Anne4Terry

Could people please kindly let us know how long it takes from being allocated a case officer to being granted the visa.

Yes I know all cases are different and there are exceptions but there must be some kind of average

Rich and Angie

Hi Anne

Well would be able to tell you but seeing as we haven't got a CO or a visa I can't sorry
But I am sure someone will know..... wish I had a CO at least then I would have a contact
Good Luck

Ang

paulb

Snap!!

wandrews

Hi Anne

I had to contact DIMIA to discuss 457 / 136 issues, and managed to find out what region of the restructed DIMIA are to be handling my app, whilst they wouldn't give me a timescale the general thought was that things should move pretty quickly when assigned my CO.

I don't know if that was in general or related specifically to me, either way it made me feel a little happier.

jimtrish

I got my CO the other week, she asked for more documents so that a decision can be made with all the info, if not a decision could be made when the 28days is up, so im thinking it shouldnt be too long now?

Trish

Anne4Terry

Glad things are looking good for you Wayne.

Do you think there have not been many replies because once people get their visas they don't look on this forum so much? And of course the people WITH the visas are the ones who know how long it took from getting their CO to getting their visa

wandrews

Very good question, I was hopeing someone would reply. I did a little digging around on the forum, and it appears that some people received their visa 2-3 months after CO allocation.

I guess these cases had no complications and probably front-loaded everything

poppet

We received our visas 4 months after we found out who our CO was (only found that out when meds and PCCs were requested - we didn't front-load as it didn't occur to us and we weren't using an agent who could have advised us!). We sent everything back and our sponsor paid the bond within 3 months but that took us to the beginning of June. We heard nothing until the visas were granted early July so assume that they had to wait for the new quota of visas before they issued ours! Good luck with yours.

sonictigger

We got our CO when the meds/PCC's were requested 15 weeks after app rec'd. Meds on there way back to Sydney (see timeline below)...so fingers crossed would love Visa by September.....

Anne4Terry

Bump

TheRossers

Just thought you guys might find this interesting.
We got an email from SK of Region 3 saying she was our case officer.
Great, all emails (well 2) addressed to her etc.
Then when our visa was granted we weren't informed but our agent was. Strange methinks, SK said she would include us on all correspondence
Then when agent emails us the grant letter it was granted by a bloke called MP of Region 5.
Don't know what to make of it but seems about right for DIMIA !!!!

brian0

Hi Anne,

I think that your best bet might be to go onto the timeline site and search there for some type of trend. I can tell you my situation, and it's very similar to Poppet's one - case officer know via med/pcc/aos request late Jan (mid-Nov app), and visa granted on July 11th. So, for me it was almost right on 5 months, but I'm sure if would have been faster if I did not need the aos stuff, and if it did not run into the visa quota issue over July 1st. If you are a 136 processing now you're probably going to be faster than that, but it might take longer to get assigned a CO as that seems to have slowed down since my app went in back in Nov 2004.

HTH!
Brian

Anne4Terry

Thanks BrianO and Rossers