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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Permanent Residency (PR) Application Lodgement

Right after I received my CA Skill Assessment in the post on the 28th of June, I started my PR Application process online and successfully lodged my application that night itself. It wasn't too hard. It's just a pretty lengthy procedure where I had to fill in lots of stuff. At the end of the application, I had to pay the application fee which is non-refundable (even if my application got rejected) of AUD $2575.

I was then given a Transaction Reference Number (TRN) for all future transactional purposes. Once I got that, I had to start uploading all my scanned documents.

The list of documents I had uploaded to the Department of Immigration's website is as follow:
- Original Birth Certificate
- Officially Translated Birth Certificate by a NAATI translator
- Old Passport (because I lodged my Police Check application with the old passport number and got my new passport just recently)
- New Passport
- IELTS Test Report Form
- University of Canberra Completion Letter
- University of Canberra Academic Transcripts
- ICAA Accounting Skill Assessment Notification
- Australian Federal Police Check
- Malaysian Police Check
- Passport Photo (which I scanned from the additional copy I bought for my passport renewal the other day)
- Form 80
- Form 1221


An email was sent to me the following day confirming the receipt of my application for permanent residency by me. A few minutes later, another email was sent to me notifying me of Bridging Visa approval. This bridging visa only comes into effect once my student visa expires sometime in September. With this visa, I am allowed to remain in Australia lawfully with permission to work an unlimited amount of hours. But the only downside to this visa is that I am now allowed to depart from Australia until my PR application is either approved or rejected. So until then, I'm pretty much stuck here. But I can apply for an exemption to leave the country provided I have substantial reasons for my travel.

Therefore, I have made the decision to travel back to Malaysia this coming August for a whole month and come back in September before my student visa expires.

That's pretty much it for my PR Application Process. I now have to wait for the good news or the bad news. This PR application process can take from a few months to up to 2 years for them to make a decision on your application. But the average waiting time is around 1 year. Hopefully I'll get mine approved way before that. 

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