- Credit card accounts
- Shares and Mutual Funds
- Gold and Jewellery
- Bonds
- Life insurance documents
- Land/property titles/certificates
- Loan "In Principle"
- Back to back loan (Loan against deposit)
- Mortgaged/sold/leased from an inherited property
Friday, July 25, 2014
Unacceptable Source of Funds (Student Visa Application for Australia)
Source of funds which are not accepted by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship are the following:
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Submitted Requirements
These are the list of requirements I prepared before lodging my visa application under VET or Vocational Education Training Sector.
I did not have any migration agent because I think the service will cost me a lot. I did some research and want to share it here. I hope the following information will help others who are also planning for studies in Australia.
Pre-visa assessment will be assessed by DIAC on the following criteria
Student Visa Requirements (Check the link)
1. Genuine Temporary Entrant/Genuine student
2. Enrolled in a registered course in a registered school in Australia
3. Financial Requirements
4. English proficiency
5. Health requirement
6. Character requirement
7. Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC)
OSHC must be included when the school where you enrolled in Australia give you your Letter of Offer. Once you paid your tuition fee as stated on the letter of offer, the school will confirm it by sending you a Certificate of Enrollment.
Once you lodge you student visa application, the embassy will acknowledge you application when they receive it through email and will also require you for medical check up to their approved centre partner which is St. Luke's Medical Center Extension if you are in Manila. Please check the link for more information.
Medical check up result will be forwarded by the clinic to a registered clinic (I don't know the name) in Australia. It will usually take a week before the embassy receives the result from Australia. If there are no more problems with regards to your health, the case officer from the embassy will review all your papers submitted to them. Otherwise, they will require you for additional tests.
Medical fees depend on your check up. If you will be required to undergo blood test for HIV and other diseases, you will pay an additional fee aside from what you paid earlier. My friend who is enrolled in Aged Care paid around Php 8,000.00 pesos.
If the case officer reviewed your documents and wanted more additional documents from you, he will notify you via phone call or email and will give you enough time to accomplish it.
He can also call you for an interview about the documents you submitted and will ask you other questions which might be relevant to your application.
Processing time takes 3 months according to their website since Philippines under this sector is assessed as Lever 3. However, most of the people I knew who applied for different courses in Australian VET schools had their visa result within a month or less than 2 months. I think this depends on the case officer and the documents submitted. The case officers are very particular on the evidence of funds presented to them.
If you have a sponsor who is an Australian citizen who lives in Australia, this sponsor must be related to you. You need to have a sponsorship letter signed by him and notarized by a registered notary lawyer in his place in Australia. It must be stated in the letter the amount he will be allocating for your studies. He needs to show his bank statement accounts and declare his source of income. Also, he needs to make an affidavit confirming his relationship to you.
Relatives and friends are not accepted as sponsors for your studies. Only you (applicant) parents, grandparents, brother/s, sister/s and spouse are allowed.
If your parents/grandparents/brother/sister/spouse are sponsoring you, they must provide a bank certificate and statement of account with the amount held at least 3 to 6 months before lodging your application. Their source of funds also must be provided including a notarized affidavit that they are sponsoring you stating an amount allocated for your studies.
Funds from the following must have supporting documents;
1. Business- DTI permit and BIR tax certificates. These must be taken from the said offices where the business is located.
2. Salary- Employment certificate, ID and BIR Tax are sample documents for this
3. Retirement pay- documents issued by the former office/company
If they sold a property to have the amount for your studies, a notarized deed of sale must be shown also including the owner's copy of the sold property.
Never ever submit any FAKE documents. This will only lead you to bigger trouble once the embassy finds out.
- Passport
- Resume
- Birth certificate from NSO
- Copy of my BIR ID since my PRC ID was already due
- NBI
- Transcript of Records from my university
- IELTS card result
- Board rating from PRC
- Diploma from my university
- Letter of offer from the school where I am enrolled in Australia
- Certificate of enrollment from the school where I am enrolled
- Certificate of employment
- Bank statement and bank certificates
- Form 157A
- My affidavit notarized by notary public
- 2 copies of passport size picture with name written at the back
- Manager's check amounting to 535 AUD or Php 23, 100 payable to Australian embassy
- Courier fee amounting to Php 700.00
I did not have any migration agent because I think the service will cost me a lot. I did some research and want to share it here. I hope the following information will help others who are also planning for studies in Australia.
