hello everyone!
Just like all of you, 489 visa holder din kami and went here in regional WA. been here since june 2014 and lodge fir our 887 visa application last july 30. it was not an easy experience for us though kasi i am the main applicant for the 489 visa and then for the 887 visa, it was my husband who applied as main applicant since say young unang nakafullfill ng visa condition. finally tapes na young 2 yeas requirement kasi it was the longest 2 years of our lives. ang damming struggles, hirap ng work at kung ano ano pa. may times na ayaw ko na at pagoda na ko. but fight lang. nandito na kami eh and we have sacrificed a lot na.
so magaapply na kami. ego na, we cannot lodge online and always nageerror, so i had called the immigration and was queued for more than an hour sa line... never give up ika nga. after so many attempts, i had an immig officer who assisted me. so after number of phone calls and emails, they have advised na kaya nag error is dahil secondary applicant si hubby now applying to be primary. system glitch na natapat samin kasi meron naman band applicants na secondary na nag primary ok naman. so to cut short, they advised us to lodge manually instead and gave us an email ad where we can send all our documents.
we submitted our scanned docs with all the application papers via email and got a message na "due to the volume of email they are receiving, they can only respond to our email after the 28 days due". so we know na matatagalan talaga. we submitted july 30, 2016 then after exactly 1 month, august 30 nakareceive kami email from the immiv stating na nalodge na nils application naming with the confirmation email and the bridging visa.
although alam naming na magstart pa lang young count naming ng 6 months that day, at lama naming na matatagalan pa masaya na din kami kasi may bridging visa na kami and we can now apply for medicare. so hinayaan na naming. ayaw na mina naming isipin kasi matagal pa naman.
but to our surprise, after 6 days, last sept 6, i received an email stating na granted na visa namin. PR na kami. it was the happiest day for us kasi finally makakamove na kami sa city. then we learned na ibat iba talaga cases. kahit na sabihin na 6 months processing pa yan, it can either be longer or shorter. and applying for visa 887 are all different cases. like our case, we go manual lodging unlike young mga kakilala naming ditto na online lodging.
there are situations that are easy and some are harder. but the most important thing is never give up. always remember that there is always light at the end of the tunnel.