What time did it change?

samakinbo:
Application Status changed from "Application in Progress" to "Finalized" without a corresponding mail to my agent. School resumes Monday 26th. Someone should please explain what this mean? Is it a Grant or what? No document asked from the embassy throughout the application process.

Seriously praying its positive ooo. The pressure is too much.Never face one like this before. Its like a final year exam result

Slingshot:
Calm down
Your case is concluded
You might a mail anytime now
Give us the good news

Today around 4:40pm

foliat:
What time did it change?

It will end in praise.


quote author=samakinbo post=65234863]Seriously praying its positive ooo. The pressure is too much.Never face one like this before. Its like a final year exam result[/quote]

[quote author=samakinbo post=65234798]Yes, I checked this evening around 4:30pm, it was saying "Application in Progress". Checked again 10minutes later an saw "Finalized" with no mail attached

You will receive it by tomorrow hopefully or you keep checking your mail

The process has brought me closer to God and taught me fear in patience. Very sick right now, hope it’s not a bad sign... who else is sick bc of this delay?

When did u apply?



quote author=Amy3090 post=65235088]The process has brought me closer to God and taught me fear in patience. Very sick right now, hope it’s not a bad sign... who else is sick bc of this delay?[/quote]

foliat:
When did u apply?



quote author=Amy3090 post=65235088]The process has brought me closer to God and taught me fear in patience. Very sick right now, hope it’s not a bad sign... who else is sick bc of this delay?

I applied in the 23rd of oct

[quote author=samakinbo post=65234338]Application Status changed from "Application in Progress" to "Finalized" without a corresponding mail to my agent. School resumes Monday 26th. Someone should please explain what this mean? Is it a Grant or what? No document asked from the embassy throughout the application process.[/quote

Have you ever called them?

Wow a very long time... have u called?


quote author=Amy3090 post=65235975]

I applied in the 23rd of oct[/quote]

foliat:
Wow a very long time... have u called?


quote author=Amy3090 post=65235975]

I applied in the 23rd of oct

No.

Amy3090:
I’ve been sick since yesterday as a result of this delay. My breath skips!

you are not alone, I applied 21st Oct 2017, orientation 19/2/2018, lectures 26/2/2018.

Amy3090:
The process has brought me closer to God and taught me fear in patience. Very sick right now, hope it’s not a bad sign... who else is sick bc of this delay?

My own pass sickness I want to go to the clinic for high blood pressure sef I don’t sleep more than 3 to 4 hours daily always refreshing my email and immi Acct

Amy3090:


I applied in the 23rd of oct

Bro I can feel your pain ko Easy at all

You know funny enough DIBP does not grant visas your school do......The decided issued visas to DIBP DIBP only check their security aspect. When i did my application my school was the one who verify my bank statment not DIBP but when i was submitting my application i still included but the school already verify. Maybe its just the queue that isgrant are not coming in plus they are reducing immigrant badly when i tel you badly i mean meant badly....Citizen wait is no longer 5years anymore but 10years.. for PR i think if you have to stay in Australia for 3-4years now before you are eligible for PR.

Slingshot:
Finalise in oz
Issue in Pretoria

wait ooo what kinda of cash are you talking about? you mean nigeira currency? abeg if it tell me where and which bank collects Nigeria curreny lmao my brother you better do your exchange or leave your money in an account where the ATM works here

Slingshot:
Just go with cash
When you get the Oz open an account
Saves you all the hustle of exchange

Haykclassy:



you are not alone, I applied 21st Oct 2017, orientation 19/2/2018, lectures 26/2/2018.

Which school please

SantaClause:
wait ooo what kinda of cash are you talking about? you mean nigeira currency? abeg if it tell me where and which bank collects Nigeria curreny lmao my brother you better do your exchange or leave your money in an account where the ATM works here

Yes, gurus advise it’s better to exchange here and go with the cash. Cos you know dorm account limit of 1k a month. So u better take your mula there and deposit it in the bank there, that way you have access to it conveniently.

