Vama

3 hours ago, Quoll said:

But you would be declaring that your child needs 1:1 support in class. They may require you to get a whole battery of psycho-educational assessments to show what level of disability she has. 

42 minutes ago, Daisyflowers said:

@Vama from our experience having supporting documents from school that your child can/does  maintain an unsupported mainstream placement seems to be the crucial document (assuming there’s no health or other issues). We didn’t have a health waver option on our visa. but we feel confident enough that because he was in transition to mainstream and had no health issues that we were in a position that we felt we should at least try. 

Despite that there was always a plan for mainstream school for our son, we went in knowing there was still the chance of being knocked back because he is autistic (from everything I had read etc). We understood the reasons why immigration are so tight on restrictions (not to say we thought they were fair),  so we just got on with it and did everything we were asked. Being honest and organised was the way we chose to do it. 

2 hours ago, Vama said:

 

26 minutes ago, Quoll said:

You probably don't want to leave your phone number on a public forum 

I can delete if u hv taken n can msg me

Is there possibility that I dont get her diagnosed for autism and just adhd which she has and speech delay and submit the documents from school accordingly as I really don't want her to get labelled. Not for the sake of visa I hvnt got her diagoned but I genuinely don't want her to get labelled autistic. 

49 minutes ago, Daisyflowers said:

Even if you dont have a diagnosis the doctor at the medical would have an expectation/understanding on where a child should be in terms of developmental milestones.if a child presents with any delay in development I imagine that would be enough for further evidence to be requested from immigration. We were honest regarding my son being autistic from the very start as you need to get the right supporting assessment in place to support your medical if further evidence is asked for. For us we felt if we are honest from the start then we could get organised when our medical came round and have our assessments ready to take to the medical. 

U have a point ...so for us I guess we might have to first get her diagnosed...and than accumulate all the other docs from school n dr

bdw did u hv health wavier in ur case or they jst asked for further documents.

Thanks for ur reply 

33 minutes ago, Daisyflowers said:

Hi @Vama I can’t give you and advice on your visa, sorry. 
 

for school, from our experience;  it’s about if your child can cope independently in mainstream school. For us there was already a transition plan in place/taking place and there were no concerns that a full mainstream transition couldnt take place by the end of the year (with no support).  So it’s not that a child is autistic it’s the level of support they require. 
 

some visas have health wavers that allow you right to appeal if your rejected. That’s not to say it would change the decision but it’s an option. You would need to speak to your agent about the terms of that. We didn’t have a visa with a health waver so I’m not sure what the process would be. 

Hi 494 visa is the which provides us health waiver.  But the question is if u haven't got diagnosis..how is immigration going to decide ur child's health condition. 

47 minutes ago, Quoll said:

If she is getting 1:1 support in order to manage school she is likely to be declined for a visa.  Do you have any idea how much 1:1 support costs????

47 minutes ago, Quoll said:

May be 35 per hour teacher aids is being paid m not sure though

47 minutes ago, Quoll said:

If she is getting 1:1 support in order to manage school she is likely to be declined for a visa.  Do you have any idea how much 1:1 support costs????

 

On 13/01/2015 at 11:26, Ozmaniac said:

The medical for a permanent visa via the Temporary Residence Transition stream from a 457 is identical to the medical for a permanent visa applied for directly. If your son is unlikely to pass one, he is equally unlikely to pass the other.

2 hours ago, Daisyflowers said:

Hi @bearbear128. I can only tell you from our experience so this isn’t to say it’s the way it works for everyone. I don’t think its that a child or person is autistic that causes the difficulty in the getting a visa rather it’s how much support they need (you will be able to read that in multiple post on this forum).   My son was in an educational support unit specifically for autistic children. But his educational plan supported a main stream transition and main stream secondary placement. He also had/has no other input from other agencies so no health etc. only education. The only supporting document we provided was an assessment from school showing his current and projected educational plan; what is capabilities are and that he would maintain a mainstream placement (after transition). We took that with us to the medical as we knew we would be asked for further evidence as we ‘declared’ that he was autistic from the outset. 
I guess if a child has lots of intervention you could get other supporting documents but thankfully we weren’t asked for anything else. 
It is really stressful because it’s not until the very end of the process at the medicals that it even became a factor in the visa process that our child’s autistic. So you could do all the hard work involved in even getting to that stage and then be knocked back.
It’s definitely a risk but we just had to try and thankfully it was 

Hi we are planning to lodge 494 visa . Previously we lodged 187 got declined and is still under process with AAT. Once we got 187 declined things changed to begin with we found out abt our daughter showing autism symptoms. Company that sponsored us for 187 disbursed. So now new company is happy to help us with 494 visa . But before we apply we have few doubts .

My daughter is not officially diagnosed. So we don't have any reports. 

