AusCitizen
-
Posts
32 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Gallery
Articles
Everything posted by AusCitizen
-
We got our 'visa ready to grant' email on Thursday!!!!! Now to get my partner out of the country for it to be granted!!!!!! Whooooooohhoooooooooo!!!
-
@Jen44 it was supposed to be April as we had based our date on the timeline on the website (that said 5 months for low risk categories) but since joining this forum and applying and being told more like 9 - 12 months we are now looking to reschedule and uploading a new letter from our celebrant but it's hard to choose a date when we don't know what our window will be!!!! The whole system is very frustrating and makes it hard to actually plan anything :'( We're really starting to feel the frustration and we knew there was a chance that applications made after ours would be processed before us but it's so hard to watch, especially when we're such a simple case with no complicated history, travel or anything else. It should be a super easy application to process!
-
Congrats @thebetty82 we applied before you and hopefully are next in the line!!! So desperate for our approval!
-
Hey all, Any advice on doing the whole 'leave the country in order for the offshore visa app to be granted' bit will be welcome about now! It's approaching the 6 month mark for us and so we want to start planning a trip overseas so that we can be prepared... Has anyone had the experience of being in Aus and having to leave to get the grant? Do they communicate far in advance of the grant being ready? Do they give you a certain time frame to be out of Aus by? How long does it generally take to come through once you leave? All that kind of stuff would be awesome to know! Thanks in advance
-
Yep, it was definitely there originally but uploaded it again to be sure! Now it shows twice but as long as they get one of them we should be fine!
-
Yep, it was definitely there originally but uploaded it again to be sure! Now it shows twice but as long as they get one of them we should be fine!
-
@tracy8099 we too were asked to upload the police clearance even though it was already there! Maybe some kind of glitch in their system?
-
Eeeep, getting closer every day! Congrats everyone who has been granted - hopefully they keep up a steady pace
-
congrats!!!!!
-
Hi Spriteley, our CO initials were also next to our client id in the email a hopeful theory about your CO is that they have brought in more CO's to cope with the increase in applications in June and they will be getting through them all even faster? I'm being desperately optimistic because I don't have much choice
-
hehe well hurry up @Major Tom I want them to hurry up and grant yours too, then get through the rest and get August done by xmas hehehe
-
@tracy8099
-
I don't know how to tag people but tracy8099, we have the same CO and we were just asked to do a form 80 too, no complicated circumstances or high risk countries, figured maybe they just want updated info?
-
I completely understand, the wait is painful! It is exciting to be contacted though, one more form and then fingers crossed we hear soon!!!
-
Yep, I guess so, that's the first we've heard anyway
-
Congrats Belsh2737! We have just had a request for more info and discovered our case officer is VR, any news is good news at the moment
-
fingers crossed
-
Thanks GooseRenders it really is painful isn't it! I've been watching the application list very closely and I've got my fingers firmly crossed that they smash though a whole bunch of apps for you before Xmas but it's been so quiet! We're not under any illusion that it will be easy to do things this way, even saving for a casual, low key wedding will have us tightening our belts & being really careful to make sure we have the money to fly out for the visa processing too. I'm having some health issues at the moment so while two of us on my income will be tough, it will be worth it to have his support here. Congrats on the niece!!
-
Thank you, it has been hard being apart, I have written a statement saying I'm happy to accept responsibility for him and understand he might need to leave the country at some point. We will submit that and our financials and we will cross our fingers and hope for the best. Failing that we might have to make an 'extenuating circumstances' plea but I don't think the department are overly sympathetic so I don't like our chances of that!
-
Thanks Snifter, yup, too old for WHV unfortunately! There are some circumstances that mean even on less money, it would be preferable to have him in Aus & he has stuff to do and friends here too. The three month option might be better but I would think they'd still ask us to prove that we have the ability to live / fly out? We don't have tonnes of savings due to both of us flying back and forth to visit all year and paying for the visa (post July so goodbye nearly 7K!) but I earn a decent wage and we will be ok financially without him working.
-
Hi all, My partner and I have decided that we don't want to wait to be together for what could be another 7 months or more, things have been hard on us lately and the support is worth more to us than the lower income. I am happy to financially support him on a tourist visa until the PMV is ready to be granted (I know we will need to fly out of Aus to have it granted). We applied for a 12 month tourist visa and he has been asked to provide evidence (including a statement from me) of how he will financially support himself. I read that if immigration decide he has insufficient funds for the duration of the visa they can ask for a bond of between 5 and 15 thousand dollars! Has anyone had much experience in doing things this way? We have been 100% upfront with immigration about this plan and when he phoned to inquire if it was alright they told him it was, as long as he obviously followed the conditions of the visa (not working, leaving the country if and when required, etc). Any advice?
-
It's gone so quiet on grants, it's painful! Hopefully they pump heaps more out over the next couple of weeks before things slow up with all the public holidays.
-
June applications getting close to granted! This is so exciting!
-
It's been quiet lately! Hopefully a spate of approvals is on its way this week!
-
We haven't had any individualised email / correspondence from CO but our application was complete (including police clearance and medicals two weeks later - call us optimistic!) so they probably didn't / haven't needed to request anything from us. The initial 'we've received your application' email said "The average processing time for a Partner (Temporary) visa is currently between 9 and 12 months however this should be treated as a guide only." I was actually devestated the hear 9 - 12 because the departments website says 5 months for people from low risk countries, so that messed up our preferred wedding date! Having been reading a lot on here, it turns out 9 months is a great timeframe!