Bluey128

Us nurses are able to get 491/190/189 pretty easy these days. I personally would put in EOI'S for 190 and 189 and not bother with sponsored or 491. 491 makes it hard for you to buy a house and sponsored route is such a faff and obviously you're tied to an employer for a period of time 

20 hours ago, Steve Elliott said:

Late lodgement even if three minutes late, means the application was invalid.

Also, it's worth pointing out that each State and Territory is given a set number of allocations each year by DHA. If a nomination was wasted due to an avoidable error, the nominating State has, in effect lost one of those places if it has to re-nominate a second time around. 

On the topic of "moral obligation", that potentially becomes a more of an issue, if it is a visa which requires nomination at the PR stage. If you blatantly disregard the requirements of the nominating state, don't be surprised if they refuse to nominate you for PR.  

What about a 190 visa?

1 hour ago, Ausvisitor said:

The team at DUC aren't RMAs - they have a number of RMA on retention as advisors but the majority of the people you interact with at DUC are just paid case handlers that turn the cogs

 

It may be that yours was a qualified RMA if so that makes their mistake even more unforgivable

 

 

Can't argue with you there

On 04/08/2022 at 04:12, Ausvisitor said:

I totally agree with you statement, but I do have sympathy with the OP.

They engaged DUC who are generally talked about as offering a decent service on these forums and generally they have a decent reputation.

In their position I would have assumed if that many are saying they do a good job then they must be ok.

I guess you just don't expect people you've paid to do a job to screw up like this.

I'm always glad I chose to work with an RMA directly - but I was seriously considering DUC when we did our paperwork because they appear to be reputable and dependable 

Yes, we did not expect this in a million years. The amount of sterling recommendations is what swayed us to go with them.

Can I ask what you mean about working with a RMA directly? All the guys at DUC are RMA's including the lady dealing with us

On 04/08/2022 at 04:49, Marisawright said:

I'd have to disagree.  I've never seen anyone recommend the DUC on these forums.  The most I've seen is people saying they're "OK", especially if someone has already committed to them.  Occasionally we'll get someone saying they used DUC and it worked for them. I can recall a few instances where people have been given incorrect information by the DUC phone line so that has made me wary of them.

There are countless recommendations across all of the associated Facebook groups. Recommendations for DUC represent the vast majority of all of the recommendations for agents on there. That's why we went with them.

10 hours ago, wrussell said:

If an invalid visa application is submitted, the visa application charge is refundable. There are rare circumstances in which lodging an invalid application is a sound strategy, but not in the case above.

Why would somebody deliberately submit an invalid visa application as a strategy???

On 04/08/2022 at 04:00, wrussell said:

Consult one of the RMAs who posts on this forum and in general deal directly with a RMA, not an organisation that retains the services of a RMA as a consultant.

Can I ask what you mean by this? The lady that we're working with at DUC is a an RMA

6 hours ago, Gavilon18 said:

I had an initial consultation with DUC yesterday and when I mentioned that I was interested in WA or SA, ideally WA but VISA options pretty much non existent there, the response was apply for SA as you will get the VISA but as its a moral obligation and not a legal obligation to reside there you can just go to WA.

As there is a chance of the visa being a 491 and therefore a need to convert to PR I'd be a bit nervous on taking this course of action

I deffo would not do it with a 491. And I'm reluctant to do it with a 190 but we are getting desperate after everything we've been through so far!

It's hard to know whether to trust them or not cos I'm thinking it's best for them to just get a you a visa and get you off their books - making room for more paying customers.

11 hours ago, Cobs_Ahoy said:

You are going to SA right? I just had a quick look on https://www.migration.sa.gov.au/skilled-migrants/supporting-information/state-nomination-requirements

if you scroll down to 9.13 they talk about this, looks like you might be in luck if your last nomination was in the 21/22 year as you would be eligible for nomination again now we are in the 22/23 year (at least that’s how I’ve read it). Fingers crossed for you, hope your agent can reassure you and the next round happens soon. 

Ah thank you for checking that for me, that's really kind. I'm useless at finding these things out myself. Yeah we want SA or QLD. Our agent is also saying to apply for a 190 for other states and just move to the one you want but I'm a bit worried about this!

On 01/08/2022 at 07:17, Cobs_Ahoy said:

Oh I’m gutted for you @Bluey128 that must be beyond frustrating. Have you checked whether it will impact on getting state nomination in the next round? I know each of the states have different rules  about a waiting period before they will nominate applicants for a second time. 

Oh my god I hadn't even heard of this

I'll have to ask the agent about it.

Yeah we're just horrified that it happened and feel so let down. 

4 hours ago, Marisawright said:

I hope the agent refunded your fee

Do you mean the visa application fee? She said DOHO will return it to us in due course.

The agency fee, we were due to pay £600 for the visa application part which we didn't pay anyway due to it being up in the air. They are going to put fresh EOI's in for us free of charge and then conver any state nomination fees too.

Just wanted to update you all that the DOHO finally got back back to us via our agent and have deemed our visa application invalid due to it being submitted 3 minutes late and therefore the date after the EOI expired.

