Dear Amyn / Meenaz,
Before I begin sharing my feedback & experience, I want to say a big thank you to both of you deep from my heart for making my dreams come true. The process involved in getting a permanent resident visa is really a daunting task and you both have made it really easy for me.
I still couldn’t believe that the entire visa process including stamping is over in just 5 months time. I came to know about the Australian skilled visa process through my friends only in the month of February 2012. I started researching a lot in the internet, read different forums, learned about MARA agents, went through govt MARA site, collected as much info as I could but still wasn’t convinced entirely whether to enroll myself into this lengthy process or not. There were many questions running in my mind and I was too skeptical about this whole visa process.
Some of the questions were..
1. Do I need to enroll myself into this process?
2. Do I need to spend my hard earned money and what happens if I don’t get my visa?
3. Do I need to go via MARA agent or non registered MARA agents?
4. Would Agent understand my requirements and what I am aiming for?
5. What if I fail at any point during this process? ( Ex: ACS, IELTS or at DIAC stages)
etc etc etc.. and the question list would be endless…….
Finally, I decided to go via MARA agent as I didn’t want to take any chances with the documentation, skills assessment or at DIAC stages and MARA agent would know what is required to make an application successful. Well next part is choosing a right MARA agent, to be honest I would have spoken with 6 agents including 2 in Australia before contacting you. There were many reasons for not choosing them and I don’t think it would be appropriate to mention the reason in this email…
When I first contacted Amyn over phone, I got more clarity on this process and felt that I may have a smooth ride in this whole visa journey. I registered with Immigration Solutions on Feb 22nd and after meeting Amyn in person my confidence grew exponentially. I wouldn’t have applied for this visa process if Amyn had not given me the assurance which was really the turning point.
As I started working on the documentation part for ACS skills assessment, I had many queries on reference letters, format, content etc. There were 5 iterations done to my reference letters before Amyn approved the final version which shows that content and document we present is really important.
175 Visa subclass was filed on April 18th and I would have probably submitted close to 80 documents to Amyn/Meenaz during this entire visa process. All the documents I submitted were properly maintained in both system and in a separate file (Physical copy) and I never had to resend any of them at any stage which really impressed me.
During the visa processing stage, I had so many queries and whenever I couldn’t reach Amyn, I called Meenaz immediately to get her views and opinion..If I think about it, I would have probably called her zillion times to clarify all my queries sometimes even basic questions and she answered it very politely with a lot of calmness in her voice and patience..She has been brilliant throughout and very very supportive..
I finally received my magic email(Visa grant) from Amyn on June 27th and the feeling was amazing, no words to explain it.
You both are very knowledgeable, supportive, understanding and with no doubt I would certainly recommend Immigration Solutions to my family / friends/colleagues. Probably an advice which I want to give to all your future clients “Submit the documents and leave it to Amyn/ Meenaz”. Rest assured they will take care of everything.
Thank you once again and I wish you both all the very best.
Well this is not over yet, I will be contacting you soon for spouse visa. 🙂
Regards
Arvinth Sridharan