Pre-visa assessment will be assessed by DIAC on the following criteria
Student Visa Requirements (Check the link)
1. Genuine Temporary Entrant/Genuine student
2. Enrolled in a registered course in a registered school in Australia
3. Financial Requirements
4. English proficiency
5. Health requirement
6. Character requirement
7. Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC)
OSHC must be included when the school where you enrolled in Australia give you your Letter of Offer. Once you paid your tuition fee as stated on the letter of offer, the school will confirm it by sending you a Certificate of Enrollment.
Once you lodge you student visa application, the embassy will acknowledge you application when they receive it through email and will also require you for medical check up to their approved centre partner which is St. Luke's Medical Center Extension if you are in Manila. Please check the link for more information.
Medical check up result will be forwarded by the clinic to a registered clinic (I don't know the name) in Australia. It will usually take a week before the embassy receives the result from Australia. If there are no more problems with regards to your health, the case officer from the embassy will review all your papers submitted to them. Otherwise, they will require you for additional tests.
Medical fees depend on your check up. If you will be required to undergo blood test for HIV and other diseases, you will pay an additional fee aside from what you paid earlier. My friend who is enrolled in Aged Care paid around Php 8,000.00 pesos.
If the case officer reviewed your documents and wanted more additional documents from you, he will notify you via phone call or email and will give you enough time to accomplish it.
He can also call you for an interview about the documents you submitted and will ask you other questions which might be relevant to your application.
Processing time takes 3 months according to their website since Philippines under this sector is assessed as Lever 3. However, most of the people I knew who applied for different courses in Australian VET schools had their visa result within a month or less than 2 months. I think this depends on the case officer and the documents submitted. The case officers are very particular on the evidence of funds presented to them.
If you have a sponsor who is an Australian citizen who lives in Australia, this sponsor must be related to you. You need to have a sponsorship letter signed by him and notarized by a registered notary lawyer in his place in Australia. It must be stated in the letter the amount he will be allocating for your studies. He needs to show his bank statement accounts and declare his source of income. Also, he needs to make an affidavit confirming his relationship to you.
Relatives and friends are not accepted as sponsors for your studies. Only you (applicant) parents, grandparents, brother/s, sister/s and spouse are allowed.
If your parents/grandparents/brother/sister/spouse are sponsoring you, they must provide a bank certificate and statement of account with the amount held at least 3 to 6 months before lodging your application. Their source of funds also must be provided including a notarized affidavit that they are sponsoring you stating an amount allocated for your studies.
Funds from the following must have supporting documents;
1. Business- DTI permit and BIR tax certificates. These must be taken from the said offices where the business is located.
2. Salary- Employment certificate, ID and BIR Tax are sample documents for this
3. Retirement pay- documents issued by the former office/company
If they sold a property to have the amount for your studies, a notarized deed of sale must be shown also including the owner's copy of the sold property.
Never ever submit any FAKE documents. This will only lead you to bigger trouble once the embassy finds out.
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Sample Interview Questions
Following are sample of questions asked by the case officers during an interview. These are relayed to me by some of my friends who applied and were interviewed.
Before the interview starts, the case officer will greet and ask for your name to confirm if you are the applicant before he introduces himself. Once confirmation is done, he will then proceed to ask questions about your application according to the documents you presented to him. It depends on the case officer but some friends told me their consul asked them about the following:
This is just a summary of what they told me since these questions were commonly asked.
1.Yourself like;
2. Course, subjects and fee of what you enrolled in Australia.
3. Name and location of your school in Australia
4. Reasons why you enrolled in that particular school
5. Reasons why you chose Australia for studies.
6. Travelling expenses
7. Education agent
8. Name of your sponsor
7. Relationship to your sponsor
8. Reasons why your sponsor is sponsoring you
9. Place where you will stay while in Australia
10. Funds you provided
11. Future plans
One of my friends was asked about the following:
1. How many schools did you apply for? What school accepted you?
2. Why did you choose that specific course?
3. Why do you want to study in Australia when your course is also available in the Philippines?
4. Don't you think your course in Australia will degrade you knowing that you finished a degree in the Philippines?
4. Why did you choose Australia among other countries offering quality education?
5. Do you have any knowledge about Melbourne?
6. What do you know about Australia?
Applicants need to research and take down important details for the interview especially about the course you enrolled, the location of your school and the country. Write down the subjects in case the case officer will ask you about it.
