Australia PR Paper based Application Status and timeline

[erviren]

Please give your valuable advice for my PR case for Australia and post your dates with timlines till Final VISA?

My timelines are:

17 August 2009 - ACS POsitive Result, got MODL points under 2231 - 79 (Net Technologies Specialist)

Application Lodge - 16 December 2009 with IELTS(got File Reference Number by DIAC-GSM Adelaide)
Status - No status as of now

My agent lodged Paper based Application and I even can not check the status online.

Do you know how can I check my current status??
AND how much time should I wait for my Final VISA Grant???

Anticipating your soonest reply.
Many thanks in advance..

Rgds,
Viren

[jovi]

Originally Posted by erviren

Please give your valuable advice for my PR case for Australia and post your dates with timlines till Final VISA?

My timelines are:

17 August 2009 - ACS POsitive Result, got MODL points under 2231 - 79 (Net Technologies Specialist)

Application Lodge - 16 December 2009 with IELTS(got File Reference Number by DIAC-GSM Adelaide)
Status - No status as of now

My agent lodged Paper based Application and I even can not check the status online.

Do you know how can I check my current status??
AND how much time should I wait for my Final VISA Grant???

Anticipating your soonest reply.
Many thanks in advance..

Rgds,
Viren

Hi Mate,

We are sailing on the same boat, what I understand so far that out of 100 applicants their are hardly 5 papebased applicants, I have chosen this path coz I dont have Credit card of that limit, anyway their is no way to check your status.

How did u get that File Reference Number by DIAC-GSM Adelaide, is it by Acknowledgment or what?
If so how much time it took to get that Ack. after lodging your application?

All the best!

Cheers!

[erviren]

Hey Jovi,

Did you apply thru agent or directly?
I got my reference number by Acknowledgment thru my agent.
What were your IELTS individual score and what timeframe you are thinking mate!!
keep me posted and be in touch....

Cheers!!

Originally Posted by jovi

Hi Mate,

We are sailing on the same boat, what I understand so far that out of 100 applicants their are hardly 5 papebased applicants, I have chosen this path coz I dont have Credit card of that limit, anyway their is no way to check your status.

How did u get that File Reference Number by DIAC-GSM Adelaide, is it by Acknowledgment or what?
If so how much time it took to get that Ack. after lodging your application?

All the best!

Cheers!

[srn_29]

My agent lodged Paper based Application and I even can not check the status online

Hey, even i'm thro paper based processing.

IELTS: score 7.5
ACS : +ve
On CSL + MODL

Lodged on : Sep-15 2009
Employee verification done in Dec

My agent filed for PLE (post lodgment enquiry) on jan-21st & i received an automated respone on feb-03rd.

I still have no clue about my application, neither do i know about the status of employee verification.

[Wild Beast Of Borneo]

Originally Posted by srn_29

Hey, even i'm thro paper based processing.

IELTS: score 7.5
ACS : +ve
On CSL + MODL

Lodged on : Sep-15 2009
Employee verification done in Dec

My agent filed for PLE (post lodgment enquiry) on jan-21st & i received an automated respone on feb-03rd.

I still have no clue about my application, neither do i know about the status of employee verification.

Hi...

Mine was paper application as well, and I did everything on my own without an Agent. I submitted all the required documents, (IELTS 8.0 and my wife's IETLS is 7.5, housewife).

Application lodged (sent by courier service from Malaysian) on 1st October 2009. DIAC Acknowledged Receipt on 8th October 2009.

Case Officer Appointed on 21 January 2010, and requested I do my Police Checks and Medical Check ups, and wants me to reply within 28 days with all documents.

Police Checks Certificate received from Malaysian Department of Foreign Affairs and EMAILED to DIAC/Case Officer on 29th January 2010. Medicals Done on the 30th January 2010. Doctor couriered Medical Report to Australia on 3rd February 2010. Medicals arrived in Immigration australia Office in Sydney on 8th February 2010.

So now, I am just sitting here and waiting. Can't do much anymore.

[erviren]

hi Srn

Welcome onboard.....

did you get any response for your PLE after automated response?

yes we paper based applicants' major problem that we can not check the status

Have you submitted Medicals and PCC and when did you get request from CO for medicals?
keep posted

fingers crossed

All the best!

Originally Posted by srn_29

Hey, even i'm thro paper based processing.

IELTS: score 7.5
ACS : +ve
On CSL + MODL

Lodged on : Sep-15 2009
Employee verification done in Dec

My agent filed for PLE (post lodgment enquiry) on jan-21st & i received an automated respone on feb-03rd.

