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Hi, Need your advise please.

My citizenship test is scheduled for 13 July 2017. Today my job asked me to travel overseas for 2 month. I did calculation and this means that if i travel I will be overseas more than 90 days during the last year.  is this a problem? 

Hi, my timeline 

1. Date applied : 15/03/2017
2. City/Council area: Glen Iris , Melbourne.
3. Online / Paper : online 
4. Date received the acknowledgement email : 15/03/2017
5. Citizenship test invite email received: 08/04/2017
6. Suggested date of the Citizenship Test : 13/07/2017
7. Approval: TBA
8. Date of ceremony :TBA
9. Type of ceremony :TBA

I tried to change citizenship test date online, however no slots are available before July.

Will it help to call them to try to change the test date? Can I ask to take the test in other location where they might have more availability?

19 hours ago, cutest angel said:

Hi guys, i got my ceremony date .. 10 may .. cant wait . 

Congratulation! What is your timeline?

Hello, can you please advise what is the best and most efficient way to prepare for citizenship test? Thank you

and guys ,my wife needs to pay the language training fee ;so when is the best time? pay now or wait immi office ask to pay then ???

I see that most people pay when immi asks to do this.

There is always small chance that immi will not pay attention and you will save 5K$

Haven't been here for a while.

Wonder what happens to @Jazzcrave, did he receive visa?

Good Morning all,

 

I thought I would share some feedback I have had from my MA this morning. I have applied for both my nomination and visa back in March, and am currently in the process of getting my AFP and Canadian criminal record check, as well as my health assessment through BUPA completed. I have been trying to get all required documentation submitted so my file is "decision ready".

 

I noticed that many applicants have been requested to submit a form 80 and noticed that I have not completed this form so I asked my MA about it.

 

My MA advised that this form is rarely asked for these days and only applicants from certain countries or with criminal records are typically asked for this form. Could I ask if anyone from LR country with no criminal record has been asked to complete a form 80? I am from Canada and my record is clean, he is adamant that I do not need to complete this.

Few points:

1. There is no "Decision ready" process exception anymore(since 2013), so you will need to wait in general queue at least 6 month for your file to be opened by CO

2. Yes it is advised to submit form 80. They may or may not need it, but you don't want your application will be delayed because they decided to request form 80 from you.

I am from LR, submitted form 80 upon my MA request.

Same feeling as you. We paid lots of taxes for them, but they never work hard. The official web shows processing time is 6 month, but they usually open our files after 6 month, then we do not know how long it takes them to finalize the file again. We pay them taxes, they trade us as nothing. They never follow the timeline. They suppose to finalize documents within 6 month, otherwise they should change the website timeline to 8 month or whatever. I feel painful as we have been paying lots of taxes for this country.

I understand your frustration, but i suggest not to approach this matter from this position.

Taxes are paid for you to be in safe and clean country with normal roads and good school for your kids.

Immi work is also paid partially from this bucket, but those guys work very hard, trust me.

Recently Immi workforce was cut, I suspect they are severely understaffed, but you can do nothing with this(at least until you become citizen and can influence local politicians via elections/voting), But i suspect you will not bother once you will become citizen of Australia

Sorry mates, i am here to express my feelings

 

In these two weeks, i have been so depressed and kept thinking why my application takes longer than other applicants....

should they think my application positive before asking the PPC and Medical?...its already 39 days upon i uploaded the additional docs.

And i keep checking my imm account every 15-30 mins..its really bothering my regular life.

 

My ma said better not to call the imm. office, but what i can do...

 

Btw, whats time period does imm. office would give us notice about visa status during the day? 9pm-5pm..which one goes faster ?

 

 

Thanks all of you listening.....thanks....

I know what you feel as I recently being in same situation.

Just don't panic, don't do stupid things, don't do actually anything.

If you have any issues with your medical results you will see this in your immi account.

Otherwise just wait, your time will come.

