vickiejaynem

hi all just jumping over from the july 08 list to wish everyone best of luck with visas and happy new year hoping we all hear something in new year need to get there before the £ worth even less.lol today currency 2.09 to £ on web

Marcman

Same to all you as well!

Marcman

Forgot to say hopefully 2009 will bring good news to us all!

sue32

happy new year to everyone, may all our dreams (visa's) come true (2009 plz), and fingers crossed i win the lottery tonight lol, then i can go asap to live our dream and not have to rely on selling the house for our pennies

Safaet

Happy New year and Good luck to everyone.

101126

To hopefully give people some optimism, I thought I would let you know that I received confirmation that a case officer has been appointed for my visa application

I lodged my application on 9th August '08, visa type 176 with state sponsorship from Canberra, ACT as an IT Systems Manager and started the long wait for a case officer to be appointed, for those that have religiously been checking their visa application the indication that I got on the electronic application website is the additional entry which looks like the below:

09/08/2008 Application received - processing commenced Message
09/08/2008 Application fee received Message
14/01/2009 Application being processed further

Does not exactly say case officer appointed, but a quick phone call to my consultant confirmed that one has been appointed and that he recieved an email this morning requesting medicals and police check (more money to spend )

The really good news is that these have also been requested for our two eldest daughters who are 20 and 21 respectively and working and not automatically classified as dependents which we expected to be refused at this stage, lets hope they get accepted on my visa.

Good luck to every one else, but I thought I would let you know things are moving and what to look out for on the website when it happens for you.

Sandy.l

Thanks!

We lodged on 10th August 08 but not State Sponsored, Relative sponsored so we won't be priority

101126

Sandy.l

I still want to wish you the very best with your application. Good Luck

Sandy.l

Oh thank you! That's sweet! It will happen one day!! Hope everything goes well for you and yours!

vickiejaynem

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CDM

We applied on August 10th - 175 (non-sponsored). My skill is on ther MODL and the new CSL but since we're further down the ladder than sponsored applications, I'm guessing another few months berfore we get a CO.

- CDM

MSGuy

Great to hear that everyone is happy and waiting for a good news.....but since I'm from a HR country and non-MODL, things are looking rather gloomy for me...

I'm there right at the bottom of the processing list and absolutely no idea when a CO will be assigned. The more high priority apps coming in, the more it'll get delayed. :curse:

Anyone else in the same soup?

aaron_li2k

Hi guys,

I already submitted my application in Aug/2008, nice to meet all of you here.

God bless us all.

Aaron

Harry_Elaine

hi fellow 08/08's

just thought i would let u guys know we did our meds today and have uploaded our pcc's. I know it is optomistic but i reckon some of us should be hearing pretty soon and we would love to go straight to visa grant !!! (we wish, .

Elaine is on CSL (nurse) so hopefully we arent too far away, we applied on 11/08/08...........who knows, anyhow meds were fine, cant do much more now !!!!

cheers

H

CDM

The state sponsored applicants for this visa grant year should apparently all be allocated to a CO by February 13th. Those of us that are on tht CSL but who are not sponsored will not be assigned a CO until at least then. Hopefully, come February 13th, things will start moving for us.

- CDM