ACS silence
Mar 8th 2002, 10:20 am
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ACS silence
hello
I sent my ACS application on the 23rd Feb - Royal Mail Swift Air and Registered. Should I be getting an acknowledgement from anyone?
Also what are the current time frames for receipt of approval?
Ta
Dave
I sent my ACS application on the 23rd Feb - Royal Mail Swift Air and Registered. Should I be getting an acknowledgement from anyone?
Also what are the current time frames for receipt of approval?
Ta
Dave
Mar 8th 2002, 10:41 am
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Last edited by @boy; Mar 5th 2003 at 3:08 am.
Mar 9th 2002, 1:05 am
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Re: ACS silence
Hi Dave,
The current ACS waiting time is 8-10 weeks. We have already had some approvals for
applications lodged in January, but a lot depends on your immigration officer and the
assessor. The assessors, in particular, are quite variable in their through put, as
they are mostly external.
The reason for the current slow processing is the large number of Australian
university graduates (December is normally the end of the academic year here) who are
seeking skills assessments immediately. Things should be back to normal by April, but
there will be another, smaller, surge in July. So we normally recommend to overseas
applicants that they plan to lodge their ACS applications between April and July, and
September and November.
In the case of ACS, which is quite open about its processing time, you may not
need to go to the webappcabaret processing time matrix. It's simple enough to ask
them by email.
Cheers
George Lombard
www.austimmigration.com.au
windsordave wrote in message <[email protected]>...
>hello
>
>
>I sent my ACS application on the 23rd Feb - Royal Mail Swift Air and Registered.
>Should I be getting an acknowledgement from anyone?
>
>Also what are the current time frames for receipt of approval?
>
>Ta
>
>Dave
>
>
>
>--
>Posted via http://britishexpats.com
The current ACS waiting time is 8-10 weeks. We have already had some approvals for
applications lodged in January, but a lot depends on your immigration officer and the
assessor. The assessors, in particular, are quite variable in their through put, as
they are mostly external.
The reason for the current slow processing is the large number of Australian
university graduates (December is normally the end of the academic year here) who are
seeking skills assessments immediately. Things should be back to normal by April, but
there will be another, smaller, surge in July. So we normally recommend to overseas
applicants that they plan to lodge their ACS applications between April and July, and
September and November.
In the case of ACS, which is quite open about its processing time, you may not
need to go to the webappcabaret processing time matrix. It's simple enough to ask
them by email.
Cheers
George Lombard
www.austimmigration.com.au
windsordave wrote in message <[email protected]>...
>hello
>
>
>I sent my ACS application on the 23rd Feb - Royal Mail Swift Air and Registered.
>Should I be getting an acknowledgement from anyone?
>
>Also what are the current time frames for receipt of approval?
>
>Ta
>
>Dave
>
>
>
>--
>Posted via http://britishexpats.com
Mar 9th 2002, 6:06 pm
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Re: ACS silence
Dear Dave,
Same story here: We've sent our application (from the UK) before Christmas, the
credit card was debited the 8th of January, we received our (positive, yes!) answer
the 4th of March.
Regards, Birgit
windsordave wrote:
> hello
>
> I sent my ACS application on the 23rd Feb - Royal Mail Swift Air and Registered.
> Should I be getting an acknowledgement from anyone?
>
> Also what are the current time frames for receipt of approval?
>
> Ta Dave
Same story here: We've sent our application (from the UK) before Christmas, the
credit card was debited the 8th of January, we received our (positive, yes!) answer
the 4th of March.
Regards, Birgit
windsordave wrote:
> hello
>
> I sent my ACS application on the 23rd Feb - Royal Mail Swift Air and Registered.
> Should I be getting an acknowledgement from anyone?
>
> Also what are the current time frames for receipt of approval?
>
> Ta Dave
Mar 9th 2002, 9:56 pm
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Re: ACS silence
I put my application in on the 13th of December and didn't hear until the 6th of March!
So much for 8-10 weeks
So much for 8-10 weeks
Mar 10th 2002, 1:35 am
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Re: ACS silence
> I put my application in on the 13th of December and didn't hear until the 6th
> of March!
>
> So much for 8-10 weeks
I put my application on 18/DEC/2001 and received the report on 07/FEB/2002
2001.12.18. Submitted all relevant documents to ACS office in Sydney
2001.12.19. Received a hand-written ACS receipt
2001.12.20. A$350 charged from my credit card
2001.13.?. Received a printed ACS receipt at home
2001.13.1. ACS report was issued (valid 1 year from this date)
2001.13.2. Received ACS report today at home
> of March!
>
> So much for 8-10 weeks
I put my application on 18/DEC/2001 and received the report on 07/FEB/2002
2001.12.18. Submitted all relevant documents to ACS office in Sydney
2001.12.19. Received a hand-written ACS receipt
2001.12.20. A$350 charged from my credit card
2001.13.?. Received a printed ACS receipt at home
2001.13.1. ACS report was issued (valid 1 year from this date)
2001.13.2. Received ACS report today at home
