Processing Time of Prospective Marriage Visa in US

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Marmaxladez - 19 Mar 2007 09:41 GMT

My name is Meghan and I have just submitted an application for an Australian
Prospective Marriage visa in the US. I sent it certified mail I know the
embassy in Washington DC received it on Monday. The embassy's website says
it takes 4-6 months to process; however, on a flight to Australia to visit my
fiance, the guy I sat next to told me he knew of a girl in the US that was
granted the same visa in a month and a half. Does anyone else know what the
actual processing time is closer to? I made an effort to be very thorough
and sent in everything they asked for. The only thing I'm missing are the
medical forms, but the embassy said they'd send me that stuff with a list of
panel doctors when they received my application. I'm hoping it only takes a
month and a half like the man said, but I wanted to know how long it took for
other people.

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ptlabs - 19 Mar 2007 09:52 GMT

> My name is Meghan and I have just submitted an application for an Australian
> Prospective Marriage visa in the US. <snip>
> Does anyone else know what the actual processing time is closer to?

Statistically, for Prospective Marriage visas processed in Washington DC
for the first six months of 2006:

25% of cases are resolved in 15 weeks
50% of cases are resolved in 21 weeks
75% of cases are resolved in 28 weeks

Hope this helps.

Peter

http://ptlabs.com.au/
Registered Migration Agent 0427067, Specialist in ACS/RPL/IT cases.
This post is neither legal nor immigration advice.

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Marmaxladez - 19 Mar 2007 10:06 GMT

>> My name is Meghan and I have just submitted an application for an Australian
>> Prospective Marriage visa in the US. <snip>
[quoted text clipped - 14 lines]
>Registered Migration Agent 0427067, Specialist in ACS/RPL/IT cases.
>This post is neither legal nor immigration advice.

Thanks for the response, but the numbers don't quite make sense. That adds
up to 150%, so I can't tell if the odds are in my favor or not.

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ptlabs - 19 Mar 2007 10:19 GMT

>> Statistically, for Prospective Marriage visas processed in Washington DC
>> for the first six months of 2006:
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> Thanks for the response, but the numbers don't quite make sense. That adds
> up to 150%, so I can't tell if the odds are in my favor or not.

Sorry, I'm probably too used to reading stuff like this that I didn't
explain it clearly enough!

25th percentile = 15 weeks
50th percentile = 21 weeks
75th percentile = 28 weeks

Does this make slightly more sense?

Peter

http://ptlabs.com.au/
Registered Migration Agent 0427067, Specialist in ACS/RPL/IT cases.
This post is neither legal nor immigration advice.

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Marmaxladez - 19 Mar 2007 10:30 GMT

>>> Statistically, for Prospective Marriage visas processed in Washington DC
>>> for the first six months of 2006:
[quoted text clipped - 16 lines]
>Registered Migration Agent 0427067, Specialist in ACS/RPL/IT cases.
>This post is neither legal nor immigration advice.

Yes, it makes more sense, but it's quite discouraging. :(

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ptlabs - 19 Mar 2007 10:33 GMT

> Yes, it makes more sense, but it's quite discouraging. :(

These are just statistics - however, Washington processed 99 cases
during this period (1/2006-6/2006), so it's actually quite a good sample.

Peter

http://ptlabs.com.au/
Registered Migration Agent 0427067, Specialist in ACS/RPL/IT cases.
This post is neither legal nor immigration advice.

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Mark - 19 Mar 2007 13:04 GMT

Pete, these stats make interesting reading (to a sad bloke like me) ;-
. Are these published publically or are they only available to yo
Migration agent chaps

Cheer

Mar

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ptlabs - 19 Mar 2007 13:18 GMT

> Pete, these stats make interesting reading (to a sad bloke like me) ;-)
> Are these published publically or are they only available to you
> Migration agent chaps?

Erm, that's an interesting question. I have access to these because I'm
a registered agent and I'm a member of the Migration Institute of
Australia (the professional body for us RMAs), but I can't remember if
these are published publicly or if we were sworn to secrecy after
reading these figures.

I wouldn't be surprised if these figures aren't publicly available.

I don't know who is the Australian sponsor in your situation, but if you
don't hear anything from Washington and you think you're headed into the
75th percentile and beyond, the Australian sponsor can and should become
more proactive by enlisting the help of an RMA and/or the local federal
MP to push things along at the embassy.

Peter

http://ptlabs.com.au/
Registered Migration Agent 0427067, Specialist in ACS/RPL/IT cases.
This post is neither legal nor immigration advice.

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ptlabs - 19 Mar 2007 13:19 GMT

> I don't know who is the Australian sponsor in your situation, but if you
> don't hear anything from Washington and you think you're headed into the
> 75th percentile and beyond, the Australian sponsor can and should become
> more proactive by enlisting the help of an RMA and/or the local federal
> MP to push things along at the embassy.

Of course, "your" in this case refers to the OP: Meghan :-) not you Mark.

Peter

http://ptlabs.com.au/
Registered Migration Agent 0427067, Specialist in ACS/RPL/IT cases.
This post is neither legal nor immigration advice.

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SheoWahya - 19 Mar 2007 15:59 GMT

Are these published publically or are they only available to you
Migration agent chaps?

While it doesn't specifically break out the statistics into time
buckets,
I found this to be an interesting source of information

http://www.immi.gov.au/about/charters/client-services-charter/standards/2.1.htm

It does talk about the 75 percentile and I guess if one wants to (and
has the number of total applications) one could calculate the various
percentages.

At any rate, it is a comprehensive source for processing times for the
various visa classes and risk levels.

Marilyn

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William - 26 Mar 2007 23:49 GMT

On Mar 19, 7:19 pm, ptlabs <ptlabsREMOVET...@gmailREMOVETHIS.com>
wrote:

> >> Statistically, for Prospective Marriage visas processed in Washington DC
> >> for the first six months of 2006:
[quoted text clipped - 20 lines]
> Registered Migration Agent 0427067, Specialist in ACS/RPL/IT cases.
> This post is neither legal nor immigration advice.

My visa was processed in Washington in that timeframe. I was in March/
April of 2006. Mine was in the 25th percentile I'd say as it took them
about 1 month and 1 week to finish. I was really ready, and had a
doctor ready, FedExing my medicals in, police checks in.

After doing the 2nd half of the visa, Just yesterday I got my 2 year
residency visa. I got married in Dec, and they gave me two, three
month long brdiging visas in between. Be ready for these to suck up
passport pages! They don't put them over the top of the old visas,
they put them on new pages. I've been doing a lot of traveling and I
will need to have pages added to my passport soon.

Hope that helps, feel free to ask me any q's:)

Greg

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