jess6
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Not sure if that's what you are looking for : http://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Work/Skil#tab-content-3 Occupation ceiling is the fourth tab
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Dude, chill out. It does not bring anything to stalk the spreadsheet all the time, that won't make your approval go faster :-) 75% of DE applications are approved in 9 months, and 90% in 11 months. You are just 8 months in. Enjoy your life and make it less dependant on this outcome otherwise you may become nuts before you even get your visa.
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Regarding the remaining 10%, I think it is really important to remove yourself from these thoughts as you do not know the circumstances and details of certain cases. The cases could take more time because of various reasons (health, age exemptions or other things we do not know). Regarding the cap, if your case is not processed in your financial year, you become a priority case on the following financial year. Now if you think about it, most people do not come on this forum and simply enjoy their life without worrying about the process Now that I have an update about the timelines I will only come back to the forum when I have news. Until then I wish everyone good luck and also congrats to all approved applications. Cheers guys!
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Yes, I am actually wondering if these new official timelines aim at clearing the backlog. Basically what it tells me is that now it takes officially more than 8 months to process 75% of the transition applications. While before people could hope for 6 months. So it might mean that we may see less applications being approved under 8 months soon. And yes, it is logical to me that DE applications need more time due to additional background checks - I do not think that they are de-prioritized but they just need more time. Overall all these timelines are pretty long. I wonder how it is going to impact business and the overall country economy. When I look at the other visa, such as partner visa, it's insanely long. Let's be honest, that's really not great.
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Nope, they were: Transition, LR, 1 person - June 2016 Transition, LR, 2 people - July 2016 They got approved in 6 to 7 months.
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The new processing times overwrite the previous ones. They are based on their recent observations so they apply to all of us here. And they will be updated each month so they may increase or decrease. I was not expecting more, I just wanted clarification between the visa streams and understand why some of my friends got approved before me. At least now, I know why I am waiting and I have a clear answer. I would recommend to manage your expectations and accept the news because if you don't you are going to drive yourself crazy. Personally I expect to be processed in May/June to avoid the anxiety.
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Well yes but if you haven't visited the country again, you will not need another Police Check. So if you want to be on the safe side, just re-do the Australian one and the one from home, if you visited your home country recently.
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If I were you I would wait to be asked. My MA said it should be fine however it's still at the CO discretion.
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Hopefully we will have some kind of clarity tomorrow.
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Thanks for sharing the above, it's important to be informed. Unfortunately, the world is not in a good place at all. I am from Europe and I grew up with the idea of an open world with freedom of movement. I am extremely saddened by directions many countries chose to take at the moment whether it's in the U.S., in Europe or anywhere else.
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Thanks for the update! I was wondering about you because you're in June like me.
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So true, it will take time and money to re-do the medicals, police checks etc. In my case, it's been almost 2 months that I am on Bridging visa A. No need to say that it impacts both personal and professional life.
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I am Direct Entry and I have a record of 457 for my application as well.
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Yes! This is exactly right.
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Congrats!!! Some hope :wink:
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It's impossible to actually find out what factors actually make a difference. That's what causes so much anxiety and frustration. The spreadsheet is a nice indication but it's just a snapshot. From my perspective, it's random and some of us are extremely unlucky and got stuck with a slow group. The thing that is clearly not right is to get no answer on why some cases do not get allocated.
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Are you offshore or onshore?
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If I remember well, they can take 28 days to answer. May I ask you what is your occupation and what is your colleague occupation? This is really interesting. It continues telling the story about the randomness of the process. Basically it could mean that you and your colleague got different COs. And it could also mean that the Company information is not stored centrally. Which potentially means they would have to re-do the checks for each case. Well that could explain why the process is so slow and can look so inefficient from our perspective.
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You still haven't got any communication from Immi? The HR department of my company is also quite surprised by the time needed for my visa. I find that overall the last weeks have been very quiet - it feels like Christmas break again. I am just waiting for next week to see what the new website brings. When I read the news, I feel there is an overall tightening of the immigration politic in Australia at the moment: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-02/government-cracking-down-on-457-visas-for-fast-food-workers/8317432
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Thanks for sharing this with us Especially for DE peeps
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Sorry Lizzie, I think I was hoping so hard I read what I wanted to read! The answer aligns perfectly with my MA told me several weeks ago. The new website may clarify what they mean by "group". But it might just be ENS 186 visa I think we are being very unlucky.
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Really happy to see that you have a Case Officer, we should see your approval this week
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@Izzielizzie I applied late June indeed, I am much more nervous since I am on Bridging visa A, as I need to apply to a Bridging visa B to leave the country which seems to take around 2 weeks to be granted. I lost my mum 27 months ago, and if I had not been able to jump on a flight when the hospital called me, I would never have had the chance to see her again. At the moment, my grandma is unwell and it worries me. She raised me and I am pretty close to her so I hope she will feel better soon. It is pretty traumatising when something tragic happens back home, as it takes over 24hours to travel back to Europe. We will hopefully know a bit more about the timelines soon: http://www.border.gov.au/News/Pages/global-visa-and-citizenship-processing-times.aspx I'd be very thankful to be able to travel freely again.
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In two weeks, we should know more about the processing times differences: http://www.border.gov.au/News/Pages/global-visa-and-citizenship-processing-times.aspx I guess that will clarify the 186 Direct Entry stream situation.
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For all the DE guys, try to keep calm. We often hyper focus on the last thing we see but if you come back to the spreadsheet. You will see that: November 2015: 7 transition and 4 Direct Entry are pending December 2015: 5 Transition are pending - no direct entry January 2016: 4 transition are pending - no direct entry February 2016: 7 transition and 4 Direct Entry are pending March 2016: 5 transition and 2 Direct Entry are pending April 2016: 7 transition and 11 Direct Entry are pending May 2016: 7 transition and 5 Direct Entry are pending June 2016: 11 transition and 14 Direct Entry are pending - There are a lot of Direct Entry visa in June... July 2016: 10 transition and 6 Direct Entry are pending (majority of approved cases are transitions, 2 DE approved) August 2016: 14 transition and 7 Direct Entry are pending (all approved cases are transition, No DE approved) Now, in September, the only application approved is a Direct Entry and in October 1 transition is approved (10 months wait), 1 Direct Entry is approved (7 months wait), one other application is approved and we don't know what it is. I am going to continue sticking to the facts: - We only see a few applications in the spreadsheet (each a few dozens versus several thousands in reality) - The Department has an average 6 months timeline - with goal to approve 75% of the visa in 6 months. - They are currently communicating by mail a 6 to 11 months timeline - i.e. they declare reviewing March to August files. - All applications are in queues - Direct Entry Visa have more requirements and need more time to be reviewed by COs - All applications are in queues reviewed by order of dates. - The department of Immigration is severely understaffed due to job cuts which happened in 2016 So my conclusions are following: COs are approving Transitions faster because they require less scrutiny than Direct Entry visas and consequently are faster to review. This helps the department to achieve or be closer to their 75% KPIs in 6 months. That being said, if an Direct Entry application is an occupation that is severely lacking in Australia - such as Nurse - it might get approved faster as this is vital to the country. Some CSOL occupations seem to be very popular (Cook, Chef, Restaurant Manager, Marketing Specialists etc.). Maybe there are specialised CO's for each occupations, who knows? If that's the case, that would explain why certain occupations need more time to be approved. If you go through the whole forum, you will see that depending on who talks to immigration, the person says something slightly different: We are proceeding "March to August" or "We are process March to June". This also may mean that some team are allocated to certain timelines or occupation types. This is stressful but let's not imagine too much things
