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I know my English skills are not so good. But I clearly understand what my friend said to me. My visa was granted after investment. But my friend told me even though some people had made an investment, they were not granted their visa recently. Instead they received a letter to return the money. (188C)

From my friend. My friend heard of it from his immigration agent in Brisbane. His agent is handling dozens of 188 visa. I think it was unusual.

I heard 188b visa and 188c visa application are being refused after investment recently. After investment some of them received the letter to return the money. What's the reason?

I think if your visa was granted 1st Oct 2018, you can submit 888visa after 1st Oct 2022. 

34 minutes ago, jun689 said:

Thanks, but once if travel back to home country, can fly back Australia afterwards? 

I guess  the answer is yes and hope I am right

Yes. 188 visa is a automatic exempt category to enter Australia 

15 minutes ago, jun689 said:

according to Covid 19 of Home Affairs website, temporary visa holders are free to leave Australia but of course not easy or impossible to come back OZ. The tricky point is the right of 188 visa holder back OZ is same as PR or citizen. In other words, 188 visa holders sounds free.to in and out of OZ??

Until now yes. 

25 minutes ago, 3together said:

Hello, do you have an Australian source for this information? A link? Would be great, as this is quite important for us as well. 

https://covid19.homeaffairs.gov.au/travel-restrictions 

https://covid19.homeaffairs.gov.au/leaving-australia#toc-6

188 visa is a exempt category to enter Australia & Temporary visa holder can depart Australia at any time without permission. 

On 21/05/2021 at 18:17, jun689 said:

Anyone has idea 188 visa holder after first trip to OZ due to fulfill the requirement of First Day Entry , can fly back to Home country? Any exemption need to be applied before travelling?

188 visa holder don't need to apply exemption. They can go back to home country. 

5 hours ago, 3together said:

YESSSSSSS: We got our visa today! 188B! Took 29 month from application till today. 

Congratulations!

On 03/04/2021 at 21:50, Asif Shaikh said:

I have send email as per above address but not responding.

Are you still waiting?

On 30/03/2021 at 15:38, NettyHodgy said:

Hi Guys. So 8 weeks after uploading Medicals and Police checks after CO contact I'm still sat waiting, is this normal?

Should I be concerned?

Annette  

This is normal. CO may ask you more information.

4 hours ago, 3together said:

Next step ahead. Yesterday we finally got the OK to transfer the investment. We got invitation to do the investment 11.01.2021. 26.03.2021 finally the OK to do wire the investment. They did reject the signature on the investment contract, as it was not close enought to the on in the passport. Honestly, they take bureaucracy very seriously. As papers need to be send in origin, it took ages to do the application for investment twice. 

Congratulations! 

18 hours ago, 3together said:

Thanks. Yes, I would have loved to find some information like this when I applied. Right now, we are struggeling with the NSW bond company. We had to send documents, certified copies, and the contract. You can do the investment on one name, or on both (if you are married). But they rejected the signature of my wife, as it is very slightly looking different compared to the passport. As well, 1 document of serveral pages was certified by a notary binding the pages together with an official seal. Usual way to do it in Germany, if you change something, you brake the seal. But for the bond company, each page has to be certified seperatly, having stamp, signature etc. Therefore, we have to redo the paperwork and send it by DHL again to Australia. Cost us 2-3 weeks extra, as its not easy to get notary appointments during lockdown. It seems, they bond company is even far more strick than immigration. 

Thanks for sharing your experience. Yes. I loved to read your recommendations in this forum. I can guess, I can plan for next step with your experience. Hope to hear good news from you soon!

On 14/02/2021 at 04:10, 3together said:

Yes. They want documents certified, so you need to an appointment at notary etc. After they want the original one send to Australia, which takes time. Then they have to process it, takes time. After the confirmation you have to confirm and prove again, of course certified, that you send the money from the right account etc. pp. So it just takes a lot of time to process all steps. 

Thank you for the detail. You are very kind and give us very helpful informations.

7 hours ago, 3together said:

No. We send the contract to NSW treasury. Waiting for their reply. 

Every step takes time quite long...

40 minutes ago, 3together said:

Should be around 1 month. First you make the contract to deposit the money with the state fond. This takes you a few weeks. After you deposit the money. Then you need to send this paperwork again to immigration. They need to process it. Expect 2-4 weeks for each step, as they have a lot of applications to take care of. After this, you should get the visa by mail. 

Thank you very much for valuable information!

How long it takes to hav visa after deposit the fund?

11 minutes ago, Jay. said:

Yes after that when the visa comes 

Thank you for your reply

1 hour ago, 3together said:

YES!!!! Congratulations!!! I suppose you have 12 month for the 1st touch of the ground. I would go asap.  I hope to see you downunder! 

We are sending today our paperwork to the investment fond. So another 1-2 month and we should have the visa as well. 

Hi. Did you deposit the investment fund already?