I still have no clue about my application, neither do i know about the status of employee verification.

[erviren]

Hi Wild Beast Of Borneo,

Welcome to thie thread

thanks for posting your details...

I hope you shold soon be getting Job verification and then final VISA, Good Luck...

Keep us posted for same, in any case, did your job experinces get verified...please let us know how they check so that we can update our earlier companies?

Originally Posted by Wild Beast Of Borneo

Hi...

Mine was paper application as well, and I did everything on my own without an Agent. I submitted all the required documents, (IELTS 8.0 and my wife's IETLS is 7.5, housewife).

Application lodged (sent by courier service from Malaysian) on 1st October 2009. DIAC Acknowledged Receipt on 8th October 2009.

Case Officer Appointed on 21 January 2010, and requested I do my Police Checks and Medical Check ups, and wants me to reply within 28 days with all documents.

Police Checks Certificate received from Malaysian Department of Foreign Affairs and EMAILED to DIAC/Case Officer on 29th January 2010. Medicals Done on the 30th January 2010. Doctor couriered Medical Report to Australia on 3rd February 2010. Medicals arrived in Immigration australia Office in Sydney on 8th February 2010.

So now, I am just sitting here and waiting. Can't do much anymore.

[srn_29]

Case Officer Appointed on 21 January 2010, and requested I do my Police Checks and Medical Check ups, and wants me to reply within 28 days with all documents.

Police Checks Certificate received from Malaysian Department of Foreign Affairs and EMAILED to DIAC/Case Officer on 29th January 2010. Medicals Done on the 30th January 2010. Doctor couriered Medical Report to Australia on 3rd February 2010. Medicals arrived in Immigration australia Office in Sydney on 8th February 2010.

So now, I am just sitting here and waiting. Can't do much anymore.

Hi WB,

As a matter of fact, you will be hearing very soon from Aus and visa grant letter will be sent to you soon. All the best, and please keep us posted about your plans.

[srn_29]

Have you submitted Medicals and PCC and when did you get request from CO for medicals?
keep posted

Hi erviren,

I haven't heard anything yet after the automated response, added to it my agent is on leave, however i dont expect tht she knows anything about how to follow it up. She claims that i'd receive an email when a CO is assigned. I dont know how correct this info is.

I tried to follow it up with another person at the consultancy where my agent works, and i was informed there is already a CO assigned to me. There is some miscommunication here.

I haven't received any request for Meds or PCC. Hoping tht there should be something this month.

[Wild Beast Of Borneo]

Originally Posted by erviren

Hi Wild Beast Of Borneo,

Welcome to thie thread

thanks for posting your details...

I hope you shold soon be getting Job verification and then final VISA, Good Luck...

Keep us posted for same, in any case, did your job experinces get verified...please let us know how they check so that we can update our earlier companies?

Hi,

That's an interesting question that I would like to clarify with you regarding "job verification". To be honest, I don't know much about how this works, because as far as I know, those of my friends who got their Visas approved (175) never had DIAC contacting their employers or previous employers (But then, I might be the unlucky one).

What happened for me was, with the application form, I also submitted all my Testimonials (got my previous employers to write up one according to the guidelines requested by DIAC website), then I also submitted my Current Letter of Employment with my current company (Of course I got all these certified True copy by the solicitor in my country). I also submitted my Income Tax Returns for the past 5 years (Certified).

What I forgot to mention in my previous thread is that, in the 21 January 2010 email from my case officer, they asked me to attached 2 more items concerning my employment:-

1) Payslips for the last 12 out of 24 months (which I have, and scanned and emailed to them on the 22/1/10)

2) Superannuation Statements for the last 2 years (2008 and 2009). I got these statements translated into English by a certified translator because they were in native malay language.

But what I did was also got my current employer (the Executive Director) to write a simple letter, specifying that I have been working with the Company since July 2008 (which I have sent DIAC my letter of employment dated July 2008), and is currently still with them, and am in the position of an Accountant. My Executive Director also specified briefly my job function and what I have achieved with the Company.

This was not requested by DIAC, but according to a friend of mine, that was what he did with his application. So I scanned the letter (in colour, depicting the Company Letter Head, address, etc etc) and emailed it to my case Officer on the 25th January 2010.

So this is as far as I have done.

As for receiving Telephone Calls from DIAC to my employer, .... ahh.. this one I am in the dark about... But I am hoping that the evidences that I have provided will be sufficient for them to decide.

What do you think?