Good luck!
Before the interview starts, the case officer will greet and ask for your name to confirm if you are the applicant before he introduces himself. Once confirmation is done, he will then proceed to ask questions about your application according to the documents you presented to him. It depends on the case officer but some friends told me their consul asked them about the following:
This is just a summary of what they told me since these questions were commonly asked.
1.Yourself like;
- Age
- Family background
- Course you finished in the country
- Employment experience
2. Course, subjects and fee of what you enrolled in Australia.
3. Name and location of your school in Australia
4. Reasons why you enrolled in that particular school
5. Reasons why you chose Australia for studies.
6. Travelling expenses
7. Education agent
8. Name of your sponsor
7. Relationship to your sponsor
8. Reasons why your sponsor is sponsoring you
9. Place where you will stay while in Australia
10. Funds you provided
11. Future plans
One of my friends was asked about the following:
1. How many schools did you apply for? What school accepted you?
2. Why did you choose that specific course?
3. Why do you want to study in Australia when your course is also available in the Philippines?
4. Don't you think your course in Australia will degrade you knowing that you finished a degree in the Philippines?
4. Why did you choose Australia among other countries offering quality education?
5. Do you have any knowledge about Melbourne?
6. What do you know about Australia?
Applicants need to research and take down important details for the interview especially about the course you enrolled, the location of your school and the country. Write down the subjects in case the case officer will ask you about it.
Good luck!
Sunday, February 2, 2014
Refused Student Visa Application
Year 2013
I was working overseas when I applied for a student visa to Australia through a self proclaimed professional consultant. It was my Mum who attended the talk by an educational agent from Australia in Baguio City. This professional consultant who must not be named claimed to be working with the agent which was true as he was acknowledged by the agent. He approached my Mum and offered his service after marketing his achievements and position in a TESDA accredited school. Mum got convinced so she relied to him since I was not in the Philippines at that time.
I sent via email the documents to this self proclaimed consultant and in less than a month I already had my Letter of Offer. He was rushing me into paying the tuition fee amounting to almost 4,000 AUD despite his awareness that I did not yet prepare the other necessary documents. Two months before my contract ended, I took a month's vacation from work and headed to my country to accomplish the requirements for my application.
I chose a diploma course in one of the Vocational Education and Training schools in Melbourne under subclass 572 yet this self proclaimed professional consultant changed it to Aged Care because according to him the show money is lesser compared to a diploma course which is also true. As what I understood, he presented himself as a manager of a school and also a manager in separate agency connected to that school. He seemed to be nice yet I still had this feeling of uncertainty and doubt against him. I had a lot of questions about my application but he could not give me direct and confident answers unless he confided to the education agent. He would always quote the education agent's information and this made me think of transferring my papers to the main office in Manila and let them be the one to process it for me. I told him about it and he agreed unless I pay him his professional fee stating that he already did a lot of things on my application. He highlighted on my Form 157A and letter of offer from my school expressing it was not that easy to get that letter.
I was surprised and still reasoned out that it would be practical for me but he still insisted on his payment. I did not have enough days to stay longer so I told him I will rely everything to him but he must have to assure me he would work on my paper very well. He agreed. I paid the amount he asked through bank.
My Mistake. I should have listened to my instinct.
He told me to submit documents to him yet he did not give me the complete requirements in one shot so I needed to go to and fro from my province to my nearby province to Manila to Baguio to get what he was asking. He never realised that travelling is not so easy.
I paid my tuition fee to the account of the school where I am enrolled through telegraphic transfer to one of the banks here in the Philippines. In a week's time, I was informed I already had my Certificate of Enrollment from the school where I enrolled.
