Immigration Forum / Australia and NZ / November 2006

Hi, I recently signed up at a new gym and they took my blood pressure.
It came out as 140/90 and apparently this is slightly high. I was told a
similar thing a couple of years ago when I went for a minor op. Does
anyone know if this likely to cause me a problem when I go for my meds

Hi you knowing people out there,
I applied for a 137 (STNI) visa. Four of my kids are under 18 and it is
no problem taking them with me. Two over 18 have no difficulties getting
their own 136 visa as they have professions Australia is looking for.

Just a thought and although this won't help me it might help others to
decide which Agent to use.
We have used an agent, who is doing a fantastic job, on the grounds of
'word of mouth' and to this date still don't know what their success

I've been reading for a while now and I'm trying to work out why
Australian companies don't offer sponsorship very easily??
Is it too much paper work or too much cost for them??
Or is it a attitude thing, that they don't want to hand them out??

Does andyone know of or have used any agents out there that will check
a TRA application before it is submitted?
I'm pretty much ready to submit apart from a couple of ref's to be
signed and

Looks like the lovely people out there are onto the October
Applications. Got our acknowledgement this morning yippeeee!!
Shampers on ice, not ready to be popped yet but getting there.
Nev :D

For those of you who have recently (past year or so) made an application
for an unmarried partner to emigrate, can you advise how long it took to
receive confirmation of the visa following submission to the Consulate
in the UK, and how strict they were, if relevant?  Just to give us ...

The Man from ACS says Yes
I have just got off the phone from our agent and have been told that I
passed ACS, bursting to tell someone....  beer later as so happy that we
passed stage 1

is the only way to pay a 136 by credit card. it says on the 136
application you can pay by money order,bank cheque of credit card but i
was just on  a link on the dimia web site that said if applying from the
uk it was debit or credit card only.

We have booked our meds for 7th December and today our daughter of 3
years of age has been prescribed antibiotics for a possible urine
infection.
My question is will she as a 3 year old have to do a urine sample and

We have just had a call from our agent Visa Go (Darren Chat), we have
had our visa granted 136 Modl.
We are stunned, we thought we would not get it until dec/ jan at
the earliest.

horray Ive got a case officer, and, as Im too much of a pessimist to
frontload, she has requested our medicals which will be done next
Wednesday.
With a bit of luck and god knows I need it, we should have a visa from

Canadians in Australia and New Zealand who are eligible for citizenship
may want to accelerate their application, just in case the Canadian
government is really serious about restricting dual citizenship:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/11/07/dual-citizenship.html

my husband is the primary applicant and he has lodged our
application papers (BN 136) to DIMIA.....we did not claim for spouse
points as he reached 120 points (we assumed he would be able to get
the 6 band on ietls)

Does anyone know if there has been any more talk about earning 5 extra
points for fluently speaking english?  I know it was being talked about
back in the spring.
Thanks,