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  1. BacktoOz83
    You can look up judgments on Austlii under the Migration Tribunal. Also, if it interests you, you can go to the MARA page and there is a list of agents who have been barred and reasons why and there's more than a few who have not uploaded documents resulting in refusals. It makes for interesting reading.
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    Congrats! They must've been clearing their desks for the weekend!
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    Hi all, Well most bizarrely and unexpectedly we got our visa today! It was unexpected because we were asked for police clearances (extra ones as my husband had declared some convictions in other countries) and we uploaded these exactly a month after they were requested. Then straight away the CO emailed our agent asking for us to sign a further disclosure form which was weird but asked to give permission for NZ police to confirm how many "letters of police clearance we had received (still don't understand this relevance) but we signed it electronically and sent back same day. Our agent told us it was uploaded but that it would likely take time for them to process the form then request the info from NZ etc (plus NZ were the ones we waited for an entire month for the police clearance) but we received the grant the next day!! That is bizarrely quick without factoring time differences in!! We had all just recovered from a housewide sick bug and put our Xmas decorations up when we got the email at 5pm so we are currently celebrating! Our timeline below for interested sake: Lodged 12 April 2018 Info req: 29 Oct 2018 Submitted: 29 Nov 2018 Further form to sign and submitted: 29 Nov 2018 Grant received: 30 Nov 2018
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    Maybe it will also move your application to the top of the pile somehow too? Just approve it and be done with It? Fingers crossed!
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    Oh no - why on earth was it refused? Did you use an agent last time too? Good luck - hoping they circle back around to us who have been asked for further info soon!
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    Oh la la London is going off again! Congratulations to all. Disappointed our NZ Police report is taking so long (over 3 weeks now) and we have managed to get an Australian one, Portuguese one and have it translated in the meantime. It's so frustrating feeling that we are treading water waiting for further info. Gaaah!
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    Katie I have noticed that too and when I read someone else had, I felt completely validated ha! Yes there was definitely a trend for UK visas at the end/beginning of the month, almost like clockwork for a while. I am kind of hoping that there is some weird process in which they do all their reading processing out in the middle and then approvals in one go, so all of us who have had requests for info will come through in one great lot soon! At the very least the new processing times should be published soon and will have hopefully come down again.
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    Hi Ben We are in exactly the same position as you, gave our docs to our agent who claims to have uploaded them in Dec 17 with our application and then in Feb it was refused. Agent didn't even realise it was refused until we prompted her to log in in April 18! We believe that she just didn't upload the documents and thought she would have more time or would get some kind of prompt from the Dept (perhaps about medicals etc) before she did so but they changed the way they were doing things and just started rejecting applications without supporting docs. Do you have any proof your agent did upload? Our agent has paid the fee to reapply and we did so in April 18. I plan to ask for a partial refund as well. Could you perhaps speak to another agent and ask how legitimate it is that there was just an IT error? Perhaps do a subject access request for info from the Dept of Immigration which may confirm no docs were uploaded. It is worth pursuing I think. Having outsourced the job of specifically uploading the documents, I would think an agent should keep screenshots or similar as proof that it has been done. You can look up the MARA agents code of conduct online too. It is hugely upsetting, we too feel as though we have been waiting forever but please don't be fobbed off by the agent, of course they will claim "IT issue. Also as with us now that you have had s visa refusal you will have to declare it if it is ever asked on future visa applications for other countries so it has serious implications aside from the money. Best of luck x
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    Still waiting here too dondons, although we are waiting on police certs so we are sort of on hold until they come through. The AFP one was done on the same day we applied but the NZ one is apparently likely to take the full 28 days! It's so frustrating seeing a load of grants come through and know we aren't even in the running at the moment!
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    Wow congratulations! On a Saturday too! Fantastic news! Things are really flying at the moment, I hope the police checks we were asked for hurry up and arrive before this period of speediness changes!
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    Wow it's so funny that there is suddenly so much happening when nothing seemed to move for months and months. Long may it continue!
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    Yep Jon we are 12 April, you are March I think? Hopefully final sign offs for you and the grant will just appear in your inbox one day! We actually originally lodged in Dec 17 but our rubbish lawyer thought she would have more time to upload the docs I had sent her and by Feb it was refused - she didn't even realise until April! She did pay for another application but the long and short of it is that we feel we have been waiting nearly a year now! I am still unsure if we will even get it with my husband's criminal record - nothing over or near 12 months imprisonment but definitely a few things on there, so worried they will decide it is enough want to refuse it. Anyway all our checks are being applied for today so fingers crossed they arrive swiftly! Mhaffie how long was it that your grant came in? Am hoping for pre Xmas!
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    Hi guys, We have just had a request for information - police certificates. Ours was front loaded however my husband has a few things on his police record - one of which occurred in Portugal whilst on holiday so they have requested a Portuguese police check and we also submitted a police check for NZ because he knew he had a DUI so they have asked for an up to date NZ police check too. They've also asked for an Aus Police check which makes sense given the circumstances. So we have a bit of work to do to get it all done and submitted within the 28 days but it's positive to know that things are progressing!
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    I I am absolutely no expert and in fact know nothing about the medical side of things visa wise however I have seen someone recently approved for a work visa (not sure which sort as I don't really pay much attention to visa types other than 309s) who had suffered with Leukemia about 6 years prior. As I say, I have literally no idea how that compares in the eyes of a case officer but perhaps joining the Poms Wanting Oz facebook page might help you? Good luck!
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