March19

16 hours ago, Cippalippa said:

One of my friends has given up! After studying, working hard and being in Australia for 5 years, he decided to go back to Europe as a better and secure job offer has come along. He applied for 187 visa in August 2016 but could not wait for the government to wake up! I know him well and I can say that Australia is losing very good people people... :-(

 

My MA has had a couple of his clients do this. They cannot afford to stay in limbo for so long and have decided to withdraw their application and return back home. 

3 hours ago, jwr0625 said:

Hello, long time silent observer here. This forum posts have been a great help to me so far, and I would like to share my timeline:

187 DE, onshore, LR, 1 person

State: QLD

Processing centre: WA PESE

Visa application done by myself, nomination and RCB done through MA by employer.

Occupation: Dentist

RCB approval: 24 Mar 2017

Visa and nomination submitted: 1 Apr 2017

Nomination approved: 11 Aug 2017

Additional documents (AFP clearance) requested: 11 Aug 2017

Visa granted: 28 Sep 2017

 

Called up immigration this noon, and was advised that generally when you are requested for additional documents, your case will be reviewed in 30 days, but due to high volume of applications, this is being delayed. Yet got visa approved in less than 3 hours.

Hope this helps.

 

Congratulations. Best wishes in your future life here. 

1 hour ago, dandy said:

i got my bridging visa granted the following day i applied. so i think it doesn't take long ,but immi suggest at least 1 week before . Its better to apply ahead. 

Thanks dandy. 

Good to know. I was thinking that this visa process my take weeks. 

On 23/09/2017 at 08:36, barker said:

Here is the policy statement guidance from the department about how long they will accept medical clearances. There is some discretion by the decision maker that can be exercised.

 

When can the validity of a health clearance be extended

If the validity period of a health clearance can be extended, this can be done only for 6 months and only if:

• there were delays in processing the visa application for which the medical examinations were completed and these were not caused by the visa applicant, or
• there are compelling or compassionate reasons.

Such extensions should not be given automatically.

Note:

• The validity of a health clearance completed for a previous visa application which has already expired should not, unless compelling and compassionate circumstances exist, be extended to facilitate re-use of a previous health clearance.
• If an applicant has lodged a new visa application has HAP has already successfully ‘re-used’ a health clearance (completed for a previous visa), and this health clearance expires shortly after ‘re-use’ for the new pending application, officers should keep in mind that the delays in processing provision would not generally be in respect of the newly-lodged visa applications. These cases may fall under the ‘compelling or compassionate’ provision.
• Extensions beyond those above are not available in any circumstances and processing officers should manage this. If it appears that a health clearance is about to expire before visa grant, processing officers should organise for health examinations to be undertaken again.
• Where the applicant’s health clearance has expired, and no further extensions are available, applicants are required to complete medical examinations. 

Thanks for that. 

So , for many of us who have medical expired over 6 months this means we have to spend more time and money getting them redone. ?!

this whole pr thing with its language tests, medicals police checks etc etc seems to be a big money spinning cartel between the govt and private companies. 

Oh well, knowing that we are at the bottom of the pile of Australian society there's not much we can do but fork out more cash. 

Hi. 

Any of you guys know how long it takes these days to get issued a  bridging B visa , so that we can travel abroad?

1 hour ago, Safal said:

They haven't completed even April ones. 

Nor March 2016!!!

3 hours ago, mjay said:

My golden ticket arrived today!
DE
Nomination and Visa 16/12/16
Camping and caravan manager
5 people from UK
So happy! Hope you all get news soon!


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Congratulations. 

Best of luck with your new life. 

6 hours ago, Antoker said:

TODAY IS MY DAY !!!

Hi Guys, just to inform you that my nomination has been granted today and the immi fella ask me only the NPC (national police clearance check) which was quite old (I did it 15 months ago), thanks god they didn't ask me the medical again even if I did the 13th sept 2016 .

Now I'm overseas on holidays to my family and YES, today is gonna be a good DAY.

Some details of my application

DATE OF APPLICATION: 10 JUNE 2016 (BOTH NOM AND VISA)

WHEN I APPLIED I'VE ALREADY BEEN UNDER 457 FOR THE SAME EMPLOYER

STATE: WA, Perth 

POSITION: Cook

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES OF MY BOSS BUSINESS: (AROUND 40 OR 50, 15 OR 20 FULL TIME THE REST CASUAL)

MY AGE: 31, MY IELTS: 7, MY AU QUALIFICATION: COMMERCIAL COOKERY IV

NUMBER OF APPLICANTS: 1 (ME)

MY COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: ITALY 

PLEASE IF YOU NEED ANYTHING ELSE SEND ME A PM,

I'll be back in Perth on Saturday if you want to meet me or call me.

One day a guy in this forum wrote:

IT'S BETTER A LATE APPROVE RATHER THAN AN EARLY REFUSAL and after 15 months I feel I wanna say YES! It,s true.

 

I wish you all the best, greetings from Italy

 

Anthony

Congratulations mate. Best of luck for getting the visa approval. 

I think what they are doing are rejecting applications that have incomplete supporting documents.  Ie AFP checks , BAS statements. Medicals etc. 

another thing that may be happening with this visa is more and more people deciding to withdraw their applications because they don't want to be in this limbo for one and a half years. They just is no certainty, especially if you have children. 

