Parkesy

11 minutes ago, stevecbx said:

any other accountant whose visa granted recently?

Just IMO, they seem to work based on the occupation of the applicant?

I heard there is also quota/ceiling per year for those occupations?

If so, they will not process for jobs that is almost or nearly hit the ceiling figure.

And just a suggestion for those who've  been waiting longer than 70-90% advised processing time, you may need to go to lawyer in a group to represent your case, once it goes to public then hopefully the immi would be watched closely and hopefully they would speed up all the process?  sounds risky but i'd try if I am in that position which i hope i would not be

I very much doubt the Australian public cares about people trying to emigrate here. In fact most Australians according to the latest figures are against migration to their country thats not essential.

And yes there are caps on occupations, they sat in on the website but do not specify which occupations it relates too. From what I can decipher though it is almost certainly marketing specialists, cooks/chefs, and accountants.

31 minutes ago, millski88 said:

Good to hear. I do think it's hard to speculate on patterns based on job type when we've only got visibility of a few hundred (max) applications in our sample group, out of tens of thousands actually being processed (i also want to believe this as i'm in application as a marketing specialist too )

Yeah i agree. It's just when you hear nothing at all about that particular occupation it becomes hard not to speculate..

Not looking good for us marketing folk!

And they dont seem to be processing any marketing specialists at all right now. I haven' heard of anyone receiving a visa for that occupation in 9 months...

2 minutes ago, Susma Sydney said:

 

Mine took 4 days

It does seem like they are processing q lot of cooks. Few accountants too

1 hour ago, nitibhusal said:

Occupation: Restaurant manager

Visa /Nomination Date: 10/04/2017

TRT

Still waiting

anyone from the same occupation?

Lots

Can everyone who has had something approved update the spreadsheet when they can please? ?

17 minutes ago, khan010 said:

Hi everyone can someone please tell me. I've got an email from my MA. Is this for all TRT applicants or they opened my case.

Good afternoon

Regarding all pending ENS TRT nominations, and noting the higher scrutiny by the Department more so of late, we advise all visa applicants that, if you haven’t already, you should send through the following information/documents to be uploaded to your respective pending ENS nomination applications at the earliest:

1. A copy of your bank statement records in support of being paid your nominated wages by your sponsoring company since your 457 employment commencement to date, (please send a print up from your bank just of all bank payments received by you as the employee from your sponsoring employer into your bank account – not a print up of all other bank transactions from your account. Your bank account statement should also identify you as the holder of that bank account the wages are being paid into ).

2. Evidence of superannuation paid to you as the bias applicant by your sponsoring employer since your 457 employment to date. Note: A letter from your super company confirming superannuation payments made to you but without identifying who is the payer of that super to your super account is not sufficient as the Department cannot otherwise verify that the employer made that super contribution to your super fund.

Never seen this before but didnt use and agent as well..

Its obviously to do with the upgrades. People need to relax a little. I have cause to be more worried than most on here but what ive learned going this nightmare  (again) - super stressing over the tiniest thing aint going to change anything.

Annnnnd....breathe...

2 hours ago, Waris said:

Can someOne plz help me !! 

My last update on immiacount has changed on 3rd March 2018 to 17 nov 2017 

we apllied 186 visa on 18 may 2017.. 

why it’s changed ???? 

Read the posts on this thread. You are not alone

Come on Marketing Specialists...killing me

1 hour ago, Jimmynut24 said:

anyone have a MA who could potentially know where they are at with Marketing Specialists? I applied without an MA due to costs.

Ditto

I was thinking before...where does it say any new processes, requirement etc etc start in March 1? Not seen that written anywhere but maybe I just missed it?

1 hour ago, DannyN said:

Any grants on 1 March?

Haha. Bit early no? Been like 4 hours!

24 minutes ago, Rob81 said:

yeah great ahah

sorry if they don't even open the application how do they know if that is risky or not? what would the criteria be? job title? employer name?

Maybe you were right on the occupation being the risk. Annoying given my employer is major approved one, im a director, and a high earner.

FFS

10 minutes ago, Sk8009 said:

Haha I know, happy for people getting their visa but can be frustrating when you have been waiting 11.5 months and theirs goes through in 3.

im really hoping as of the 1st some of the marketing applications get pushed through

Amen to that 

Any good news today? Preferably from somone who has been waiting a long time and not 3 months haha!

48 minutes ago, martec said:

Hello everybody, is there any reason my entry has been removed from the spreadsheet (Jan 2018)? I'm assuming this is just somebody writing his/her own data over mine by mistake

Same thing happened to me

11 hours ago, Siddu said:

Wow. Thats not good. Its an update at least though albeit not very clear...

46 minutes ago, lloydy87 said:

It looks like what the MA's were saying about the conference was correct.

I got my MA to call and a case officer called him the next day asking for a lot of details/information because my file is around 11 months old.

My MA advised that the case officers request would only be over the phone and it wouldn't be put on my online file.

She also advised that we have 7 days to provide the information.

They want everything from figures, BAS, training for the last 4 years , proof of work for the year before I applied. I'm not sure if calling has annoyed them and they want to be more thorough than normal.

Hopefully it will be sorted soon.

Cheers

 

At least its moving mate!! You TRT?

42 minutes ago, Rob81 said:

I thought 15 months was for direct entry and not TRT

All people I know  (5 or 6) who had applied in 2016 got the visa in 6 months

Correct but that was then. All changed now. Most people on here have been waiting over a year for TRT

23 minutes ago, Rob81 said:

are you for real? have you been waiting for 15 months with no news at all??

the processing time they advertise is a joke

Thats pretty common mate!

22 minutes ago, Amy86 said:

I think that we don't need to worry about Visa rejection...

Why they should not approve our Visa? 

The only people who need to worry are those who apply with fake diploma and fake experience or other dodgy staff.

 

Completely agree. There will certainly be many borderline cases or businesses which haven't met the threshold however

33 minutes ago, Fida said:

She said they are just making things tough and time consuming may be because of the upcoming changes to 457/186.

So strange. Seems counterproductive as all the people who have already applied are not affected by those changes. The only reason I see is that they will assess after March, reject them for the smallest thing, and then make people re-apply under the new conditions...