Johnboy Posted December 25, 2015 Share Posted December 25, 2015 Happy Christmas to all in the waiting room, who have spent many months on Skype, watching exchange rates, house prices, and old age creeping up, we all wish those at immi a happy Christmas and a speedy new year. Johnboy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bev50Bradley Posted December 27, 2015 Share Posted December 27, 2015 May all your wishes come true................X I can't wait. Have to say a big thank you for the people that post and keep the rest of us informed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgie Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Hi, Finally we get to join you all In the waiting room. We submit today and I was wondering If anybody knows If the 143 and other visa's are going up tomorrow? If we submit today and the fees go up will they just take the extra as a matter of course. We will enclose a covering letter to give permission to do this anyway but, would appreciate any views or prior knowledge. Happy New Year to you all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Collett Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Hi, Finally we get to join you all In the waiting room. We submit today and I was wondering If anybody knows If the 143 and other visa's are going up tomorrow? If we submit today and the fees go up will they just take the extra as a matter of course. We will enclose a covering letter to give permission to do this anyway but, would appreciate any views or prior knowledge. Happy New Year to you all Hello bridgie. There are no published increases to Visa Application Charges at this time. Best regards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgie Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Hello bridgie. There are no published increases to Visa Application Charges at this time. Best regards. Many thanks Alan. Spent all day checking, double checking and even triple checking. Even managed to find a JP service to certify No1 son's birth cert then guess what---- Oz post is closed New Year's Eve---you've gotta be kidding. I hope you're right about no visa Increases on the 1st. However C'est la vie. On a separate note it's very confusing about paying for the Vac's, I assume you fill out the debit card details and the relevant department make the transaction when the paperwork arrives. The web page talks about showing proof of payment etc; I guess after 6 hours In Sydney CBD rushing around to complete everything I was a bit confused. We now submit on the 2nd when Oz post opens again hopefully someone can give me a definitive answer about paying. Happy New year to you all---we're off to watch the fireworks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Collett Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Many thanks Alan. Spent all day checking, double checking and even triple checking. Even managed to find a JP service to certify No1 son's birth cert then guess what---- Oz post is closed New Year's Eve---you've gotta be kidding. I hope you're right about no visa Increases on the 1st. However C'est la vie. On a separate note it's very confusing about paying for the Vac's, I assume you fill out the debit card details and the relevant department make the transaction when the paperwork arrives. The web page talks about showing proof of payment etc; I guess after 6 hours In Sydney CBD rushing around to complete everything I was a bit confused. We now submit on the 2nd when Oz post opens again hopefully someone can give me a definitive answer about paying. Happy New year to you all---we're off to watch the fireworks Not a problem. Send the paper application to the Parents Visa Centre (I recommend Express Post) with the payment section of form 47PA completed with your card details. You should receive a receipted Tax Invoice about a week later - maybe in your inbox sooner if you provide an email address. Note that you can lodge an application with just the forms 40 and 47PA, with other documents to follow once you have an application file reference. Best wishes for a Happy 2016! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgie Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Not a problem. Send the paper application to the Parents Visa Centre (I recommend Express Post) with the payment section of form 47PA completed with your card details. You should receive a receipted Tax Invoice about a week later - maybe in your inbox sooner if you provide an email address. Note that you can lodge an application with just the forms 40 and 47PA, with other documents to follow once you have an application file reference. Best wishes for a Happy 2016! Thanks Alan very much for the Info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest geordie joe Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Hi, Finally we get to join you all In the waiting room. We submit today and I was wondering If anybody knows If the 143 and other visa's are going up tomorrow? If we submit today and the fees go up will they just take the extra as a matter of course. We will enclose a covering letter to give permission to do this anyway but, would appreciate any views or prior knowledge. Happy New Year to you all Always nice to see new faces joining us in the waiting room, hopefully immi will start to speed things up in the new year and free up a few more seats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgie Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Always nice to see new faces joining us in the waiting room, hopefully immi will start to speed things up in the new year and free up a few more seats. Cheers GJ, however we are resigned to be seeing the fireworks in Sydney in Dec 2016 and Dec 2017 before we have our visa's. We consider ourselves extremely lucky to be able to come over on hols every year to see our children. The only plus is when the police checks are asked for we won't have to pay UK prices as we live in Spain and they only charge 3€. On the minus we may have to travel to Madrid for our medicals which will be fun given our past experience of Spanish bureaucracy. Given myself a near hernia toting about all the paperwork today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveedley Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 I submitted my application for an 864 onshore aged parent visa on 9 November 2015. I have been following the TEST immi emails and the assessment date for the 864 visa has been stuck at 30 June 2015 for several months. I have had no response from immi apart from them saying that they had a large number of applications in June. Are there any 864 applicants on the forum who can shed any light on the situation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juliew1499 Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Cheers GJ, however we are resigned to be seeing the fireworks in Sydney in Dec 2016 and Dec 2017 before we have our visa's. We consider ourselves extremely lucky to be able to come over on hols every year to see our children. The only plus is when the police checks are asked for we won't have to pay UK prices as we live in Spain and they only charge 3€. On the minus we may have to travel to Madrid for our medicals which will be fun given our past experience of Spanish bureaucracy. Given myself a near hernia toting about all the paperwork today Hi it's so nice to see so many news names appearing on the forum, it feels like we are in the middle of the waiting room