Spikey

Wow.  Always wondered why there was such a spike.  Hopefully most of those double applications will now fall away.  We can always hope!

11 minutes ago, Jellybean T said:

I know that feeling as we live in Spain and always fly to UK first and overnight in a hotel as it takes far too long flying from Spain. Less than 2 months now for us and we will be in Adelaide permanently. Keep Smiling

Lucky you!  Good luck for the future!  My daughter just returned to Perth after a week in Adelaide.  She does Clinical Research monitoring visits at the hospital there every few months, but she lives in Perth.  :-)

1 minute ago, Jellybean T said:

You will get there, I understand completely how frustrating it is putting our lives on hold especially when Grandchildren are growing up without us. I always tried looking at flights for my next trip just after I got back from visiting them, it gave me something to look forward to.

Yes, doing that.  We want to go again in December.  We live in South Africa and the only airline that does direct to Perth is SAA and they are in the middle of business rescue so can't risk booking yet.  We did the Emirates thing 2018 but it takes far too long for our older bones. 

38 minutes ago, Jellybean T said:

Sorry Spikey but as your name implies you are Spikey! 173 applicants have waited a long time to get their 173 visa and are entitled to their 143 as soon as they can get it... they are not scuppering your 5 year timeline at all as 2019 applicants are realistically looking at a much longer wait than 5 years.

Yes.  Probably am feeling a bit Spikey.  Just returned from a week's holiday in Aus for my grand-daughter's first birthday, so feeling a bit fragile. 

25 minutes ago, Spikey said:

I saw on another forum a lady who got her 143 granted yesterday.  She only applied July 2019.  So much for a strict date applied basis! Makes me mad, if you say it's strict date basis then stick to it!  Makes everyone else despondent and angry.

I see she transferred her application from a 173 to a 143 as soon as they stopped looking at the 173s to try and bring the waiting lists for the two visas into parity.  If all the 173s convert to 143s to bunk the system then the waiting lists for the 143 are going to get longer and longer!

1 minute ago, LindaH27 said:

It’s possible this was a transfer from an existing 103 - as you can keep your original date of application when you  transfer. So she could have applied years ago but then changed to 143 

Looks like she had applied for a 173 and then changed it to a 143.  So the Aussie government plan to put a hold on 173 applications to bring 143 into parity isn't going to work as the 173s are just changing to a 143 to bunk the system!  So our hopes of them bringing the 5 years waiting list down for the 143 are scuppered!

I saw on another forum a lady who got her 143 granted yesterday.  She only applied July 2019.  So much for a strict date applied basis! Makes me mad, if you say it's strict date basis then stick to it!  Makes everyone else despondent and angry.

As far as I heard they are busy with the 143 visas at the moment as they had taken too many 173s and they need to rectify the situation.

Application acknowledged 1 July 2019 - I think a looong wait ahead of us.