Camsara19

Hi Tracy

Thanks for your reply, what was your first step? Did your Hubby do the Vetassess form first? Have you done it all online? Sorry to be a pain with all the questions?

Sara

Trussie

Hi Sara

Sorry for the delay - I've had to check with Hubbie as I constantly have Baby Brain! This is the approx order that we did stuff but we started last September so it may be a bit mixed up:

1) Vetassess Paper based assessment to see if Hubbie was qualified and knowledgable enough to progress to the Vetassess Practical Assessment and got all our documents (copies of qualifications, passport, birth certificates etc) certified by a solicitor and sent to our Agent

2) Our Agent then sent us paper copies of the rest of the application which we completed and returned along with Alan's job offer letter and Al's job reference

3) Al did the Practical Assessment

4) Received confirmation that Al had passed and the Agent submitted our application on line the same day - 28th July!!!!

That is pretty much it as I can remember. We have been advised to wait until we get a CO until we have our medicals and do our police checks but we are looking at having them done maybe next month so at least its something else that will be done and we know if everything's okay rather than waiting.

I am really pleased that we have used an Agent because it has taken all of the stress out of it - thats what you pay them for I suppose but when there were areas of the application that we were a little unsure about, we just made a phone call and were told the correct way to write it. HOWEVER, it is REALLLLLY frustrating not being able to check our progress on line but our Agent has been really good and contacted us immediately each time there has been news.

I hope that this helps - please get in touch if I can tell you anything else

Lu xx

Ahmadj

hey.. if one knows.. what does this mean?

Complete character assessment particulars for this applicant


I am plannig to go by the book, and get the police checks when asked to by the CO. When do I have to fill this?

Camsara19

Thank you so much Lu, i thought my hubby would have to do the test first so i better get a move on!

Thanks again for all your help

Hope everything goes through as smoothly as possible for you

Sara X

Trussie

No problem - give us a shout if you need any more help

Lu x x

Harry_Elaine

Hello Mate, pretty sure this is form 80, u can get it on the DIAC website and really straight forward to completeH

queenb

We have finally got our 457 VISA!! Didn't know wether to laugh or to cry. Got reponse within a week of lodging the VISAS. V. happy.
We are now really under pressure to sell the house. Been on the market since last 3 months. Though we nearly had a buyer.... ( playing up, due to current market situation)
Would love hear any advise from anyone in similar situation.

sean1811

Hey, well done and congrats. Good luck with your new life

sean1811

hey have just looked at our on line appi tracking thing, and now a msg appeared saying "your application is being processed further" . Hopefully this is the start of the case office being appointed.

Any one else have this in the Aug applicants.

Ahmadj

WOW

I assume you frontloaded your meds and pcc?

Goodluck

sean1811

yeah front loaded everything lol

SilverH

We are going for our medicals on the 29th - hopefully things will move as quickly for us...

queenb

Thanks Sean1811, and good luck with yours. Looks like you not too far from getting yr visas

kjb

Hi

We're August 08 applicants too. We've applied for 886 (onshore) so at least we get to play the waiting game in a place we want to be!! Will be gutted if we can't stay though Good luck to everyone - lets hope the next 6-8 months go quickly!!

sue32

hi 08's, thought i would keep you posted our 1st payment went out of bank on the 4th september, only got statement yesterday, phoned agent and she has confirmation of this and will send it out to us this week, now we have to wait another 8 months before we will be contacted to do our meds/police checks, so we very excited that we are in the system at last just a waiting game now