Hi Friends
I received my 189 invite on 25th July 2017, currently in the process of assimilating documents. Have a question, would much appreciate your inputs:
Question 1
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1. Has anyone who has received the invite in the July 12 or July 26 2017 invitation rounds (189) and have front loaded their documents, have anyone got a CO assigned to their case? Has anyone got a Direct Grant ?
The reason why I am asking is that post the notification that processing times have more than doubled (8 months) due to staff shortage and spike in applicants, I wanted to know what is the trend that Immigration authorities are following.
Question 2
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after reading many posts, I gauged that the suggested cheapest way to pay the visa fee (in AUD) is forex card, but I called up my HDFC bank (have salary account) and spoke with forex card deptt. they say I need to go to local branch with passport, valid visa and/or travel itinerary, how will that work ? I do not have any valid visa and neither a travel itinerary.
Also, the exchange rate which they quoted is : Rs 52.30, which is quite high.....
I have a HDFC @All [email protected] credit card......wouldn't that be good? (to save money)
Regards
Rubenr
I received my 189 invite on 25th July 2017, currently in the process of assimilating documents. Have a question, would much appreciate your inputs:
Question 1
-------------
1. Has anyone who has received the invite in the July 12 or July 26 2017 invitation rounds (189) and have front loaded their documents, have anyone got a CO assigned to their case? Has anyone got a Direct Grant ?
The reason why I am asking is that post the notification that processing times have more than doubled (8 months) due to staff shortage and spike in applicants, I wanted to know what is the trend that Immigration authorities are following.
Question 2
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after reading many posts, I gauged that the suggested cheapest way to pay the visa fee (in AUD) is forex card, but I called up my HDFC bank (have salary account) and spoke with forex card deptt. they say I need to go to local branch with passport, valid visa and/or travel itinerary, how will that work ? I do not have any valid visa and neither a travel itinerary.
Also, the exchange rate which they quoted is : Rs 52.30, which is quite high.....
I have a HDFC @All [email protected] credit card......wouldn't that be good? (to save money)
Regards
Rubenr