Whats happening to 138's
Aug 15th 2006, 6:16 am
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Whats happening to 138's
Having eagerly checked the weekly update again this morning at DIMIA I was really disappointed to see that this is now the fourth week that there has been no progress made on Offshore Applications and that they are still working on applications up to 5th December. What the heck's going on!! anyone got any ideas?
Aug 15th 2006, 6:41 am
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Re: Whats happening to 138's
Originally Posted by kozzae
Having eagerly checked the weekly update again this morning at DIMIA I was really disappointed to see that this is now the fourth week that there has been no progress made on Offshore Applications and that they are still working on applications up to 5th December. What the heck's going on!! anyone got any ideas?
138 visa's are just about one of the slowest there is
. it took us nearly 9 months before we got a CO. once you get that though, it does go rather quickly. have you had you med/pccs done yet? what date is your application? we timed it so that our meds were done 3 weeks before the actual request came through. the police checks had been done a few months before.
Aug 15th 2006, 7:14 am
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Re: Whats happening to 138's
Originally Posted by Sleeping Beauty
138 visa's are just about one of the slowest there is . it took us nearly 9 months before we got a CO. once you get that though, it does go rather quickly. have you had you med/pccs done yet? what date is your application? we timed it so that our meds were done 3 weeks before the actual request came through. the police checks had been done a few months before.
. it took us nearly 9 months before we got a CO. once you get that though, it does go rather quickly. have you had you med/pccs done yet? what date is your application? we timed it so that our meds were done 3 weeks before the actual request came through. the police checks had been done a few months before.Last edited by Claire&Richard; Aug 15th 2006 at 7:17 am. Reason: spelling
Aug 15th 2006, 7:26 am
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Re: Whats happening to 138's
Originally Posted by Claire&Richard
The current email from ASPC, states as of 8th August - so it looks as though they have not updated it this week. Someone mentioned in another thread the person who updates it is in training today so.....but yes, 138's are so slow. sleeping beauty - were you a non-mod'er?
Aug 15th 2006, 12:42 pm
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Re: Whats happening to 138's
Originally Posted by Sleeping Beauty
138 visa's are just about one of the slowest there is . it took us nearly 9 months before we got a CO. once you get that though, it does go rather quickly. have you had you med/pccs done yet? what date is your application? we timed it so that our meds were done 3 weeks before the actual request came through. the police checks had been done a few months before.
. it took us nearly 9 months before we got a CO. once you get that though, it does go rather quickly. have you had you med/pccs done yet? what date is your application? we timed it so that our meds were done 3 weeks before the actual request came through. the police checks had been done a few months before.
Aug 15th 2006, 12:47 pm
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Re: Whats happening to 138's
Originally Posted by kozzae
Our application arrived in Adelaide on 27th Feb and we got our acknowledgement on 9th March. I'm thinking of sending off our PCC next month in the hope they are back before we get a CO. Dont know if we should book our meds for end Sep or not or is this still a bit optomistic?
depends if you are modl or non-modl?
Aug 15th 2006, 12:57 pm
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Re: Whats happening to 138's
Originally Posted by Sleeping Beauty
depends if you are modl or non-modl?
Sorry for the ramble....
good luck everyone, it's a long wait but worth it in the end.
Aug 15th 2006, 1:00 pm
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Re: Whats happening to 138's
Originally Posted by Claire&Richard
We have got one of our UK police checks back, but we still need to get police checks done from the country we live in now so we can send them and the UK checks to Oz together. The thing is, our UK police checks are dated for the end of July, and I can't help but feel we have been a bit speedy applying for the checks so soon. So we may hold off getting the other countries police checks done for a couple of months or so as they are going to be a bureaucratic nightmare to sort out. If our application takes so long that DIMIA request us to have the UK police checks re-done, then thats no problem. I think we will get the meds done in October.
Sorry for the ramble.... good luck everyone, it's a long wait but worth it in the end.
Sorry for the ramble....
good luck everyone, it's a long wait but worth it in the end.aren't you better off getting the overseas police checks sorted (or least sent off? which countries are they for? at least you know how long the uk police checks take (in our case 43 days - GMP).
Aug 15th 2006, 1:20 pm
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Re: Whats happening to 138's
Originally Posted by Sleeping Beauty
aren't you better off getting the overseas police checks sorted (or least sent off? which countries are they for? at least you know how long the uk police checks take (in our case 43 days - GMP).