SantaClause:
You know funny enough DIBP does not grant visas your school do......The decided issued visas to DIBP DIBP only check their security aspect. When i did my application my school was the one who verify my bank statment not DIBP but when i was submitting my application i still included but the school already verify. Maybe its just the queue that isgrant are not coming in plus they are reducing immigrant badly when i tel you badly i mean meant badly....Citizen wait is no longer 5years anymore but 10years.. for PR i think if you have to stay in Australia for 3-4years now before you are eligible for PR.

I wonder where you get all this fake information from. Please don't misinform people.

Amy3090:

Which school please

Charles Sturt University

samakinbo:
Yes, I checked this evening around 4:30pm, it was saying "Application in Progress". Checked again 10minutes later an saw "Finalized" with no mail attached

It definitely means your visa has been finalized. Call your agent to check his or her mail including spam. If he hasn't received the letter, do call immigration.

foliat:
Write to your school and request for extension letter as your are yet to receive your visa grant. Do so now. When you get the letter upload on your application.

I second this. You all are within your rights to pass a call to immigration and enquire the status of your application. Sometimes it works like magic.

@Albion05[b]

Take calm your nerve bro, in conjunction with justwise advice, please do take time to go through your documents again, you never can tell what you missed, still go ahead with the legal proceedings, even countries can sue and be sued, hence, legal proceedings is allowed(here i disagree with justwise and SantaClause advice),the refusal, its their right but the ban, its not, they have only called you fraudulent by banning you and that is only a measure taken when its has been proven beyond every reasonable doubt that some documents you submitted were fake.

[b]@Amy3050


Please oo, no go crash before the grant show for it must surely come.

@Saltino40

We don do musical instrument biz finish abi wey u wan leave me run go OZ...
Everyone waiting for grant, please play it cool and hope for the best... Peace.

SantaClause:
You know funny enough DIBP does not grant visas your school do......The decided issued visas to DIBP DIBP only check their security aspect. When i did my application my school was the one who verify my bank statment not DIBP but when i was submitting my application i still included but the school already verify. Maybe its just the queue that isgrant are not coming in plus they are reducing immigrant badly when i tel you badly i mean meant badly....Citizen wait is no longer 5years anymore but 10years.. for PR i think if you have to stay in Australia for 3-4years now before you are eligible for PR.

Stop misinforming people, heaps of people are being granted PR without setting foot in Aussie and also schools doesn't issue visas.

I guys I'm now in Darwin.Touched down yesterday and nairaland family: like justwise, zeemo , missyme etc. Darwin is a nice city and the here are friendly as well. I wish all visa expectants good luck.

SantaClause:
You know funny enough DIBP does not grant visas your school do......The decided issued visas to DIBP DIBP only check their security aspect. When i did my application my school was the one who verify my bank statment not DIBP but when i was submitting my application i still included but the school already verify. Maybe its just the queue that isgrant are not coming in plus they are reducing immigrant badly when i tel you badly i mean meant badly....Citizen wait is no longer 5years anymore but 10years.. for PR i think if you have to stay in Australia for 3-4years now before you are eligible for PR.

You are so wrong
How did you come to the conclusion that schools grant visas? DIBP have all the say on your visa application
2) 10yrs to become citizen? Are you talking about same OZ or some other countries?
The change to citizenship, which will commence 1 July 2018 is that before applying for citizenship- you have to be on PR minimum of 4yrs

Please get your facts right

samakinbo:
Application Status changed from "Application in Progress" to "Finalized" without a corresponding mail to my agent. School resumes Monday 26th. Someone should please explain what this mean? Is it a Grant or what? No document asked from the embassy throughout the application process.

It is not a good sign if you are seeing two finalized without grant letter when you click view application. Click on view mail and see if you have a letter there. Let's hope for the best as you await their mail. Best of luck.

jasmine1147:


You are so wrong
How did you come to the conclusion that schools grant visas? DIBP have all the say on your visa application
2) 10yrs to become citizen? Are you talking about same OZ or some other countries?
The change to citizenship, which will commence 1 July 2018 is that before applying for citizenship- you have to be on PR minimum of 4yrs

Please get your facts right

I second you, sch has no say on visa grant after issuing COE to students through DIBP.

