Lok Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 7 hours ago, spherical said: Hi Jay, would you mind telling the main reason for you to choose Sydney instead of staying at UK? I applied from Hong Kong to Perth. Thanks. Hi Spherical, I am from HK and also applied for Perth as well. I am in the stage of collecting document for DHA now. How about you and what's your status? Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spherical Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 1 hour ago, Lok said: Hi Spherical, I am from HK and also applied for Perth as well. I am in the stage of collecting document for DHA now. How about you and what's your status? Good luck I applied at Feb 2020, my status is "Application Received", I don't even have a case officer at the moment. Btw, would you consider UK? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lok Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 2 minutes ago, spherical said: I applied at Feb 2020, my status is "Application Received", I don't even have a case officer at the moment. Btw, would you consider UK? In case my application for Australia fail, I will definite consider UK - most likely Surrey, Reading or Brighton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NettyHodgy Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 On 28/09/2020 at 09:53, RSkea said: Hi All, Our 188a visa was granted on 25 September 2020. From start to finish took 24 months. Good luck to all still in the queue. Hang in there. Ronel Hi Ronel. May i ask, once you were allocated a case worker how long did you visa take to be finalised from that point? We have our State invitation and have submitted our application now in full back in May? Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSkea Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 27 minutes ago, NettyHodgy said: Hi Ronel. May i ask, once you were allocated a case worker how long did you visa take to be finalised from that point? We have our State invitation and have submitted our application now in full back in May? Thank you Hi there, Our full application went in in Sept 2018. We only got a case officer in May 2020. That was 20 months waiting. It was COVID-19 at that point and we were advised that there will be a wait for the actual grant of the visa. So from first contact of the case officer to actual grant of the visa was another 4 months. The total time from application to grant was 24 months. I have to say, during this whole time the status on our application remained “initial assessment”. With the current applications in the cue and available spaces for the 188 visa (only 6700 per year if I remember correctly) the wait time is around 28 months for applications made this year. This was our calculations, and turned out to be pretty accurate for ours and other people we know of that also applied. There is a budget speech on 6 Oct 2020, were announcements around immigration numbers will be made. Hopefully they will assign more spaces to the 188 visa (good for helping the economy recover) which will see the processing times come down. I hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Collett Posted October 4, 2020 Share Posted October 4, 2020 Note also that subclass 188 visa holders are now on the list of visa types permitted to arrive in Australia. I wrote to the Minister a couple of months ago suggesting that the processing of subclass 188A visa applications should be prioritised in an effort to help re-build the Australian economy. I'm not claiming any credit, but it would be good to see those who have successful business experience in the country soonest Best regards. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSkea Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 On 04/10/2020 at 08:14, RSkea said: Hi there, Our full application went in in Sept 2018. We only got a case officer in May 2020. That was 20 months waiting. It was COVID-19 at that point and we were advised that there will be a wait for the actual grant of the visa. So from first contact of the case officer to actual grant of the visa was another 4 months. The total time from application to grant was 24 months. I have to say, during this whole time the status on our application remained “initial assessment”. With the current applications in the cue and available spaces for the 188 visa (only 6700 per year if I remember correctly) the wait time is around 28 months for applications made this year. This was our calculations, and turned out to be pretty accurate for ours and other people we know of that also applied. There is a budget speech on 6 Oct 2020, were announcements around immigration numbers will be made. Hopefully they will assign more spaces to the 188 visa (good for helping the economy recover) which will see the processing times come down. I hope this helps. And there it is https://minister.homeaffairs.gov.au/alantudge/Pages/Securing-and-Uniting-Australia-as-part-of-the-Government’s-economic-recovery-plan-.aspx?fbclid=IwAR0Qv-vDafKcxz2RFIeoRFaJBuzTF3Q8gIrsNhZ0OTuqRlD9I0OQf2rei-I 13500 places for business visa. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3together Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 On 07/10/2020 at 08:34, RSkea said: And there it is https://minister.homeaffairs.gov.au/alantudge/Pages/Securing-and-Uniting-Australia-as-part-of-the-Government’s-economic-recovery-plan-.aspx?fbclid=IwAR0Qv-vDafKcxz2RFIeoRFaJBuzTF3Q8gIrsNhZ0OTuqRlD9I0OQf2rei-I 13500 places for business visa. Great. But they need to increase number of case officers a lot. After they did not really manage to work down the 6.500 application level, how they want to manage 13,500? I hope they will put more focus on it now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Elliott Posted October 9, 2020 Share Posted October 9, 2020 I think you will find that they will simply re-allocate case officers or delegates as we call them in the industry. The fact that they have established a Global Talent and Business Visa taskforce to identify and attract high calibre candidates suggests the BIIP program is being given greater priority thus processing should speed up (thoretically)! