rebejes3 Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Finally, we got a c.o today! from Team6! Hi Offbeat, Congratulations...Am so happy for you....its not long more to get your grant.... :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jains005 Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Good work Rach. thank you for spending time for all of us.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GGx0x0 Posted August 17, 2010 Author Share Posted August 17, 2010 Finally, we got a c.o today! from Team6! CONGRATULATION :jiggy: Its with great pleasure that I turn you Pink. Name: offbeat Date of Visa application: 03 April 2008 Nationality: s korean Trade/profession: Accountant Visa type: 175 changed to 176 on July 2009 onshore/offshore: offshore Pre-14th July 2010 Category (If applicable): 5 Post-14th July Category: 3 Medicals submitted: Yes (April 2008) Police check submitted: Yes (April 2008) Date CO assigned: 17 August 2010 Date of employment verification (If applicable): Not yet Date visa granted: Not yet Regards Connie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahattaya Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Congrats and best of luck dear offbeat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest geshdan Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Finally, we got a c.o today! from Team6! Congratulations offbeat!!!That's great news.... We are hopeful to see more PIO members getting CO's this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bilaln30 Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Hi, Why they taking so long? don't they normally take about 3 months to complete processing? The medicals expires in 12 months, you may have to re do them. Do you still have a CO? or will you be re-assinged? Hello Blackberry, I dont know why they are taking so long. My case officer replied to the query of my Agent last time in Dec, 2009. CO said they are waiting for the outcome of some internal processes which according to my agent are internal security checks. There has been no update on my case since then. I dont know I have a CO or I will be reassigned. Plz tell me do they give extension to medicals? Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MOTO Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 :cute: Finally, we got a c.o today! from Team6! Congratulations mate! I have got a quick question for you or anyone else for that matter. I see a lot of people initailly applied for 175 visa and then 'switched' to 176. Did you have to pay another visa fee for 176 or you can just change it to 176 visa without incurring another visa fee? Regards, Thomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest milano Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 :cute: Congratulations mate! I have got a quick question for you or anyone else for that matter. I see a lot of people initailly applied for 175 visa and then 'switched' to 176. Did you have to pay another visa fee for 176 or you can just change it to 176 visa without incurring another visa fee? Regards, Thomas Hi MOTO, I did myself..initially i applied for 175 and after CO assigning i applied for SS when i got the successful SS i switched into 176...last year switching was free, dunno about present process. Good Luck Matey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ramez Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Well done Rach:notworthy: Congrats offbeat....:hug: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharmedP3 Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Finally, we got a c.o today! from Team6! congratulations offbeat. I have changed you to pink on the weekly summary. I see you'd frontloaded, so fingers crossed it won't take long to issue your visa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest offbeat Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Thanks so much. We asked for medical and pcc again. It's already expired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MOTO Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Hi OFFBEAT ! Thanks for the info. mate. I am going to lodge my application tonight (how exciting) he-he. Doing it myself too, can't afford to pay an agent. Having just finished uni and that. Already total cost of my application is in excess of $AU 3,500 . Should be quite straight forward in my case, I am young, single, with Australian qualifications and NZ passport. :biggrin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Moller Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Finally, we got a c.o today! from Team6! Congratulation, hope it goes quick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest the unknown Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Name: Jon Date of Visa application: 31 May 2008 Nationality: Malaysian Trade/profession: Architect Visa type: 175 Onshore/offshore: Offshore Pre-14th July 2010 Category (If applicable): 6 Post-14th July Category: 3 Medicals submitted: Frontloaded in 2008 Police check submitted: Frontloaded in 2008 Date CO assigned: Date of employment verification (If applicable): Date visa granted: Thanks GGx0x0 Cheers, Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pinal Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Lots of cat-3 applicants turning in PINK color, but no one being converted in PURPLE. Accept one, so far. I hope this week some of PINK will convert in PURPLE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kevsdream Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Congrats Offbeat!!!! It feels so good each time someone turns pink :jiggy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the coyne family Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Congratulations offbeat fingers crossed you wont have much longer to wait. Maria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToWaorBust Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Thanks