I am very very pleased to advise that i have recieved my grant today for 189 visa.
Amidst all the confusion and heart break i have had and the thougths of getting rejected and getting barred from appling for 3 years and all those sleepless nights it was a very painful 1.5 months i must say.
But all is well that ends well isnt it.. I felt that the risk i took paid off and i have my visa granted today. I am so so so happy and cannot express teh happines in words.
Thanks all for all the help, wealth of information and support.i will be able to help anybosy in teh forum with tehir queries except for the ACS vs DIAC skilled assessment points question.
I considered all my experience after a bachelors degree even though ACS said otherwise. May be fortune favors the brave.
However i would not recommend anybody in this forum to take this as a bottomline scenario and go ahead caliming pionts as i did(I was one of teh firsts victim of ACS new rule and nobody knew what to say and hence i had to take the risk). I may just be plain lucky to have got through so please wait have the rules clarified from DIAC and only then apply as now the cost has doubled almost and teh risk as well as i recently heard that ACS has mad these rules public with MARA agent. hence we do not know how it will pan out in the next financial year.
I must apologise to a lot of rorummers here pooja, chetu, chiinu bangalore and a lot more not to have responded to their queries. Amidst these many speculations i made a decision not to check any forums until my case officer either approves or rejects my case. then came my case officer just asking for my medicals and form 80 on 24th May whoch i felt was very soon and i thought she might have not checked my skill assessment letter carefully hence waited again. really sorry guys
My Timelines below::
CO alocation: 24 May (CO : L)
Medicals and form 80 submitted: 01st June
Grant 18th June 2013.
I will wish everybody all the best and GODSPEED mates.
Hi,
I just spoke to diac. They made the following statements
They are not aware of the newly introduced deemed date.
If they feel that the mentioned experience is not relevant from the proof given, only then they will go for the opinion of acs.
Again if I can prove that my experience is relevant, they will consider that.
It is the CO who decides what to consider.
She added that if she was in such a situation she would have gone ahead with the application.
So until now they are not aware of the deemed date, may be that is why they are not updating the same in the website.
But acs replies that they are introducing this because of diac
requested to do so. I mentioned this in the call. She could not comment on that.