Immigration Forum / Australia and NZ / January 2004

Dear sir,
If sponsor gets any financial support from government, is the sponsorship
valid to sponsor relationship's pr visa application?
Thank you,

Hi, I hope someone can help.
Our application was delivered by DHL on
28th October to Dimia.  
Dimia have now told our agent that the

We have had the request for medicals and will delay them due to the
other half becoming pregnant. Obviously we have to notify the ASPC
through the change of circumstances form.
Questions are

ON 12 JAN, MINISTER HAS ANNOUNCED A NEW SKILLED VISA WHICH SEEMS TO BE
HELPFUL TO THOSE WHO ARE ALREADY IN POOL. ANY ONE ON THIS BOARD HAVE ANY IDEA
OR GUESSES FOR THAT 'BUSH VISA' ? HOW & WHEN IT WILL BE IMPLEMENTED  AND WHAT
WIIL BE ELIGIBILITY ?

I had my medical last week, not realising that part of the second stage
for the Fiance Visa is to have another medical if the first one is out
of date.  We are due to get married on the 28th January 2005, which will
mean that my current medical is 1 year and 3 days old when we come ...

Health requirements for PR state that ""all members of the family
unit" of a visa applicant who are NOT intending to migrate are ALSO
required to meet health requirements"
My question is, what constitutes a family unit for migration purposes?

Has anyone filled out a Recognition of Prior Learning Form.
It has the following question in it.
SECTION 3:   Please detail relation between selected Areas of Knowledge and
what learned from Type of Work and Qualifications

To all those who have had their meds what sort of information do you
require when going.
No, i haven`t had them yet but we are off on hols
soon and if the requests (well you know hoping they will) arrive when we

Directed to Yanks who have been granted visas to live in Oz, but
anyone else who has an idea can answer too.  What is the procedure for
getting medicals for an Aussie visa if one lives in the US?  How much
would all the poking and prodding, x-rays, etc cost?  Any chance of

Today, after 11 month I received the request for meds, PCC, Form 80,
passport biopages, original skills assessment, and a local consent to
conduct character checks (first time I hear about this consent).
The

 My wife got an interview in Vienna in first week of february. I just
want to ask how long does it take to get her visa from austria as i
have heard that they have fast processing times.
ciao

We received our visas in December with a validating date of April
2004. Our medicals and police checks were done in August. So much for
them being valid for a year. Anyone else had this experience. We have
had to plan a hasty and expensive trip in Feb because we cant emigrate

Well I finally sent off my nursing skills assessment in
November and it arrived back 8 weeks to the day with some bad news.  The
email stated that application couldn't proceed without a professional
reference and an employment reference usually from HR or payroll.

anybody know what happens if you get to Oz on a holiday visa and at
immigration they see you have a criminal record? Would they still let
you in?
Thanks,

Originally posted by france_great

address and i must inform DIMIA.  Please let me know which is the form i
need to fill ??? is it 1022????