Visa Grant Delay 189

#3918

Did he apply onshore or offshore?

what kind of request you received from CO?..as now your status should be further assessment…

I recently spoke with an agent who suggested they may have cases where any applicant is located offshore on hold as once visa is granted they are giving some time to enter the country and currently the border is closed and there is no exact date when it will be open.

To put you in context the situation seems to be tougher now as there is cap for arrivals that even affects citizens and they are also requested to apply for some sort of permit to leave the country.

#3919

In our case, we applied onshore( primary- husband) and I had to get back to India for a personal emergency… our application is in further assessment status. Does it mean that our grant will be delayed or kept on hold since am offshore now?

#3920

Well, according to this immigration agent that’s the possible reason of the delay for offshore applications as he acknowledge they haven’t granted visas lodged offshore in the lat few months, and he said this may be the same scenario for applicants who got stuck overseas given the border closure issue.

However, there is no a statement from DHA that addresses this and we can also see how prioritised occupations are being deliberately jumped the processing queue and granted in few days, which suggests the current policy criteria adopted for processing.

#3921

He was offshore when the application was made.

#3922

He was offshore when we made the application. The requests were related to this current employment, eg: HR Contact etc.

#3923

After submitting last request you have to click somewhere down the bottom on the portal and then status automatically change to further assessment.

If you have an agent should know and do it correctly, but I have seen different stories about it here where this step is missing and status doesn’t change.

Many of us status is further assessment and still waiting, but your status should be the same.

#3924

The status is “Further assessment” but the “last updated” on the application should be March 2019 instead of Dec 2018 because the last request of information was provided in March 2019. Anyway, thanks for the info offshore applicants getting no priority and hardly any grants to offshore applicants.

#3925

Similarly, I have applied in July 2019 and I am a onshore applicant and application status is received from more than one year. Also, my domain comes under critical services (telecommunication), still didn’t receive the grant. If we see the tracker, it clearly showed that onshore and offshore, both have been contacted from case officer in equal numbers in last 1 month

#3926

I wish they give impending grants to offshore…if they are taking into factor current travel bans, they are increase the first entry period accordingly and generously…and if they don’t want people from outside of Australia to arrive in next 6 months, then they can grant with visa start date beyond 6 months…I hope they think something along these lines, which will be quite reassuring to the offshore candidates waiting since eternity and might be a middle way to keep everyone happy

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#3927

that again establishes that immitracker is not even 5% representation of the true picture of grants and those who are waiting for their grants.

#3928

Did you click on the button at the bottom of page “I confirm I have provided information as requested” ? The status could be “Further assessment” from earlier correspondence if you were contacted by CO previously.

#3929
#3930

Hey there. Any news from the home office yet?

#3931

Excellent…thanks for sharing…

Hopefully, it will work…

Fingers crossed…

Is this being sent to Morrison or to a MP?

#3932

Hope it will be sent to either. There are many more petition waiting on the queue so lets hope for the best.

#3933

Morrison must have had sleepless nights because of this barrage of petitions.

C’mon people, he doesn’t give a duck about immigration while having million plus unemployed at home.

#3934

100% agreed. The government has bigger issues to deal with, at the moment. Immigration isn’t one of them.

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#3935

Still nothing. Still not a single grant given to anything other than a few nurses and plant/ agriculture (???) related occupation applicants.

I won’t be expecting anything until next year. If I were you, I’d start planning for the worst.

Also, @SamGeek, just because the government has “bigger issues” does not justify their negligence to immigration. Nor does it justify the silence or the completely arbitrary nature of application processing. Amongst the issues Australia is facing today, I think it’s fair to say that this pandemic has unveiled how flawed, careless, and erratic the system is.

Also, they’re happy to grant 5 year visas to those in Hong Kong but the people that have already invested hundreds of thousands into the country for their PR get shafted. I can only speak for myself when I say I come from a place that is in an equally terrible place as Hong Kong (arguably worse), but I don’t see any special treatment. Sure the whole Hong Kong thing is a political statement, but I suppose you can tell where their priorities are. Disgusting.

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#3936

Brother I’m also a victim. Waiting for over 21 months with not even a single update on my application since my lodgement. Pandemic is just icing on the cake, the system is flawed inside out. HK and NZ residents are getting visas as if they were the Lannisters of mankind. Peace

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#3937

if they wanted to cut migration, then they shouldn’t have given this invite in the 1st place…now that they have given the invite and taken fees, it is only imperative on their part to grant or decide and dispose the application in a timely manner…that’s the problem when there in an unnecessarily long delay between invite date and decision date…if they had stuck to practice of clearing applications within 6 months, they can keep invites in sync with the amount of immigration they want…they have literally put existing invites in a position where their future now hangs on their call, which is extremely disappointing and unfair