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  1. Juniper
    I read with mounting fury today that Boris Johnson has asked Scott Morrison for special dispensation to allow the Uk cricketers families to accompany them to Australia for the Christmas Test Matches! I was incandescent! There are thousands of us who would love special permission to spend Christmas with our families who live in Australia & whom we have been forcibly separated from since the outbreak of Covid 19, including new grandchildren whom we have never seen! Boris Johnson will probably not even be aware of our heartbreaking situation but I am sure that Scott Morrison is only too aware! Surely this cannot happen?
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    Linda, I have also benefited from your very reasonable and helpful posts which give much needed analysis and information. I first learned about the very long wait ahead and what was really happening from you and I too appreciate your helpful and totally realistic comments. I have noticed recently that the tone of all the 3 forums I follow, has changed, people have obviously been affected hugely by Covid and the reduction in visa numbers and this stress is showing in the type of comments and over-reactions. It is so hard for us all especially for people on their own like you, but please be aware that many of us really do appreciate your comments and knowledge of the system! It is very difficult and frustrating when others completely misunderstand what we are trying to say, but hang in there, some of us are still on the same wavelength! I truly hope all these parent forums can soon return to being the supportive friendly places they once were. Hardship affects us all and we are all missing our families and are often in despair but we surely must try to continue to support each other and to have HOPE - as that is all we can have at the moment! Things will get better! So please stay on this forum and others and we can simply wait and go forward together - with encouragement.
  3. Juniper
    Thank you AJM22! This makes a lot of sense and gives me a good reference tool. We have also applied for an interim 870 but are still at the Sponsorship stage. It may be we won’t need it after all, we shall have to wait and see! Such a waiting game and so hard to make a balanced decision with so little current information!
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    As May ‘16 has now been processing for over a year and is still ongoing, I suppose it is reasonable to assume that the processing of June ‘16 will take at least two years as there are apparently nearly twice the number of applicants? Then there will be July, August, September and October applications to be processed before our turn at 31/10/16. So we are looking at least another 3 years from now which is a very daunting thought! We have already been waiting for 58 months with no light at the end of the tunnel. Rather frightening at our age (mid -70’s) Having sold our house & business we seem destined to live in temporary accommodation with half our belongings in storage for the rest of our lives! I am beginning to think it was all simply an unrealistic dream and we will never ever get there! So near and yet so far!
  5. Juniper
    We applied for our 143 in October 2016 and there are several thousand applicants still in front of us, so possibly we will wait another two years or more
  6. Juniper
    That’s such good news Kath! It’s been a long road & as you say - great to know places were saved for those of in your position. Makes it all feel a little fairer! Now celebrate your new status and relax into Australian life You’ve made it!
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    Wonderful news Kath! So pleased for you! Be great to keep in touch. We have started our 870 Application!
  8. Juniper
    Done! I have sent a Submission. Thank you for highlighting this! All please follow!
  9. Juniper
    On the face of it, yes it does look as if it should only take about a year but people are still waiting from February, March and April 2016 plus many in May to have their visas granted. It seems that some people in June 2016 have been asked for ‘further information’ but it will take a long time to process the 1,874 applications from June alone! The Parent Visa Centre have been working on May 2016 applications (of which there were many!) for several months. It also depends on how many of the 20/21 allocation of approx 4,500 have been used already. When the allocation has been used the visa granting will simply cease until July 1st 2021 when the new allocation kicks in and so on. So looking at the numbers who applied each month between May and November 2016 and perhaps adding on a backlog, our visa will certainly take longer than another year to be granted, more like 2plus at the least. Of course - perhaps the annual allocation will be increased! but having already waited for over 4 years, aged 75 and with ALL my family in Australia, I just want to join them as soon as possible! That is why we are considering the 870 which if we are lucky, may be granted when the Australian Border restrictions are lifted! Maybe ....
  10. Juniper
    143 and 870 Visas: We are also applying for an 870. Our 143 was lodged 31st October 2016. We hope to get away with a 3year 870 but are worried it won’t be long enough. Opinions please?
  11. Juniper
    Hi Tad, We are 31 Oct 2016, so just before you. Our turn will be coming! Good Luck!
  12. Juniper
    Does anyone have an idea how long an 870 application takes? It obviously wouldn’t be granted until the Australian Borders open, but I wondered about applying in advance?
