Originally Posted by
Zanique
From what I understand you can now get PR from WTR if you earn more than $90k and applied for talent accredited visa before Oct 2019. These changes are effective from 3 Nov and are also processed as prioritised applications, is my understanding correct? I tick all these boxes and am eligible on 7 Nov (2 years since visa granted) BUT, I opted for SMC as I thought at the time it would be quicker. My lodgement date is 1 May 2019 and I am expecting to receive a CO soon. My question is, do I have any grounds for requesting PR since I qualify for it even though I took SMC route and paid higher application fees but waited just as long? Would be really nice to not have to wait another 2 years before I can get PR.
Hi Zanique, we have the same situation. I might be one of the few (or at least the one I know of in this forum) that applied for two resident streams. I had a successful SMC application lodged April 2019 and another RTW-Resident that is still open lodged March 2020 (I kinda panicked last Level 4 so I just gambled on the RTW in case the law gets changed again). I also fall under the criteria of someone that can potentially be approved as a PR (above the 90K but below the 106K priority threshold).
From experience, they processed my application by date. The 1st case officer nor the approval e-visa letter
did not mention anything about my open RTW-Resident application when I got contacted. The only time this was mentioned was when I called the call centre days before I got an officer - I was just advised to consider withdrawing the RTW-Resident since I have another one that's already being processed.
I heard about unsuccessful or almost close to 0% attempts of refund but haven't really thought about making a formal attempt yet. But yeah, based on my experience, they were processed as if they were like two separate non-related applications.