pauljoh1

My colleague applied on 27th July and we both got approved on Saturday. I'm not sure if her application made mine get processed quicker (as we are from same company with same nomination documents).

Good luck everyone.

very lucky i know....someone else in my company got approved on the same day - I'll find out her application date

Definitely same date

Hi - I got approved today - believe it or not I applied on 29/08/16 transition specialist sales - so happy

MAY2016 check the mailbox - have they requested anything from your lawyers?

Thats very unlucky. I really hope it comes through soon.

I'm 29th August so another couple months, but if I'm unlucky, then it will probably come through in August!

Hi @pauljoh1, I rang IMMI last December giving them my details and the person I spoke to said something akin to: 'You lodged April - we're still processing March. Oh, wait, you're Direct entry." Then, he asked me to hold as he clarified with colleagues. He came back to the phone to say that they were still processing Feb for DE. That's only one person in IMMI though, but just looking at the timeframes for early 2016 (on the spreadsheet albeit being simply a snapshot), it does seem to ring true.

 

Also, I have not been contacted and neither has my employer. As of last week, they noted that our case had not been allocated at all, citing high volume and limited staff over the holidays. We lodged complete nom and visa applications in April.

 

I realise though that there might be other qualifiers since looking at the spreadsheet indicates some DE applications getting approved but for our timelines, they seem to be more an exception, at least with our limited snapshot and knowledge. In general, I tend to agree that it doesn't seem to make much sense overall!

There are thousands of applications being processed each month and there are a few dozens in the spreadsheet.

If you go through all the different months present in the spreadsheet, you will see different patterns so nothing proves that DE applications are slower.

May proving something different than June as an obvious recent example.

 

This is why it is stressful. Because: no logic!

Cheers

I understand the spreadsheet is an overall snapshot of the thousands of applications but I actually believe that it slightly exaggerates processing times as people are more likely to enter their information if they have been waiting for longer than expected. I know a few people who have got theirs in under 7 months recently. I expect the CO to open the file before 7 months generally but understand that you can be unlucky.

It seems that if the CO requests more information it delays the approval by over a month and are more likely to request info from the nomination side.

Hi there,

Is the general consensus that direct entry is taking longer than transition?

Thanks