SusieRoo

2 hours ago, Samda said:

Hi everyone 

does anybody know the timeline for parents visa 173? We have applied in April 2016

thanks 

Welcome to the forum.

Unfortunately 173 visas have stalled recently and I don’t think anyone on here has been asked for further documents who applied after December 2015.

Historically 173 and 143 visas were processed in the same lodgement date order. Early last year, 173’s seemed to get ahead of 143’s and this has now reversed.

Nothing is ever fair in this system, but for now I’m just happy to be this close and to see how quickly the 143’s are now moving.

I think you should hear something in the next 3 or 4 months.

32 minutes ago, Kathss56 said:

MY TURN!

request for further information received today. All of a dither now haha 

hopefully will have everything applied for by Monday!

tfft.. woooohooo!!!

On 30/01/2020 at 04:54, Alan Collett said:

Note that UK pension income is not taxable in Australia when residing in Australia as the holder of a temporary residency visa - it continues to be taxable in the UK, where a personal allowance should continue to be available, even if not UK resident.

A BV is a temporary visa under the Migration Act 1958.

Best regards.

 

Is it just pension income that is not taxed in Australia while on a temp visa? Or does this apply to all types of UK income?

1 hour ago, Alan Collett said:

So the 52,800 applications in the pipeline equates to 9.45 years of applications given the same outcome in terms of visa grants in the current and future years as pertained in 2018/19.

So no advantage in applying for a new CPV now. May as well just apply for the standard parent visa and save the extra cost. Plus, you can always switch streams at a later date if needed without loosing your place.

14 minutes ago, KatherineM said:

Has anyone seen any further updates to 173 timelines? We're Jan 2016. It's great to see such quick movement for the 143 applications, but a little disheartening at the same time

173 visas have now slipped back 4/5 months behind 143 visas. It’s now close to a year since there was any movement in the 173 queue.

On 23/01/2020 at 05:58, Bear2015 said:

Hi Susie,

Don't worry about being a 173. Though there are only a few 173s , we were all called for additional documents before the 143s and visas  granted before or around the 143s of similar dates. My Parents also applied on 2nd Oct to convert their 173 to 143, and the application was taken up in 2 months. Yesterday I was asked to get the Bank Guarantee for Assurance of Support.

 

Thanks Bear2015 and good to hear the 173 to 143 is now going so speedily

4 hours ago, Vicky Singh said:

Anyone subclass 173 ( January 2016) receive request from immigration? After December 2015 I can't listen any further requests for anyone 

No movements here in the 173 waiting room for almost a year now, except for the occasional tumbleweed rolling past.

4 hours ago, Esteban said:

Exciting news just received email requesting medicals etc . Seems to be moving on quickly now.

That is good news, especially as we have the same acknowledgement date.

Anyone know if any new 173 applicants have been asked for docs since February 2019? I think they were last processing up to the end of November 2015, but I've not seen any movement since. I guess I'm going to be checking my inbox every few seconds for the foreseeable future.

3 hours ago, partnership said:

It will be 6 years before I  would have the money for the contributory Visa so wondering when to apply.

If I were in your shoes, I would just apply for a 143 visa right now. There will be many years (possibly eight to ten) until you need to find the 2nd vac payment.The queue is moving so slowly that even a few months of hesitation now can add an extra year delay. And there is always a fear that this visa stream will close to new applicants.

10 hours ago, MajHam said:

Happy New Year to all! A great start to the New Year for us........we’ve got our case officer and the request to submit further documents! Got an email from our agent yesterday. Great to see further movement and I’m sure more people on the forum will be getting an email very soon. Woohoo 🥳.

Good to hear things are moving again. Must be @Kathss56 turn next.

On the subject of removals, has anyone had any experience of importing old wooden furniture? Husband thinks he has a family heirloom and he is insisting on shipping it to Australia. Personally I think it would be better on a bonfire as it has woodworm holes at the back. But he is claiming all the beetle larvae are dead as he “clearly” remembers it being treated about 50 years ago (which I find amazing because he spent two hours this morning trying to remember where he parked his car).  So I was just wondering if anyone here has had any experiences with antique furniture imports. Will we need some sort of certificate to say it is free of woodworm?

102,854 parents now queuing for visas!

Taken from immi's 2018-19 migration report.

1 hour ago, Kathss56 said:

March 16 being asked for further docs. Should be me sooon 

That's very exciting news Kathss56. Is that date info from someone you know?

The £ is looking good to the $ right now and it could go above $2 if Boris keeps doing well in the polls. The day after the election may be a good moment to transfer money.

You won’t be able to do the medical before receiving the reference number from immi when they contact you. But you can always take the medical exam in Australia if you’re over there at the time.

3 hours ago, 5000/1 said:

i was also unaware that there were additional costs involved purchasing a house on a 173 visa - would anybody know what the % is ? 

 

 

 

We were also surprised to discover this extra cost for 173 visa holders. As temporary resident you need to apply for an ‘exemption certificate’ which I think costs $5700 for homes up to $1m in value.

4 hours ago, LindaH27 said:

Anybody want to have a go at explaining why there are two different numbers for the pipeline at end June 2017??

