Aaron88

Hi all, received 2nd vac request about 1hr ago, see signature for details. 

thanks everyone for sharing info, good luck all. 

37 minutes ago, gagan1991 said:

Hi All, 

I just wanted to ask about the assurance of support approval letter. Once we get an approval for assurance of support- do we have to send the approval letter to the immigration department or Centrelink will send it to the immigration department automatically. 

Thanks all in advance.

Send a copy yourself. Don’t wait for Centrelink 

58 minutes ago, KathyN said:

@Aaron88 We emailed PVC yesterday asking for progress since our last submission of documents in June 2020, and an officer replied saying applications are continuing and we will be notified when they reach the next stage.

Yes, can’t get much out of them. Thanks for sharing, hopefully you will get something very soon. It’s a waiting game haha 

13 minutes ago, LindaH27 said:

Did you forward your AOS acceptance letter from Centrelink to your case officer ?  

yes, i did straightaway as i don't trust centrelink...

2 hours ago, BargeUK said:

Did you get any kind of acknowledgement after you submitted all your documents and did you notify them when you received your AOS acceptance?  It does seem strange that you just haven't heard anything

i didn't get any acknowledgement other than an auto respond from pvc1, any additional email sent with application ids/name/reference number had the same acknowledgement email, but no reply from my case officer. 

9 hours ago, Kathss56 said:

I would be very very tempted to email them. Seems so unfair

thanks Kath, I'll try again, i'm okie with delay in processing, but delay without asking for more info or communicate with applicant just seems strange. 

45 minutes ago, Kathss56 said:

 

Can’t believe you haven’t got yours yet !! surely any day now

Haha , Not sure. guess I’m just lucky... my case officer never reply emails. 

1 hour ago, Kathss56 said:

 2ND VAC REQUEST!!  Feels like a lifetime ago.....hmmm it was!! 
still won’t be valid for me until I can fly out of Oz but at least it’s there

Gratz, you made it. Hopefully more good news tomorrow and coming weeks. 

48 minutes ago, MajHam said:

Can’t believe I’m writing this either! But I have also received 2nd VAC request this morning. Paying by BPay shortly so fingers crossed for a quick visa grant and I’ll be searching for flights to Perth! Woohoo!

Congratulations! You made it. 

28 minutes ago, Esteban said:

Congratulations Yorkie  ( and another secretely fuming member wondering what has happened to the date order).  We can only hope something changes soon for those still waiting from Feb/March 2020 for 2nd Vac.

as you can see, 2nd vac request is not based on date order, so you might get lucky and jump ahead of lots of people 

15 hours ago, NatS259 said:

I just now received the 2nd VAC for my mums visa, I can’t even tell her yet as she’s asleep still hahaha oh my god so excited! Good luck everyone! Things are moving!!! I’ll update on visa grant!

Gratz, thanks for sharing. As life is gradually resuming to normal, hopefully more parents can finally reunite with their children. 

2 hours ago, sub7er said:

i am a Jan 2016 applicant and i haven't received the 2nd VAC email either. 

1 hour ago, Samvaz99 said:

I am same , 28 January 2016 , still waiting for 2nd VAC

i guess the short answer is  applications submitted before may 2016 are in the final stage of process, but it's really hard to tell if they follow strict date order.  Hopefully you'll all have some good news very soon.

12 hours ago, Kathss56 said:

Don’t understand why you haven’t got yours. Definitely NOT in strict date order

I was wondering the same, maybe my case officer has different priorities.

On 21/08/2020 at 15:08, nitz said:

Hey guys just got an email request 2nd vac payment ,coudn’t be more happier .
thanks for supporting during this time @Alice___ @palaceboy1 @AlwaysVet 

you Should hear soon too  @Alice___ 

applied 11/02/16

Gratz mate, we need more good news like this, being a tough year for us all. 

On 29/05/2020 at 11:26, Samvaz99 said:

Hi Guys, could someone advise if immigration send a receipt when 2nd VAC is paid.

 

I am waiting for 2nd VAC to be asked. Applied in Jan 2016

Hi, i would imagine if they take your money, they will give you a receipt.

Don't hold your breath, immi department stopped issuing 2nd vac when the boarder was closed. We shall hear some good news when everything resume

Hope this helps.

1 hour ago, cfernandes said:

Yup. I am trying to find out if anyone else has had any correspondence from the department as well. As long as we all keep sharing and communicating on this forum it will help understand how DIPB is progressing. 

yeah, it's a waiting game... and a very long one...

On 27/03/2020 at 06:59, cfernandes said:

I hope this is only for those who have already done the payment of the second vac or perhaps the AOS has been finalised. Which would mean they are ready for visa grant. 

Praying that they still continue to process applications and take them to a stage where just the last part ie. 2nd VAC needs to be paid. It will save us all the anxiety and stress of seeing nothing at all happen in the next few months. This way it will at least keep  things moving. Even if it's slow it doesn't matter. 

I think they are still processing applications, requesting further docs, it just means no more 2nd vac will be issued. Once resumed, 2nd vac requested will be issued in application date order. I would imagine, there will be quite a lot "ready to go" applications by the end of this crisis, hopefully, we'll see a higher planning level for family stream next FY.

