Karin says:
December 1, 2011 at 8:03 am
Thanks Rogelio
It might be helpful to provide background on the operational aspects of these processing arrangements. Offshore and onshore GSM visas are processed by different teams in Adelaide and Brisbane. Cases are allocated each week to the teams according to the Processing Direction and the available stock of higher priority cases for the onshore teams is lower than that for the offshore teams. This means the onshore teams will be allocated Priority 5 cases before the offshore teams. Offshore applications in Priority 3 and 4 will continue to be considered well ahead of onshore Priority 5 applications.