renebo Posted January 29, 2018 Report Share Posted January 29, 2018 Ah man, things are so slow nowadays..... Frustrations are kicking in grrrr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ta2Bryan Posted January 30, 2018 Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 14 hours ago, renebo said: Ah man, things are so slow nowadays..... Frustrations are kicking in grrrr Agreed! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anusha Posted January 30, 2018 Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 2 minutes ago, Ta2Bryan said: Agreed! I feel the same. This wait is such an Aging process. I need to tint my grey hair 😂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renebo Posted January 30, 2018 Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 I am just surprised that the whole world is already up and running as its the end of January, who long do they take to start working........ I tried reassuring myself that its because of the name change to Home Affairs and they need to update all their sites and stationary......I dont know....lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
March2 Posted January 30, 2018 Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 Hi Guys I suppose that as of now, I am officially buckled and waiting with you guys in the "waiting room"........ My agents lodged my Visa today!!! Yay!!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TamTam Posted January 30, 2018 Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 But now you guys are in the visa waiting queue and no longer waiting in the EOI queue so that's a good step!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ta2Bryan Posted January 30, 2018 Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 24 minutes ago, March2 said: Hi Guys I suppose that as of now, I am officially buckled and waiting with you guys in the "waiting room"........ My agents lodged my Visa today!!! Yay!!! Hope it goes smoothly. I am sure I am not the only one who checks my gmail every 20 minutes? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurie26 Posted January 30, 2018 Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 @March2 yah!! Thats great news now the waiting begins... I also check my emails often lol I hope we all hear something soon!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tntaglia Posted January 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2018 Funny I am not expecting news at the moment so none of the gmail urgency right now. Ask me again mid Feb but I force myself not to expect anything in the first 4 weeks at least - and it's been 1.5 only. Here's the table then as I have it now - awesome to see the visa lodged column filling in! @Cloudios I hope you get an invite soon! ame Date applied Visa Points Invite for sponsorship Applied for sponsorship Sponsorship received Visa invite Days to invite Visa lodged CO contact Grant Tntaglia 25/10 189 / 190 NSW 65/70 NSW 3/11 3/11 17/01 17/01 84 19/1/18 Renebo 190 VIC 5/9 28/11 28/11 84 4/12 Sunet 29/06 190 NSW 6/10 6/10 14/11 14/11 138 11/12 DG 17/1/18 Anusha 26/10 489 75 22/11 27 2/1/18 Ta2Bryan 1/11 189/190 8/11 7 21/12 Laurie26 190 20/10 13/11 13/11 4/1/18 LOL 31/10 189/190 NSW 60/65 3/11 6/11 13/11 13/11 13 15/11 DG 17/1/18 March2 16/11 06/12 22/12 189 190NSW 489TAS 65 70 75 190 TAS 24/01 24/01 28 30/1/18 Cloudios 15/11 189/190 60/65 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloudios Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 thank you so much hope i wil get it soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anusha Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 Praying for us all☺ Just out of interest, how soon are you all looking to move over. We aiming for Jul so hoping to get visa by Mar which gives us 3 months of prep and move. Not doing the activation trip separately, going for the big bang move! Is this realistic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTtoAus Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 It better be! We are hoping to move at the end of March and don't even have the visa yet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tntaglia Posted January 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 25 minutes ago, CTtoAus said: It better be! We are hoping to move at the end of March and don't even have the visa yet. Same here - in fact if we can be in Sydney by early March even better. House is on the market (first sale fell through, hopefully something will happen soon), we've signed with Execu-Move and they come pack as soon as the visas come. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTtoAus Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 We signed an offer on our house yesterday and Execu-move is coming to give us a quote tomorrow. Will book plane tickets as soon as visa comes through. Submitting 457 with priority processing today and according to the lawyer it will only take 3 weeks. Crazy times! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ta2Bryan Posted January 31, 2018 Report Share Posted January 31, 2018 We're planning for Mid April to be there a week before term 2 starts for kids schools. Where 'there' is is still up for finalisation. All potential Job offers for Sarah hinge on the Visa grant. So far Sydney and Canberra have top honours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ta2Bryan Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 Tick, Tick, Tick,..... Anybody else feel like the pause button has been pushed? This waiting in expect..........tation SUCKS! Vent over, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tntaglia Posted February 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 @Ta2Bryan Yes! It's really hard at the moment. Our agents for the 457 told us they expect us to get the visa in 6-8 weeks max, which would have meant end of Jan (and they said it often takes only 2 weeks ). We are going on 10 weeks now and if I understand the auto-messages from the 457@border.gov.au email address correctly, we won't hear anything for ANOTHER 8 weeks. So we went on the agent's recommendation and assumed we'd be in Australia just about now, took the kids out of school, sold the house, all of that. Sigh. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if we get the 190 PR visa before we hear back about the 457 - direct grants seem to take 5-8 weeks at the moment and we lodged 2.5 weeks ago. So if everything goes perfectly, it shouldn't be much more than a month still. But very little has gone perfectly in this journey so far, so who knows. Pause button is exactly the right description. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurie26 Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 Time seems to fly by in all aspects of life except when waiting for visas. We are on week 4 and not a squeak. We are hoping for a direct grant but at this point even an email from a Case Officer would be nice lol everyone is waiting and even on Facebook there haven't been many pajama dances :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
March2 Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 Hi Guys We have our medicals booked for this Friday. Last year we did our full check-ups before we even did our EOI just so that we could deal with any issues...hopefully nothing crept up since then and we are good to go. Since many of you have just gone through the medicals recently, what was it like? What did it entail? We are all adults (boys 22 and 17)? Was each person consulted privately or did the Dr speak to all as a family unit and you went about the actual tests separately? How long did the medicals take? I may have left out something that will probably bob up in my head at my recent spate of sleepless nights, so please tell me everything! TIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ta2Bryan Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 1 hour ago, March2 said: Hi Guys We have our medicals booked for this Friday. Last year we did our full check-ups before we even did our EOI just so that we could deal with any issues...hopefully nothing crept up since then and we are good to go. Since many of you have just gone through the medicals recently, what was it like? What did it entail? We are all adults (boys 22 and 17)? Was each person consulted privately or did the Dr speak to all as a family unit and you went about the actual tests separately? How long did the medicals take? I may have left out something that will probably bob up in my head at my recent spate of sleepless nights, so please tell me everything! TIA Medical were pretty easy. General medical checkup, pee in bottle, take blood (not everyone) and x rays. But make allowance for a whole morning or afternoon for a family of 4. You do it individually but the family is together most of the time. The only real stress is if they pick up a problem, like the heart murmur with my 11 year old daughter. (All parties do not think it will effect the visa, but there is the big "What if?") Other than that, relax and enjoy the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anusha Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 7 hours ago, Ta2Bryan said: Tick, Tick, Tick,..... Anybody else feel like the pause button has been pushed? This waiting in expect..........tation SUCKS! Vent over, thanks! Sigh! Tell me abt it. There is only so many times a day I can look at my phone hoping for the grant email. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tntaglia Posted February 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 Some slight good news for us. I asked for a follow-up on the 457 visa - we had applied for priority processing and it got declined, my company then appealed the decision. They told me this morning that they were asked last week to send through more details of my job description, including a photo of my workstation (!) and details of how my role interacts with others in the company, proof that I am being employed in my assessed skill and so on. Which I think means that the priority processing application was approved and they are now assessing the application, right? Or am I overly optimistic? Either way I had thought that they would say the appeal was declined and I'm in the standard queue. So I'll take it as good news for now, until we hear for sure. Would be absolutely horrible for the 457 to be entirely declined, I had not even thought of that possibility, but it really should not happen. And maybe we'll get news this week or early next week still. Oh please! On the 190, we are now 19 days into the wait. According to immitracker the earliest that I could hear from a case officer was last month already, and on average I should hear from a CO by 25 Feb. The shortest date to a direct grant at the moment would put me at 22 Feb. So of course now there's a very slight chance that somehow the 190 comes through on 22 Feb and then 457 gets approved on 23 Feb and everything goes pear-shaped. But I'm choosing not to worry about it (or at least trying very hard to choose not to worry) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTtoAus Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 @Tntaglia Sounds like good news to me! On the other side of the table, my agent submitted my 457 application last week and it was granted today??!!! I am in complete shock! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anusha Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 10 minutes ago, CTtoAus said: @Tntaglia Sounds like good news to me! On the other side of the table, my agent submitted my 457 application last week and it was granted today??!!! I am in complete shock! OH WOW, super congrats to you!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TamTam Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 24 minutes ago, Tntaglia said: So of course now there's a very slight chance that somehow the 190 comes through on 22 Feb and then 457 gets approved on 23 Feb and everything goes pear-shaped. Wouldn't the 190 supercede the 457? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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