geir
Hi Geir
I've discovered today that the nonsense has the potential to get worse. Does a spouse visa involve an butturance of Support? If not, you are fortunate. Parents do have to be buttured. Contributory Parents (my mother) have to be buttured 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
