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@Mom2. Hi yeah you can message me.

I know this is going to sound ridiculous but I have the fear that I’ve some how not activated my 190 properly or I should have told someone at the airport immigration/boarder control that I was activating my 190 for the first time not that I was expecting a fanfare but maybe an acknowledge of some sort to say I had been to Oz and now my PR is active for immigrating! I know it’s a daft thing to think, but is it really just a case of go to Oz on holiday (as usual!), come home and get ready to make the move!

Thanks again for all the info. I’m going to contact my state and see what they say. Depending on the answer I guess will determine what I do. But if anyone has any experience of contacting a state or not living in their sponsor state and how you manage that i would be grateful for the information. Thanks again.

I really appreciate all the information. The more I look the more confusing it is! When I was looking for best ways to contact your state I found a video by Karol Konrad made this year saying; you don’t have to stay in your state, there is no risk to your visa being cancelled as the visa has already been given, and no impact on citizenship later down the line. I can’t understand the different information around on such a huge matter. Surely it’s a yes or no situation. It just adds more stress in trying to figure out my options

Thanks. It’s such a difficult situation. I’ve read a few things that suggested contacting my sponsor state and explaining my situation and asking if I can be ‘released’ for the moral obligation part. Others have said there is no repercussions if you don’t stick to your moral 2 years and anything stating other is intended to make you believe there will be a risk to your visa and/or getting citizenship so you do stay. . I don’t think I could take the risk and will contact my state. I just don’t know what I would do if they said no! But it seems the consensus on the forum is it’s risky not to fulfil the moral obligation.

Hi. I am having a bit of a situation. I have a 190 granted for a different state than my family live in. We haven’t made the move yet (work/house sale etc) but planing to soon. Being in a different state from the family didn’t really factor in to our decision as we have traveled to see each other for years. However, a family member is currently experiencing significant mental health problems as well as a separation. They have asked if I could move in with them to care for/support them. They don’t have anyone else to take care of them/support them. It’s not a great situation. However, I understand my moral obligation to my sponsoring state. If I contacted my nominating state and explained the situation, do you think my ‘moral’ obligation to care for my family member would be factor enough to release me from my moral obligation to my sponsoring state?

I can’t advise you on that @Vama as I don’t think that a child being autistic is a negative thing or that a ‘label’ is something that weighs a childs development, or general life happiness down in anyway. I can only give our experience of the visa situation.

@Vama from our experience having supporting documents from school that your child can/does maintain an unsupported mainstream placement seems to be the crucial document (assuming there’s no health or other issues). We didn’t have a health waver option on our visa. but we feel confident enough that because he was in transition to mainstream and had no health issues that we were in a position that we felt we should at least try. Despite that there was always a plan for mainstream school for our son, we went in knowing there was still the chance of being knocked back because he is autistic (from everything I had read etc). We understood the reasons why immigration are so tight on restrictions (not to say we thought they were fair), so we just got on with it and did everything we were asked. Being honest and organised was the way we chose to do it.

Even if you dont have a diagnosis the doctor at the medical would have an expectation/understanding on where a child should be in terms of developmental milestones.if a child presents with any delay in development I imagine that would be enough for further evidence to be requested from immigration. We were honest regarding my son being autistic from the very start as you need to get the right supporting assessment in place to support your medical if further evidence is asked for. For us we felt if we are honest from the start then we could get organised when our medical came round and have our assessments ready to take to the medical.

Hi @Vama I can’t give you and advice on your visa, sorry. for school, from our experience; it’s about if your child can cope independently in mainstream school. For us there was already a transition plan in place/taking place and there were no concerns that a full mainstream transition couldnt take place by the end of the year (with no support). So it’s not that a child is autistic it’s the level of support they require. some visas have health wavers that allow you right to appeal if your rejected. That’s not to say it would change the decision but it’s an option. You would need to speak to your agent about the terms of that. We didn’t have a visa with a health waver so I’m not sure what the process would be.

Hi @bearbear128. I can only tell you from our experience so this isn’t to say it’s the way it works for everyone. I don’t think its that a child or person is autistic that causes the difficulty in the getting a visa rather it’s how much support they need (you will be able to read that in multiple post on this forum). My son was in an educational support unit specifically for autistic children. But his educational plan supported a main stream transition and main stream secondary placement. He also had/has no other input from other agencies so no health etc. only education. The only supporting document we provided was an assessment from school showing his current and projected educational plan; what is capabilities are and that he would maintain a mainstream placement (after transition). We took that with us to the medical as we knew we would be asked for further evidence as we ‘declared’ that he was autistic from the outset. I guess if a child has lots of intervention you could get other supporting documents but thankfully we weren’t asked for anything else. It is really stressful because it’s not until the very end of the process at the medicals that it even became a factor in the visa process that our child’s autistic. So you could do all the hard work involved in even getting to that stage and then be knocked back. It’s definitely a risk but we just had to try and thankfully it was a good result.

Hi, glad to say we got our grant.

Thanks @paulhand. It should have said final review not assessment. I didn’t know if getting a cleared medical was the last, last stage before a visa was granted. What other information could they ask for at this stage? Is it just a final check of passports/police check dates/medicals etc? thanks.

What does it mean after you medical has been cleared when your application is queued for final assessment. Is there another part to go through to provide other information? cheers.

Thanks for the reply @Quoll. The school report will state his current situation exactly as is. It’s not something we are trying to ‘get around’, but having an idea of what the medicals will be like and what reports I will need is great to help me get any reports sorted before we go to medicals. Thanks for your help.

Hi, does that mean they don’t qualify because they don’t need the support as the can managed independently, or that they aren’t eligible for it despite needing it and families have to fund the specialist education themselves? the people I know (personally) have immigrated with a child that had physical disabilities and a learning disability. But because they were of generally good health, and they were able to get reports from their health/educational professionals the visa was granted (I’m sure it was much more involved/complicated than that . It wasn’t easy for them and took along time but ultimately they got the visa). its difficult to understand the whole process!

Thanks @Quoll. Do you know what kind of questions they may ask him or direct toward him at the medicals? He potentially won’t want to speak to the doctor as he is really shy around people he doesn’t know. I know this won’t ‘present’ as great. I was hoping the school report regarding mainstream and his skill set would help counter this. I know it’s subjective but I’ve also spoken to a couple people who have already immigrated on a 190 who have autistic children and children with different disabilities where there was no pathway to mainstream and would need continual support throughout their education. Is the process not as clear cut as having a disabilities means a no? thanks.

Hi, I am looking for some information on immigrating to Australia with an autistic child. I’ve read a few posts from other members in a similar situation so I understand the ‘risk’ of rejection at the medical stage. My immigration agent also warned us about the potential of rejections when we started our application. We have been offered a 190 and are due our medicals soon. My son is 10. He is very quiet around people, particularly adults he doesn’t know. He has some language delay- structuring of sentences/ some comprehension and in stressful situation he may choose not to answer at all. He was in full time support unit in school, however has started making the transition to mainstream and his next semester of primary school he will be full time mainstream, no support, and an outlook of mainstream for secondary. Although he has a language delay, SLT and school don’t seem to think this will be an issue for him navigating mainstream. He is able to socialise with his peers, is very physically able, and academically is on a par with his peers. School will be able to provide a report on his progress (he has no other professional involvement). However, at the medicals will the person assessing/carrying out the medicals just take the language delay as a ‘no go’ for us and not take into consideration what school have said in the report? Sorry for the length of this post! Thanks,