hys887

Wow our cases are so similar! Applied 28/01/2020, contacted on 29/07/2020, Sophorn asked for AFP to include wife's alias (her Australian name used at work). Grant today 31/08/2020, CO Wendy! Also here's our little successful story to share, which I think might help others who are in a similar situation of being self employed: Wife's the primary applicant and worked as a subcontractor. The documents we submitted as her employment evidence were: reference letters from two of her clients (she has only two clients and are still working with them) confirming scope of work, hourly rate, work location and employment start date invoices with timesheets that reflected there were 56 weeks in which her worked more than 35 hours bank statements of business accoount that showed work related expenses and income, covering about 1.5 year. all the invoices matched bank transactions business registration - ABN, TFN, trust deed financials that also covered 56 weeks screenshots of her online profiles (linkedin and websites where she wrote a bio saying she lives in the allowed area) professional assocation documents - invoices, emails and letters of webinars, workshops, events, exams etc etc. there were lots of them, and basically all of them showed that our home address or the addresses of the event/workshop were in the area where we were supposed to be super documents, covering a little more than 2 years tax documents 2018-19 and 2019-20 Our evidence of living and other stuff like identify and language ability was nothing special, basically they were exactly what immigration department listed/required.

Having read this: https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-listing/skilled-regional-887#Eligibility, I believe you can include her when applying for 887, even she'd be on bridging visa. And no, she doesn't need to be in regional given you're the main applicant.

something else I could think of might be the customer copy of tax return or at least a tax return summary which you could find from mygov then ato portal. Those two would give more details than notice of assessment and mostly importantly, they'd show your employer/payer's name. If im not wrong, notice of assessment itself doesn't show your employer's information. the invoices for things you bought and delivered to work might not be count as important but adding them wouldn't hurt or cost you anything, so, just add them. just make sure all the evidences you provide would cover at least a full year period, and it'd be even better if covering more than a year.

imo, you should provide them with 1, 2, 4, 5. these are all essential from my understanding. Don't miss any of these. No 3 can probably be ignored if you don't have any.

lol I love seeing this speed. one-month applicants per week soon they'd clear ALL of the 887 applications.

I'd think 6 months is very unlikely to happen to us anymore, as all the case officers have only onshore applications to process. If this speed continues, soon they'd just find they have processed all the applications and there's no excuse to stall anything I agree though that we'd probably be better off being patient, the last thing we want to see is an agitated case officer. They are all humans after all...

Some intersting news to share: Veteran Sophorn contacted this morning, asking for more documents. Specifically Sophorn asked for another AFP because wife's English (also known as) name wasn't on the AFP we submitted originally. Honestly I wasn't aware of this at all when I did our original AFP as I'd never seen someone being required to do this. Anyway, I think this'd be helpful for anyone else who also uses an Australian name, along with their name on passport, at work or social. Please make sure when you do your AFP, include all the names appeared/mentioned in the documents you'd lodge to immi department. My application was on 28 Jan 2020 btw.

Thank you, I will. I'm also logged on immi online account and keeping refreshing there... btw when did you lodge your application triple M?

OMG! I'm totally stressed out. Mine was 28/01/2020

Wow congratulations! Just one step away! but I always got confused why the COs just kept missing the documents...

Congratulations! Glad to see the waiting line is moving forward again!

thanks for sharing! that's interesting, I never actually heard that CO would call an employer, although that wasn't really surprising. Did Daisy also say anything as to why the CO called her employer?

no, you don't need to let them know anything about your job change AFTER you lodged your application. the idea is that you only need to let them know you have had full time employment for one year.

So true, and I feel so stressful about it - I lodged the application on 28 Jan 2020

I'm not in an exact situation so just my two cents: I wouldn't be worried about 34 hours per week, the key the immigration department wants to see is whether you are working as a full time employee, but IF you are not, then at least a full-time equivalent. In fact imo if you have an employment contract stating your job is "full-time", you'd be fine. That aside, the safest option I can think of would be that you wait a little longer and collect enough 35-hours-and-above payslips, and by enough I meant 52 weeks which could mean you'd need more than 26 payslips.

WOW!!!!! Congratulations for being the first one of 2020 on this forum!

I agree, but imo i'd be better/safer to do both - a stat dec (or a letter from hospital if possible) plus waiting for an additional 3 months at the regional area.

That sounds a tricky one to me as well. I don't feel the COs would be easily accepting marksheets only even those are all in English. I would think the best evidence to their eyes would be the letter from uni clearly stating that "all instructions were in English" something like that, unless you have English exam results. If I were you I would stick to contacting uni and asking for the letter.

Long time lurker... Thank you MMM for sticking around and sharing the good news here for us who don't use telegram or facebook It really looks the case officers are focusing on the old cases where additional documents were requested. It's still good to see them giving much more grants than say the "bad" n old days before April, but it also makes me a bit nervous as my application was in Jan 2020 and they suddenly came to a halt My rough calculation on the basis of their "speed" before these couple of weeks was about one-month applicants per week, so hopefully after they clear all the backlog they'd resume that speed. Cheers, and hang in there guys/girls