Processing Time, Permanent Residency (PR), Australia

It's been close to four months and I still haven't heard from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) regarding my permanent residency application. Apparently, they haven't even touched my application form yet according to their website.

Finding out when your application will be processed or whether or not it has been allocated a case officer:

http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/general-skilled-migration/estimated-allocation-times.htm

If you clicked on the link above, and scroll down, you will find a table showing the various visa subclasses as well as their respective dates. Applicants who have lodged their applications before those dates have been contacted by a case officer and should only take a matter of weeks before their final visa is granted. The table is updated fortnightly.

Processing dates for General Skilled Migration applicants. Updated on the 7th of October 2011.

I actually lodged my application online towards the end of June. So it shouldn't take too long before a case officer is allocated to me. I'm estimating a time of around 3 weeks before this actually happens. Hopefully once I get allocated a case officer, everything will be processed really quickly and I will be able to get my Permanent Residency Visa approved before the end of next month.


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