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No you don't need to inform anyone... If it is required immigration will contact you (which is very unlikely). Just chill now

Yes I do understand that but if you apply Onshore you have to be in the country and if you apply offshore you have to be outside Australia, you can't be in the country and have an offshore application.

I think your visa will not be approved until you leave and go offshore. If you are holding the same passport for your application and you are in the county already. For example if you have a French and Italian passport and you applied offshore on you French passport for your 187 Chef visa and you are in Australia with your Italian passport then your visa can still be granted. But if you have only one passport and you in Australia already but your application is offshore your visa won't be processed until you leave. This is my understanding, (through a friend who has Italian and Brazilian passports) if anyone finds this explanation wrong please don't get hyper about it, just present your explanation.

Hi Linh, Immigration can ask for s56 more than once but since you are the only applicant it is very unlikely for them to ask for another s56. Regarding Medicals - it's always valid for 12 months so till November 2019 your medicals should be fine, however if they do ask you for another medicals and they find that you are pregnant they may delay the processing of your application till the birth of your child. You may get a good case officer who will accept your medical even after 12 months, there has been one person on this forum who was not asked to do another medicals even after the 12 month period had passed. So fingers crossed hope you get a good case officer.

Thanks Sameer, it was a long long wait...but thank god its over.

Unfortunately its pointless trying to call them coz your call goes through a call centre that can give you very basic/minimal information... They can't speed up the process of your application. Until a case officer is not assigned its just a waiting game. This is my experience trying to call up.. May be others have had better luck.

They shouldn't be asking you for English scores again... As long as it was valid at the time of applications (which is 3yrs) it should be based on that score. You should tell them that you have already submitted your PTE.

Thanks Carmen... I'm going to quit this job too now... You know how stressful it is being sponsored by these employers who just want to squeeze you dry...just coz they think they are doing you a favour

Got my good news yesterday 1st application - Sep-2017 (RCB, Nomination and Visa) Cancelled in Jan-2018 (quit Job) 2nd application - Feb 2018 (Visa) April-2018 (Nomination and RCB) Aug-2018 - RCB approved April-2019 - Medicals and police clearance for India and Australia Aug-2019 - Nomination approved No documents asked... Just police clearance for UK and Germany Visa approved 23rd Oct- 2019 Occupation--Chef

Hopefully you hear some good news soon...in my case no further documents were required just a few different police checks...what's the turnover for your company?

September 2017... 1st application

All police clearance and medicals are valid for only 12 months... According to dates if your nomination is approved then there is very little chances of immigration asking you to do them again.

Linh they asked for my UK police clearance and medicals in the first s56 and the second s56 they asked for my wife's UK police clearance and my German police clearance.

My RCB took nearly 4 months to be approved... Don't wait for the RCB, many people are getting a positive outcome for their visa with a rejection in their RCB. I'm not saying its not important but its no point waiting for that. I applied for my visa first then a month later I applied for the RCB and nomination. Force your lawyer to proceed with your application.

Yup and there is no way you can contact the case officer like 10 years back where you could contact the case officer by email... Now its just a generic email address or the call center number where they can't provide you with proper information.

Department of immigration does not care if its 38 or 40 as long as its not below 38 hours, but according to Fairworks they described full-time as only 38 hours anything over that should be overtime. Unfortunately some employers will find a way to get around that to cheat their employees

Yeah me too they asked for s56 more documents on 16 August and gave us 28days we submitted all after 27days and then they sent us another s56 requesting for more documents... Took 6 days to submit the rest after that no news.

To check if you have any criminal history in India.

Your MA is right..file your nomination and visa quick...there are many people on this forum who have had successful outcomes with their nomination even though their RCB have come up with a negative outcome. Don't waste time mid November is coming soon

Thanks mate

Hahahaha thanks Tosh

That's perfectly fine, we are all here to help one another, I am attaching a word doc. on your private message. You can get a good understanding as I used a similar letter for my job. The other thing is that this visa shuts down in mid November, so as long as you submit your visa application, the rest can follow in due course of time even after November, you will still be fine. I respect all those who are doing it tough and still doing the right thing, its frustrating to see people who are getting in through the back-door doing all dodgy stuff like paying the employers to sponsor them and other heaps of fake stuff and still getting their visas but people who are genuinely applying through the right channels are getting refused. I hope you get your application sorted...all the best!!

Your salary sounds alright for your job and location. The median salary for an export coordinator in 58k but you have to take into consideration that you are in a regional area...so all you need to do is explain this in a formal letter on the company letter head and give a parallel example of the same occupation and salary according to payscale, Glassdoor or seek and that should be acceptable by the department. If you want me to draft a letter for you let me know, I'll send it to you in a private message.

What's your occupation and salary? Is your salary higher or lower than the current job market? Based on your answer I could suggest a way.

You can do that by creating an immiaccount on the immi website, the information needed will be on your bridging visa in order for you to access your file, it doesn't matter if your MA knows that you have made an account to check your file, after all that's your application and you have the right to view that. If the status changes to further assessment that means your on your final stage, the case officer is verifying all your documents and will be processing it soon, if it still in initial assessment that means - no one has looked at your file yet but it doesn't mean you are stuck, it could all change from initial assessment to finalised directly. Hope this answers your question!! All the best...