mkokab1

Dear Folks,

My wife is currently 8 weeks pregnant with expected delivery date in mid feb 2011. We are thinking about informing our CO as change of circumstances, but don't know if this will effect our application process. Good thing is, I guess, our medicals are already done, so no more have to worry about X-rays for my wife.

If we are granted visa in next few months, then everything should be fine, we will have time to migrate and settle down in OZ, with our baby coming in Australia becoming a citizen right-a-way.

But if we were granted visa too close to our Initial Entry Date (i.e in Jan 2011 based on PCC submitted), my wife may not be able to fly and settle there in OZ in such a short time, thus putting her visa in jeopardy.

If such circumstances arrive, we may contact our CO to ask for extension to IED but as I read in different forums, the extension of IED is granted rarely.
Even if the extension is given until the birth of the baby, applying for Child Visa is another financial burden (Cost about $1,735) and time consuming process. Normally for Child Visa they take few months, but in our case, if such time comes, ours may be again another battle because sponsor (myself) has to submit his PCCs and they may access the character again as per the questions given in the application form. I am from a very high risk country, and character assesments take extremely long time. Plus getting PCC from USA, where I lived for few years, is another 3-4 months process.

I don't know, what to do? Any good suggestions from you folks are welcome to relieve some pain.

tatoo

HI,

As per my knowledge if u grant a visa , ur entry date will be March 2011.

mkokab1

The entry date is not based on when one submits PCC but rather when PCC is issued, which in my case is Jan.

mkokab1

Any help guyssss........'?

zishan

Hi,

According to your situation it is the thing to inform you CO ASAP.

Regards,