SusieRoo

1 hour ago, VikramM said:

Hi guys thanks for your response.. I am aware of other visa like SC864 etc.. And have made up my mind to fIle SC143 however just want to know can i file it while they arr onshore or is ther any restriction that SC143 visa can be filed offshore only. 

 

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.

3 hours ago, kaur20 said:

Hi once visa 173 is granted I know that my parents can stay for  2 years on temp visa. I understand they can apply for perm resi after two years  but will they be requested to do another medical exam to have visa 143 granted?

No, only one medical exam for the 173 part.

Best to apply directly for a 143 and skip the 173.

On 24/05/2020 at 11:14, Ammy143 said:

Aos bond paid , bank gurantee uploaded .

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?

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.

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.  

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.

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

5 hours ago, Lucy Adelaide said:

They are also allowed us 28 days (I heard last year they allowed 70 days). I think they will understand if you may need an extension because of medical appt. Hopefully everything is back to normal soon.

Northern Visa Medicals (Manchester) is now open again for medical exams. So we should now be able to keep within the 28 days.

38 minutes ago, Marisawright said:

Yes, and the reason those articles are appearing is to counter a growing view in some quarters that immigration should be cut drastically due to the predicted rise in unemployment. Hard to say which view will prevail

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.

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. 

4 hours ago, Lucy Adelaide said:

Congrats SusieRoo. 

I just wonder how many days do they allow you to prepare and submit docs. Thanks.

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.

24 minutes ago, AlwaysVet said:

We've been waiting for more than 4 years, why not waiting for a little longer hehe. (just been waiting for too long, I guess). Also just miss our granddaughter, she is only 6 months old. 

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.

4 hours ago, Molly said:

Hey lovely people, 

Just about to apply for Contrib parent (143) for parents offshore. Gov website now says over 4 years wait.
Question is, what's the process if they are ready to come before 4 years? I think they can switch it to a 173, then apply again for 143 when they get here, but how does that work and what are the costs involved in doing it this way? 

Thank you!

 

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.

23 hours ago, VERYSTORMY said:

There are flights going to Australia now and if you have PR, you can fly. 

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.

Wow!!! Just had a request for further docs. Wasn’t expecting that.

Wow!!! Just had a request for further docs. Wasn’t expecting that. Opps wrong thread

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).

35 minutes ago, Marisawright said:

That's an exaggeration. It hasn't been scrapped, just reduced to 2017 levels.

 https://www.apra.gov.au/news-and-publications/apra-adjusts-bank-capital-expectations

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”

44 minutes ago, Marisawright said:

...the Australian government changed the legislation so that banks now have to keep much larger reserves of cash than they ever did before.   

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.

11 hours ago, Marisawright said:

You're right.

What happened is that ME Bank's formula for calculating redraw amounts has been wrong for years.   The result was that people could have withdrawn too much, leading them to be in arrears with their loan.   ME Bank has now corrected the formula.

The trouble is, people made extra payments on the basis of the old formula, and many were banking on withdrawing the lot in the current crisis.  

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. 

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.

10 hours ago, Marisawright said:

I don't agree.   Sadly, these days, politicians base their decisions on popular opinion, not what's best for the country. 

If there is high unemployment, Australians will become even more anti-immigration than they are already.  You've seen how it worked in the UK - one of the big drivers for Brexit was the popular belief that Europeans were "taking our jobs".  The same will happen in Australia, whether it's good for the country or not, and the government of the day won't dare go against it, for fear of losing power. 

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.

5 hours ago, Toots said:

I was listening to Kristina Keaneally and Labor has called for Australia's immigration program to be overhauled and curtailed in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic saying Australian workers must "get a fair go and a first go at jobs", in comments that form common ground with some Coalition MPs.

Home affairs spokeswoman Kristina Keneally, who is part of Labor's core leadership group said the country had an unprecedented chance to shift the immigration program away from the "lazy" approach used by governments of all persuasions to boost the economy at the expense of local workers and community concerns.

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.

1 hour ago, LindaH27 said:

When home affairs show the numbers in the queue in their annual reports  is it the number of applications or the number of people as there could be potentially  three or more people on each application with dependants etc.? And does the cap of c 6000 mean 6000 people or applications because that would affect the wait time in the queue surely? 

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. 

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.