A good news for Category 5 applicants Specially for me.....But?
Processing of Priority Group 5 General Skilled Migration Applications
Commencement of processing of Priority Group 5 applications
Based on the number of applications on hand and anticipated application rates for Priority Groups 1 and 3, the department expects to commence allocating some Priority Group 5 applications this program year.
There are currently approximately 27 347 applications lodged from in Australia and 15 284 applications lodged from outside Australia Priority Group 5 cases awaiting allocation.
How processing will occur
Processing of Priority Group 5 applications lodged in Australia will begin with the remaining applications in the visa subclasses in effect prior to September 2007, the oldest of which was lodged on 28 July 2005. There are approximately 756 cases in this group.
Processing of Priority Group 5 applications lodged outside Australia will begin with applications in visa subclasses 495 and 496, which were lodged prior to 1 September 2007, the oldest of which was lodged on 10 July 2006. Unlike other GSM visa applications lodged from outside Australia, prior to 1 September 2007, these applications were not effected by the Minister's Cap and Cease arrangements. There are approximately 594 cases in this group.
The number of Priority Group 5 applications processed this program year will ultimately depend on the number of higher priority applications received, and other factors including any change in the size of the Migration Program or variation of the Processing Direction. Many Priority Group 5 applicants still face a considerable wait until their application is allocated to a case officer for processing and may want to consider other options available.
But the big question is when will it be started?
http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/general-skilled-migration/gsm-priori...
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Permalink Reply by Susan Wareham McGrath on -
Hi Jaspreet
I'm so glad to hear that this is good news for you!
I posted a news story on EA's landing page about this yesterday - based on DIAC's current processing rate and the number of Priority 4 applications it still has to allocate, we estimate the first Priority 5 applications will be allocated during the first quarter of 2012.
As always with DIAC, changes to processing priorites and internal policies could affect that, plus Australian workplaces productivity generally drops during December and January because of the Christmas holidays, so it also depends on how many staff DIAC has working over that time.
Best regards
Susan
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Permalink Reply by Gollywobbler on -
Hi VB
You should treat this as very good news.
It makes sense to start with the people who are already in Oz becuse presumably they have been languishing on Bridging Visas for much, much too long. It makes sense to deal with the sc 495 and 496 applications next because those cannot be Capped & Ceased without a retrospective change to the legislation for these two subclasses. Parliament would not permit a retrospective change in the law of this type.
My guess is that DIAC will probably start to process your application sometime before 30th June 2012. You know as well as I do that it is impossible to be specidic about dates, so please do NOT kill yourself by holding your breath! VB cannot make an Initial Entry to Australia in a coffin, so don't beat yourself up about the exact timing. The umportant thing is that DIAC have confirmed that they will now process your application as soon as they can.
Hugs
Gill
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Permalink Reply by Jaspreet Singh Bajwa on -
Thanks to both of you. Yesm both of true in saying that it's impossible to predict the processing peiod. But at least they have confirmed in their official website that they will process 495 and 496.
Anyways I am waiting for 2012 to be a good year.
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Permalink Reply by Dirk Van Dort on
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Hi!
its definetly good news for category 5 applicants, i guess they may commence the process by end of this year
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