jimanG

Just got the email from our case officer to say we have our 176 CSL Visa Grant!!!!! Cant describe how good it feels!

So thats the easy part out of the way ! Now for the hard part of moving to and living in Oz!!!!!!!!!!!!

LoopyL

Congrats and all the best for the future

qamar_qadian

COngrats

AUPOST

Good on ya mate ..cheers

s_jose

Congrats...

Eveelg

Congratulations....

khdmah

Congratulations jimanG;

best wishes ahead

imranprogrammer

Best of Luck JimanG

SJ007

Congratulations jimanG;

best wishes ahead .

Could you please share with us that in which profession did you apply and also were you represented by an agent? Your reply will be really helpful for us. Many thanks.

jimanG

Thanks everyone, and good luck to anyone still going through the process.

Applied as an accountant, originally on a 175 visa which we switched to a 176 CSL when we got state sponsorship (only had 115 points so the 175 submission was to ensure we had a valid application in place for if there were any more rule changes from the DIAC- we got caught out by the changes to MODL in Feb 10 and didn't want a repeat of that!). Didn't use an agent; just read everything on the application very carefully and looked at this forum extensively to make sure we had everything covered.

Dropped very lucky with certain things (such as getting the state sponsorship just before the state concerned suspended processing any more) and from submitting the 175 application through to getting the 176 CSL grant letter took only just over three months. We actually started getting all the information together (ie university results etc) back in November 2009, so its been around eight months in total from start through to end.

johnb1

nice one jesus thats quick i started collating info back in july 09 finallly got ss from wa after a 6 month wait in april 10 which is when i submitted our application with diac a 176 ss not on csl though, to this day not heard a sniff

jimanG

As i said, more luck than judgement with the quickness of getting the visa. We were torn between SA and WA ourselves when we were submitting our 175 (went last year and loved them both for different reasons) but the processing time for SA sponsorship was only one month instead of six for WA which finally made the decision for us.

Hopefully for you, now CSL has ended, you'll get transfered automatically onto the SMP and wont have to wait much longer. Good luck.