> Hello Jim,
> Many thanks for your advice but I am afraid things have greatly
> changed since late 2004 with regards to this visa (143) The
> acknowledgment letter confirms receipt of your application at POPC,
> explains the visa criteria regarding capping and informs you that you
> will be allocated a CO in due course so hence the long wait. Its a
> scary thought that the capping levels may have already reached the
> 2005/06 limit-many parents have changed from the parent long wait visa
> to the contributory visa since its introduction and what was taking
> 4-6 months is now taking approx a year, I will just remain as positive
> as I can.
> I am not using a migration agent myself but have been advised that
> enquiries made on timelines of visa applications will remain
> unanswered until you are allocated a CO-so patience is the name of the
> game-extremely hard for us parents who are willing to pay the
> contributory costs to be reunited with our children and grand-
> children) hopefully we can support each-other through this website
> when the going gets tough.
> Regards,
> Carol
Glad to have contact with another parent who is "going it alone" without
an agent - hope we have done the right thing. We did have an initial
consultation with an agent who advised that our application is so
straight forward that we could in fact do it ourselves - so we did!!
Was beginning to think that that was the reason for the long wait but
apparently that is not so as have emailed POPC who said there was no
capping currently in place for our visa but the wait for processing was
up to 12 months!!! Gives us time to sort a few things re house sale etc
- so fingers crossed. Think this web site is brilliant! Regards Linda
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