 

None of the figures in any of these annual reports ever add up. As you have pointed out, the year ends don’t match up from year to year and how can the “Demand for places decreased by 10,249 applications (or 46.9 per cent)” when the overall pipeline total has increased?

I think it’s natural for normal people to assume there is some genuine sound underling system at the heart of the Australian immigration department. And when we see some discrepancies in these reports, we just think we’re misinterpreting the data. But in reality, the system is broken and in complete disarray, with hundreds of thousands of pages of paper visa applications going back many years sitting in some dusty room. Add to this a demoralised workforce and you get the true picture and start to understand why.

The only way I can keep sane in this process is to take nothing for granted, believe nobody and to expect zilch. Sad I know, but we started out on this journey full of excitement with high expectations. Now it just feels like a horrible never-ending ordeal.

7 hours ago, LindaH27 said:

Ooh some interesting news from the test email.now working  on December 2015 but the very  interesting bit is what follows

We have identified some discrepancies in processing times between offshore and onshore visas in both Parent and Contributory Parent categories and are taking action to correct them.

* Onshore Contributory Parent (UU884 and DG864) visa subclasses have been assessed up to January 2017. Onshore Contributory Parent visas lodged from January 2017 onwards are likely to take longer to process while we action offshore Contributory Parent (CA143 and TU173) applications to bring the dates back to parity.

** Onshore Aged Parent (BP804) visas have been assessed up to Queued Date of May 2012. Onshore Aged Parent applications with a Queued Date of May 2012 onwards are likely to take longer to process while we action offshore Parent (AX103) applications to bring the dates back to parity.

 

This looks like good news for the 143 visa applicants as it seems to imply  that they will be bringing the 143 into line with the 864 applications which have been assessed up to January 2017! 

 

Interesting news, anyone know the ratio of onshore to offshore visas?

I agree with LindaH27 that Feb 2026 processing will be a while yet. I am still hopeful our March 2016 application will be processed in about 12 to 18 months time.

The GBP/AUD exchange rate is looking good at $1.90 to the £1. We may even see over $2 to the £1 if Boris can get his deal this week.

22 hours ago, Rosiejaq said:

We’ve been thinking about the fact that we will have different income streams from different countries and wondered if anyone had usedTransferwise’s borderless account or something similar ?  Any opinions would be greatfully reeceived

We use Transferwise borderless accounts and it all works perfectly with good rates of exchange. Also worth getting their debit card and use this with the phone app, it's easy to use and very impressive. To be honest I think we could now use TW accounts exclusively, without the need for any other bank accounts.

47 minutes ago, Kathss56 said:

Gosh thank you. I fly back to Oz Dec so hopefully should be ok or I will be starring in that TV programme re border control!. They have just slowed down in absolutely everything to do with migration etc., 

Weren’t you on that TV program last time with all those bags of food and birds nests?

17 minutes ago, Bear2015 said:

Finally, Visa Granted. Received the 2nd Vac request yesterday, And at around 3PM Perth time today we received the grant notification.... SOOOOO HAPPY......

 

Congratulations Bear2015, good to see you’ve finally made it. Best wishes for you and your family.  

7 hours ago, Biggsy said:

I also extracted the 173 data but excluded it as I wasn't sure it counted in the annual cap/allocation of 143's.  On the home affairs website it says when you have a 173 you then can apply for a 143! If the 173's were included in the numbers wouldn't they then be counted twice?  Once when applying for the 173 then again when applying for the 143.  Can anyone out there clarify this for us please?

I think this has come up in the past on the main thread and the general consensus was that the 173s were counted as a place initially (but not when the upgrade to 143 is granted). Ether way you still get approximately the same total of places at the yearend.

2 hours ago, Biggsy said:

I'm not 100% sure, the figures are similar to what I've seen before and always seem to be compared with the cap (7175), hopefully it won't matter if we are comparing like for like.  I played around with the data a little more and created a report forecasting a date range for each lodgement month when processing might begin. It's based on todays date, last known currently processing date (I used 16 Dec 2015) and the number of places potentially processed per day using the cap. It was very interesting, my own forecast to start processing was between the 1st and 30th July 2020. By the end of this year it forecast that lodgement dates of March 2016 could be in progress. However I'd be worried about putting that document up for public viewing just in case it's misleading. I may monitor it and see how it looks.  No doubt the Oz Christmas break will impact on the dates and also we have no idea how far into the cap they are and could stop for a while if reached. 

Thank you for posting your very informative CPV sheet.

I’ve just been having a rough count of how many applications are in front of our March 2016 lodgement date.  If I include both 143s and 173s, it works out at about 4500 applications. And because there are often multiple applicants per application (I’m assuming a ratio of 1.7:1), that’s 7650 visas to grant before they get to us. And as they have been granting about 6000 CPVs per year, it should take at approximately 15 months (November 2020). Which is slightly better than my previous assessment.

Interesting to see so many applications in May and June 2017. If you add in the 173s and use the same 1.7:1 ratio, that’s 15,000 applicants in just two months (or 30 months of processing time). And even worse when you add up all of the 2016/17 year, it will take five years to process just this one year.

It would be good to get any feedback on my assumption of 1.7 people per application. Does this sound about right? I’m thinking there will be a mixture of single applicants, couples and families for each application on the list.