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3together Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 On 09/10/2020 at 11:31, Steve Elliott said: I think you will find that they will simply re-allocate case officers or delegates as we call them in the industry. The fact that they have established a Global Talent and Business Visa taskforce to identify and attract high calibre candidates suggests the BIIP program is being given greater priority thus processing should speed up (thoretically)! We hope so. When we applied, it was 20 mounth 75% and 22 mounth 90% of application processed. We wait now 23 mounth and do not even have a case officer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saher 1 Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 Hey Everyone, I applied for my 188b visa to Qld in the 30th of December 2018 - done my medical examination and police checks in may 2019 and haven’t heard anything back since then ! Is there anyone here who applied in the same period and his visa was granted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3together Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 11 hours ago, saher 1 said: Hey Everyone, I applied for my 188b visa to Qld in the 30th of December 2018 - done my medical examination and police checks in may 2019 and haven’t heard anything back since then ! Is there anyone here who applied in the same period and his visa was granted? We applied beginning of Nov. 2018. No case officer by now. Waiting 23 mounth now. Which country you are from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Elliott Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 Applications from China and Hong Kong get processed in Hong Kong whereas the rest are processed at the Adelaide business centre. I have certainly noticed the number of grants of business visas has increased lately so I sense they are slowly getting through the backlog. Sadly, you will just have to be patient and hope the wheels in the DHA processing centre start to quicken up. I have my fingers crossed for you both! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saher 1 Posted October 15, 2020 Share Posted October 15, 2020 1 hour ago, 3together said: We applied beginning of Nov. 2018. No case officer by now. Waiting 23 mounth now. Which country you are from? Wow, such a delay! i’m from Jordan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3together Posted October 17, 2020 Share Posted October 17, 2020 On 15/10/2020 at 12:33, saher 1 said: Wow, such a delay! i’m from Jordan Then we are in the same queue in Adelaite. You applied about 2 month after us. Waiting, waiting, waiting. There are so many positive sign, so I hope soon they start to process our applications. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asif Shaikh Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 On AUS Immigration website shows now investment catagory processing time 29 to 30 months..it will be implemented lodged application as well? Can someone advice me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lok Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 48 minutes ago, Asif Shaikh said: On AUS Immigration website shows now investment catagory processing time 29 to 30 months..it will be implemented lodged application as well? Can someone advice me. Hi Asif, from where you see the processing time is 29 to 30 months? I check with this official link https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-listing/business-innovation-and-investment-188 and as usual it states :"There are no standard processing times available for this stream." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asif Shaikh Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Check global application processing time https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-processing-times/global-visa-processing-times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3together Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 6 hours ago, Asif Shaikh said: Check global application processing time https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-processing-times/global-visa-processing-times Jep, states 29-30 mounth. Puh, I cannot belive this is for our applications, launched in 2018, as well. They double the number of visa places, but the process takes ages to process the application. Is there such a high demand? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lok Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 16 hours ago, Asif Shaikh said: Check global application processing time https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-processing-times/global-visa-processing-times Thanks Asif. Hopefully not as I expect it the opposite. My understanding (and also I believe) they should expedite and shorten the processing time. Otherwise, why need to increase the quota ? ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Elliott Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 On 28/10/2020 at 11:22, Lok said: Thanks Asif. Hopefully not as I expect it the opposite. My understanding (and also I believe) they should expedite and shorten the processing time. Otherwise, why need to increase the quota ? ! I think you will find they process will speed up. I have just had one client whose application was processed in 10 months. There is a huge emphasis on integrity checks in order to satisfy the anti money laundering and counter terrorism requirements. Proving source of funds and evidence funds were acquired legitimately is an ongoing challenge for many applicants. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lok Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 2 minutes ago, Steve Elliott said: I think you will find they process will speed up. I have just had one client whose application was processed in 10 months. There is a huge emphasis on integrity checks in order to satisfy the anti money laundering and counter terrorism requirements. Proving source of funds and evidence funds were acquired legitimately is an ongoing challenge for many applicants. Thanks Steve. May I know if your client's application is came from Hong Kong or other countries? For the importance of integrity check, it is well noted. - thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3together Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 1 hour ago, Steve Elliott said: I think you will find they process will speed up. I have just had one client whose application was processed in 10 months. There is a huge emphasis on integrity checks in order to satisfy the anti money laundering and counter terrorism requirements. Proving source of funds and evidence funds were acquired legitimately is an ongoing challenge for many applicants. I feel this quite unfair! What you have clients processed in 10 months? I am waiting now 24 and even do not have a case officer. I though Australia has the rule of "equal rights". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Elliott Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 On 29/10/2020 at 20:08, 3together said: I feel this quite unfair! What you have clients processed in 10 months? I am waiting now 24 and even do not have a case officer. I though Australia has the rule of "equal rights". This wasn't a 188b but a 188c. The 188c's have a smaller number of applications relative to 188. The applicant was not from China/HK. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3together Posted November 4, 2020 Share Posted November 4, 2020 On 30/10/2020 at 23:08, Steve Elliott said: This wasn't a 188b but a 188c. The 188c's have a smaller number of applications relative to 188. The applicant was not from China/HK. Good to know. So it was apples vs. pears before. Puh. videoconference Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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