blue_bird

Hello,

Looking for personal experience of getting visa granted after submitting medicals. How long it took? Went trought topics but could not find. Either answers here or pin me to the topic where it discussed.

Thank you in advance.

Pollyana

Depends on a million things, ranging from what type of visa, to how busy the case officers are, to whether all other checks are already completed. There's no standard answer.

blue_bird

Sorry, visa type 190... My husband just drives me crazy asking that question: "When?"... He is so inpatient...

old.sparkles

Personal experiences all vary.

We are state sponsored on 176. Young sparks medicals were referred as he has Asperger's. We were given 28 days to provide a specific report by a psychologist. If we couldn't arrange this in 28 days we could have got an extension but managed it.

Then we had a robbery at home and visa grant had to go on hold as our passports were amongst the items stolen. When we got the new passports and provided info to DIBP we had visa grant.

We did medicals at the end of May which were referred at beginning of June. Psych report was submitted end of June - 2 days after the break in. Had to get new birth certs before we could do passport application, but new passports back end of July and grant was 2nd August.

So all in I would guess we had visas about 9 weeks after medicals with everything that went wrong.

blue_bird

Thanks everyone who answered previous question. Have another one - where does CO located and makes a decision? In Australia or United Kingdom (for those who applies from UK). What state in Australia if over there? Bit worries as already two weeks passed from medicals and my police certificate from Estonia (country I am from originally) will expire by September 30th.

old.sparkles

Why would where the CO is located make a difference? They are in Australia if I recall correctly but not sure where.

With your police cert expiring, you may be asked to get another.

blue_bird

Well, there is no big difference from where they are located. It is just to monitor time difference.

Thanks. There wil not be problem for certificate from Estonia - they are quite efficient but if my husband's Canadian will expire... We have been waiting for that one about 4 months to be issued. Want it be decided already -that's it...

old.sparkles

The wait does seem long but time will fly soon enough. Make use of the time now to get ready - dejunk, get copies of references, certs, important docs if needed, plan leaving parties, etc lol

Dorothy

The visa processing office for skilled visas is in Adelaide. However I'm not sure why that would make any difference to anyone at all. Time difference means sfa. If/when a visa is granted you will get an email. Does it really make any difference in the grand scheme of things what time of day it comes? Really?

If I'm reading this right, your husband's police certificate from Canada has not been issued. Is that correct? If so, no visa will be granted until ALL information is received by your CO. No police certificate = no visa.

Look, the vast majority of us here understand your excitement at the possibility of a visa. But take a step back and ask yourself why the rush? If you are granted a visa today would you be ready to move tomorrow? Next week? Next month? 3 months? When? If it's not next week, then why does it matter if it's another couple of weeks or months before a decision is made?

In all honesty there are many things in life much more important than an email from DIBP. I suggest you take a look at what you can be doing in the meantime to stop obsessing about something you have absolutely no control over.

blue_bird

No, his police certificate has been issued. It just took four months to be done as Canadian authority are the way too slowly in issuing any documents. Or it might be just in my view as I used to efficiency in Estonia. I understand everything - just cannot take it out of mind and just want to have it already. We also wanted to active it before school holidays will be over. That the rush. My husband won't to look in anything until he will get an email about. That is the point. His first question in the morning if there any news. Thank you.

Dorothy

So activate it next school holidays. Or when you move. You have a year from the date of your police checks or medicals to do so. And as has been said, if your Estonian police check expires you will be asked to do another one. Since Estonia is so efficient it shouldn't be a problem.

What is your husband going to do if you are not successful in getting a visa? Or if it's another 6 or more months? At the time I applied in 2006 it was not abnormal to wait 9 months or more. Someone who applied at the same time I did took nearly 2 years for her visa to be granted.

Once again, your husband really needs to stop obsessing about it. Nothing you do can change when/if you get a visa. Enjoy the time you have in whatever country you're in. Enjoy your child(ren) while they're little. Put the visa out of your (and his) mind and get on with your lives. Take it from me; life is far too short to be worried about things that you cannot control.

moneypenny20

What she said.

It's very frustrating when control of your lives appears to be in other people's hands but that's how it is and you have to accept it. I got my visa very quickly but that was a spouse visa back when a week was considered normal. However we wanted to move during the school holidays - shit out of luck, the house didn't sell in time so we had to suck it up. Every single visa application is different from everyone else's. There is no way of knowing when your visa will be granted or not. It's not a foregone conclusion.

blue_bird

I know that times are varies but it more general proceeding time of 3 months already. Does anyone has any recent experience with the timing? And also - that form about consent to be contacting electronically. Do you need to fill it separately even if you marked this point in application already? We tried to contact (as said you can after general processing time lapsed) Department but no reply has been received.

old.sparkles

Have you checked your spam box? Sometimes things do get filtered.

On another note, guidelines are just that - a general guide and each case is evaluated individually. Have you checked your immi account to see if there is any info there?

blue_bird

Thanks, old.sparkles. Yes, we do all that. Checking spam folder as well as ImmiAccount. Have contacted CO but no reply whatsoever. On the DIBP website sated that you cannot contact until 3 moths is over. It is already over that was the reason we tried to contact. This seems just like we've been ignored by our CO and we do not like it.