Peyman

Dear friends, I am actually exhausted . I received my case officer
name and my case file number on January 2007 and completed medical
exams and PCC on February 2007. It is around 7 months I have sent
documents to DIAC and there is no news about my visa. As I have send my
documents to DIAC as E-Lodgment format, I want to know about the
estimated date that I will receive my SIR visa. The state that I am
going to migrate is Western Australia (WA) and I am going to settle in
Bunbury city. Any news that could make me happy is highly
appreciated.:cheers::waves:

Kangaroo16

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:23:19 +0000, Peyman
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>Dear friends, I am actually exhausted . I received my case officer
>name and my case file number on January 2007 and completed medical
>exams and PCC on February 2007. It is around 7 months I have sent
>documents to DIAC and there is no news about my visa. As I have send my
>documents to DIAC as E-Lodgment format, I want to know about the
>estimated date that I will receive my SIR visa. The state that I am
>going to migrate is Western Australia (WA) and I am going to settle in
>Bunbury city. Any news that could make me happy is highly
>appreciated.:cheers::waves:

If I were you I wouldn't put all my trust in e-mail. While it is
in my experience pretty reasonable, e-messages don't always
get through.

I have seen claims on the web that the loss rate is much
higher than most people think. Realise that the route taken
by mail goes through several servers between origin and
destination, and may involve transfer over wires, by satellite
links, etc.

Possibly the main way messages are lost is when a server
goes down just as a message arrives before it can be relayed. In
that case, the message can "disappear into cyberspace".

No communication system is perfect. Even international
phone calls can have noise, short dropouts, etc.

Now in voice communications, this usually doesn't matter
much as can pick up the essence of what is being said
or the person receiving the call can ask for clarification.

In written communication, missing or incorrect alphabetical
letters usually don't matter much as the words can usually be
guessed, or a resend can be requested.

Remember that in the ultimate analysis all numbers and
alphabetical letters are transmitted by binary codes, long
strings of zeros and ones, called "bits". In ASCII code, one of
the simplest, there are 8 bits to a byte.

"Abbreviation for binary term, a unit of storage capable of
holding a single character. On almost all modern computers, a
byte is equal to 8 bits. Large amounts of memory are indicated in
terms of kilobytes (1,024 bytes), megabytes (1,048,576 bytes),
and gigabytes (1,073,741,824 bytes)."
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/byte.html

For example, the binary code for the letter "A"
is 01000001, for "a" it is 01100001

http://www.tekmom.com/buzzwords/binaryalphabet.html
for other codes, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii

Now if an electrical event like a lightning bolt,
a solar flare, etc. flips one of those bits from a
one to a zero or a zero to a one, the byte string
no longer decodes as "A", it may represent something
else, or not a character at all.

Again, in the body of a message this might not be
significant, but if it is in a destination code, the
message can be lost.

However, it isn't essential to know how messages can
go astray or be lost, and there are other ways, just that they
can be.

If I were you, and worried about if the info had reached the
department, would probably send copies of the documents and
application by registered airmail, or security post, or whatever
your country calls it, with a return receipt requested. This
will cost more than an email submission, but at least you will
have proof that you have sent them, and know in a week or so if
the copies have been received in case further follow up is
needed.

Now it probably isn't likely that the message has been lost, but
it might make you feel better to have this postal backup.

A more likely reason at the moment is that the Australian
department of immigration is very busy. Not are there
a large number of applications at this time, but there have
been recent changes in regulations.

Then too, if someone is processing your application, they
may have made inquiries concerning it and are dependant
on officials in your country to reply to it.

Human systems are not foolproof. As an example, see
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"Macabre twist in tale of Pumpkin"
Stuart Rintoul and Rowan Callick | September 20, 2007

FOR at least six days, Anan Liu lay dead in the boot of her
husband's car outside their family home. For two of those days,
police cordoned off the Keystone Avenue house while they looked
for the young mother, clueless to her whereabouts.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...75-601,00.html
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I realise that this post is a bit long, but I do think that
others may wonder what is happening to their application.

Cheers,
Kangaroo16