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16 hours ago, Alan Collett said:

 

Maybe arrange a short term borrowing secured against your home, rather than selling it - just in case an issue arises (eg health) between now and anticipated visa grant?

Upon visa grant you can sell the house and repay the borrowing.

Best regards.

Hi Alan, Thanks. I have got something sorted but I hope to get the timing right and save the set up fees and minimum interest charges ( around £4.5 k)

5 minutes ago, NanaJan said:

I sincerely hope we are done by September/October otherwise it's going to be nigh on 3 years. When we applied it was pretty much a 2 year turnaround from application to visa!

Unfortunately, we have absolutely no way of knowing how long it will take and that is what I'm finding so frustrating. Fingers crossed that things speed up

Well I will let you know if I hear anything and vice versa please, good luck

2 minutes ago, NanaJan said:

Hi fellow December lodger. We too applied in December 2014 and put our house up for sale soon after Brexit as we weren't sure how the market would pan out and at that stage we still thought (hoped) we would be off early this year!! It sold really quickly and we are renting whilst waiting. It's all so frustrating isn't it?

We are probably going to go out on a tourist visa in June and hope that we will only have to survive 2, 3 or hopefully no more than 4 months. 

Whereabouts are you in the U.K. and where are you headed in Oz?

We are in Merseyside heading for Perth where our adult children live. The housing market is quite buoyant here at the moment but the upheaval and uncertainty created since  Brexit is unbelievable as I am sure you know.  So many things have worsened over the last 12 months but we still feel Australia is where we should be. We are trying to get our timing correct as we both intend to work if the job market doesn't worsen, but we are grafters and will find something I am sure. Do you think our visas applications should be processed around Sep/Oct ? 

Hi Everyone,

 First time  posting and please don't take this the wrong way but great to find people in the same scary situation with the 143 CPV and the guesswork around the time span for the  processing procedure.  My wife and I lodged our application in December 2014 and are constantly getting updates on the auto email service ( if it had crashed it was probably down to us, sorry). Like others , I presume, we don't have the $100,000 visa and AOS fees in our petty cash and we are trying to get our timing spot on when to sell the house to raise the rest of the capital. A little dangerous because as you know the information we require just isn't made available such as how many applications are in front of us and how many Immi are processing each week/month. I reckon our time should be approaching within the next few months but as stated by others it has taken several weeks for the dates to proceed a few days. Anyway, we are in the same situation as many others I guess and reading the previous post I was hoping someone might be able to give a second opinion ( or 3rd or 4th) of whether you think my guestimate of September / October 2017 is around about right ?. What do you think ?, any comments or advice would be greatly appreciated as it is like playing bingo blindfolded ! 

I notice now it states you should have the funds available but realistically not everyone has I guess and selling too early and the upheaval of then renting etc : / , hate to be a whinging Pom before we hopefully get to Australia but respectfully, surely a little more information wouldn't hurt hey !

Hi ,

Has anyone got ideas of where the 143 applications are up to date wise? We applied in December 2014 but wonder when to market our property to fund the visa fees?

Any help appreciated