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5 hours ago, EJMac said:

Ah I just looked, it is 'temporary residence transition' stream.

Today I went to bank for loan application for buying property. Then home loan specialist checked my permanent residency. It says “186 Temporary resident transition stream”. Then she argued that I was still temporary resident- not permanent resident yet!!!!

1 hour ago, Kewalch said:

Anyone got reply from the department after receiving s56 request for position availability.

 

Its been almost a month since requested and responded but nothing so far!!!

15 hours ago, Orjun said:

Hi all,

could i get idea about what kind of things do i need to mention for “genuine need for paid employees” and any sample letter for this that would be great help

if you guyz  have any sample letter please send me in ormoongapchoo@gmail.com

thank you

I don’t think there is a generalised answer for it! The answer depends upon so many factors such as position of your business, organisation structure, your duties and roles etc. The onus is on your employer to prove that your position is genuinely required for the welfare of their business and without you the business would have some adverse effect. I would recommend to provide organisational chart of employees and explain that your role is vital for their business. There could be other viable approaches  depending upon the position of business and your roles. Just find the ways and reasons to convince immigration that you are genuinely required by your business for their welfare.

21 hours ago, Emix said:

Micgeo I can’t believe you visa is till not granted.They asked you for “position availability” ages ago.

My Chef colleague had applied September 2019 and they just called our director 2 weeks ago asking if he is still employed and literally 1 hour later he got his PR granted.I’m same company as restaurant manager and mine file isn’t opened yet.

I was requested to provide same “statement of currently position available”. Submitted very next morning and its more than 3 weeks and no any indication of any update!

Just now, Paul888 said:

Thanks, but I couldn't find 

What you couldn’t find? Did you get S56 request? If yes, check the email address of the sender! That would indicate the processing centre! For instance- nsw.pse@homeaffairs.gov.au

1 minute ago, Paul888 said:

Guys, could you please help me to figure out where is my processing center? Where I can find it?

Check the email address of the sender of S56 request and you can get clue there!

Hi friends! My employer got S56 request asking if the position still available and give statement confirming the availability of the position. What would be the suitable document to support it? Or just need to give the written statement? Have anyone come up with this situation and what approach was applied?

Thanks in advance for the help and good luck to everyone!

55 minutes ago, Nora93 said:

Hi guys,

my 457 have expired, so currently I’m on bridging visa for 186.

do I have to keep paying the private insurance?

 

i already have medicare

thank you

You didn’t have to pay even when Your 457 wasn’t expired after you got Medicare. 

38 minutes ago, sonhcnet said:

Oh yeah, forgot about this functional English. Please ignore my previous reply.

Just curious, if someone has Proficient English, does he need to take another test after one year to fulfill the functional English requirement?

That’s interesting scenario. It entirely depends how CO interprets! It doesn’t give any sense that the validity is upto 3 years for other purposes but 1 year for partner’s English ability. But this is what written in DOHA website “ In the 12 months before you applied for the visa, you scored one of the following:“ ———

9 hours ago, sonhcnet said:

English score is valid for 3 years (regardless of what stated on the test report). 

 

FOI,  English test for the evidence of functional English ability for secondary visa applicants is valid for only 1 year. It might be valid for 3 years for other immigration purposes but not for partner’s functional English ability.

21 hours ago, PRayer01 said:

Thanks!

We responded in about 3 weeks after the request came, however, they waited till the 28 days (what they set for response time) expired.
As I learnt it from my MA, the visa applications are randomly assigned to case officers by a computer system, but only for one view. Meaning, when you get a CO first they check it and if they had any additional request your application goes back to an internal pool until the set period (28 days) expires, due to legal reasons for you to have the full time to respond, so you can't say "but I still wanted to upload some more docs" (therefore they won't continue on your case while the 28 is pending, although my MA says there are exceptions in rare cases).
Then the computer will reassign your visa application to a different CO (so you won't have the same CO as it used to be in the old times).

Oh! That is what they are practising now? How about this? Does the new CO assess only the documents requested or could possibly go through all the documents previously assessed by predecessor CO?

Waiting ...game is frustrating every one! Now what will be impact of this on employer sponsored visas? Will the existing application affected? Looks like no any grants after announcement of this scheme!! Worried!!!

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Hi

any news? I have also applied and waiting very nervously!!!

Hi,

186 TRT (Victoria non regional)

Nomination applied - 25 March

visa applied - 22 April 

Case officer assigned for nomination (NSW centre) and s56 Requested for further information On June 26 and not submitted yet. Main visa application status is still Received. Some of the information requested were submitted with main visa. 
In your experience, will the case officer be same for both nomination and visa application or could/will there be different case officer assigned for visa and nomination? I am overwhelmed both with excitement and worrisome! When can I expect for further action and decision? Thanks