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    Yes, you can apply for a 143 visa while in Australia, but there are (normally) no bridging rights for this visa class. So your parents would have to leave when their visitor visas expires. Alternatively, if either of your parents are 66 or over, they could apply for an 864 visa and stay in Australia on a bridging visas for the next 10+ years.
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    No, only one medical exam for the 173 part. Best to apply directly for a 143 and skip the 173.
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    Congratulations! Just looking at your timeline,173 granted in Jan this year and 143 applied for in March (very speedy). Can I ask if you moved to Australia before submitting the application for your 143 visa? or did you apply offshore?
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    I wouldn’t mind a few gold coins, I read there is a supply shortage in the UK and USA. I guess everyone is thinking the same.
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    Yes, Australia’s monumental debt bubble had created an imminent property crash before the virus. Covid-19 was just the pin. I don’t think many people really understood what risks were already present in Australia. I’m no expert, but I do have first-hand experience of a real property crash. It makes me very focused on issues I would never have previously considered. Eddie Hobbs has written much about the aftermath of the Irish property bubble and the devastating effect if had on people’s lives. Australia is different… not because it wont happen, but because the bubble is so much larger.
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    If you’re in the UK you can now book your medical in Manchester from next week and London is looking into re-opening very soon. I thought you could apply for admission into Australia now (with 14 days quarantine) if you are the spouse of a Citizen or PR holder. Maybe easier to do your medical in Australia.
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    A sobering article by Eddie Hobbs in the Irish Examiner, maybe it's time we start adjusting to this ‘new normal’ - https://amp.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/views/analysis/eddie-hobbs-fasten-your-seatbelt-the-worst-is-yet-to-come-993618.html
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    Northern Visa Medicals (Manchester) is now open again for medical exams. So we should now be able to keep within the 28 days.
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    Scomo needs to keep the housing/debt bubble inflated at all cost. Reducing immigration now would be counterintuitive. They may need to re-start the old £10 POM scheme.
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    There is a possibility of the foreign buyers restrictions and stamp duty being scraped. Also could be some new additional first time buyer incentives later this year to try and help the housing market. However you would need to temper this with an expected decline in prices. It may be cheaper to rent for a few years, especially now as rents are falling too.
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    28 days, which would have been ample if we weren’t in the middle of a pandemic. Form 80 and police check all ok, but no medical centres are open in the UK. London is only taking bookings for July, but we are hopeful Manchester will open this week. Otherwise I'm going to have to ask for an extension to these 28 days. I find it a little strange (although I’m not complaining) that we appear to be the only forum members to be asked for medicals at this time. Your timeline is almost identical to ours, so I’m surprised you haven’t heard something yet.
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    I have to agree, having this delay for a few months is not too bad considering everything. I also have a new granddaughter I’m missing terribly, but lucky enough to have all been together last Christmas.
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    Don’t even consider a 173, just apply directly for a 143 and expect to queue for 8 to 10 years. If you wish to sit this wait out in Australia, you can buy a temporary 870 visa.
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    Flights are available currently from the UK to Australia (citizens and PR only). But I’m not sure whether having a 143 visa granted offshore means you have PR, or if you need to first enter Australia and validate your visa, before officially acquiring PR status.
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    Wow!!! Just had a request for further docs. Wasn’t expecting that.
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    Wow!!! Just had a request for further docs. Wasn’t expecting that. Opps wrong thread
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    Looks like APRA are now investigating ME Bank, which is good news. With a bit of luck, customers who had their saving pilfered will get their money returned. This would also send a clear message to other banks contemplating doing the same thing. Personally, if I had a 'Redraw' account with any bank, I would withdraw all my savings now and keep them safe in a separate account at a different bank (or even under the mattress).
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    I think you may have misinterpreted the following sentence - “APRA would not be concerned if they (the banks) were not meeting the additional benchmarks announced in 2017 during the period of disruption caused by COVID-19”
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    There is now no capital adequacy requirement for Australian banks. It was scraped by APRA a few weeks ago, at about the same time the RBA started printing money.
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    It’s shockingly naïve to dismiss this as the bank correcting an innocent clerical error and even worse to suggest the customers were somehow at fault. There is a real and imminent financial tsunami about to make landfall. These types of events are the thin end of the wedge. I guess unless you have been through this before, it’s hard to comprehend that the banks do not play by the rules in a crisis. It’s important to understand that the banks were in trouble long before the virus.
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    ME Bank has started taking savers cash to pay down their mortgages without telling them. This same thing happened in the UK after the GFC, mainly with small business. Banks just helped themselves to cash in other accounts to pay down loans. It would be wise not to have a current or savings account at the same bank as your home loan.
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    You may be right… although I’m not sure if the magnitude of the economic collapse has been fully understood by many people yet. Most still expect lock-down to end soon and life will simply return to normal.
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    I think Kristina Keneally, is oversimplifying the relationship between immigration and the economy. Drastically reducing immigration numbers will not automatically generate employment for Australians. It will do the opposite. Mass building booms in Sydney and Melbourne have been fuelled by mass immigration. How do you prevent an ‘Ireland 2008’ style property crash happening in Australia 2021? What will a 50% devaluation of property feel like to ordinary people? Also, now would be a good time for many Australian politicians to remove their heads from the sand and face the elephant in the room, which is the largest private debt bubble on the planet. The virus is not the cause of this bubble, just the pin. The RBA is running out of ammunition to keep pumping air in, with interest rates at near zero and printing A$90 billion (Which bails out the banks not citizens). It’s also worth drawing a direct correlation between Australia having (until now) an unparalleled recession proof economy and a 41% growth in population since 1991. Australia’s heavy reliance on immigration to float the economy and fund government budgets is nothing short of a giant immigration Ponzi scheme. You would need to be a brave (or foolish) politician to slam the brakes on immigration now.
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    That’s true… having a queue number will not help if it’s just the application number. As you rightly say, we would need to know how many people are included on each application to equate this to time. Oh well… excuse me while I climb back on my unicorn.
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    About time parent visas are arranged in this way. Assuming we actually get given this queue number, we should now be able to accurately calculate the number of applicant in front of our own. Then simply divide this number by the cap to see how many years or months we need to wait. Also new applicants will finally be able to see the bare facts without being sucked into a world of cotton wool and unicorns.
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