2 hours ago, Cippalippa said:

This morning I am going to sign for a 6 month lease for a new and cheaper house. I hope my visa will allow me to stay that long. We kept postponing the move because we were afraid that some how our visa application wouldn't go through so we were waiting for a visa outcome first. We could have saved so much $$$ (more than 1 year has passed) if we only knew the process was going to take this long. But we can't live this way in stand by. We are taking the risk, hopefully it will be paid off. :-)


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Exactly in same situation. I've been thinking about moving for ages. But with our uncertain situations we just can't afford to take on such commitments. 

Ive even been putting off some repairs to my car , thinking if I get pr I'll buy a new one or if no pr then I can just sell it cheap. But don't know how long things are going to drag on for. 

When speaking to immi one thing she mentioned was that even when a file is being assessed they do not always update your immi account to show that. 

So your file may be allocated, assessed and further info requested but when you check your file it shows no change. 

I know someone who was on another visa . He had is file allocated and assessed and pr granted but the immi account showed no change till three weeks after he got his pr. !

9 minutes ago, M Noel said:

Where are you? I'm in WA... what does your agent says?

I'm qld

restarant Mgr 

19-March 16 de nom & visa 

onshore 3 person 

low risk

my ma is saying the same as everyone else's Ma. There not much they can do once file has been lodged. Everyone is struggling in the same boat.  

Ive called and emailed many times , but always the same standard response. 

Just need to wait. 

22 hours ago, M Noel said:

Me... 5/02/16 haha

Darn.... and I thought I was holding some kind of record on this forum for the longest applicant. 

?

2 minutes ago, M Noel said:

What's the longest people here have been waiting for?

I'm from 19 March 2016. 

Dont think there is anyone on this forum before that. 

I spoke to immi today. The girl on the phone told me that my file has been allocated to a team since may this year and is being actively assessed. 

I asked for details of the case officer but she said there is no individual co, but rather a team. 

However, immi account has not changed since I lodged my application in March 2016, neither has anyone from immigration been in touch with my Ma or myself not my employer  

Getting somewhat confused and concerned now. 

17 minutes ago, M Noel said:

Thanks Razza,

I applied onshore and have been working with my employer since December 2015, but we only applied in February...

My migration agent has told me about another case were an application was made in December 2015 and so far they are still waiting for the file to be allocated. (same in WA). I will give her a call and see if that application is still pending...

Back in June /July My agent had a couple of cases from December 2015 as well. Don't know if they have been processed yet. 

11 hours ago, Naimur Rahman said:

My day just came today pr has been granted, chef from 22nd june 2016

I know its hard to wait but like me one day everyone get their dream 

 

Cheers

Congratulations 

1 hour ago, yuderdc said:

Yes, you can track your nomination application. Give your agent your immiaccount username and ask him to share the nomination application to you. After he does that, you will see two applications(one is visa, the other is nomination) in your own immiaccount.

Ok. That's new to me. Immi have always told me they can only give nomination details to either the Ma or employer. 

9 minutes ago, MP15 said:

Hi, as we can track our visa application through immiaccount, is there anyway we can track nomination application as well? anf if we can what details we need for this?

No. Nomination is to do with the immigration dept and your employer. Only they can request details regarding nomination progress. 

7 minutes ago, Kaushal said:

Everyone is so quite on this forum .

say something guys ......

The stress and anxiety is so high there is not much we can say. It's not even the case where we can really advise each other, we're all stuck in the same boat. 

4 hours ago, PanadaApr said:

Did u ask ur MA to contact immi as ur case timeline seems A bit unreasonable?

It makes no difference. My MA can't get any information out of the department either. 

47 minutes ago, PanadaApr said:

So quite ...

Are those 16 march applications still waiting?

i remember there r few mates from March. Raymond, any updates after you submitted request documents ?

Yep. Still here. Haven't gone anywhere. 

19 March 16

 restaurant Mgr 

qld 

lr

de 187

3 person 

On 15/08/2017 at 12:57, 04April2017DE said:

Good news for me! 186 DE PR Granted today.

Nomination and Visa applied onshore on 4/4/2017 
Occupation: External Auditor

Family of three in the application - my child and myself (main applicant) are citizens of a LR country whereas wife is citizen of a HR country)

Nomination firm (which I am working for): One of the biggest professional services (accounting) firms in Australia/Globally with annual revenue in billions.

No further documentation requested from DIBP.

All the best to the rest of you!

Congratulations. Good effort.  

God I'm envious of you. 

Almost 18th month and all quiet on the western front. 

Not a squeak or a creak or a peep from our friends in immi. 

So my assumption is this:

1. Ensure that your applications are 'decision ready'.  All this about tactically uploading police check etc at a later date so that they are still valid a year later does not work. Upload ALL docs and then let them expire, then pay more money to get more recent docs and upload again. 

2. For those of us who have been waiting many months ( ,since mid-march 2016 in my case) ,this is a slight glimmer of good news in sofar as I can assume my my correct and sufficient documents are uploaded. And that immi hasn't had the need to refuse my application because of lack of paperwork. 

I hope that makes sense. Long day at work!!! 

Happy Waiting!!