now. Hopefully by June 2016 will be approved our 143. Julie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve2 Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Happy New Year fellow waiting room sufferers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juliew1499 Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Happy New Year fellow waiting room sufferers! Happy New Year Everyone just returned from 17 days in sunny Cololombia celebrating round two of the wedding celebrations. It was raining when we left the Uk and it doesn't appear to have stopped since and with no sign of letting up in the future. COME ON IMMI !!!!!!!!!! Get a move on!!!!!! This weather is driving me mad. Julie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Happy New Year Everyone just returned from 17 days in sunny Cololombia celebrating round two of the wedding celebrations. It was raining when we left the Uk and it doesn't appear to have stopped since and with no sign of letting up in the future. COME ON IMMI !!!!!!!!!! Get a move on!!!!!! This weather is driving me mad. Julie I'm currently in supposedly sunny Queensland Julie and it's been raining for the last 2 days! Still, it's making us feel right at home! Val Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgie Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Rain followed us from a drenched Sydney yesterday back to Melbourne. We don't mind because where we live In Spain you don't see much rain so It's still a novelty . Back to my previous thread. We finally managed to submit our our 143 the other day and then flicked through a few of the past threads to get an Idea of when the money would come out of our account. I was stunned by the different dates, there seems to be no rhyme or reason about acknowledge or payments or indeed anything else. ¿porque? Why? Is it some kind of psychological torture or is there some kind reason behind it all?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juliew1499 Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Rain followed us from a drenched Sydney yesterday back to Melbourne. We don't mind because where we live In Spain you don't see much rain so It's still a novelty . Back to my previous thread. We finally managed to submit our our 143 the other day and then flicked through a few of the past threads to get an Idea of when the money would come out of our account. I was stunned by the different dates, there seems to be no rhyme or reason about acknowledge or payments or indeed anything else. ¿porque? Why? Is it some kind of psychological torture or is there some kind reason behind it all?? Hi Bridgie definitely psychological torture, we are all barking mad at 18 months into the process! hoping to become sane again by June! Julie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridgie Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 I'm beginning to experience torture I've just down loaded form 80. All the jobs you've had where you earned money. Birth places of your parents. Details of all the passports you've ever owned etc etc It's a doozie. I guess they do it for something to do over two years---It's a bit like Sudoku for visa applicants Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maisiedaisy Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Hi Bridgie definitely psychological torture, we are all barking mad at 18 months into the process! hoping to become sane again by June! Julie Where am I, what's my name? I am not a number!! sat rocking in a chair mumbling 143! 143! 143! :wink: Roll on April maisie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juliew1499 Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Hi Maisie can't stop laughing at your comment, just imagined the entire waiting room doing the same! If we all mumble loud enough maybe Immi might hear! Lets hope the Test email shows some movement this Friday otherwise I shall just assume that they've all gone to the beach until the end of Jan.... Julie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest geordie joe Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Hi Maisiecan't stop laughing at your comment, just imagined the entire waiting room doing the same! If we all mumble loud enough maybe Immi might hear! Lets hope the Test email shows some movement this Friday otherwise I shall just assume that they've all gone to the beach until the end of Jan.... Julie Hi Julie I've been asking everyone on the Perth beaches if they work in the immi dept and no one is owning up so they must all be in the office, not working, just in the office as it has air conditioning. As Maisie says lets just keep rocking in our chairs and hope the waiting room doesn't get any fuller, not good for the toes with all those rocking chairs going. Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeelsy Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 For form 80 - my late father married 4 times and had approx 8 kids!! I have more step parents and half/step siblings than there are boxes!! I have some'maybes' re siblings - do I declare just in case? I was dragged across several continents before I started school as I was an army kid then moved many times when my parents split. My head hurts just thinking about starting this form whilst my husband comes from straight forward two parents one sibling family. Talk about give them extremes with our application???? Kim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sadge Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Happy New Year everybody - let's hope it will be! The Test email doesn't seem to be working - anybody else had problems? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sadge Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 (edited) Oh my goodness - I thought it was going to be bad enough for me as I can't even remember dates of employment/names of employers 50 years ago! Best of luck with that form. (Sorry, meant to quote post above by Skeelsy). Edited January 7, 2016 by Sadge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisher1 Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Skeelsy - your letter finally got me off my bum and downloading the fabled form 80. Although we are nowhere near needing to fill it in yet, I decided it was time to take a look. Couldn't be that bad, I thought. I was wrong!!! How on earth are you supposed to remember everywhere you've worked since birth - let alone all the countries you've visited in the last ten years - well I can but not in order and not the dates. Unlike you Skeelsy I have a very straightforward family set up - one sister two parents who stayed married ... but my husband has more of an interesting background. What with half siblings and dean half siblings and people you haven't seen or heard of since Adam was a lad. Good luck with filling yours in, I've decided I'm going to start ours now. It can be my new hobby, something interesting to do while we're waiting. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve2 Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 (edited) Happy New Year everybody - let's hope it will be! The Test email doesn't seem to be working - anybody else had problems? Hi Sadge I'm not getting replies either - hopefully tomorrow! They're probably still tucking into their mince pies etc! Happy New Year to you and yours. Steve Edited January 7, 2016 by Steve2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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