Waiting for grant of Child Visa. Advice?
Feb 2nd 2014, 11:33 am
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Waiting for grant of Child Visa. Advice?
On the child visa, we applied in January to London and got ours two weeks ago. If it hadn't come we would have done this too. Don't let it stress you too much! On the other stuff- try and chill and if something goes wrong - there are always worse things that can happen! It's a stressful time but it doesn't last forever
We want to return home, ASAP, but got the impression there would be problems if we tried to use another visa to go to Aus., for the waiting period...
However on another Post I read:
"To top it all off, our Child Visa 101 has not come through yet although the case officer says
########all we need do is get a holiday visa for the baby
########then fly out of Australia and back to validate the visa on the way through immigration.
Can anybody advise please?
Feb 2nd 2014, 3:51 pm
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Re: Waiting for grant of Child Visa. Advice?
I've moved you into a thread of your own in the Immigration forum as you are more likely to get an answer here than in a thread whiere the Child Visa was really only mentioned in passing.
Feb 3rd 2014, 9:29 am
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Re: Waiting for grant of Child Visa. Advice?
If you don't want to it out, tell your case officer your plans and ask permission. Don't think it will be a problem but suggest you ask
Feb 3rd 2014, 11:01 am
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Re: Waiting for grant of Child Visa. Advice?
We are offshore awaiting the process of Child101 Visa Applications...
We want to return home, ASAP, but got the impression there would be problems if we tried to use another visa to go to Aus., for the waiting period...
However on another Post I read:
"To top it all off, our Child Visa 101 has not come through yet although the case officer says
########all we need do is get a holiday visa for the baby
########then fly out of Australia and back to validate the visa on the way through immigration.
Can anybody advise please?
We want to return home, ASAP, but got the impression there would be problems if we tried to use another visa to go to Aus., for the waiting period...
However on another Post I read:
"To top it all off, our Child Visa 101 has not come through yet although the case officer says
########all we need do is get a holiday visa for the baby
########then fly out of Australia and back to validate the visa on the way through immigration.
Can anybody advise please?
Feb 4th 2014, 7:01 am
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Bright in Orange
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Re: Waiting for grant of Child Visa. Advice?
The disadvantage of the holiday visa is that you need to go offshore when the visa is granted and you may have large school fees depending on state and age of child while not on PR visa.
However while child visas are on some form of go slow and you need to get there or re-unite with your child, there are few other options. Ours took from January to September to be granted last year.
Good luck
However while child visas are on some form of go slow and you need to get there or re-unite with your child, there are few other options. Ours took from January to September to be granted last year.
Good luck
Feb 4th 2014, 3:07 pm
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Re: Waiting for grant of Child Visa. Advice?
when the subclass 101 application is being processed, can parent apply for family tax benefit, and medicare for the child living with parents by tourist visa (subclass 600) in Australia ?
Medicare is quite important for little kid, hope somebody with similar experience could share, thanks.
Medicare is quite important for little kid, hope somebody with similar experience could share, thanks.
Feb 4th 2014, 8:05 pm
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Re: Waiting for grant of Child Visa. Advice?
when the subclass 101 application is being processed, can parent apply for family tax benefit, and medicare for the child living with parents by tourist visa (subclass 600) in Australia ?
Medicare is quite important for little kid, hope somebody with similar experience could share, thanks.
Medicare is quite important for little kid, hope somebody with similar experience could share, thanks.
Feb 4th 2014, 11:08 pm
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Re: Waiting for grant of Child Visa. Advice?
Your case officer is the best person to ask. But, yes, you can apply for any other visa that your child is entitled to, i.e. a visitor visa, and travel to Australia as soon as it is granted. You will need to let your CO know that you will be doing this and they will be in touch when the visa is ready to be granted.
