All 475 Visas are already allocated

Dear All,

It seems surprising to me but I just got an email from DIAC and it is written in that all applications of 475 are being allocated to case officers by 13th Feb 2009 so it is great news for us who are waiting for case officers to be allocated

lets see if any one of you who have lodge application in mid or end of 2008 so let me know so I can get an idea that who is already being allocated and when is my turn ?

Some of the text of email is ......

ASPC APPLICATION ALLOCATION INFORMATION

On 17 December 2008 the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship announced

changes to the way General Skilled Migration applications will be allocated

and processed. Details can be found on the DIAC website at:

http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/general-skilled-migration/whats-new.htm#j

As a result of this announcement from 1 January 2009 applications for

General Skilled Migration will be strictly allocated and processed in the

following priority order:

1. Applications with a successful State & Territory Nomination (until

all applications have been allocated); and then

2. Applications where the nominated occupation is on the Critical

Skills List (until all applications have been allocated); then

3. Applications where the nominated occupation is on the Migration

Occupations in Demand List (until all applications have been allocated);

then

4. All other remaining applications

This affects all applications lodged before and after 1 January 2009, both

paper lodged or electronically lodged. Applications which were already

allocated to case officers before 1 January 2009 are un-affected and will

be processed as usual to finalisation.

Applications are now being allocated as follows:

State & Territory Nominated Applications:

Subclass 134, 136, 137, 175, 176, 475, 487, 495, 885 and 886 applications

(processed by the ASPC and where a successful State or Territory Nomination

is held) will all be allocated to case officers for assessment by 13

February 2009.

Applications with Occupations on the Critical Skills List:

Applications are not being allocated at present

Applications with Occupations on the Migration Occupations in Demand List:

Applications are not being allocated at present

All Other Remaining Applications

Applications are not being allocated at present

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Umar Memon

Assessment received by ACS - 14th Mrach 2008

Positive Assessment Received . 9th May 2008

IELTS Test Date - 14th June 2008

IELTS Result card received - 25th June 2008

SA Sponsor ship Received 8th August

Application Lodge to DIAC -20th November 2008

Acknowledgment Received - 1st December 2008

Waiting for Case Officer to be Allocated ...

I have emailed my agent to try and see what is happening. The wait for state sponsorship is driving me nuts

Lisa

Thats amazing news for 475'ers. Thankfully we already have ours (June 08 applicants) - be good to know the rest of you don't have too long to wait!!

My partner and I applied for 475 in Feb 08 and got a case officer only 2 days ago.

We've been already waiting for 11 months, so just wish they'd decided it long time ago!

nightowl

We have applied in Jan 08 and we have no case officer.

I hope so that, we all who are waiting for case officers to be allocated will get positive response by DIAC within this month.

Wow, you would have thought those of us with *in demand* skilled migrants in our families would have had a heads up by now. Obviously, I was wrong.

Did you get reply from your agent regarding confirmation of what I send earlier ?

THis is what I have heard from my agent (who has been fantastic)

Under the DIAC changes in processing priorities, state sponsored applications, including the 475, are to processed first, ahead of all others. This date for allocating all lodged state sponsored applications is the one we have been given too. We expect that state sponsored applications lodged in the next month will also be assigned to a case officer as quickly - though time will tell.

We have applied in Jan 08 and we have no case officer.

I cant believe you are still waiting ,what is going on??? I really feel for you two it shouldnt be taking this long.

You must let us know when you get it, I think we will all be popping the champers for you.

Dear Densie,

I think you are luckiest as you get your visa within 6 months, by the way when you got your case officer after lodging your application.

Dear Lisado,

Congratulations that you got your SS now when you are planning to lodge your application. I will suggest you to do it as soon as possible

Regards,

UM.

Glad to hear we're all supposed to have CO's by mid-Feb. We applied April 08 (475 visa) and still not got one either.

Wendy

Our visa application was sent to agent last night -she has done all the form filling so was pretty easy, we just had to confirm the detaisl were correct. Hard copies of documents we need are being sent this week so will get to oz ASAP.

I cant believe you are still waiting ,what is going on??? I really feel for you two it shouldnt be taking this long.

You must let us know when you get it, I think we will all be popping the champers for you.

Hi Denise,

thanks for popping the champers for us. (I am looking forward to open a 2nd bottle with you guys when we are finally in Oz)

I just applied for a travel visa and go for my job interview. Hopefully the main visa will arrive very soon.