understand why it takes so long when everything has been approved. The CO doesn't even acknowledge my emails. :elvis:

Has there been no grants this week? I knew the 7 month mark wouldn't last, just my luck :shocked:

Hi all, long time lurker just compiling all our evidence, attempting to get organised before we start filling in forms .if you apply online do you still need to get documents certified. Thanks for any help on the first of hopefully not too many daft questions to come.

I got my passport certified, you can do it at the Post Office. The statutory declaration forms have to be certified/signed.

Woop woop! Got my request to depart Australia! I uploaded my police check about two hours before and then bam! There it is!

 

I have 28 days to confirm my departure from Australia and until 26 May 2016 as my first date of entry! ( this is exactky a year from the date of my earliest police clearance)

 

its time for a holiday then! Woop woop!

Ohhh congratulations!

You know, it would now probably have been quicker for my husband and I to have sat it out in different countries after our marriage until we had been married for three years, and then applied for the visa. We would have got his PR straight away.

Instead we stupidly applied after getting married, April 2013, got the Temp visa, hung around for the 2 years, and have now been waiting 9 months since submitting all the PR paperwork - with no sign of a PR grant and estimates being bandied around that he still may have another 10 months to wait.

 

On the point of giving up and going home as he keeps getting rejected for jobs due to having no PR.

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For anyone applying now, the PR grants are stuck in a queue behind all the onshore applicants who came here to apply after the price increase.

So after the 2 years you had to send more paperwork and now you've been waiting 9 months for it to be granted? Jesus, I didn't know it would be that lengthy. I thought if you've got enough evidence after 2 years you'd get the permanent visa granted straight away.

I just heard from my case officer and have somehow forgotten to (or they missed it) upload my police clearance. I uploaded it now within like an hour of getting the email, any ideas what happens now and how long it might take to get finalised?

I didn't get notified when I uploaded my police clearance, it's just a case of waiting now. I'm hoping to receive an email to say I've got my visa granted this month since it's been 7 months.

I was hoping to see more grants this week :cry:

Thank you! It took us 7 months and 3 days! Looks like things are speeding up which is so good for everyone!

Congratulations! What date did you apply and did you get the 100 permanent visa?

Hi all,

 

I'm wondering whether I should get my medical done and out the way so when requested I will be able to provide it straight away. I believe they don't expire until after one year. I lodged my application 4 months ago and seeing as the guideline for waiting is 10-14 months I should be ok and they should not expire. What are anyone's thoughts on this?...I'm worried I could be tempting fete?!? My migration agent has said that I can do this but made me aware they could expire before visa granted?!?

 

On the other hand if I wait until checks are requested it gives me a better idea that it could be sooner rather than later that I may hear about my visa being granted and not prolong the waiting game!! [emoji57]

I would wait, my CO gave me my HAP ID which is needed to complete your medical.

Ok fingers crossed we get our grants in the next few weeks!

Been really difficult not checking for emails every 5 mins, has anyone had a visa granted by Co v?

I have V too, your the first I've seen to have the same CO as me. When did you apply?

Has anyone done a overseas police clearance from the uk, the Middle East one still not here, where would it take 8-16wks is unreal

I got an Australian police certificate sent to the UK within 7 days.

I really hope I get the grant before the 14th February, I'm going overseas because I'm on the e visitor visa so it would mean I would enter Australia with the residency visa. It's great to hear everyone getting their grants before the 10 month mark.

Partner Visa Subclass 100 granted today, one of the happiest days of my life.

 

 

I was actually dreading coming on here to tell you all in case Nollie's hadn't been granted! Congratulations!

Congratulations! I bet you're over the moon, when did you apply? It's great to see people are getting their visa granted faster than they expected (fingers crossed)

Hi all

I completed my medical and I checked the health assessment status on my immiaccount. It says "All health examinations required for the specified visa subclass have been finalised. Processing of this person's visa application can now continue. This will not occur until a case officer investigates the case in line with published processing times for the visa that has been applied for. Do not contact the department about health examinations in the meantime." I take it this means that there was nothing wrong and I just now have to wait? :jiggy:

Hi Wkdstyle, they don't like it when u use co names on here so just change it to the initial I go my co in 2 months but some have waited 3/4 months and some have said they never got one!! Who knows why!?! Good luck with medical for tomorrow:)

Ahh I understand, just thought it was odd that my CO didn't include their surname. I only received the random generic email that everyone else seemed to receive, but after my previous post I checked my emails and my CO contacted me to say that I've met the relationship requirements and requested for me to do a health examination. I wonder if they check this forum? :biglaugh:

Hey all, I haven't been on here for a while. I got the case officer V assigned on 5th November, no idea why it took so long and I'm doing my medical tomorrow.

I've been waiting 8 and a half months with no communication with a CO at all. It used to happen a lot over the last few years, and seems to be a sign that your application is all in order and they don't need anything from you, than there is something wrong. Or so people have told me.

 

Did you front-load your application with the medical and the police check/s already completed? I did, so I won't be getting an email from a CO asking for them.

 

I got nervous all the same, and sent a query about having a CO in last week ('everyone else has one') and got a generic crappy reply from a European Service Centre person just saying they'd get in touch if they needed anything and that my application was in process.

 

My guess is that certain COs like to get in touch, and certain ones don't want you emailing them all the time so they don't let you know they're dealing with your files. But recently, there's only been me and one other person on this forum who didn't have a CO that got in touch. Thankfully there was one other person (who recently got their grant) or I'd be a ball of stress! A bigger ball of stress, I mean.

I front-loaded the police checks but not the medical, I'll get in contact with the department and see what they say. It would just be nice to know they've actually started the process, having to wait 9-12 months is long enough. :cry:

I still haven't received an email to say I've been assigned a CO and I've checked the correspondence and it only says "application has been received" has anyone else had to wait this long before being assigned a CO?