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samakinbo:
Yes, I checked this evening around 4:30pm, it was saying "Application in Progress". Checked again 10minutes later an saw "Finalized" with no mail attached

It definitely means your visa has been finalized. Call your agent to check his or her mail including spam. If he hasn't received the letter, do call immigration.

SantaClause:
You know funny enough DIBP does not grant visas your school do......The decided issued visas to DIBP DIBP only check their security aspect. When i did my application my school was the one who verify my bank statment not DIBP but when i was submitting my application i still included but the school already verify. Maybe its just the queue that isgrant are not coming in plus they are reducing immigrant badly when i tel you badly i mean meant badly....Citizen wait is no longer 5years anymore but 10years.. for PR i think if you have to stay in Australia for 3-4years now before you are eligible for PR.

I wonder where you get all this fake information from. Please don't misinform people.

yourhouse:
I got a letter stating that my dads employment with lagos state government is bogous.. he was really upset because even checking online you will see his name as one of the commissioners of lagos state, so i really doubt this people do any checks, i replied with a response letter from the head of service lagos state government alongside his id card. Hopefully this is enough but pls any idea what i can add again will appreciate

Thanks

Wrong response. This is your opportunity to prove your case beyond reasonable doubt. Providing them with 2 documents they can't verify is a big mistake.
Get your dad to provide them his payslips, tax documents and SOA showing this money being credited. An affidavit might help as well. As a matter of fact, throw everything you got at them as you are an inch closer to refusal.
Sometimes when they issue you this letter, they have already made a decision on your case and the letter is just a formality.

Please treat this case as critical.

Good luck.

Albion05:
Good day all,
I just received a Refusal Mail and 3 years ban from Australian Embassy.
I called them on Friday morning and was told my application will be finalized this week.

I callled them today to remind them of my start date. I was told it has been finalized and sent to migration officer for assent. The case officer that actually handled my application is Valdinah.
The Devil wants me to turn to evil and believe there is no God. There is God my dear.

Action taken already!..
-Called the Operational Bank manager of the Bank, he was expecting good news from me but hearing this he was shocked.
He told me that the Branch nor their head office in Lagos received any such mail from the embassy for confirmation from the bank and how come they reached conclusion of such.
The letter to my sponsor that I submitted was also cleared by their legal department in Lagos.
He has assured me of their support in any way the bank can help.

I spoke to a lawyer, we have agreed, he will write to the Embassy and copy the Bank as well, mandating the Embassy to carry out their personal investigation from the bank. Also that if the embassy did not want to give me visa that they should overturn the ban because at no point did my sponsor( Father ) submitted any bank statement that is not genuine.

Tomorrow, I will be heading to the lawyers office as today normallly is their Court proceedings for cases in court.
I will welcome any input and advice on the way forward.
Some persons that knows me outside this platform knows what i am saying. You may choose to believe or you may choose not to believe either.

My concern is that 3 years Ban, it will tarnish my record because of their inefficiency, laziness, carefree attitude and poor judgement to verify documents. My mum has been praying, prayer of death to any persons or officials involved in this unfair decision. I can't blame the old woman because she has been part of the process and seeing this one questions if truely God still exists, yes their is God, today, now and forever more.

I doubt these guys really verify documents from what has happened to me.
Thanks for all support and prayers!..

For those still waiting, be hopeful and believe in God.
People's faith and destiny are different!....
I will follow up with the lawyer and the Bank as regards to the letter they will be writing to the embassy.

"He told me that the Branch nor their head office in Lagos received any such mail from the embassy for confirmation from the bank and how come they reached conclusion of such. " The Operational manager is not telling you the truth here because he wouldn't know unless he calls or writes to the headoffice. There is no way he will know straight away.

What you got earlier is a natural justice letter. I can assure you that the department does their due deligience before issuing this letter. They usually have a back channel with the head office and most of verifications are done with the headoffice. Some banks requires a consent form for this to happen while some don't.
I think your problem is with the bank. First find out if they require a consent form before an account information is revealed to a 3rd party. This will go a long way to help you determine if a verification was done or not.

