Mrs_Plumber

We have used an agent; Ian Harrop and it has been a real help. My husband is self employed plumber and so there has been a lot of documentation and information required for his employment. it's been a real weight off my mind just having to find documents and scan them over and not have to worry about the endless list of things (much like Aimee2402). it has just been really helpful to have someone who's job it is to tell us when to do what, when to go for what assessment, what documents to send over and when to lodge different applications and after 6 months we have finally submitted our visa application tonight. (slight delay just due to renewing of passports). Good luck with your application!

Hi Mani, I'm not exactly an expert in this but my husband and I have just submitted out 189 visa application (tonight actually) and I am 24 weeks pregnant with baby no. 2. We are going through an agent so makes the process a little less stressful but essentially our agent advised us to get the application in as soon as we could and then once we got assigned a case officer and asked to go for our medicals we email them and politely request that our application go on a temporary hold until after the baby is born so that the visa is not approved before the baby comes along (especially as not advised for pregnant women to have the xrays, though you can sign a waiver if you wish). Then once the baby is born and we have a birth certificate and then got a passport we can add the baby to application and email the case officer and ask to go for our medicals and police checks. Our agent said this was the best way to do it to avoid having to do a separate visa for the baby after ours is approved (as would be a whole new visa application and cost almost as much!) and avoids having to do a medical xray whilst pregnant. It would mean our entire family of 4 would all be on the same visa with the same conditions and must all enter for initial entry by the same time. Obviously I can only advise from my current circumstances and with the advice I have received from my agent. Not sure if this is helpful or not but hopefully you get something from it. Thanks Holly