Hi, Gill.
Well, my wife is the one who's been doing the
background work on her sponsorship commitments, and
she tells me that she won't find out until afterwards whether
the 'Assurance of Support' will be required.
However, she needs to provide copies of tax returns for the last
two years, and this financial year she basically won't have an
income since I'm the one supporting our family (quite substantial
salary due to a generous (paid) paternity leave from home).
But I won't be surprised if this will lead to problems....
Enjoy your day in the UK!
Geir
Gill Palmer skrev:
> geir wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks for your reply. Oh, I promise that you will need an AFP
> > > clearance as well as the Norwegian police one.
> > >
> > > You might have to complete Form 80 as well. My mother is 85. Form 80
> > > wanted the names & addresses of her parents and all of her siblings, no
> > > less. Apparently you have to provide chapter & verse about their
> > > names etc and then write "Deceased." WTF for? Does DIMA have in-house
> > > clairvoyants who can interview them or something? I tell you, this is
> > > Form Filling Gone Mad. I was sorely tempted to put, "Grave Number [x]
> > > in the [abc] cemetery which can be located at [GPS Lat & Long
> > > co-ordinates] but unfortunately it does not seem to have obtained
> > > residential addresses for the individual occupants."
> > >
> >
> > Yes, the important forms... My wife's mother has gotten married again.
> > She shouldn't have done that, because this implies getting even
> > more information... Now my wife has to provide information about
> > 'new' relatives whom she has never met. And you know, not everyone
> > talks to each other, so this is also time consuming...
> >
> > As I said, it's easier to get a 1.2m USD research grant from an
> > international science committee than getting PR in Australia.
> >
> > We'll most likely be in Norway should we apply for PR for me
> > anyway, so I'll get a new police transcript then.
> > (We're just trying to prepare some of the paperwork while
> > we are still here)
> > I don't think they'll give me a waiver of the C8503 'unless one
> > of my wife's relatives needs her to care for him/her'.
> > Yes, that's what they said at DIMA at one stage!
> >
> > What a farse...
> >
> > Geir
>
> Hi Geir
>
> I've discovered today that the nonsense has the potential to get worse.
> Does a spouse visa involve an Assurance of Support? If not, you are
> fortunate. Parents do have to be Assured. Contributory Parents (my
> mother) have to be Assured for 10 years, backed up by a 10 year Bond
> for $10,000. It is the most expensive AoS - and the highest Bond - in
> the whole range, plus it is mandatory, not discretionary.
>
> In return for the Rolls Royce of Bonds etc, I expect the Rolls Royce of
> Service. That seems a wholly reasonable notion to me.
>
> Not a bit of it. Centrelink administer the AoS and Bond on DIMA's
> behalf. Their policy is also 'non-discriminatory.' So - first the
> Parent with the 40K bucks waits for months on end for any action at
> all. When it finally arrives, the next step is the
> 'non-discriminatory' AFP. Followed by Centrelink.
>
> There is not a single thing about this 'non-discriminatory policy' that
> owes anything to any sort of joined-up thinking. It is impossible to
> be discriminatory or non-discriminatory in a vacuum. So what do these
> people imagine that the relevant parameters might be?
>
> "Ah! The pile on my own desk. I will work through that on a strictly
> first-come, first-served basis." Right. So the Parent with the dosh
> who has applied for the supposedly fast-track visa supposedly gets to
> sit in 3 different queues, each one being 'non-discriminatory'
> according to its own local rules. Where does overall Government
> Strategy fit in? "What Government Strategy?" The Government Strategy
> of the Fast Track Visa For the Parent Who Forks Out The Dosh. The
> Policy, in short.
>
> "Oh I wouldn't know anything about that. I just do my job...."
>
> I despair. However, dynamite tends to clear log-jams, in my
> experience. You and I will both get there in the end, even though it
> is like pulling teeth out of Jaws!
>
> Cheers
>
> Gill
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