Originally Posted by Faraz

Dear Khurram !
Pls share your timelines and details regarding job verification and education verification from HEC. Are u presently in Pakistan or any other country ?

Originally Posted by khdmah

COngratulation khurram;

Wish you best of luck and life at Australia

Regards

Originally Posted by khurram

There was no job verification or education verification, even if there was any, I don't know about that. I am in Pakistan.

Originally Posted by khurram

Hi

Finally I have got the grant letter today. My time line is as follows:

Paper Based GSM 175, CSL, MODL
(Computing Professional J2EE Specialist):June 1, 2009
Applied Vic SS: Sept 1, 2009
SS Granted:Oct 19, 2009
CO allocated: Oct 21, 2009
form 80 request:Nov 12, 2009
form 80 sent:nov 14, 2009
PCC&Meds Request:July 1, 2010
Meds attended:July 6, 2010
PCC Sent:July 19
Grant letter received: July 28, 2010

Thank you everyone for your support, help and guidance. Some of the experiences that I would like to share here, about which I myself was very confused.

1 - You don't need to get PCC from every city where you have been living. Just a PCC from the current city is enough. I wanted to send the PCC"s from all the cities where I have been living but it was getting much time so I sent PCC from only current city.

2 - If you are in Pakistan, you don't need birth certificate. Family Registration Certificate issued by NADRA is acceptable.

3 - While filling in form 80 or any other form, give as much information as possible and don't use abbreviation like for the names of universities, names of degrees (e.g don't write MCS instead of Master of Computer Science) etc. I was asked to resend form 80 because of that in November although I had sent the form 80 along with my application.

4 - Give all the information even if it is not relevant. It makes the job of CO easier and esp for ACS to assess your skills. e.g I have done B.A in Journalism and Education but I mentioned it as well so that ACS and CO may know what I had been doing during that time.

5 - While filling in form 80, make it sure that there are no gaps after you completed your school. if you were doing nothing for 2 years for example, mention that you were doing nothing for that time. If your form 80 has gaps, then usually CO asks you to resend form 80 and that delays the processing a lot.

Ok friends, thanks once again and keep praying for me.

Originally Posted by khurram

Thank you everyone. I need your prays for suture as well

Originally Posted by Alfresco

Congrats Khurram!

All good things come to those who wait!

Originally Posted by Faraz

Thanks for your kind response. Pls do also share following :
1-R u residing in Lahore or Karachi ?
2-The organization in which u are working is small or a big one and where located ?
3-From where u did medicals and what is the procedure of sending medicals to DIAC ?

Dear ur replies would help the waiting candidates to have a calculated guess regrading the fate of their cases.

Originally Posted by asifrupani

You are so happy and excited that even you have started making spelling mistakes

Originally Posted by khurram

Actually I know I am going to have a tough time over there starting a new life, leaving my family behind. I hope for the best but I am more happy for the end of my wait, rather than getting visa. Waiting is really very hard job. I couldn't plan anything. Even I wanted to admit my daughter to school but knowing that it costs about 50,000 PKR (god damn its school's fee), I postponed it and decided to wait for visa because if we have to go to Aus then it would be useless to spend 50,000 for just one month. And many other things like that. Now I am free to plan at least. I have to go for a better future for my family but I really won't be happy leaving my family (mother, sister, brothers). Just pray for me that everything turns out to be good for me whatever happens.

Originally Posted by Bermudashorts

Congratulations! I have been waiting for this one to be announced ..