Emma_M

Congratulations! All the best for the future x

Congratulations! That wasn’t too long a wait, all the best for the future

Hi @Raul Senise, thanks for your response, we are still waiting. As an agent would you be contacting the case officer if the processing time goes out with the published times? We will be 11 months at the end of the week. Thanks

We are still waiting for a grant and we are past the 10 months. Really starting to lose all hope.

No it all went really quickly at that point! We have 60 points plus 5 for the 190 so would be struggling if we had applied now.

@Fairdinkum Here is our timeline ANZSCO 322313 (Welder First Class) 28/11/17 - VETASSESS skills assessment part 1 lodged 22/12/17 - VETASSESS skills assessment positive result received 18/04/18 - VETASSESS Technical Interview 21/04/18 - IELTS Exam 04/05/2018 - IELTS Results - L7.5, R8.0, W8.0, S8.0 Overall 8.0 22/05/18 - VETASSESS - AQF Cert 3 received 22/05/18 - EOI Lodged 190 NSW 25/05/18 - Invited for nomination 29/05/18 - Approval of state nomination + Invite to apply 19/06/18 - 190 NSW lodged 12/10/18 - CO contact for form 80 05/04/19 - CO contact for additional info on form 1229

@garrychandi No we’re still patiently waiting, we lodged our application on 19th June so started the whole thing well over a year ago now! We are now actually hoping our medicals and police checks expire and have to be re done as they were done the end of May so it gives us enough time to get things tied up here without having to make a validation trip. We’ve away on holiday next week to try and take our mind off things as we’ve had our lives on hold for too long now and are in desperate need of a break.

Congratulations @Jellica

Congratulations! That’s great news

Yes it’s a complete nightmare as it’s out of my hands now! No we don’t have joint custody he legally doesn’t even have any parental responsibility as I’ve only just discovered this week by googling as I’m going out of my mind with worry. I have spoken with his mum and partner so they are well aware he needs to answer the phone! - Births registered in Scotland A father has parental responsibility if he’s married to the mother when the child is conceived, or marries her at any point afterwards. An unmarried father has parental responsibility if he’s named on the child’s birth certificate (from 4 May 2006). - I was never married to him and my son was born in 2002 so I’m not sure what that means. I asked my agent but didn’t even give me an answer just said it would be refused if they couldn’t make contact.

Thanks for that, that does ease my mind slightly but I hope it doesn’t get to that as I’m sure that will add a long time onto the processing.

We had contact from Case officer 2 weeks ago asking for updated contact details for my ex as they have been trying to contact him to confirm he gives consent for my eldest to come with us. So I’ve re sent all the updated details the same day. I am so fed up now and starting to worry they’ll give up trying to get him! Anyone else been in a similar situation? Our agent said they will just refuse the visa if they can’t get in touch with him.

Can you let me know where you found this info as I’ve just checked the gov website and it still states 8-10 months??

@Samlakin have you had any updates? I had another contact last week asking for updated contact details for my ex as they had tried to get in touch with him without success (knew this would happen ) So resent the same info including an email address which wasn’t originally asked for on form 1229. I’m hoping they manage to get a hold of him this week. Anyone else know the timeframe for this whole part of the process? What happens if they can’t get in contact with him? My agent hasn’t been much help recently which is quite frustrating. What are the reasons for your entry date to be extended as our agent did say sometimes they will give a later entry date anyone know?? Now on day 266

Yes just saw that, actually a few from earlier in the year so that looks promising! Thanks for your encouragement I’m going crazy here

We lodged our 190 on 19th June, had CO contact on 12th of October requesting form 80s. Not heard anything since, is anyone else still waiting? Feels like it’s just us.

Congratulations!! x

Congratulations on your grant! My husband is the main applicant and he’s a first class welder.

Processing times are now up to 10 months , we are 8 months tomorrow https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-listing/skilled-nominated-190

Hi, We are now 239 days since lodgement, case officer asked for form 80 back in October and not heard anything since, we front loaded everything too. At least your ready to go I suppose, we still have our house to sell, my husband doesn’t want to sell until we have the visa! So looks like we’re going to need to make a very expensive validation trip as a family of 5 , which was not in the budget. Really hoping to hear this week! Fingers crossed for you. x

Thanks that’s what I was thinking

Hi, I saw somewhere that once a visa was lodged a case officer contacted them to repeat their medicals as they were done more than 6 months ago, can anyone shed some light on this as I thought they were valid for 1 year the same as the police checks? We done our medicals in June so they are over 6 months old now so I’m really hoping that’s not the case as we’re still waiting for a grant! Xx

Hi @Westy123 just wondering you’ve had any updates since your ex was contacted? Still nothing here

Well done, told you you’d manage no problem! Good luck with the next stage

Anyone got any updates?? I’m slowly going crazy here, surely can’t be much longer. It’s so disheartening seeing people getting grants who lodged in October and November x