I have seen just one guy overturn a visa refusal offshore but not an exclusion. Your only chance is getting diamond bank headoffice chase up this matter, definitely not the branch. Have them write immigration directly either making an enquiry into the verification or admitting their mistakes. They shouldn't do this through your account because once a decision is made on your file, trust me, no one will ever attend to it. But they should quote your file number, DOB and passport number on the enquiry.

This is not something a Nigeria lawyer will handle. Your lawyer shouldn't write to the embassy instead use your lawyer to pursue your case with Diamond bank.

This is my 2 cent and i wrote this half asleep cos its almost midnight here. So please pardon my English and errors.

Albion05:
The legal department did not notorized the document.
The legal department of the Bank was involved because of the nature of the case.

After the Branch Manager wrote the reference, he has to send it to their legal department for them to be aware and they went through the letter confirmed that the statement was genuine, they now ordered the Branch manager to sign and release the documents which I went to court to notorized and submitted same to DIBP.

So one will assume for the embassy to verify the statement of account, the Bank, be it the head office or the branch will be in position to confirm wether customers account is genuine or not but the bank was not contacted either through mail or call.
So the question now is were did Embassy verify their purported claim?....

Albion05:
The Branch he printed the statement of account, verified and wrote to their legal department in Lagos for approval with the reference letter attached and I notorized the document. I also sworn an affidavit of fact in court. The embassy did not confirm at all from the Bank and they reached at this decision.

The laywer will write a letter copy the embassy, copy the bank and ministry of foreign affairs as well.
I ask the bank to write in my own choice of words asking the embassy who confirmed or verified to them that their customers statement of account is non genuine.

So in other words, the legal department notorized the documents and returned it back to you and you sent it back to the embassy yourself or by your agent?

Albion05:
Good day all,
I just received a Refusal Mail and 3 years ban from Australian Embassy.
I called them on Friday morning and was told my application will be finalized this week.

I callled them today to remind them of my start date. I was told it has been finalized and sent to migration officer for assent. The case officer that actually handled my application is Valdinah.
The Devil wants me to turn to evil and believe there is no God. There is God my dear.

Action taken already!..
-Called the Operational Bank manager of the Bank, he was expecting good news from me but hearing this he was shocked.
He told me that the Branch nor their head office in Lagos received any such mail from the embassy for confirmation from the bank and how come they reached conclusion of such.
The letter to my sponsor that I submitted was also cleared by their legal department in Lagos.
He has assured me of their support in any way the bank can help.

I spoke to a lawyer, we have agreed, he will write to the Embassy and copy the Bank as well, mandating the Embassy to carry out their personal investigation from the bank. Also that if the embassy did not want to give me visa that they should overturn the ban because at no point did my sponsor( Father ) submitted any bank statement that is not genuine.

Tomorrow, I will be heading to the lawyers office as today normallly is their Court proceedings for cases in court.
I will welcome any input and advice on the way forward.
Some persons that knows me outside this platform knows what i am saying. You may choose to believe or you may choose not to believe either.

My concern is that 3 years Ban, it will tarnish my record because of their inefficiency, laziness, carefree attitude and poor judgement to verify documents. My mum has been praying, prayer of death to any persons or officials involved in this unfair decision. I can't blame the old woman because she has been part of the process and seeing this one questions if truely God still exists, yes their is God, today, now and forever more.

I doubt these guys really verify documents from what has happened to me.
Thanks for all support and prayers!..

For those still waiting, be hopeful and believe in God.
People's faith and destiny are different!....
I will follow up with the lawyer and the Bank as regards to the letter they will be writing to the embassy.

Hi Albion,
Did the regional branch where your dad banks verify the SOA or did the verification come from their head office?

Solitin40:
#360 to US$1 Just go to your bank and ask them about Form A

Thanks Solitin40, was actually asking for AUD equivalents. I will go to my bank

Solitin40:
Form A

Do you know the current exchange rate? I was told Western Union does it...

Hi Guys,

Please what is the most cost effective way to pay tuition fees?

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