to you Tasha, I don't know how you do it. the rest of us all appreciate there are people dedicated like you out there because we would all be lost. Christine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taz2008 Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Lots of cat-3 applicants turning in PINK color, but no one being converted in PURPLE. Accept one, so far. I hope this week some of PINK will convert in PURPLE. Yes you are right Pinal, I was just thinking myself, when will the visa grants start coming! I did have a thought though:idea:, many of the applicants with CO are from High Risk countries and I wonder if these applicants will get caught up with the internal checks that can take months to get through??? Could be interesting to know, of those HR who have a CO, what requests have been made so far? Have they actually been requested to do meds yet? Or requested for anything at all? Cheers Tasha:wubclub: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JK2510 Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 I know this maybe asking too much seeing it DIAC were dealing with!! It's great to see movement and for people to go pink! but don't you guys think this seems a little slow? What else are these COs doing? Do you think they are on a go slow until after elections? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunkl Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 I know this maybe asking too much seeing it DIAC were dealing with!! It's great to see movement and for people to go pink! but don't you guys think this seems a little slow? What else are these COs doing? Do you think they are on a go slow until after elections? It seams slow for me too. When they decided to go with cat5 with pre september CO's, in the past, there were few grants every day on the forum, even 5 a day. It's maybe not the same thing, but our dozen of purples for a month just doesn't look too promising. Congratulations to purples though, sure hope to join you soon. :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharmedP3 Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 I know this maybe asking too much seeing it DIAC were dealing with!! It's great to see movement and for people to go pink! but don't you guys think this seems a little slow? What else are these COs doing? Do you think they are on a go slow until after elections? I was thinking the same thing Jodie... yes it is great to see people who have been waiting and waiting for so long to get their CO's. But to be honest, I really was expecting to see things moving quicker. It would seem that most of the old CSL's have been granted and since they stopped taking applications in May until July then this would make sense. I doubt that there are too many Cat 1 applications....So.... yeah.... what are they doing lol. I wonder how many people are working at DIAC actually processing our applications. They boast they are granting how many hundreds of visa's a day, but to WHO! I know not all applicants will come on PIO but I would have expected SOME PIO 'ers to be getting grants and I can't remember when I last saw a CAT 3 applicant getting a grant (bar one last week!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toolbox Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 I contacted my agent today asking if the diac had replied to our enquiry, here is the response. Not over promising i thought, our 176 visa application was june 2009:SLEEP: Hi Ian No we have not even received a response to our enquiry, which was lodged almost 3 weeks ago. In many instances they simply ignore people now, which is extremely frustrating. Requests are still trickling through, but all for applicants that lodged in 2008. Hopefully we’ll hear more when the election is over, and the SMP’s will be implemented quickly and you will transition up to category 2 where we can push harder for your case to progress, as there they state that it should be resolved within 12 months of your lodgement date, which has already passed. Obviously when the SMP’s are released though, if the states get most of the occupations they want on their plans, DIAC will be overwhelmed by the people that are moving up to category 2, so it may be a bit inefficient at that stage. At that point though we will again try and get you on the radar and hopefully (as things will be less structured at that point I would imagine) there will be more room for us to persuade it to be finalised. At the moment I just think they are locked in do looking at 2008 applicants, and they simply ignore everyone else. Having said the above, I will try and make another enquiry today, just to see if we can’t prompt some sort of response at least. As soon as I hear anything that may be of interest to you I’ll be in touch. Sorry I cannot be the bearer of better news at this stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JK2510 Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 Hi Rach, When your on hold to ASPC they do tell you how many visas get granted every week. To who? They must be holding a teddy bears picnic where they give grants to the teddies. Lol. If the current government lose then are we gonna continue to see the snail pace until they play around with the processing again and we end up god knows where!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharmedP3 Posted August 17, 2010 Share Posted August 17, 2010 I also contacted DIAC by email on July 23rd and got a reply YESTERDAY! It simply said, that their notes on our file, note that we received a reply to the question on Aug 6th by telephone (true - we rang them BECAUSE we hadn't had an email reply!) So their own expected turnaround time of responding to emails in 5 working days is way out of whack now - probably due to unprecedented queries lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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