Naira ke
Lol �
No ooo
I meant dollar

SantaClause:
wait ooo what kinda of cash are you talking about? you mean nigeira currency? abeg if it tell me where and which bank collects Nigeria curreny lmao my brother you better do your exchange or leave your money in an account where the ATM works here

Thanks dear, God bless.
I decided to share my refusal here for advice or input, if any have experienced this in the past.

There are some persons I spoke to that had the same issues, they appeal and their Ban was overturned and some cases Visa re- issued to them.

The reason for my refusal is known now. Yesterday I met our lawyer and after going through all the documents from the bank and all the correspondence, he mentioned were the embassy stated that the applicant submitted the same bank statement of account and reference letter from sponsors bank.
That what the embassy simply wants is a new statement of account starting from another date just to show that the account is genuine, that's all.

But the bank included the previous statement of account issued to my sponsors to refute the claim that the statement of account is genuine and emanated from the bank. In a nutshell, a new statement of account could have averted this which have turned to a big issue.
But the embassy did not requested for new statement of account, if they did, My sponsor could have printed another one and I will upload it, to print statement of account does not take more than 1 minute.

Another laywer said the same thing, that uploading new statement simply put the matter to rest.
An Agent who had exactly the same issue with her applicant said the same thing, just 2 minutes she read my refusal letter and she made that statement, "new statement of account is what they want", but remember the CO did not state such.

Am saying this so that people can learn from my experience.
-Reference letter from the Bank stating the needful,
-Affidavit of facts and
- New statement of account, simple and issue solved.
I submitted the first two only and the bank re- attached the same statement that was submitted to refute the claim of non genuine, but what the bank should have done is to print new one from a new date.

So my lawyer, has written to the bank officially yesterday, directing them to write to embassy in strong term either from their head office or the bank legal department still maintaining that the statement of account issued to their customer is genuine and emanated from the bank and they are writing and appealing on behalf of their customer for his sons visa refusal and Ban be overturned, that at no point did their customer submitted any non genuine account and that personal investigation is welcome to prove their customer submitted genuine statement of account.

An advance copy of this letter was sent to the Bank yesterday, copied the embassy and other relevant body we deemed it necessary.
We deliver the soft copy to the bank this morning and wait to see how the bank we draft the letter they will send to emassy as directed by my lawyer.

For avoidance of doubt, my documents have no issues at all. This is just what happened!...
At least am now at peace with my self for finding out the problem. I want to thank each and every one of you that offered their suggestions, moral support, psychological support and prayers. God bless you.

N/B, the case officer is harsh fellow, the case officer did not write to the bank for confirmation of this account. This has been confirmed. The bank both at the head office or the Branch did not received any correspondence.

@Mafia91, I included those my personal details as you said, thank you all.

@ SantaClause, some of what you just said are assumptions not facts.
-Citizenship did not increased to any 10 years.
Last year it was brought up on the floor of their assemble, members voted it down, so that bill did not go through. If you have the link.... you can post it here.

- Schools does not issue visa at all wether in Australia or any country.
Immigration matter is different from school, even in a situation, the immigration finds out that the school connive with the applicant to short change the country in any way, the school gets purnishment for that. So schools are very careful in what they do.
Your admission process ends with school and immigration department is totally in charge for Visa not the school, if the embassy needs to verify any thing they have means of communication with the school.

kessel:
@Albion05[b]

Take calm your nerve bro, in conjunction with justwise advice, please do take time to go through your documents again, you never can tell what you missed, still go ahead with the legal proceedings, even countries can sue and be sued, hence, legal proceedings is allowed(here i disagree with justwise and SantaClause advice),the refusal, its their right but the ban, its not, they have only called you fraudulent by banning you and that is only a measure taken when its has been proven beyond every reasonable doubt that some documents you submitted were fake.

[b]@Amy3050


Please oo, no go crash before the grant show for it must surely come.

@Saltino40

We don do musical instrument biz finish abi wey u wan leave me run go OZ...
Everyone waiting for grant, please play it cool and hope for the best... Peace.

When is it best to call Pretoria?

bornlegend:
Pls is Charles Darwin University a regional university? thanks

The whole of Northern Territory is listed as regional or low population growth metropolitan areas. As far as the campus you are studying is in NT, you should be able to claim studying in a regional area, if that's what you are after.

The places that other guy mentioned are regional areas in Victoria.