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Hello, as with the requirement for being a settled sponsor, is the 2 years a pre-requisite condition or is there anyway that we could demonstrate sponsor meeting this whilst still within the 2 years. Appreciate your and anyone help.  

On 01/03/2022 at 19:48, LindaH27 said:

In my youth I went to university, got a job, got married and had a family and became a stay at home mum. Once the children were in their teens I went back to do post grad study in 1992. 
As a class we spent many hours discussing what was called a “demographic timebomb”

This is the fact that most of the world would soon start to have an increasing ageing and longer living population.  The question was what should be done about it. The answer was that governments should start to plan for that particular future as soon as possible.

 
What actually happened was - nothing! And now, 30 years later, most countries are struggling to deal with that ageing and expensive population. I’m 71 now and until recently was quite spry etc but now have various ailments  which came on quite quickly and certainly see my doctor more often and take more medication. So even if parents currently do very well for their age it’s not known exactly ”how” they will age. 

Australia is seeing this over the last few years,  the young migrants who went over in the 1950s & 1960s are getting old. Australia wants young people who will bring life to their economy - and there’s huge numbers who want to do so -  and  it will look after the elderly who have paid their dues to the country - but it doesn’t want to bring in more problems and expense of already older people who haven’t made that contribution. In many countries the birth rate is also falling and people are not having children till much later in their lives. 

 $50,000 per person visa charge won’t go very far if you look at the costs of common medicines and operations that elderly people can need.

I say all this as someone who applied  for 143 nearly 5 years ago and I’m now 71 and looking at a further 5 years. I don’t know if my health will further deteriorate and there’s the concern of knowing I’d have to pass the medical. So although I get annoyed at the wait, and at some things I see as loopholes,  I do understand why Australia would prefer not to import more expensive older people. Yes some will remain fit as a fiddle till they die - they will be in the minority definitely!! 
 

The senate enquiry due to report next month will definitely touch on this - it remains to be seen what the suggested solution is. It may be that it removes all reciprocal health care from those on bridging visas which are the aged parent ones, it may greatly  increase the visa charges to properly reflect the underlying cost of older people, it may state that all parents have to have private health care etc. We will have to wait and see. A change in government is unlikely to bring about much change once they see the full expense. Yes there are many in Australia who missed seeing their families during the pandemic but there are  thousands more who don’t want any more migration and they appear to be in the majority - and the govt is aware of this. 

If you have applied 143 about 5 years ago, would thought application should have cleared by now? 
I noticed Noctis with queue date in mid Jun 2016 are only days away from visa grant, unless there were something missing or your queue date is after Jun '16

7 hours ago, StanL said:

Wonder how did you get the interview within 2 days?  Our AOS was submitted online 10 days but haven't heard from them...

I believe you could possibly ring to follow this up if a week has passed 

On 03/03/2022 at 12:34, Noctis said:

Hello everyone,
My updates:

Application Received: 15 Jun 2016
Request AOS, Medicals and Police Cert: 7 Feb 2022
Medicals examination done on 8 Feb 2022
AOS Submitted on 8 Feb 2022
AOS Interviewed on 10 Feb 2022
AOS Bank Guarantee Request received on 11 Feb 2022.
AOS Bank Guarantee Submitted on 15 Feb 2022
- I didn't prepare for this. Please don't be like me. You need to prepare:
  - If you don't have any CommonWealth account, please go and create one once they ask for AOS.
    The GoalSaver account shouldn't cost monthly fee. Later we can skip all the identify checks that waste time.
  - Transfer money to that GoalSaver account (in my case it is 14k + $50 for my parents) and wait for the 
    Bank guarantee request.
  - Once received the request, go to CommonWealth with the letter and open the term deposit account.
  - It cost $150 fee to open term deposit account so bring cash.
  - The staff will transfer 14k from that GoalSaver account to the Term Deposit account and leave $50 in 
    GoalSaver account (the staff said GoalSaver needs some money in it so I left $50 there).
  - The bank guarantee will say 5 years in it but don't panic. The staff would explain that it is the maximum terms for a
    Term Deposit account but there is a condition under it says Subject to renew. So Centerlink can request to renew to
    another 5 years so total is 10 years.
  - It's up to you if you want to cancel the GoalSaver account but the interest for the Term Deposit account is paid every 
    6 months to my GoalSaver account so i keep it.
AOS Accepted on 16 Feb 202 but their acceptance email arrived on 18 Feb 2022.
AOS Acceptance Letter said they have notified Immi department.
Police Certs and AOS Acceptance Letter submitted on 25 Feb 2022.
2nd VAC request on 2 Mar 2022 at 4:30pm.
2nd VAC paid on 2 Mar 2022 using Bpay with ANZ Bank app at 5:30pm.
- The maxium Bpay per day is 10k for ANZ but if you install the ANZ app on your smartphone and set up VoiceID (use your voice).
   You can pay Bpay more than 10k up to 100k per day.
.....
As of this moment 3 Mar 2022 12:30pm. No visa granted yet.

So I have a question.

Do I need to send the 2nd VAC receipt to parents@homeaffairs.gov.au?
In the 2nd VAC request, it doesn't say anything about I have to send the receipt to them.

The wait to celebrate is soul crushing. 6 years waiting...

It doesn't hurt to notify via email that payment has been made and completed and attach the payment receipt you had following payment over the portal.
Typically you would be issued the grant within a couple of days assuming the cap has not been reached, mine were issued within 2 days following payment made for VAC2.

Hope this helps

That's when your prelim application is approved and you are assigned a queue date 

Would have been helpful if the rule could be relaxed during the pandemic as the travel in and out has been made extremely difficult

Latest response received today on assessment date for everyone's tracking. 
103 appears to have moved into Sept 2010 having been in Aug for over a year, and most likely all other CPVs may also have moved forward. 

With the queue calculator still offline and if you managed to record the date of your last check and number of applicants ahead of you. 

You could possibly use the FOI data, ie. number of grant and number of rejection in the below link, to manually estimate number of applicants ahead of yours, hopefully the queue calculator would be put back on shortly. Additional I think from memory one could also send a generic query email to determine the current queue date immi has processed to date    

https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/access-and-accountability/freedom-of-information/disclosure-logs/2020

Sorry for getting everyone confused, and got to the bottom of it, also thanks Alan for confirming it.
As with 103 or 804 one is not entitled for Medicare during the application period however could only apply for it following the grant of the PR.

And with CPVs would be as per quoted in the above posts.

Hello, first time posting,

You may be aware of previously, but I have noticed that Medicare eligibility have recently been stripped off from 103 and 804 visa holders, and is restricted to only CPV holders.
Although immi still have this showing available for 103 holder on the website,

https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-listing/parent-103#About