41 minutes ago, Phil1712 said:

What's your occupation? And have that given you an expected time frame until to may receive your grant

Nurse and no they haven't as yet

3 hours ago, mrsmac said:

Usually when an application has been successfully lodged, a receipt is generated for the payment. Maybe just ask the DUC for a copy of the DOHA receipt and it might help put your mind at rest. 

Thank you,

We've had something like that from DOHO to acknowledge our application 

2 hours ago, paulhand said:

The relevant time zone for all online applications is Canberra.

Yeah, I guessed that. It was definitely 00:03 in Canberra at time of submission 

10 hours ago, Phil1712 said:

I wouldn't worry Wes is very experienced 

It's not Wes. It's another lady who's lovely but the application was left till the deadline day and subsequently went in 3 minutes late. Just very worried they are going to reject it.

4 minutes ago, Phil1712 said:

Can I ask who is your agent?

DUC

Hi,

Our agent submitted our visa application for a 491 SA yesterday.

Our EOI invite linked to this and therefore the deadline, expired at midnight (Australian time) 28/6/22 - Which was yesterday afternoon here in UK.

Our application was submitted at 00:03 on 29/6/22

Our agent doesn't think this will be a problem. We are obviously very worried.

Anyone experienced or heard of this happening before?

The agent was obviously cutting it very fine in any case but it would of gone through before midnight ozzy time had Barclays not kept blocking my payment for the visas which obviously eventually went through but took us to 3 mins past midnight.

Please advise!

Thanks 

Hi @Cobs_Ahoy,

Thanks for the info! We chickened out and paid the agent to do it for us haha.

Just worrying now cos SA want transcripts of uni degree but they don't have them. The uni provided us with a letter to say that the documents were destroyed even they moved buildings years ago. It was enough for ANMAC so hoping it will be enough for SA. 

Have you had your proper invite yet? Xx

Hello everyone,

We received an invite from SA yesterday to apply for state nomination for a 491.

Our migration agent wants £600+VAT JUST do complete the state sponsorship for us.

We are not well off and are reluctant to part with this money for what seems like a relatively disproportionate amount of work compared to the cost.

My question is - is there anyone out there that has done this bit themselves? Was it easy? What does it entail? If there is any level of skill involved we are happy to pay an agent to do it for us as we don't want to take any risks.

We are definitely using said agent for the main visa application but just trying to see if we can save a bit of cash by doing the state nomination bit ourselves.

Thank you all in advance x

On 14/03/2022 at 10:59, RJG said:

Hi, 

ROI submitted for SA state nomination, (95 points in total) does anyone have experience of this process ie timeline and chances of success?

many thanks

We just got an invite from SA to apply for state nomination

@Cobs_Ahoy congratulations that's fab!!!

@Cobs_Ahoy yeah I'm a CNS but partner has many moreyears experience than me hence him being main applicant. 

Yes the agent was an absolute nightmare. They didn't tell us they were going to withdraw our EOI, nor did they tell us when they had. I found out be accident!! And yes when we resubmitted we effectively joined the que again! 

That's brilliant that the recruitment agent is trying to get you a better deal! Fingers crossed on that! That's another thing that I find confusing - all the diff visas options there are via being employer sponsored. And omg a relocation package! - that's amazing! Sounds like you've got quite a few things in the pipeline - how exciting

@Cobs_Ahoy oh ok, (window) I didn't realise!! 

We did have an agent (overseas emigration) but they were abysmal so we cut loose from them after EOI's had long been in. They withdrew our EOI's at that point hence us resubmitted them again in oct/nov 2021. We've spoken with the DUC and will instruct them once we have an invite. Maybe I should get in touch with them once QLD reopen for offshore and ask their advice on whether we should resubmit a fresh EOI again.

Thank you for the tips with where to look for jobs, that's really helpful

Tbh we're not really sure how it's all going to work with him working at the level he is at now. He wants to work speak to aphra about getting 'practitioner ready certified'. I think he's accepted that he may have to potentially work at a lower band equivalent for a while but I think he'll also try and go for jobs that are at practitioner/consultant level also. It's all very confusing if you ask me haha.

Do they have better working conditions for MH nurses in Oz?

The adult ward nurses here are working in horrendous conditions but I know over there they have it wayyy easier with better staffing ratios and lesser workloads. I still wouldn't want to go back to ward nursing myself though lol.

Are you just after QLD? 

23 minutes ago, Cobs_Ahoy said:

Oh really? That’s interesting! If/when the window reopens will you do another EoI just in case, or does your agent think they will look at EoIs submitted outside of the window?

im looking into sponsorship opportunities too, through recruitment agencies and contacting hospitals directly. So far I’ve had positive responses from Townsville Hospital and Health service (direct contact) and NSW Health (via a recruitment agent), still waiting to hear back on some details but this is feeling like a more likely route than independent visas for me. What speciality is your partner?

I don't know of any window? There's nothing on their website that mentions this is there? I don't think we'll put another one in no, my understanding is that it will still be valid even though it was submitted whilst closed to offshore. (Does anyone one of anything to contrary written anywhere??)

I think sponsorship is great to look in to at the moment, it's just having the time to trawl through jobs isn't it, that's what we struggle with. We also are not really sure where we're supposed to be looking, apart from seek.

He's a cardiac ACP at the mo. What about yourself?