Anyone applied for a STNI 137 Visa?
 

Anyone applying for this type of visa? we hope to send our off next week :eek: We have been accepted for sponsorship by WA Perth so the ball is finally rolling :thumbup:
Just wondering how long this type of visa is taking to come through at the moment as we hope to be over in OZ before xmas, were going on my OH skills as an engineer fitter.

Re: Anyone applied for a STNI 137 Visa?
 

Hi

We have applied for this visa aswell as OH has been sponsored by Victoria as an IT Manager.
Our application was received in Adelaide on the 28th May, and we received our pre-acknowledgement on the 8th June. The email said that we would get full acknowledgement in six weeks.
If you check out www.austimeline.com you can see that most of these visas are taking around 6 months.
Hope this help

Amanda :thumbsup:

Re: Anyone applied for a STNI 137 Visa?
 

Hi Ozzy7
I'm going to perth on the same visa .I got sponsorship I late may my visa application was sent 7/6/07 I'm just waiting now .
the sooner the better as far as i'm concerned :thumbsup:
I'm a spark to trade
good luck:thumbsup:
the dooners

Re: Anyone applied for a STNI 137 Visa?
 

We have already got our police checks back and will be sending them to our agent with our visa, then were going to get the medicals sorted out asap to try to fast track our application.

Re: Anyone applied for a STNI 137 Visa?
 

We are on this visa for WA.

Just waiting on police checks, our meds were done last week.:thumbup:

Re: Anyone applied for a STNI 137 Visa?
 

Good luck, let us know how you get on.

Re: Anyone applied for a STNI 137 Visa?
 

hi,
were applying for a stni 137 visa, our skill have been accepted and we are now waiting to hear fron WA for state sponsorship (end of this week will be two weeks) - anyone with any idea how long WA are taking for sponsorship?

thanks
lisa
:)

Re: Anyone applied for a STNI 137 Visa?
 

We got a letter back in 2 weeks :thumbup:

Re: Anyone applied for a STNI 137 Visa?
 

thanks for the reply - i feel really excited now!!!!!!

where abouts in perth are you thinking of going to, were thinking mandurah or surrounds in the peel region.

lisa
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Re: Anyone applied for a STNI 137 Visa?
 

We were thinking of Secret Harbour, but not too sure now as there isnt any secondary schools nearby :unsure: Perth is the only part of OZ that we havent visited so I guess its going to be a case of looking around once were there to find someone we can call home.

Re: Anyone applied for a STNI 137 Visa?
 

HI,

i'm sure secret harbour is having a middle/secondary school nearby soon - comet bay college (although i could be wrong), we did look at that area, but our visa says we have to be in certain areas and secret harbour was just outside. still only a stones throw away from where we're thinking of going. :)

keep me posted on the progress of your application
hope all goes well

lisa
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Re: Anyone applied for a STNI 137 Visa?
 

It would be lovely to keep in touch with you, especially as your off to Perth too. Were a family of 4 with 2 boys age 12 and 14, what about you?

Re: Anyone applied for a STNI 137 Visa?
 

hi,
i have private messaged you - so we dont take over the whole thread.
(hope its worked?)

lisa
:thumbsup:

Re: Anyone applied for a STNI 137 Visa?
 

Hi,

I am waiting 26 weeks now (137, Perth) and haven't heard anything from Adelaide yet. It is quite frustrating and I am slowly but surely going mad. I heard from other applicants who aren't from UK too that it takes very long for them, even if they are not from the so-called high-risk countries but continental Europe. A lot of the January applicants have their visa yet and I belong to a minority of 3 out of 38 who haven't even a CO yet.

I made a chart and discovered that the mid value and average value both are 23 weeks. But in this calculation just a small amount of applicants is from continental Europe (and their times lift the value) - most are from UK.

So calculating 6 months is realistic if you are from UK.

Re: Anyone applied for a STNI 137 Visa?
 

Our police checks came back today and have been sent off.

Thats it now (I think:o) nothing more we can do except wait.

I cannot believe we have been waiting 1 year and 5 months nearly.

Hope its not too long now our meds/police checks have been requested and done/sorted.