  13. Juniper
    Linda - we are thinking in exactly the same way as you! We would have nowhere to return to in the UK during the term of a 600 so it really has to be the 870 but as you say - for 3 or 5 years? Then I worry that they may be a rush of applicants for the 870 who are obviously all in the same position as ourselves. Am I right in thinking there is quite a low annual limit on the number of 870’s granted?
  14. Juniper
    We have been waiting 4 years for our 143 visa which we applied for on 31/10/2016! As you say, we are ludicrously so near and yet so far! Following the sale of our house, we have been living (in what we thought would be fairly short-term rented accommodation) with many of our belongings in Storage for 2.6 yrs, and now it looks like being at least 2 years longer, or possibly more! We are wondering about the 870 visa, just to get over there before it is too late! We are in our mid 70’s so time is not on our side! Of course we would have to wait until Australian Borders are open again in order to apply. A really difficult situation and it really is impossible to make balanced decisions without proper information! That surely is not such an unreasonable request!!! If only we knew where we really are in the process! I wish they would re-introduce the Calculator to give us some idea. At the end of May it showed there were 10,450 in front of us. Hard to know what to do .... Just despairing!
  15. Juniper
    You are so right Linda, the Covid crisis is obviously having a huge impact on the issuing of visas. A few are trickling through but many Applicants who are so nearly there are still waiting for the final granting of their visa. It is driving us all mad but we can do nothing except try to stay positive! When the Australian Borders open again, I think it will be a different story. We have now been waiting near enough 4 years so we must be getting towards the end but we know it will be a while yet. It is all so difficult but try to keep smiling everyone!
  16. Juniper
    I also looked at the calculator at the end of May this year and for us it said 10,450 Applications were in front of us, so that is at least the end of 2021 never mind the Covid complication! I do so wish they would restore the Calculator, at least we would know (more or less!) where we are! We applied 31st October 2016
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    Fee We feel the same! We went out to Adelaide for Christmas 2016 but now this will be our fourth Christmas in a row without seeing any of our family! Originally we thought we would definitely have our 143 visa by last Christmas (3 years+ of waiting) and by the time it became obvious that was not going to happen we thought it would probably have been granted by this Christmas, then Covid struck and here we are, stuck in an even more hopeless limbo! (4years of waiting!) We can only hope that by Christmas 2021, after over 5 years of waiting, things will have changed! It seems crazy now that when we first enquired about applying, in early 2015, an agent told us the 143’s were taking 12 to 18 months and looking at our personal timescale, it was too early to apply, so we put it all off until autumn 2016 as we had property & a business to sell etc!! How wrong we were!!!!
  18. Juniper
    So happy for you!
  19. Juniper
    Quoll, That’s rather an unkind comment! Perhaps you’d prefer those of us deprived of seeing our children and grandchildren never to see them again? We are not even asking to get in free, just to be able to be with our families. Nitz has written a letter in an honest attempt to move things along especially for those who have already paid the huge amount of money and are simply waiting for their visa to be issued. In these troublesome times, surely we can all have some understanding of people’s worries and be kind and supportive to one another!
  20. Juniper
    Aah, Linda , it’s just dreadful! So sorry. It seems to be their policy to keep us Completely in the dark, never mind that after 4 years we are all going quietly insane! It’s the not-knowing that is almost the worst, if we were given a realistic idea of when our Application will come up, at least we’d know and be able to make plans instead of living in limbo!
  21. Juniper
    Yes, I’ve been trying too, Linda! So annoying, it was our only real guide as to our position! Oh why do they make it all so difficult! With regards to the previous post about finalising visas lodged in May 2016, I take it to mean that immi is continuing to process and finalise parent visas but is not actually granting them until Australian Borders are open again. Soon they will be hitting June 2016 where there are a huge number of applicants to deal with - apparently nearly half of the total year’s visa allowance applied in one month! Try to stay sane everyone and keep smiling! There is always Hope!!!
  22. Juniper
    Thank you for doing this! We applied 31st October 2016. Any glimmer of information about progress/or otherwise is very welcome!
  23. Juniper
    I simply put ‘Visas’ on the subject line and then ‘Update please’ on the narrative space. I get a quick auto response every time. Good Luck!
  24. Juniper

    Just wonderful Kath! Best of luck for all going smoothly!

  25. Juniper
    Fantastic, I’ve followed your journey lately and am so very pleased for you!
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