One of the requirements of my application is the show money. This was the main reason why I was refused.
My Mum loaned a big amount of money from a cooperative in my province and entered it to one of the embassy's accredited financial institution under my bank's account name. My vacation leave was almost over so I left everything to my Mum to deal with the bank transactions. I signed an SPA before leaving Philippines to finish my contract.
After a week when I resumed to my work, my Mum informed me that the consultant lodged my application only waiting for the result which would take more than a month.
Two months went by yet I did not hear from the self proclaimed consultant until I finished my contract and finally came back to Philippines. Still, there was no news from him until I decided to go to his office. I found out he got the refusal letter from the embassy yet he did not inform me or my Mum. He told me we could re-lodge. I lose my temper and shot back at him telling him "oh yeah? so another payment?"..grrrr.. Unfortunately for me, I paid an unprofessional fee. :(
Anyway, I learned my lesson on this and though I was very angry and killed him in my thoughts, I still asked him to hand me over all my documents and that I did not want to ever hear from him again.
I was working overseas when I applied for a student visa to Australia through a self proclaimed professional consultant. It was my Mum who attended the talk by an educational agent from Australia in Baguio City. This professional consultant who must not be named claimed to be working with the agent which was true as he was acknowledged by the agent. He approached my Mum and offered his service after marketing his achievements and position in a TESDA accredited school. Mum got convinced so she relied to him since I was not in the Philippines at that time.
I sent via email the documents to this self proclaimed consultant and in less than a month I already had my Letter of Offer. He was rushing me into paying the tuition fee amounting to almost 4,000 AUD despite his awareness that I did not yet prepare the other necessary documents. Two months before my contract ended, I took a month's vacation from work and headed to my country to accomplish the requirements for my application.
I chose a diploma course in one of the Vocational Education and Training schools in Melbourne under subclass 572 yet this self proclaimed professional consultant changed it to Aged Care because according to him the show money is lesser compared to a diploma course which is also true. As what I understood, he presented himself as a manager of a school and also a manager in separate agency connected to that school. He seemed to be nice yet I still had this feeling of uncertainty and doubt against him. I had a lot of questions about my application but he could not give me direct and confident answers unless he confided to the education agent. He would always quote the education agent's information and this made me think of transferring my papers to the main office in Manila and let them be the one to process it for me. I told him about it and he agreed unless I pay him his professional fee stating that he already did a lot of things on my application. He highlighted on my Form 157A and letter of offer from my school expressing it was not that easy to get that letter.
I was surprised and still reasoned out that it would be practical for me but he still insisted on his payment. I did not have enough days to stay longer so I told him I will rely everything to him but he must have to assure me he would work on my paper very well. He agreed. I paid the amount he asked through bank.
My Mistake. I should have listened to my instinct.
He told me to submit documents to him yet he did not give me the complete requirements in one shot so I needed to go to and fro from my province to my nearby province to Manila to Baguio to get what he was asking. He never realised that travelling is not so easy.
I paid my tuition fee to the account of the school where I am enrolled through telegraphic transfer to one of the banks here in the Philippines. In a week's time, I was informed I already had my Certificate of Enrollment from the school where I enrolled.
One of the requirements of my application is the show money. This was the main reason why I was refused.
My Mum loaned a big amount of money from a cooperative in my province and entered it to one of the embassy's accredited financial institution under my bank's account name. My vacation leave was almost over so I left everything to my Mum to deal with the bank transactions. I signed an SPA before leaving Philippines to finish my contract.
After a week when I resumed to my work, my Mum informed me that the consultant lodged my application only waiting for the result which would take more than a month.
Two months went by yet I did not hear from the self proclaimed consultant until I finished my contract and finally came back to Philippines. Still, there was no news from him until I decided to go to his office. I found out he got the refusal letter from the embassy yet he did not inform me or my Mum. He told me we could re-lodge. I lose my temper and shot back at him telling him "oh yeah? so another payment?"..grrrr.. Unfortunately for me, I paid an unprofessional fee. :(
Anyway, I learned my lesson on this and though I was very angry and killed him in my thoughts, I still asked him to hand me over all my documents and that I did not want to ever hear from him again.
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