38 minutes ago, Jellybean T said:

Thanks for that info Marisawright, I will try and get official clarification on that when things calm down a bit. I have my visa grant and was due to fly on the 8th of April before the flight was cancelled. Also I live in Spain and we went into lockdown on the 16th March until the 30th but it's now been extended to 14th April so maybe once the lockdown is lifted we may be allowed to finally fly once the flights are available again. We have the added complication of taking our dog who had her final blood tests on the 13/3 and must fly in 45 days from then or start the blood tests again. The furniture etc was collected last Friday so will arrive in Australia before us. Wasn't expecting anything like this after waiting 4 years for the Visa.

Good luck, I hope all goes well. 

On 19/03/2020 at 21:04, SusieRoo said:

S**t… that’s not so good.

I did the test email thing this morning and they are ‘officially’ processing up to 16th Feb for both 173 and 143 visas.

I hope you hear something soon.

Just to clarify, it is Feb 2016 not 16th Feb.

1 hour ago, Kathss56 said:

In my own opinion!  it will go quiet parent visa wise for a while. Mygov website keeps crashing and Centrelink overwhelmed with enquires.  Immigration will also be very very busy with temporary visa enquires etc., keep safe everyone

I agree with Kath, when Australia imposed travel ban on China, immigration office stopped issuing 2nd vac request and permanent visa to all offshore Chinese applicants. There are exceptions, but I am not going into details here.

With the latest border closure, I assume all offshore 143 applications are now on hold, people might still hear from their case officers asking additional docs etc, but there will be very few 2nd vac requests and visa grant notices. 

I hope everyone stay safe, follow the social distancing rules and avoid gathering. good luck

13 hours ago, AlwaysVet said:

Thank you.  Yes, I didn't expect that quick response, but it just happened.
Have you forwarded a copy of AoS acceptance letter to PVC team?  They say that would fasten the process up. 

I'm sure you will get yours soon.

congratulations!

2 hours ago, KittyMB said:

@AlwaysVet How did you guys upload the AoS documents to Centrelink? The lady had told me to upload documents to Financial Assurance as that was a priority queue. When I uploaded, I first uploaded as Other documents with the title Financial Assurance; I was still a bit unsure so I uploaded again but selected Centrelink Forms - I'm sorry I can't remember the Form number but if you find Financial Assurance Form and upload to that. It may get you a quicker response. See my signature, ours has been moving pretty quickly.

 

@Aaron88 We sent acceptance letter to immi, I thought I'd have to wait for at least 3 weeks to hear back, a couple of days later I sent an email asking for possible timeframes as the parents current tourist visa is about to expire. I did not get a response to that but got the request for 2nd Vac payment. Just thought I'd share, as I think the email did the trick in getting a quicker response. (or maybe not and it's just been plain good luck :))

Thanks for sharing, I’ll definitely try this out. Will let you know how it goes. 

10 hours ago, AlwaysVet said:

Nope, just stay put waiting patiently for good news.  We don't have dependents either, just me and my wife.  Our son's contacted Centrelink and been advised to wait.

yeah, that's great, all the best, lots of people having issue with Centrelink at the moment, but in most cases, it the issue at Centrelink's end. 

4 hours ago, AlwaysVet said:

We are in the same boat!

just out of curiosity, have you been to china recently? According to pvc1's auto response, they are now reviewing applications received in feb 2016, it seems strange that they missed your application, unless like cafenades said, your case is special or have dependents involved? 

1 minute ago, cfernandes said:

Fingers and toes crossed

Haha check my timeline, the waiting is killing me. Lots of applications who applied after me got their visa already. Not sure what’s going on here. 

3 minutes ago, cfernandes said:

Not sure if it is the Coronavirus issue. Because it still takes a good 4-5 months for the visa grant after the case officer makes contact and asks for further documentation .There is a substantial lead time before anyone can make an entry into AUS. 

I am hoping they pick up again. It was all going at such a good pace and now it's silent. 

The least they can do is get us started with our paperwork and keep us in queue. Not hearing from them just builds further anxiety for the applicants. 

FYI mate, S56 is now at end of April, so you will hear something from immi soon

27 minutes ago, SusieRoo said:

It’s normally around May when processing grinds to a halt for the quota yearend. I’m wondering if this virus has caused immi to stop processing parent visas. I think Chinese applicants still take-up the loins share of parent visas. And now with the travel restrictions from Mainland China, it could be difficult to stop processing visas from just one country without generating problems for the future.

I don’t know if this is fake news, but I read some Australian universities are so desperate to get their fee paying Chinese students onto their courses, they are paying for students to have a two-week holiday in Bali en-route to circumvent the travel ban.

I suspected the same, rang the immi hotline and got told parent visas are business as usual. However I doubt this because on recent 2nd vac notices, immi department clearly says not to travel to China. 

11 minutes ago, Sadge said:

Whilst I can in some respects sympathise with the view that we parents should have private health care because we will, almost inevitably, be a cost to Medicare as we age, it should be borne in mind that we bring our wealth to this country (often far in excess of the $250,000 it is claimed we cost the taxpayer).  We buy cars and homes, spend our pensions here, pay our tax, invest our savings here, and when we depart this life, leave that money in OZ for our children to spend here.  Very, very few migrant parents will ever claim any sort of welfare benefits, so I think on balance we should be looked on as being an asset rather than a liability.

Very well said, spot on