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Update:
SMC On-Shore Application, points claimed 200
EOI Selected: 17/04/2019
ITA Received: 18/04/2019
ITA Document Pack Submitted to Penrose: 29/04/2019
ITA Payment Deducted by INZ: 22/05/2019
ITA Lodgement Date: 29/04/2019 (backdated to courier delivery date)
Original documents received back: 23/05/2019
Now we await assignment to a CO :)
Told you that the lodgement date is the date of receipt... :)
And now your watch begins.
Latest update from INZ Manukau today - SMC applications lodged on 28 November are being allocated to CO's today (so it's taking almost 6 months from lodgement to getting onto an Immigration Officer's desk now :().
Hi All,
Have been reading through all the other threads like ITA Oct 2018, ITA Mar 2019 and a lot of my doubts are getting cleared at ease. Brilliant forum..
very very helpful and informative. Thanks to all fellow applicants and senior members..
Just sharing my time line
EOI Applied: 25/03/2019
ITA Recieved: 04/04/2019
IQA Applied for applicant & spouse: 09/04/2019
IQA received : 10/05/2019
ITA Couriered: 22/05/2019
ITA Lodged : 24/05/2019 (courier receipt date at penrose)
Awaiting CO allocation: after reading the recent threads, it seems I might get CO by end 2019.. :)
Payment deducted today. Back dated to a lodgement of May 10/2019. So just shy of 3 weeks from courier to payment deducted.
My timeline so far:
SMC On-Shore Application, points claimed 160
EOI Selected: 20/03/2019
ITA Received: 21/03/2019
ITA Document Pack Submitted to Penrose: 09/05/2019
Still no lodgement date/Payment Deducted
Our timeline so far:
Onshore SMC application, 180 points claimed
EOI selected: 17/04/2019
“Decision successful”: 18/04/2019
I rang immigration on 08/05 as we didn’t receive our ITA and got told ITA was sent to my partner’s work email. My partner doesn’t have a work email but he shares the first name with his employer so ITA was sent to wrong person. They said they’ll resend it the same day but didn’t happen so rang next day and asked again and finally received it 09/05/2019. My partner asked his employer to check for it but he couldn’t find it.
ITA submitted to Penrose: 15/05/2019
30/05/2019: appeared as lodged in system backdated to 15/05/2019
Email today requesting further information! It was sent by a senior immigration officer, does that mean I already have a CO?
There is no way to tell for certain, until s/he says so specifically. Clerks look over an application after first lodgement (which can lead to one of those asking for more evidence if they notice any gaps in what you have sent), then the file normally waits in a queue for allocation to a CO. The clerks can be referred to as Immigration Officers, but I don't know if a Senior Information Officer might be an experienced one, or whether it would be equivalent to a Case Officer.