Zetta

8 hours ago, Majhar said:

Hi Suelear 

I lodge subclass 173 for my father and my younger brother under the age of 18 as a dependent child on 15th may 2017. I realise this application will take at least 5 years before we hear anything. Now my father here in Australia on visitor visa 600 and has no further stay condition on it. My brother also in Australia visitor 600 but doesn’t have no further stay condition on it. I’m thinking to lodge for 864 on shore. My question to the forum

1. is it possible to apply for 864 while my father has no further stay condition. If not Which way we can apply to remove 8503 condition ? 

2. If we successfully able to lodge 864 are we going to loose our original lodgement date? Or they will swap our application. Also application fees we paid what would happen to that. 

Any other advise please help. 

 

Thank you 

Hi Majhar,

600 visas all have some conditions such as:

8558 - MAXIMUM 12 MONTHS STAY IN 18 MONTHS
8101 - NO WORK
8201 - MAXIMUM 3 MONTHS STUDY

even if there is no further stay they have to go out every year and stay away for 6 months. Are you sure their visa has no condition?!

14 hours ago, suelear said:

 

Hi Zetta,

Yes they can certainly switch and LindaH27 is correct in saying that they will have to forfeit the VAC1 they have already paid for their 143 application. It is also true that they will go to the back of the queue for their 864. However, whilst waiting for their 864 to be processed they can at least live as temporary residents and be with their families until such time as their 864 is hopefully granted. This is exactly the process I am currently going through, as due to my age I am not willing to waste my time waiting for a visa that is years away from being granted, and am tired of the toll - financially and physically that flying out to Australia twice a year is taking on my physical and emotional well being.  It's fine for younger members to hang in there, especially if they're not too far away from their visas being processed, but I neede to look at other options. Happy to chat with your parents if you think it will help.

HI Suelear,

Thats a very good point. Their submission is just 9 months from the processing now (May to Feb), but with things moving very slowly I think it can become 2-3 years until it gets to them.

I think we are better off waiting but thats a good option if they get impatient. 

On 11/08/2018 at 03:23, LindaH27 said:

I think @SusieRoo posted this ... and I believe there are currently over 50k waiting!!

 

 

What is the source for this information? is there an updated version that shows this year as well?

Hi Everyone,

Does anyone know if it was possible to switch from 143 to 864 since my parents now qualify for it and the queue is shorter, is there a way to switch to 864? (while preserving your position or perhaps the day you qualified for it?)

Hi everyone,

The automatic reply email is not working anymore for me. I tried both:

parents@homeaffairs.gov.au

parents@border.gov.au

and they dont respond anymore. Last update I got was end of July and that showed 0 change in July for 143. Does anyone have insight what is going on? 

Another question is if it was possible to switch from 143 to 864 since my parents now qualify for that and the queue is shorter, is there a way to switch to 864?

Thanks