Hey all,
So I am here on a working holiday visa, which expires on August 24th, 2017. My husband and I tried to apply for a SMC but were unfortunately unsuccessful with him as the primary applicant. We have reapplied with myself as the primary applicant since my job has since changed to a higher skilled job related to my degree but...we are getting concerned about the timing.
We have an ITA for our second SMC. I have also applied for an Essential Skills and him a related partnership work visa (unfortunately before we got the ITA). We have submitted our passports for the Essential skills/partnership visas and, once we get them back will send them in with our resident application (still waiting on some other paperwork too).
Is there anything else we can/should do? Getting concerned with our current visa expiring soon and want to stay legal in the country. Immigration will likely have our passports when our visa expires.
Any suggestions?
EOI-attempt1 Accepted: 21/12/2016
ITA attempt1 Received: 11/01/2017
ITA attempt1 Accepted: 06/03/2017
Medical Certificate Received/checked: 14/03/2017
CO first contact: 07/04/17 - Sent an email to introduce himself
CO requested additional info - 16/06-Jun/17
I got a new job...yay! 28/06/2017
ITA rejected: 15/07/2017
EOI -attempt 2 submitted: 17/07/2017
EOI - attempt 2 accepted: 19/07/2017
ITA Recieved: 24/07/2017
Essential Skills Application submitted: 24/07/2017
Partnership Visa Application received: 4/08/2017