Mai

Hi Clauvic, It's all good since as you can tell, I don't keep up with notifications very well either. Unfortunately, I haven't gained access to the message system yet and neither do I live in Sydney. Though I have tried sending the admins a request to lift the message limit, it might take some time. I will make sure to contact you again when I'm finally able to. Thanks, looking forward to hearing from you.

Hi Clauvic, My situation is somewhat similar to how yours was. Can you tell me more about your experiences? At this point, I'm just clinging onto any possible saving graces. I failed a course during my last semester for my degree and had to extend my student visa to finish it. However, I made a blunder of not submitting enough required documents for the department. They wanted me to give them my health check results, which I only did after more than half of the semester had passed. The Australian semester is short and when the officer came back to my application, they explained my visa could not be granted because the applied period had expired. Now, I was in this whole mess alone while lacking information so I did not attempt to have the visa refusal be reviewed within the allowed period. Unfortunately, I did not pass the course that semester either and the refused application is stopping me from applying for any new substantive visa. I have now overstayed my visa trying to sort things out. I have contacted a registered immigration agent for advice, but the best option she could give me was to return home and wait for the 3-year entry ban to expire, then apply for a new visa to come back. There is one big problem with that though, the credits I have attained thus far for my degree will have all been cancelled by that time. I literally have one last course to finish before graduation and all of my efforts these past years are just going to go to waste at this rate. I'm sorry I can't offer any expert opinion for your question. But if I was in your shoes, I would definitely apply for the visa regardless since there is nothing to lose. Miracles already happened once, right? Thanks in advance and good luck in finishing your degree.