Originally Posted by remo

Hi Aliah,

I called up some of panel medical centres in Lahore for medical, they all are requiring letter from CO for that.

How did you front loaded medical...how did you managed.?

Originally Posted by aliah

Initially the day i was assigned a CO i called them and got the similer response.thats y i waited for another 15 days and called again and this time they agreed. to cut it short,if u r ONLINE visa applicant then they wont require that PVA letter from CO/DIAC otherwise they need that!i am online applicant and had those medicals forms with my case info officially printed so i was able to frontload them.hope it helps!

Originally Posted by remo

but I am also ONLINE applicant and have medical forms downloaded with me.

But my question is that at which Medical Centre/Clinic they accepted your forms for medical without PVA.?
Thanks in advance

Originally Posted by aliah

Dear fellow,
i have been contacted by the local Australian high commision(in Pakistan) and they asked various questions related to my job.also they added that they are unable to connect to my head office nos given on experience letter.i tried myself and its working.anyways they asked so many questions related to job and i further gave they my HR manager official email ID and cell phone no. and landline no. for verification.I just need to know how far they can go for verification???What if they call my manager and unable to connect to him successfully?will they adopt alternate ways or not???i m a bit worried becuase many times i myself face network issues and sometime HR dooesn`t even respond to our calls.All in all,DIAC should adopt visting office strategy insetad of calling someone. Hope they dont get touchy if they are unable to find someone on phone!!

Originally Posted by rizi

any visa update ..?

Originally Posted by aliah

No...but Team 3 emailed me yesterday and asked to provide explanation of gap between HSSC completion and start of Engineering degree(just 2 months during which i was idle) i updated form80 and mailed back rightaway and also attached that to online page!
waiting...
whats happening @ ur end???

Originally Posted by rizi

OK good,still waiting , did your status chnage to Met for "job verfication" on evisa ..?

Originally Posted by aliah

each and every doc on my doc checklist is in "met" mode since the day CO was assigned(1st Feb).Later the page updated to include "medical finalised"only.nothing else.not even PCC appeared on checklist so far but i uploaded it in Feb.i received job verification call after all docs(except PCC and meds) changed to "met"

Originally Posted by rizi

same situation here, only "Evidence of work experience status still 'Further checking required ' ".

Which state sponsor you got ..?

Originally Posted by aliah

I applied for 176-skilled FAMILY sponsored.Brother is sponsoring!

Originally Posted by rizi

ok, keep in touch ..

Originally Posted by aliah

sure dude!btw which team has been assigned to u???mine is team 3

Originally Posted by rizi

no idea, how I come to know about my team..?

Originally Posted by aliah

when they make contact with you,its written in their signature.i came to know yesterday when team 3 officer contacted me.anyways it doesn`t matter which team is working on ur case!

Originally Posted by rizi

hmm, ok thanks...