My daughter is going to main stream school since the beginning and is doing quite well. She has severe speech delay . But is really good socialising, joint attention, transitions and physically fit . She gets one on one assistant in school. We got her therapies done for speech for nearly 3 years paid everything out of pocket. She doesn't get any other support .

Now my immigration agent is asking me whether we would like to go ahead lodge for 494. 

What should I do ?

Hi we are planning to lodge 494 visa . Previously we lodged 187 got declined and is still under process with AAT. Once we got 187 declined things changed to begin with we found out abt our daughter showing autism symptoms.  Company that sponsored us for 187 disbursed. So now new company is happy to help us with 494 visa . But before we apply we have few doubts .

My daughter is not officially diagnosed. So we don't have any reports. 

My daughter is going to main stream school since the beginning and is doing quite well. She has severe speech delay . But is really good socialising,  joint attention, transitions and physically fit . She gets one on one assistant in school. We got her therapies done for speech for nearly 3 years paid everything out of pocket. She doesn't get any other support .

Now my immigration agent is asking me whether we would like to go ahead lodge for 494. 

What should I do ?

On 25/10/2021 at 10:46, virajhu said:

With Waheguru blessings, finally, I received my PR approval on Thursday last week .

Thank you for everyone's support, and wish everyone the best of luck to get your visa sorted asap.

Congratulations 

28 minutes ago, Paul0015 said:

Sorry to say but AAT always ask for most recent financial including BAS, tax return etc.

I am aware of that...but this situation is so tricky that he will be still employed but the company is partiality government owned so won't be involved in this stuff

On 03/08/2021 at 09:29, virajhu said:

You are right, when I applied the wait time was 444 days, and finally, I received the invitation to supply the docs after 31 months in April and the hearing was completed after 1030 days, which is like 34 months from the date of lodgement.

however, the good thing is if everything is right, we have noticed more positive results from the members than the negative.

Hi

I have got one more issue can u help with advise. My husband is working for this franchise for almost 11 years now and got sponsored by them in 2017 got refused in 2019 and applied for aat in august 19. Now while waiting for the outcome the franchise owner is giving back buisness to the company but my husband will b still employed with no chances of new company giving any documentation on request of AAT but he will be still employed by them on same post and better pay.. what will happen to our case .

Please help

11 hours ago, ring3018 said:

Hopefully it’s at least this year i think. They extend it every month which is ridiculous

NSW state btw

We are  from Tasmania. Hopefully finger's crossed

On 31/07/2021 at 00:23, ring3018 said:

April 2019 here, 27 months? Still waiting

We are since august 2019 the average time I have noticed for hearing on this group is nearly 2 years 4 to 5 months u will b taken in by Max Dec I reckon I am expecting mine Max by Feb 2022

On 23/07/2021 at 11:41, virajhu said:

So you guys have just received the AAT decision yet, After AAT approve your nomination you also need approval from the immigration department, once your nomination is approved then your visa will approve, (have you supplied, Medical, AFP and PCC already?), if you have not supplied they will send the request to supply these documents before approving the visa

 

Hi is it necessary that all the files after approval go back to DIAC my agent says there also chances where AAT straight away approves the visa. In case u have appealed for both nomination and visa...what are your thoughts. 

Thanks to both of u for hearing me out. Yes that's what I am doing taking her to speech and occupational therapy and also enrolled her in school.  So far she doing great.

Thanks again

@milamocha i know abt this cases have been reading a lot but they say one in 100 case gets minister intervention.  We have been struggling for almost 14 years for pr n now this ...seems endless..

Thanks for replying.  Don't be sorry i am aware about the situation but just needed a second thought.  My daughter has moderate symptoms. But we are not on records anywhere atm. One of my friend had same situation in NZ and dr cldnt suspect anything hence was granted pr just want something similar to happen in my case .

But I have heard that  parents with autistic kids are denied residency. 

On 22/12/2017 at 07:49, dalla said:

I have applied for 187 visas on August 04 and my employer apply for nomination and RCB in the same time but on December 18 my nomination got refused without asking any further documents and I got 21 days for nomination review and 28 days to comment for my visa. My employer is going to apply for AAT for the nomination before the end of 21 days. Moreover, I am going to wait till my visa get refuse and will apply to AAT for my visa as well. I just want to know if we apply to AAT for both of our nomination and visa will this keep my bridging visa active until I get the decision from AAT for the nomination. Please advise me if anyone goes through this process and let me know what will be a waiting period before I get the first hearing.

Same occupation applied in 12/12/2017 direct entry Tasmania still no news 

On 15/11/2018 at 13:55, arm said:

My timeline

Subclass 187 DE

Retail Manager

Applied Offshore

RCB Apply: Feb 2017

RCB Approve: April 2017

Visa & Nomination Apply: April 2017

 

Still waiting... anyone in the same boat? let me know

 

 

Applied dec 2017

Rcb approved in 3days

Still Waiting no movement 

Occupation retail manager