May3rd

2 hours ago, Avi said:

That makes sense.
But what about the others questions
1) Medical is not required?Should one wait for CO to ask or keep it handy in first place?
2)Did you attach any document with statutory declaration(Like for example any kind of bill from your family side?

Haha it would have been great if we got our grant in 7 days.. We got it on 9th August 2017.

1. When you check your application it will mention health has been finalized for this person. Its pretty expensive to do the medicals so dont do it unless the CO asks for it.

2. We did not attach any documents with the stat dec but did mention that our payslips and mobile bills have the address on it. 

Hi Guys 

We just got our direct grant.

Applied on 3rd May 2017

Direct grant on 9th May 2017

Background: My partner was the primary applicant. We submitted all possible documents at the outset.

This included work contracts, payslips, and bank statements for both of us as we had both fulfilled the employment conditions.

In addition we also submitted lease agreements and utility bills. When we first moved to Aus we were living with our family and supported the residence requirements with a statutory declaration and car registration.

No medicals were requested for both.

No ielts scores were requested for the secondary applicant as we submitted university transcripts to prove that 5 years of secondary education was completed in English.

Pcc for both India and Australia were provided as we went overseas for a holiday for a little over 4 weeks.

Wishing you all the best and thank you for your advice.

12 hours ago, NemathMatt said:

Hi peeyash 

It is Mohammad

i applied in 4rd March 17 

CO contacted 23 jun asked for spouse IELTS 4.5 ( she had passed once for 489) 

IELTS provided 21st Jul .

Now Waiting period .

Cheers . 

Hi did you submit her college transcripts to show medium of instruction as English?

On 07/07/2017 at 6:23 PM, Chirag said:

I have gone through many posts here but not all 500+ pages.

Q1: For 887 - Do we need to have continuous 35 hrs of work for 52 weeks? What If I am doing multiple part time jobs to fill in 35 hrs per week but then there are breaks in between?

Example I am doing 2 contract jobs for 3 months, then get a months break searching for another job, from 5th Month again I take up part time jobs which are equal or above 35 Hrs...and like wise I take 15-16 months to complete 52 weeks of 35 hrs or more work...

Q2: Is Paid Overtime counted as official hours? I am assuming yes, but can those be counted in 35 Hrs?

Q1- You need to prove 35 hours per week. It need not be continuous 52 weeks. And its ok if you worked multiple jobs

Q2- Not sure about the overtime. It should be counted as long as the number of hours worked reflect in your payslip

1 hour ago, Jany said:

Hi mates!

I got my direct grant today!!!

I applied on 16th of March.

This forum helped me a lot - I filled out the 1023 form asking to remove my parents from application in order not to pass medical assessment for them.

good luck everyone!

 

Congratulations.

Any grants today?

On 2017-6-26 at 10:11 PM, srikanth said:

I am short of 10Hr per week, Is Part Time Uber(10Hr) is acceptable for applying for 887 VISA? , please advice. Thanks

Yes it is accepted. You need to prove minimum 35 hours per week 

20 hours ago, IvanMar10 said:

Hello Everybody.

I applied on 10th March, 2017 for 887. I got a CO today asking for "Australian Federal Police Certificate - Complete Disclosure" for my wife and myself. I have already attached the police clearance certificates on the day i applied.

Whatever, i am little bit confused, National Police Check and Australian Federal Police clearance certificate are the same or different police checks ?? 

Please help me with this. 

Thanks.

 

Just follow the link on the border.gov.au website. Think they are the same. It is very quick. We got ours in 1 week.

Can you also confirm if they requested  new IELTS scores for the secondary applicant? 

1 hour ago, Samtam said:

Hi Guys i have applied my 887 on 12th of Jan 2017 and haven't got  allocated any case officer yet to my application. Seems like they completely forget about my file. Wondering if any one in this forum in same boat.

Do you have an agent? Please check your emails daily..even spam n junk mail. A friend of ours missed the email from a case officer and it created alot of issues.

3 hours ago, Dharmesh said:

I also use my wife's ielts the same I use for 489 and according to my case officer it's only valid for a year!!! I all ready got granted my 887 last week but I had to pay my wife's ielts charges which is $4800!!! 

I don't know why they asked me for that 

I requested them that I use the same which I use for 489 and it should be valid but the case officer was not agreed and my wife was heavily pregnant so I did not had any option unless pay for ielts!!! 

I think it's unfair to me!!

Can you confirm what her ielts scores were? I hope we arent asked for it again as well

Also Im a new member and we applied for the 887 visa on 3rd May 2017.

Im pretty sure even our application did not accept the visa number..we just went on to the next questions. Our agent advised us that it was only the old visa labels that get accepted.