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  1. Shaggylom
    They just announced last night in the Budget that they are upping the cap on family stream from around 42k a year to 77k this year to help with the backlog it sounds. also looks like they'll be prioritising people in regional australia rather than people going to city centres
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    We applied for the travel exemption and put my 309 visa details in it. We went through an agent for the 309 but we then applied for the 600 ourselves and then had the agent reach out to immigration to let them know we had applied for the 600 and had purchases flights in August (with proof) and we were granted our 309 within 12 hours.
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    you can pay off the hotel quarantine with a payment plan. we saw that option when we left our hotel in Sydney last month
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    you have a similar time frame that we did. we applied for the exemption but put our 309/100 as the visa to refer to and then had our agent speak to someone, which you can do via the e-mail address provided in your immi account (or any correspeondence recived from them) and we just had them look at our 309 as part of the exemption (we also applied for the 600 as the backup)
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    yeah i literally asked my agent to speak to immigration and had her send my flights and my exemption info over along with details on my 600 and my 309 was approved within a few hours! the agent just asked them to look at the 309 instead of the 600
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    similar timeline to us. mine was 1 year to the date! Congrats!
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    So spent the morning talking to my immigration agent based on stuff i'd seen on the forum. I had my exemption approved and i had asked them to just advise immigration that we had that sorted and to look at my partner rather than my 600 visa. 4 hours later I get the email stating my 309 had been approved!! beyond happy, called the misses she was crying at work. We had just sorted our plans for how she'd work and i'd stay at home and we'd live with her parents till we got the go ahead this weekend, now its full steam ahead. Flights already booked for 3 August to Melbourne!!
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    only a few days
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    Not yet. I got my exemption through mid May and nothing yet. Applied for the 600 on the 25th of May and still waiting for that decision as well
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    we were told to wait till about month 8 to do our medical check. which worked out to be roughly when we got our RFI due to the timelines of 13-17 months
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    nothing yet. its only been 17 days and it does say 44 days or so. I had spoken to someone on the phone who said it should be a bit quicker but couldn't say how much.
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    planning to travel mid August as thats when my visa ends in the UK and gives us a few months to pack things and sort the house out here etc. i have also applied for a 600 visitor visa to at least let me travel as they are 'prioritising' people in the exempt category. hopefully it expedites my partner visa as well and i wont need the visitor one but we needed to be covered
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    Good to know. I just got confirmation my exemption has been approved but I can't apply for an ETA so am a bit confused on how i'm meant to actually get in.
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    Thats great news. i've got almost the same timeline as you in the RFI department so hopefully we get ours soon. I just applied for the exemption visa 3 days ago. Has anyone else applied and gotten one? how long did it take? My visa to live in the UK is now being cancelled in August due to being made redundant so hopefully something will come soon as my Australian partner can't come to the States with me either (and honestly i dont think its wise going there anyway!)
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    Ah thats good news. We went through an agent so we can't check our account. We submitted our RFI at the end of March just before this all kicked off even more. Now that I've lost my job due the virus we're just looking for the good news so we can start moving preparations or start the job hunt again here and possibly have to move during the search
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    So little stressed here. RFI came on 18th of Feb (well 14th to our agent but she sent it to us on the 18th). Medical done 4 days later, UK background same. Applied for my US FBI Clearance on the 18th of Feb and am still waiting for it to come back with the cut off for documents being today... they said it would be 6-8 weeks to get a response. We have uploaded the application for the Clearance to the site. Anyone else had any issues before with not having all documents for an RFI by the deadline? Just worried this will affect getting my visa for the sake of checking 1 year of living history 9 years ago and being stuck in bureaucratic process Thanks!
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    So it may not be a grant but my agent finally told me we've been assigned a case officer so i need to now submit my Medical and my US FBI background check (already did the UK one for a job so that was accepted) . We applied around June 25th 2019! so heres to a speedy last few months! now off to get my fingerprints done
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    yeah we were told to hold off on those till about 6 months after we applied and were advised to not do it when the the immigration account said to as it could expire and have to be done again. at least this is the info our agent fed back to us after speaking with their immigration contacts at the High Commission
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    completing through to grant
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    My mara agent had said last week that immigration was a bit behind and hasn’t started any applications from March yet. But had finished most of January’s
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    good to know some movement has happened for those of us applied in June of this year. All we had was our agent asking us to submit our sponsor app in July and nothing since then . We aren't planning on moving till June next year when my Visa and my partners visas will both expire for the UK. hopefully sorted before then or i may off to the US for the unforseen future
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    I applied end of June 2019 and nothing as of yet, spoke to my immigration agent and she said we are now in the fun 'waiting' period sadly.
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    I've known loads of people from my Rugby team to use PSS Removals
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    excellent! good to know
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    congrats everyone that's got their recent approvals!! sounds like the agents are all back from Holiday!
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