caroline Selwood

Alan, thanks for clarifying this for me, very helpful.

It took nearly a week for my money to arrive!

Yes I read that too, will find out more info.

I will speak to my son and try to find out more information. As you say it’s ridiculous to be charged for investing your money.

Thanks for your comments, I will update when I have more information.

16 minutes ago, Parley said:

No they don't, nor does any other bank. No one is going to pay $150 fee for the priveledge of getting something like 0.25% interest on a term deposit.

The only time they will charge a prepayment fee is if you break the term deposit.

Eg Set up a term deposit for a year and then close it early. It would be nowhere near $150 though.

Apparently Commonwealth bank charged my son to open a term account.

2 minutes ago, ramot said:

What a relief for you 

The worst bit was the lack of communication from Wise.

It has finally arrived after nearly a week nd caused a lot of anxiety.

I had no idea the Commonwealth bank charged to set up an account.  My son was told to arrange for them to provide a bank guarantee.  Are you saying he could have paid the money direct to Centrelink?

 I am still chasing my money, nearly a week now.  Wise customer support is terrible, i won't be using them again.

It told me the money would be there on Friday!

I transferred money with Wise last Thursday to my son’s bank in Australia for my AOS and today Tuesday it has still not arrived. He has had to fund this himself or we would not meet the timeline.

Also my son has been charged $150 to open an account with Centrelink. Surely this cannot be right?

I have found Wise to be very unhelpful and would not use them again.

If you have already lodged a 103 visa and had sponsorship approved, can you now go ahead and apply for the new 870 temporary parent visa while waiting. I only have 2000 ahead of me now in queue.

Numbers before me in the Parent Visa queue was 1920 in October but in November it had gone up to 2660!  Can anyone explain that is it due to appeals.

Thanks for that info ?

Oh are you sure, I thought that only applied to the Contributory Visa?

Can anyone tell me how long you are allowed from the grant of your visa to when you have to be permanently living in Oz. I lodged my visa in 2010 and queue numbers seem to be moving now.