Come on, all I am hearing is dismay at the new immigration system! Im a non CSL 176 er and Im very happy with the new policy. I am not happy with Britain and its current open door policy, as such I want to move to Australia and join my friends. I have a good and sound application in, I want to move there, meet a nice girl, start a family. Im not using it as a door way to move the rest of my family there. I say good on the new system, it gives me a firm date at which my application will be processed, lets me get my head down and save some money in preparation. It also ensures that we will all move to a country of skilled positive workers, a bonus to all of us. I would personally like to see them make the regime harder, make it more expensive, raise the ILETS test scores. This is a positive for us all. Complaining about it, is well, frankly Un Australian!

If this is an attempt at being funny, then you fail miserably and come off as both sadistic and egoistic.

There are some people who have already achieved all that you are trying to achieve by 2012 and lodged applications. In as much as applicants do not have control over the policies, there should be some consistency. Supporting such inconsistencies based on your insecurities is paranoid at best.

Pathetic!

tell this to guys who are already waiting more than two years and now got the lowest priority possible!
if DIAC chaged the rules without any notification how can you be sure that DIAC won't change them again?
A lot of people lost money due to these unpredictable amendments and I am 100% sure they are absolutely not happy about it!
All together I have no idea why you are happy with the new immigration policy...

I think that you are well meaning and are trying to cheer people up, but it is very clear that most people do not see the changes in this way. Most people have already prepared themselves for a move within a time scale, there might be good reasons for this, e.g. a good time for a child to change school or start school etc. But mainly people have the over whelming feeling of life being on hold with the changes. And are angry that they have paid money for an application to be processed even though that might not be for 3-5 years.

My own personal circumstances and preferences are not around getting to Australia as quickly as possible either. I would rather wait until the housing and job markets pick up for a start. But it does not take long to realise that most people on BE are keen to get on with the move and I have every sympathy with that feeling.

Such bitterness!! Its not us against them! They are working to create us a better country to live in. Good on them. If you dont get with the system your gonna have a very miserable couple of years. You gotta embrace it.

Please stop whilst you are behind...

I think I've just fallen through a portal from the Barbie into the Immigration forum.

2012 ? Isn't that when the world comes to an end ?

Calm down guys, You can see where he is coming from and at least he is looking at the only positive side there is.

My sister-in-law was literally days away from being finalised on a WA state sponsored visa when the new priorities were announced knocking her back to 2012. Medicals were in, household stuff in transit to Australia, house up for sale in the UK etc....to be told this was devastating not just to her and her other half but also to my missus who was expecting to see her sister any day now. So we can relate to everyones frustrations. It has cost them a lot of money, so it was as if the rug was pulled from under thier feet.

The OP is only looking on the bright side of a sorry situation (which he is entitled to do on an open forum). At least they can now plan with a fixed timescale in their minds rather than keep waiting and waiting, hoping that their application was moving forward, constantly checking e-mails everyday with hope that their time had come.

Everyone knows its crap the way it happened but at least someone can take a positive out of it.

Only saving grace is that the immigration change their minds like the weather, so who knows if it will be 2012 or not???

Give him a break !!

Have a nice day.....


Rob

I ever took you as a Mayanist.

But yes, the world is going to end in 2012.

Sorry about that.

Your avatar looks remarkably like the people in this article. !!

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/927...husbands-sperm

What a strange person you are....

What an angry unhappy man you are.

Is it too much to ask that we have one day here where there are no insults thrown around? Any more and the thread will be closed with offenders' posting priviledges removed.