How do you guys know nomination is approved? Does it show on your immi login? Mine just says application received, im 21st sept as well. Hoping for good news this week

 

 

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You can only see this from notification you recieve from MA. This will not appear on immi site.

I have been calling him since monday. He sent me a msg today after that he is not in sydney. 

 

Btw can MA really do something ?

 

nom and visa 07/09/15

nsw

From my experience MAs are very reluctant to contact immi. Not saying that they have 0 power to influence immi timelines.

guys, I have question

Can I apply for citizenship slightly before 4 years(3 years on visa 457 + 1 year on PR), to have actual ceremony right after 4 years? I see that it takes in average 2 month between application and ceremony dates, is it possible to apply when you 3 years 10 month in Australia?

Just to get it straight, i have set 3 alerts on immi account one alerts me via email everytime i log in and other two are for password change and cant remeber the third but i cant see any 4th option which clearly states that alert will be sent once status changes. Are we both on the same page??

you may disable those alerts which you mentioned, I found them irritating rather than informative.

What you need is application status alert. You need to go to "application preferences"(left top corner), and choose "manage application alerts".

There you can choose the alert and email to which you want to be notified. This is all you need.

What time did you received the notice?

I just want to know what time case officers start to work.

 

 

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10AM

Did you get notified by agent or immi or via email??

First notification came from online immi portal(I tuned status change notification there)

After this MA notified me

dear friends,

PR granted this morning.

Nomination 30 July, approved 10 feb

Visa 30 Sept. , approved 15 March

LR

Sales representative

Processing center NSW

No documents requested

Good luck to all waiting!

Imm processing LR applications first as per spreadsheet

I wonder if someone has several passports, which passport is considered as main one to evaluate LR or HR?

I am from HR , and married I have a 4 yr son born in Australia.

Yeh, its long wait... Hope you get it soon

Hi sunny786 ... are you married ....actually i know one guy who put ens and after 9 months he didnt get any reply he called immi so many times everytime they said its in processing.....and after 11 months his family in his country told him that some people from immigration came and asked about him and his wife .........i dont know the reason why that thing happen with him

Is he from HR or LR country?

Good Morning everyone, I have been watching this thread for months now and I am delighted to tell you that we got our PR granted this morning

 

Nom Lodged - 26/06/16 and granted 09/02/16

Visa Lodged - 02/09/16 and granted 11/03/16

Processing Centre - VIC

Occupation - Plumber

LR Country

 

Best of Luck to everyone else!

Congrats! @Julz0k, which documents were requested on 09 Feb.?

Guys, I have question regarding definition of Low risk/High risk countries.

On the DIBP web site we can find following definition: "Low risk applies to nationals from countries which issue ETA eligible passports. A list of these can be found on the department's website. High risk countries are those which are not ETA eligible. "

But what if someone has two or more passports and one of these passports is from High risk country while other passports from Low Risk countries?

Good morning guys hoping we get more grants today! I am waiting for 199 days already my status is unchanged still application recieved hopefully this week or next week many of us will get grants too

 

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Was your nomination approved? Or both are still unapproved?

can anyone please give me some idea? please!

Hi, very hard to tell. In general DIBP process visa based on visa lodgement day(means 6 month +), but I have observed some exceptions in this forum.

You may check that some people whose nomination was approved got their visa approval quicker. Bottom line: there is no strict rule in your case, you may get it before or after easter.

K

 

i won't be surprised if someone intentionally doing it

Best solution would be having one person who will have exclusive rights to manage this file. But how we can elect such person if the forum users are always rotating?

Hey, have you figured this out yet? You helped me a great deal. I have been checking the other doc for weeks wondering why it wasn't being updated. I want to also update my info. In the mean time if others are updating theirs I suppose it helps. I applied 7th September 2015 both nomination and application. They've approved a 3rd and 4th September. I hope I'm next week

Sorry , did not understand you. Have you received PR?